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Games — 14 playable

Games

Playable, shareable — and nothing on screen is allowed to lie. Every game here runs on something real, and proves it when you win.

The Arcade the whole arcade →
🔎 The Rule Find the hidden law. It's real — and gets proven when you crack it. daily 🤝 The Tournament Design a strategy. Beat Tit for Tat. strategy 🛰 Waste Launch Aim, charge, and let real gravity bend your path. physics 🏔️ Avalanche Drop one grain. Steer the sandpile avalanche. puzzle 🎯 Spot the Trap Real stats, one trick each. Catch the lie. daily 🎲 Beat My Dice Pick a die. I'll pick second — and win. social 👁 Two Truths Vote what you see, then meet the truth. perception
From the stacks — 7 playable strata

The Lines, Not the Votes

Twenty-five voters who never change their minds — ten red, fifteen blue.

Mechanism MEC · 168

Every Two Cards Share a Symbol

In the matching game Dobble (Spot It!), any two cards you ever lay down share exactly one picture — never none, never two — and that is not careful …

Pattern PAT · 165

All But Two

Everyone learns Dots and Boxes by the age of seven, and everyone learns it wrong — by grabbing every box in reach, which is exactly the losing move.

Pattern PAT · 158

The Half You Can Never Reach

Sam Loyd offered $1000 to anyone who could slide a tile puzzle back into order — fifteen numbered tiles in a four-by-four box, all in place except 1…

Pattern PAT · 147

The Game the Golden Ratio Wins

Here are two heaps of stones.

Pattern PAT · 067

Always Bet Second

Pick any sequence of three coin-flips you like — HHT, TTH, anything.

Pattern PAT · 040

A Game You Shouldn't Be Able to Win

There is a simple cooperative game two players, kept apart and forbidden to talk, cannot win more than 75% of the time.

Physical PHY · 036