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  {
    "id": "2048",
    "title": "2048",
    "description": "The sliding-tile classic: every move slides the whole board, equal tiles merge, and a new one drops in. Build a 2048 before the board fills. Swipe or arrow keys, a saved game, and a daily board that is the same for everyone.",
    "url": "games/2048.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_0.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-06-16",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-29"
  },
  {
    "id": "asteroids",
    "title": "Asteroids",
    "description": "Survive asteroid and enemy attacks in this retro-inspired space shooter. Aim, shoot, and dodge your way\n                to victory!",
    "url": "games/asteroids.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_37.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-06-21",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "retro"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "ball_bouncing",
    "title": "Kemari",
    "description": "Keep the ball bouncing with one finger: tap the deerskin ball before it touches the sand, and where you touch it steers it. Every 25 kicks the season turns, so a long rally lasts a whole year.",
    "url": "games/ball_bouncing.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_1.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-06-26",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  {
    "id": "blackjack",
    "title": "Blackjack",
    "description": "Blackjack at a quiet Art Deco table, the way it is dealt in a good casino: six decks, 3:2 naturals, the dealer stands on all 17s, split, double, surrender and insurance. Chips that clack, a hole card that turns, a hand-drawn deck, and a book that tells you when you played it wrong. Free chips, no risk.",
    "url": "games/blackjack.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_48.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-01",
    "categories": [
      "card"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "blind_crest",
    "title": "Blind Crest",
    "description": "A rally stage you cannot see. Your co-driver calls every corner before it arrives — into right 2, long, tightens — and you have to believe her. Six procedurally generated stages from any seed, the light failing as you go.",
    "url": "games/blind_crest.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_302.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "breakout",
    "title": "Vigil — Breakout in stained glass",
    "description": "Breakout through one night in an abbey window. Aim the gilded bar, break the stained glass and let the light in: twelve windows, each a picture in leaded glass, from Vespers at dusk to Prime at sunrise. Get the spark behind the glass and let it tear through the top rows; catch the jewels the lanterns drop. Your lives are the candles on the sill.",
    "url": "games/breakout.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_2.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-06",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-30"
  },
  {
    "id": "catchcircle",
    "title": "Catch Circle",
    "description": "Drifting discs with a ring that runs out: tap them in time, chain the catches, and never touch the spiked black one.",
    "url": "games/catchcircle.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_3.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-11",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-01-11"
  },
  {
    "id": "animals",
    "title": "Dusk — A Game for Cats 🐱",
    "description": "Lay a phone or tablet flat on the floor: a mouse, a moth or a grasshopper comes out at dusk and moves like real prey for your cat to pounce on. Every hunt ends with a catch.",
    "url": "games/animals.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_4.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-16",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "checkers",
    "title": "Checkers",
    "description": "Checkers on a pub-table board: turned wooden discs, compulsory jumps, kings you stack. Jump a chain in one go, then play three computer opponents or a friend.",
    "url": "games/checkers.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_59.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-21",
    "categories": [
      "board"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "strategy"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "chess",
    "title": "Chess",
    "description": "Are you ready to immerse yourself in a game of mental mastery? This singleplayer chess game lets you\n                experience\n                the thrill of the world's most popular board game without any distractions or hassles. With its\n                intuitive touch\n                and mouse controls, you can move your pieces with ease and focus on your next strategic move. The\n                elegant design\n                and realistic sound effects add to the immersive experience, while the saved games feature lets you come\n                back to\n                your game later. Challenge yourself to become a grandmaster with this fun and addictive chess game!",
    "url": "games/chess.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_42.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-26",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "connect_four",
    "title": "Connect Four",
    "description": "Classic strategy game where you have to connect four pieces in a row!",
    "url": "games/connect_four.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_5.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-07-31",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "crazy_eights",
    "title": "Crazy Eights",
    "description": "Crazy Eights against Mae, Otto and June at a table that turns the colour of the suit in play: match the suit or the rank, hold your eights to name a new suit, and watch who draws - a crossed-out suit on a portrait means they hold none of it.",
    "url": "games/crazy_eights.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_50.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-08-05",
    "categories": [
      "card"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "obstacle_dodge",
    "title": "point & line",
    "description": "A one-finger dodge game printed like a risograph: steer a pink registration mark between Bauhaus squares, bouncing circles, aiming triangles and sweeping lines, and see how long you last. Every shape waits at the edge before it crosses.",
    "url": "games/obstacle_dodge.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_6.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-08-10",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "doodling",
    "title": "Squiggle",
    "description": "A relaxing doodle game with a new squiggle every day - the same one for everyone - printed as a dotted line on a fresh sheet of a tear-off pad. Turn it into anything with a pencil, fineliner, brush pen, chisel marker and eraser that answer how fast you draw, in six inks; the dots your ink passes over become part of the drawing. Peel the corner to tear the sheet off into your sketchbook, where every sheet can draw itself again, and send a squiggle to a friend as a link.",
    "url": "games/doodling.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_7.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-08-15",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "duck_hunt",
    "title": "Duck Hunt",
    "description": "Take aim and blast feathered targets in this classic shooter.",
    "url": "games/duck_hunt.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_51.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-08-20",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-15"
  },
  {
    "id": "escape_the_maze",
    "title": "Escape the Maze",
    "description": "A challenging 3D game where you try to escape from a randomly generated maze.",
    "url": "games/escape_the_maze.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_41.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-08-25",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
    "id": "family_feud",
    "title": "We Asked 100 (Family Feud Online)",
    "description": "Guess what 100 strangers said. Face-offs, strikes and steals against the Hendersons or a friend, with fresh AI-written questions and a new board every day.",
    "url": "games/family_feud.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_54.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": true,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2024-08-30",
    "categories": [
      "trivia"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "fishing",
    "title": "Saltline",
    "description": "A fishing game in a small bay from dawn to night. Cast your float to the shadow you want, strike on the plunge and reel without snapping the line. Fill orders on the quay, buy longer line, stronger rods and better bait to fish deeper, and log 21 species and four legends.",
    "url": "games/fishing.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_34.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-09-04",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  {
    "id": "flappy_bird",
    "title": "Fugue — Flappy Bird",
    "description": "A Flappy Bird game in the pipes of a cathedral organ: tap to flap a small bird through the gaps, and every gap you thread sounds a note. The course is a tune, a good run becomes a canon, and there is a new daily course and shareable seeds.",
    "url": "games/flappy_bird.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_33.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "frogger",
    "title": "Frog Crossing — Frogger",
    "description": "A frog's way home on a rainy spring night: hop across five lanes of headlights and a river of logs and turtles - the copper ones dive - into the five lily-pad inlets of the pond. Fill all five and the next night comes faster. Tap to hop, swipe to sidestep.",
    "url": "games/frogger.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_58.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-09-14",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  {
    "id": "hangman",
    "title": "Last Words — Hangman",
    "description": "Hangman on an execution broadside. Guess the condemned man's last word one letter at a time; every wrong letter takes him a step nearer the drop - the rope, the noose, the cord, the blindfold, the lever - and the sixth opens the trap. Every day a new man, a new crime and a new word, the same for everyone; and an endless docket that grows harder with every pardon.",
    "url": "games/hangman.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_45.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-09-19",
    "categories": [
      "word"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-01"
  },
  {
    "id": "mind_meter",
    "title": "Mind Meter",
    "description": "Test your memory, reaction time, and cognitive skills with Mind Meter, a free suite of 18 brain games!",
    "url": "games/mind_meter.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_57.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2024-09-24",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-21"
  },
  {
    "id": "monkeytype",
    "title": "Monkeytype Clone",
    "description": "A typing test in the style of Monkeytype. Type the words, then see your WPM, accuracy and consistency, with a graph of the run. Timed and word-count tests, punctuation and numbers, a personal best for each, practice for the words you missed, and it works on a phone keyboard too.",
    "url": "games/monkeytype.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_52.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-09-29",
    "categories": [
      "word"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2023-04-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "number_guess",
    "title": "Tumbler — Guess the Number",
    "description": "Guess the number, safecracker style: turn a brass-and-enamel dial, press Try and hear whether the combination is higher or lower. Every guess spends a lockpick, the dial closes in on the numbers still possible, each safe is bigger than the last and the picks you save carry over. A new heist every day, the same safes for everyone.",
    "url": "games/number_guess.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_8.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-04",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "jump",
    "title": "Joodle Dump",
    "description": "A fun game where you have to help the character jump on platforms to get as high as possible!",
    "url": "games/jump.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_9.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-09",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "memory_match",
    "title": "Memory Match",
    "description": "Test your memory with cute emojis! Flip and match cards before time runs out. Have fun with Memory\n                Match!",
    "url": "games/memory_match.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_40.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-14",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "minesweeper",
    "title": "Minesweeper",
    "description": "Classic Minesweeper with flags, chording and a safe first click - plus a no-guess mode where every board can be cleared by logic alone.",
    "url": "games/minesweeper.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_11.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-19",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "pong",
    "title": "Pong",
    "description": "Table tennis as Pong first played it: climb a ladder of eight club players or face a friend on one screen. The rally speeds up with every hit and where the ball meets your bat sets the angle.",
    "url": "games/pong.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_12.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-24",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-06-17"
  },
  {
    "id": "rock_paper_scissors",
    "title": "Tells: Rock Paper Scissors Against Six Machines",
    "description": "Rock paper scissors across a table from six machines, each with one habit to find: a pebble that loves rock, a rotary phone that dials round and round, a tape recorder that copies you, a slot machine that bluffs, a terminal that holds a grudge. Read their tells on the tape before they read yours. The last one, the Oracle, learns how you play and remembers you.",
    "url": "games/rock_paper_scissors.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_13.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-10-29",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-01"
  },
  {
    "id": "simon_says",
    "title": "Simon Says",
    "description": "A memory game where you have to follow the sequence of commands and repeat it back! Four lit lenses, four held tones, one sequence that only ever gets longer - or play the daily one everyone shares.",
    "url": "games/simon_says.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_14.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-11-03",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-08"
  },
  {
    "id": "snake",
    "title": "Snake",
    "description": "A classic arcade game where you have to guide the snake to eat the food and grow as long as possible!",
    "url": "games/snake.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_15.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-11-08",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-26"
  },
  {
    "id": "sudoku",
    "title": "Sudoku",
    "description": "A classic 9x9 Sudoku with five difficulties rated by real solving technique, pencil marks, hints and shareable puzzle seeds.",
    "url": "games/sudoku.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_16.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2024-11-13",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-13"
  },
  {
    "id": "blockdrop",
    "title": "Boogie Woogie",
    "description": "A falling-block puzzle set in Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie: modern rules with hold, five previews, a ghost piece, T-spins and combos, and a boogie-woogie band that plays every move you make. Endless Marathon, a two-minute Daily with the same pieces for everyone, or Watch, where the band plays the game itself in time with the music; on a phone you drag, tap and flick.",
    "url": "games/blockdrop.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_44.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2024-11-18",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "fast-paced",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "tic_tac_toe_mp",
    "title": "Margins (Tic-Tac-Toe)",
    "description": "Tic-tac-toe in ink on a notebook page: send a friend a link and play a match to three online, pass one phone, or take on the computer. Classic rules, or Vanishing, where each side keeps three marks and the oldest is rubbed out.",
    "url": "games/tic_tac_toe_mp.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_32.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-11-23",
    "categories": [
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-06-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "time_travel_agency",
    "title": "Departures — a time travel agency",
    "description": "Run a time travel agency from a split-flap departures board. Every line goes further back: the Apollo 11 launch, the night the Eiffel Tower opened, Florence in 1504, the Ides of March, the Great Pyramid, the painted cave at Lascaux and the last afternoon of the dinosaurs. Tap DISPATCH and a train crosses the era's railway poster to bring its fares home; every car you buy is a carriage on that train, and every 25th makes the line an express. Hire Katherine Johnson, Gustave Eiffel, Leonardo, Sosigenes, Hemiunu, the Lascaux painter and Mary Anning to run the lines for you, fit them with first class, dining and observation cars, and keep earning while you are away. About an hour and a quarter in, Georges Lemaître conducts the last train, one way, to the Big Bang. Saved in the browser; progress from the old agency carries over.",
    "url": "games/time_travel_agency.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_70.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-11-28",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "typing_game",
    "title": "Regatta",
    "description": "A typing race on the river: every letter is a stroke, every typo catches a crab. Test your typing speed and accuracy against three crews.",
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    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
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    "updated": "2026-06-12",
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    ],
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      "educational"
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  },
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    "id": "whac",
    "title": "Prickle Patch — Whac-a-Hedgehog",
    "description": "Whac-a-mole with hedgehogs, printed like a garden linocut. Boop each hedgehog on the nose before it curls up and drops away, keep your hands off the wasps, catch the apples for a little more evening, and keep a streak of marigolds going until the sun sinks into the hedge.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_19.webp",
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    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-12-08",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
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    "id": "who_wants_to_be_a_millionaire",
    "title": "Hot Seat",
    "description": "Fifteen trivia questions, a ledger of money and three lifelines. Stamp your final answer under a green banker's lamp, or cash out while you still can.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_56.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": true,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2024-12-13",
    "categories": [
      "trivia"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
  },
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    "id": "word_search",
    "title": "Highlight: Word Search",
    "description": "Themed word searches where the letters no word uses spell a hidden message. Drag a highlighter across the grid; a numbered book grows from 8×8 to every direction, and one daily puzzle is the same for everyone.",
    "url": "games/word_search.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_43.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle",
      "word"
    ],
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      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-01"
  },
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    "id": "alphabet",
    "title": "Alphabet Typing Speed",
    "description": "Type the alphabet from A to Z against the clock. The first key starts it, the last letter stops it; race the ghost of your best run, try Z to A or today's shuffled Daily board, and watch your times improve on a history chart.",
    "url": "games/alphabet.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_124.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-12-23",
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      "other"
    ],
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      "singleplayer",
      "competitive",
      "fast-paced",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-09"
  },
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    "id": "suika",
    "title": "Suika",
    "description": "Drop fruit into a glass jar: two of a kind squash into the next size up, from cherry to watermelon. Five jars - Fruit, Sea, Sweets, Garden, Space - each with its own best, on phone and desktop.",
    "url": "games/suika.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_125.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2024-12-28",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-06-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "wordle",
    "title": "Wordle",
    "description": "Engage in a thrilling word puzzle challenge with Wordle - test your vocabulary prowess!",
    "url": "games/wordle.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_127.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-01-02",
    "categories": [
      "word"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-23"
  },
  {
    "id": "rock_paper_scissors_mp",
    "title": "Hands Up: Rock Paper Scissors with a Friend",
    "description": "Rock paper scissors against a friend, wherever they are. Send a link, both throw in secret, and the hands come out at the same moment. First to 1, 3 or 5, with rematches and a running head-to-head.",
    "url": "games/rock_paper_scissors_mp.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_133.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-01-07",
    "categories": [
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-30"
  },
  {
    "id": "emoji_puzzle_mania",
    "title": "Peel & Seek",
    "description": "A sheet of emoji stickers and one to find: spot the fox among the cats and tigers before the tape runs out. Every find buys a little time, every wrong peel tears some off. Sheets grow, lookalikes close in, stickers turn and spin, and collector sheets hide several of a kind. A daily sheet, the same for everyone.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_134.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-01-12",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-30"
  },
  {
    "id": "death_by_ai",
    "title": "Death by AI",
    "description": "Seven deadly predicaments in a Grand Guignol theatre. Write your own way out of each before the marquee bulbs go dark, and an AI narrator decides who lives. A new show every day.",
    "url": "games/death_by_ai.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_144.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": true,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-01-17",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "living_rps",
    "title": "Living RPS",
    "description": "Experience Living Rock Paper Scissors: A dynamic simulation where entities compete, adapt, and evolve in real-time. Customize game parameters and watch the chaos unfold!",
    "url": "games/living_rps.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_149.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-01-22",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-06-25"
  },
  {
    "id": "mystery_ai",
    "title": "Under the Lamp",
    "description": "A noir detective game with a new case every night. Question four suspects, each voiced by an AI you can ask anything, search the house room by room, and hold up the one card that breaks a lie - a witness who passed an empty room, a telephone log, a billiard table nobody played on - until the story changes in front of you. Then name who did it, with what, and why. Every case is built from a seed so it is always fair and solvable, and it plays without the AI too.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_154.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": true,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2025-03-02",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-30"
  },
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    "id": "emoji_horde_survival",
    "title": "Last Smile",
    "description": "Last until sunrise against a night-long emoji horde: your gifts fire themselves, every bad mood they beat flips into a smile, and gifts combine into evolved ones.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_166.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2025-04-03",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "asteroids_3d",
    "title": "Shatter Field",
    "description": "First-person 3D asteroids from a gun turret in the middle of the field: turn to find what's coming, shatter every rock into smaller ones, and clear field after field before one reaches you.",
    "url": "games/asteroids_3d.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_171.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-04-20",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "color_guessing_game",
    "title": "Six Digits",
    "description": "A daily colour guessing game: five hex codes, mixed by eye on three bars. Stamp each one to see the true colour beside yours, scored out of ten for how close you came, with a streak to keep.",
    "url": "games/color_guessing_game.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_177.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-04-30",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "emoji_match_three",
    "title": "Moodswing",
    "description": "A match-3 where the pieces are moods: joy, love, blue, cross, giddy and wow, each with its own colour, shape and face. Swipe two neighbours to line up three. Four in a line make a striped mood that clears its row or column, an L or a T makes one that bursts, and five make a mood ring that takes every piece of one mood; swap two of them together for something bigger. Some faces sit glum under rainclouds, and lifting the clouds is the goal on many levels. Your score is the sun, which climbs out of the hills behind the board past three stars and wakes up as it goes, and every move you save is paid out at the end. Sixty measured levels, sound made in the browser, and a level left half-played waits where you left it.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_179.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-02",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "color_flood",
    "title": "Color Flood",
    "description": "Play Color Flood - a flood-fill puzzle: start in the corner, pick a colour and flood the whole board with one colour in as few moves as you can. A live preview of every move, par and star ratings, 40 levels from pond to ocean and a new board every day.",
    "url": "games/color_flood.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_183.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-08",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "ludo",
    "title": "Ludo",
    "description": "Ludo on a block-printed cotton board: roll a six to leave the yard, race four wooden pawns home and send rivals back to the start. Play one or three computer opponents, or pass-and-play on one phone.",
    "url": "games/ludo.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_192.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-24",
    "categories": [
      "board"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2025-05-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "space_invaders",
    "title": "Space Invaders",
    "description": "Play the classic Space Invaders arcade game online for free! Defend Earth from alien invasion in this retro-style browser game with modern graphics and smooth gameplay.",
    "url": "games/space_invaders.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_193.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-25",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "lights_out",
    "title": "Bedtime (Lights Out)",
    "description": "Lights Out on a street at night: tap a window to switch it and the flats beside it, and put each apartment block to sleep within par. Blocks grow from a cottage to a tower, every par is the true minimum, and a new block arrives every night.",
    "url": "games/lights_out.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_194.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-25",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2025-05-25"
  },
  {
    "id": "yahtzee",
    "title": "Yacht (Yahtzee)",
    "description": "Yacht, the five-dice game Yahtzee grew from: roll three times, keep what you like, fill a thirteen-box score card. A daily deal of dice that is the same for everyone, a Skipper who plays the same dice, and free games any time.",
    "url": "games/yahtzee.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_195.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-25",
    "categories": [
      "card"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "solitaire",
    "title": "Patience",
    "description": "Klondike solitaire at a lamp-lit table: every deal can be won, tap a card to send it where it belongs or drag it, unlimited undo, a hint that knows the way out, draw one or draw three.",
    "url": "games/solitaire.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_197.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-29",
    "categories": [
      "card"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "missile_command",
    "title": "Lights On (Missile Command)",
    "description": "Missile Command remade for today: six harbour cities at night, three gun bunkers, and warheads falling out of the dark. Lead them, catch three in one burst, keep the windows lit. Plays with a tap on phones or a click on desktop.",
    "url": "games/missile_command.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_198.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-05-30",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "reversi",
    "title": "Reversi",
    "description": "Reversi (Othello) on a baize board: ebony and ivory counters that turn when you trap them. Press to see what a move turns, then play three computer opponents or a friend.",
    "url": "games/reversi.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_209.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-06-20",
    "categories": [
      "board"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "strategy"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "mini_tower_defense",
    "title": "Three Gates",
    "description": "A tower defense where the map grows: one gate becomes three, and every wave has a character you can read a wave ahead - flyers that skip the road, armour that shrugs off small hits, swarms that need splash. A new seeded map every day.",
    "url": "games/mini_tower_defense.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_213.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-07-12",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-09-25"
  },
  {
    "id": "8-ball",
    "title": "8-Ball Pool Game",
    "description": "Play 8-Ball Pool online for free! Realistic physics, smooth controls, and classic billiards gameplay. Challenge yourself in this browser-based pool game with no downloads required.",
    "url": "games/8-ball.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_215.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-08-18",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "stack_tower",
    "title": "Stack Tower",
    "description": "Tap to drop a sliding slab onto your tower; whatever overhangs is sliced off. Land dead centre to keep it wide, chain perfects into a rising melody, and climb from dawn through dusk to the stars.",
    "url": "games/stack_tower.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_216.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-08-22",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "chain_reaction",
    "title": "Glowtide",
    "description": "Glowtide (Chain Reaction) - One tap sets off a bloom of light in a dark sea, and every drifting orb it touches blooms too. Light enough of them to dive a level deeper. A new tide every day, three lights, a seed in the link.",
    "url": "games/chain_reaction.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_227.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-10-25",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "nonogram",
    "title": "Tesserae (Nonogram)",
    "description": "Nonogram (picross) as mosaic work: lay tiles on a plaster wall by the numbers and a hidden picture turns to glaze. 21 hand-made pictures from 5×5 to 15×15, every one solvable by logic alone, with hints that say why, drag to paint, undo, and a new panel picked each day.",
    "url": "games/nonogram.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_228.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-10-26",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "tower_of_hanoi",
    "title": "Tower of Hanoi",
    "description": "Tower of Hanoi at night: carry a stack of lacquer discs to the lantern peg, never a larger on a smaller. Three to eight discs, a hint that knows the fewest moves from wherever you are, and every disc rings its own bell.",
    "url": "games/tower_of_hanoi.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_230.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-11-21",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "freecell",
    "title": "FreeCell",
    "description": "FreeCell where every deal can be won: the classic numbered deals, a daily deal, tap-to-move, unlimited undo and a hint that knows the way out.",
    "url": "games/freecell.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_231.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-11-28",
    "categories": [
      "card"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "webcraft",
    "title": "Lanternfall",
    "description": "Lanternfall: a calm voxel world to build and explore by day. When night falls, the Murk come, and only torchlight keeps them away. Free in your browser, phone and desktop.",
    "url": "games/webcraft.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_232.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2025-11-28",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "deep_miner",
    "title": "Wick",
    "description": "Dig down by lamplight: your oil is both clock and light. Fill the pack, haul it up, upgrade, and find the relics down to the Deep Heart.",
    "url": "games/deep_miner.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_239.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-01-14",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing",
      "retro"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "void_runner",
    "title": "Void Runner",
    "description": "An endless runner on a thin line of light. Jump, double jump and slide through a void that never stops speeding up, brush past danger for bonus points and chain orbs into a combo.",
    "url": "games/void_runner.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_244.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-02-05",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "backgammon",
    "title": "Backgammon",
    "description": "Play Backgammon online for free on a lacquered travelling board: tap or drag checkers, a computer opponent at three strengths, two players on one device, hits, the bar, bearing off, gammons and matches to 1, 3 or 5 points.",
    "url": "games/backgammon.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_245.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-02-05",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "two_truths_one_lie",
    "title": "Two Truths & a Lie",
    "description": "Two Truths & a Lie as a case file: three typed statements, one lie, and a stamp that lands. Ten cases a run, a new file every day, six topic files, or name any topic and have a file typed up for you.",
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    "featured": true,
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      "multiplayer"
    ],
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  {
    "id": "qix",
    "title": "QIX",
    "description": "QIX remade as a painting: slide along the edge, cut into the dark and close the line to claim ground. Every claim reveals a landscape. Dodge the Qix and the Sparx, never stand still. Keyboard and touch.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_251.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-02-10",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-07"
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  {
    "id": "artillery",
    "title": "Artillery",
    "description": "Artillery is a turn-based tank duel on destructible hills. Pull the sling back to set angle and power, read the wind in the pennants, and be first to win 3 rounds against the computer or a friend.",
    "url": "games/artillery.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_252.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
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    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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  {
    "id": "word_rain",
    "title": "WORD RAIN",
    "description": "WORD RAIN - A typing incremental. Words fall like rain over a sleeping town; type them before they land and the lamp pays you in lumen. Spend it on a constellation of upgrades, hire a lamplighter, a night watch, a scholar and a choir to type beside you, then greet the dawn to start again with stars and a new district.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_258.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-03-06",
    "categories": [
      "word",
      "simulation"
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    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
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    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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    "id": "push_mine",
    "title": "Push Mine",
    "description": "PushMine is a mobile-first incremental mining game powered by AI face detection. Do real push-ups to mine deeper, earn coins, unlock upgrades, and prestige your way to the abyss.",
    "url": "games/push_mine.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_259.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": true,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2026-03-17",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
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    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
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    "updated": "2026-07-19"
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  {
    "id": "fling",
    "title": "Fling",
    "description": "Fling is a free browser slingshot game. Fling paper birds with real physics at towers of wood, stone and ice, use bird powers and powder kegs, pop every toad and earn three stars on each of 20 handmade levels.",
    "url": "games/fling.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_262.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-04-23",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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  {
    "id": "rubiks_cube",
    "title": "Rubik's Cube",
    "description": "A 3D Rubik's Cube on a studio table: drag any layer to turn it, the clock starts on your first touch, undo and hints help you home, and three scramble levels keep your personal bests.",
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    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-04-26",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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  {
    "id": "emoji_horde",
    "title": "Emoji Horde",
    "description": "An incremental defence game: your heart beats in the dark, bad-mood emojis close in, and every beat sends out a pulse. Spend the love they drop to hit harder, outlast the Tantrum and mend your heart in gold.",
    "url": "games/emoji_horde.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_265.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-05-09",
    "categories": [
      "strategy",
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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  {
    "id": "interactive_buddy",
    "title": "Interactive Buddy — Physics Ragdoll Sandbox",
    "description": "A crash-test dummy and a test bay full of bad ideas: punch, throw, blow up and set fire to your floppy buddy. Every hit pays, every payday unlocks something worse, and the wall keeps your highest launch.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_270.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-05-28",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-09"
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  {
    "id": "void",
    "title": "VOID — Swallow Everything, From Streets to Stars",
    "description": "Steer a black hole through a street and swallow whatever fits. Every bite makes you bigger: bins, cars, houses, cities, mountains, planets, whole galaxies. Four chapters, one endless fall, and a clock that pays for ambition.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_271.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-05-30",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-09"
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  {
    "id": "fathom",
    "title": "Fathom — A Catalogue of Abyssal Specimens",
    "description": "A deep-sea typing dive on an engraved naturalist's chart. Write the name each specimen carries before it reaches your bathysphere; every name sinks you deeper, from the twilight zone to the hadal trench, as the ink wash closes in.",
    "url": "games/fathom.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_274.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-06-09",
    "updated": "2026-10-10",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "educational"
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  },
  {
    "id": "skyline",
    "title": "SKYLINE — Stacker Incremental City Builder",
    "description": "SKYLINE is a browser incremental game built on the classic Stacker arcade mechanic. Drop sliding blocks to raise a glass skyscraper, chain perfect drops for huge multipliers, weather the storm, and prestige into an architect skill tree. Free to play, no install.",
    "url": "games/skyline.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_277.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-07-01",
    "updated": "2026-07-02",
    "categories": [
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    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "getting_up_here",
    "title": "Getting Up Here",
    "description": "A silly clone of Getting Over It by Bennett Foddy.",
    "url": "games/getting_up_here.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_278.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-07-15",
    "updated": "2026-07-15",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
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  },
  {
    "id": "downhill_dreamer",
    "title": "Downhill Dreamer — a hill-surfing bird game",
    "description": "Hold to dive, release to soar! Surf procedurally generated hills as a little round bird, chain perfect slides, break the sound barrier and outrun the night in this free browser game.",
    "url": "games/downhill_dreamer.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_279.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-07-17",
    "updated": "2026-09-24",
    "categories": [
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    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
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  {
    "id": "timberbound",
    "title": "Timberbound — a first-person voxel incremental about impossible trees",
    "description": "Timberbound is a first-person voxel incremental game about felling increasingly impossible trees, hauling strange lumber to a shopkeeper called Mosswick, and becoming gloriously overpowered. Eight forests, eleven axes, a 30-node skill constellation, spreading wildfire and a drone fleet that hauls millions of logs for you.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_282.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2026-07-31",
    "updated": "2026-09-24",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "mastermind",
    "title": "Mastermind — 3D Code-Breaking Game with Move Analysis",
    "description": "Break the hidden code in a 3D Mastermind board with a generative soundtrack. Play 4 or 5 slots, 6 or 8 colours, then see exactly how many of the possible codes each of your guesses ruled out.",
    "url": "games/mastermind.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_285.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-14",
    "updated": "2026-08-14",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "pulseforge",
    "title": "Pulseforge — a rhythm game that composes its own songs",
    "description": "A four-lane rhythm game with no audio files. Type any word as a seed and Pulseforge composes a full track — drums, bass, pads and a melody that is the note chart itself. Play it on keyboard or touch, then share the seed.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_286.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-16",
    "updated": "2026-08-16",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "lumenwright",
    "title": "Lumenwright — a laser puzzle about bending light into colour",
    "description": "Rotate mirrors, prisms, beam splitters and dichroic mirrors until every detector receives exactly the colour it asks for. Endless generated levels that keep changing shape, a daily puzzle, and an exact par for every board. No downloads, no assets, plays on keyboard or touch.",
    "url": "games/lumenwright.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_287.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-20",
    "updated": "2026-08-20",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "glyphgate",
    "title": "Glyphgate — a deduction game about laws you have to discover",
    "description": "The gate admits some rows of glyphs and turns others away, and it will not say why. Run experiments, narrow it down, and state the law. Thirteen gates each teach a new kind of rule, answers are judged by meaning rather than wording, and every wrong answer hands back the shortest row that refutes it.",
    "url": "games/glyphgate.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_288.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-21",
    "updated": "2026-08-21",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "selfsame",
    "title": "Selfsame — a puzzle game about cooperating with your past selves",
    "description": "Every room gives you one short hour. Spend it and the you who spent it stays behind as an echo, repeating every step forever — so you plan the next hour around it. Twenty-two hand-built rooms of plates, shutters, crates and orbs, every one shipped with a verified solution and a par proved minimal by exhaustive search.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_289.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "updated": "2026-08-22",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "escapement",
    "title": "Escapement — a pinball machine that builds a clock",
    "description": "Real pinball physics in a single file: flippers you can cradle a ball on, ramps you have to hit hard enough to make, slingshots, a spinner, drop targets and a centre scoop. Every mission you finish installs another part of a clock, and the part is then physically on the playfield — a kickback, a turning escape wheel, a second habitrail, chime bars, an upper flipper. Build all five and the clock can strike twelve. No downloads, keyboard or touch.",
    "url": "games/escapement.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_291.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "updated": "2026-08-22",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "nine_holes",
    "title": "Nine Holes — procedural minigolf you can ace",
    "description": "A round of nine procedurally generated minigolf holes. Every one is checked before you see it: a hole-in-one is always possible, but never by simply pointing at the cup — the ace window is a couple of degrees wide and you have to find it. Slopes push the ball, bumpers throw it back, sand kills it, water costs a stroke, and the cup spits the ball out if it arrives too fast. Par is measured by playing each hole rather than guessed, and the nine are ordered gentlest first. Drag to putt or aim with the arrow keys. Share a round by its seed.",
    "url": "games/nine_holes.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_295.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-08",
    "updated": "2026-09-08",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "everywhere",
    "title": "Everywhere — write one rule that solves every maze",
    "description": "A programming puzzle where you never solve a level. You write one short rulebook for a robot — plain if-then lines, read top to bottom and then repeated — and the game tests it against hundreds of mazes you have never seen, then shows you the one that beats it, with your robot's path drawn on it. Eight stages take you from a straight corridor to the wall-following rule that solves every maze, then start taking the robot's senses away and make you rebuild it blind. Below them is The Deep, an endless run of handicaps drawn from an exhaustive table of which vocabularies can solve a maze at all — so every round is known to be beatable, and tells you in how many lines.",
    "url": "games/everywhere.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_296.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-08",
    "updated": "2026-09-08",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "scatter",
    "title": "Scatter — Pac-Man with the ghost AI made visible",
    "description": "The 1980 maze chase, rebuilt with the ghost logic intact. The maze is the original one — 240 pellets and four energizers — and the ghosts are not four copies of \"walk toward Pac-Man\": Blinky targets your tile, Pinky aims four ahead to cut you off (with the original's overflow bug when you face up), Inky doubles a vector through Blinky, and Clyde loses his nerve inside eight tiles. Scatter and chase waves, the dot counters that release each ghost, cornering, tunnel slowdown and Blinky's endgame speed-up are all in. A strip under the board counts down to the next scatter — the window the arcade never showed you — and flipping on the target overlay makes every ghost draw a line to the tile it has chosen, so you can watch the most-studied AI in games decide. A practice mode slows the ghosts if you want to learn the maze first.",
    "url": "games/scatter.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_297.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-09",
    "updated": "2026-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "hummingbird",
    "title": "Hummingbird — a game you play by humming",
    "description": "A singing game. Hum, sing or whistle and a little bird follows your voice along a flower vine — hold the line and the flowers bloom behind you. It listens to your range first, then writes songs that fit your voice: seven meadows that add leaps, take away the guide note singing along with you, narrow the vine, and finally drop the band out altogether so you have to hold the tune alone and come back in tune when they return. Every melody is grown and then judged before you hear it, so it stays singable. No microphone? Fly her with the mouse.",
    "url": "games/hummingbird.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_298.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-09",
    "updated": "2026-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "other"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "strata",
    "title": "Strata — a falling-sand world you have to discover",
    "description": "A falling-sand sandbox with no palette. You start with sand, water, stone, fire and a seed; the other twenty-nine materials have to be found. Quench lava to get obsidian, let steam climb until it snows, bury a plant deep under stone and come back to find oil, then coal, then diamond. The ground is opaque until you cut into it, so the salt seams, the ore and the magma at the bottom are yours to dig out. Nothing is discovered for you. Slow the world to an eighth speed to watch a reaction happen, or switch on high-contrast colours to tell the greys apart. Your notebook is kept between worlds.",
    "url": "games/strata.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_299.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-09",
    "updated": "2026-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "alibi",
    "title": "Alibi — a game for two people and one phone",
    "description": "You and a friend swear you were together last night. The phone is the detective: it asks you both the same question, you answer in secret and pass it over, and then it shows you whether your two stories match. Every answer costs something — an account nobody can confirm costs more, one with a witness in it costs less, and anything the detective is hot on costs more each time you lean on it, so the safe answer stops being safe. Agree your story out loud before it starts, because you don't get to talk again. Sixteen places, ten crimes, three scenes a night, and a written statement at the end with every crack in it marked.",
    "url": "games/alibi.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_300.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-09",
    "updated": "2026-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "procession",
    "title": "Procession — a deck-builder that never shuffles",
    "description": "Nine fights, one new card after each, and a deck that is never shuffled. At the end of every turn the cards you played drop to the bottom in the order you played them, and the cards you held follow behind — so the hand you draw three turns from now is one you dealt yourself. Nothing is hidden: you can see the next five cards and the enemy states its exact next move, so anything that kills you was something you could see coming. Cards you play together come back together, which makes spacing your plays as much of the game as choosing them. Four ways to build — force, guard, venom and tempo — each with one card that pays off enormously if you built for it and does almost nothing if you didn't. Seeded, so a run can be handed to someone else.",
    "url": "games/procession.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_301.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-09",
    "updated": "2026-09-09",
    "categories": [
      "card",
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "jigsaw",
    "title": "Jigsaw",
    "description": "Drop in a photo and it becomes a real interlocking jigsaw — pieces that snap together and from then on move as one lump, the way a jigsaw actually behaves. 12 to 540 pieces, an optional rotation mode, four procedural pictures if you have no photo to hand, and it remembers where you got to. Nothing ever leaves your browser.",
    "url": "games/jigsaw.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_303.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "updated": "2026-09-10",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "menagerie",
    "title": "Menagerie",
    "description": "Sculpt a world and watch animals evolve to cross it. Nobody designs them: eighty are thrown together at random — a back, some legs, a rhythm — and whichever get furthest have the children. The population breeds as separate species, one per body plan, so a two-limbed hopper and an eight-limbed crawler can develop side by side instead of the first winner swallowing the run. Every world sets a distance to beat: raise hills, dig flooded trenches, pull down a roof they must crawl under, or ice the floor, and each one breeds a different animal. Keep the ones you like on the shelf and release them somewhere they were never bred for.",
    "url": "games/menagerie.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_304.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "updated": "2026-09-10",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "fresh_oil",
    "title": "Fresh Oil — bowling where the lane is the opponent",
    "description": "Ten frames of tenpin with the physics actually simulated, not faked: the ball is a rigid body with a real inertia tensor, so it hooks because friction acts on a spinning sphere, and the drilling layout decides how much fresh cover it puts down each revolution. Forty feet of oil lie between you and the pocket, and every ball thrown on the lane — yours and the three other bowlers on the pair — takes a little of it away. The line that struck in the first frame comes in high by the sixth. Read where your ball arrived, move two boards with your feet and one with your eyes, and keep chasing the lane until the tenth.",
    "url": "games/fresh_oil.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_305.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-11",
    "updated": "2026-09-11",
    "categories": [
      "simulation",
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "shopfloor",
    "title": "Shopfloor — a factory that only gets one screen",
    "description": "A factory-building puzzle on a floor that never grows. Machines face the way you point them and only take what their recipe asks for, so a wrong turn parks an ingot at a press door and stops the line behind it. Ore comes in at a fixed rate however many ports you open, belts cost budget just like machines do, and six orders keep asking for something the layout you just built cannot make — so you spend the shift tearing up your own factory.",
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    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_306.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2026-09-12",
    "updated": "2026-09-13",
    "categories": [
      "simulation",
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "logic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "liquid_war",
    "title": "Liquid War — an army that follows your cursor",
    "description": "Your army is a few thousand fighters and you command none of them: you move one cursor, and every fighter of your colour floods through the maze along the shortest path to it. When two colours meet nobody dies — the loser changes sides, so the map is a tug of war over one fixed population and every fight you win makes you bigger. Feed a corridor one fighter at a time and you hand it over; pull back until the queue bunches up and arrive all at once, and you take it. Seeded battlefields in six shapes, up to four armies, five opposing temperaments and a twelve-battle ladder that bends one rule at a time.",
    "url": "games/liquid_war.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_308.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "updated": "2026-09-14",
    "categories": [
      "strategy",
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "competitive",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "blobby_volley",
    "title": "Blobby Volley",
    "description": "The beach-volleyball classic, rebuilt on the original game's physics constants: the ball always leaves a blob at exactly the same speed, so you aim by where on your body you meet it, never by hitting harder. Serve-side scoring to 15, three touches a side, and a net post that eats the ball. Play a friend on one keyboard, a computer opponent that reads the ball's landing point, or either of those on a phone.",
    "url": "games/blobby_volley.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_309.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "updated": "2026-09-16",
    "categories": [
      "arcade",
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive",
      "retro"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "icy_tower",
    "title": "Icy Tower",
    "description": "The tower climb built on one rule from the original: horizontal speed is the only thing that lifts you. A standing jump clears two floors, a full sprint thirteen — so you run the length of a floor, or bounce off a wall and flick your direction back on impact to keep every bit of momentum. Multi-floor landings chain into combos worth their length squared, the floors start sinking at floor 5 and pull harder every thirty seconds, and the seed in the URL makes any tower repeatable.",
    "url": "games/icy_tower.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_310.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "updated": "2026-09-14",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced",
      "retro"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "moorhuhn",
    "title": "Moor Chicken",
    "description": "The moor chicken hunt of 1999, rebuilt on the numbers that made it work: ninety seconds, ten shells to a magazine, and a reload that costs you time you cannot spare. The moor is three screens wide and you swing the barrel across it, so the skill is not marksmanship but choosing targets — a speck near the horizon pays 20, the fat one under your nose pays 5, the windmill's four blades and the scarecrow's hat pay 25 apiece, and the signpost costs you 25. Seeded moors, mouse or thumbs.",
    "url": "games/moorhuhn.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_311.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "updated": "2026-09-30",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced",
      "retro"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "pingu_throw",
    "title": "Pingu Throw",
    "description": "The yeti classic under a winter moon, on the same two taps: one sends the penguin diving off the ice wall, the other swings the club the instant you press it. A spirit level reads the dive live, from early through dead level to late, and the club's dashed line lights up while the penguin is in reach; the hit freezes for a beat, dead level flies furthest, early lobs and late skids. A yellow tape measure runs under the whole flight, the ghost of your best flies beside you, every throw leaves a numbered flag in the snow, and a challenge link hands a friend your exact throw. No wind, no luck: the same tap lands on the same centimetre.",
    "url": "games/pingu_throw.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_312.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "updated": "2026-09-30",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "fast-paced",
      "retro"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "peggle",
    "title": "Peg Fever",
    "description": "The 2007 peg-dropping classic, rebuilt on the numbers that make it tick: 25 orange pegs to clear, 10 balls to do it with, blue pegs worth 10 and orange worth 100 — and each peg a single drop touches is worth more than the last, so the tenth peg of a rally pays ten times the first. The fever meter lifts the whole board to x2, x3, x5 and x10 as the oranges fall, the free-ball bucket sweeps the base, long shots pay 25,000, and the last orange peg opens the five bonus slots. Three powers, seeded boards, drag to aim with a thumb.",
    "url": "games/peggle.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_313.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "updated": "2026-09-15",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "worms",
    "title": "Worms",
    "description": "Worms Armageddon rebuilt on the numbers that make it work: terrain is a pixel mask, so a crater is the exact shape the explosion had; a worm is a 9x16 coffin that climbs 8px without jumping; wind is a constant acceleration that bends a bazooka a hundred pixels across a long shot and does nothing at all to a grenade. Sixteen weapons and utilities including a ninja rope you can wrap round corners, girders that survive blasts, a jetpack and an air strike. 2 to 4 teams, each human or CPU, hot-seat on one device; the CPU solves its shot by simulating arcs against the real terrain. Seeded maps, sudden death, and thumb controls that keep both pads under your hands.",
    "url": "games/worms.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_314.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "updated": "2026-09-15",
    "categories": [
      "strategy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "kurve",
    "title": "Kurve",
    "description": "Achtung, die Kurve! (Zatacka, 1995) rebuilt on measurements taken off the original DOS binary under DOSBox: a 559x480 field, 70 pixels a second, a smallest turning circle 57 pixels across, a 3-pixel trail, and a hole punched in that trail every 195 pixels that is 8 pixels long — the hole is the whole game, because without it the field locks solid. Up to six players on one keyboard with the original key pairs down to the mouse-button player, a lobby you join by pressing your own key, bots to fill the field, two thumbs each for two players on a phone, and a seed in the URL so a match replays exactly.",
    "url": "games/kurve.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_315.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "updated": "2026-09-15",
    "categories": [
      "arcade",
      "multiplayer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive",
      "retro",
      "fast-paced"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "tilt_maze",
    "title": "Tilt Maze",
    "description": "The Brio wooden labyrinth in a browser tab, and the rare page here that is better on a phone than on a desktop: you tilt the actual phone. The ball is a solid steel sphere rolling without slipping, so it accelerates at (5/7)g·sin θ rather than g·sin θ — two sevenths of gravity goes into spin, and that factor is the difference between a ball and a cursor. Rolling resistance, a restitution measured for steel on wood, and a 60 Hz sim split into substeps short enough that a fast ball can never cross a 6 mm wall without hitting it. On iOS the motion permission is asked from the Start button, beta and gamma are rotated by the screen angle so landscape does not tip the board sideways, and a Re-zero button means you never have to hold the phone flat. No sensor: the mouse or the arrow keys tilt the same board, to the same limits. Five boards, one clock, and every board proved before you see it — a flood fill on the ball's centre finds a route with 3 mm of clearance either side, and any hole that would sever the last one is never placed. Seed in the URL.",
    "url": "games/tilt_maze.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_316.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-16",
    "updated": "2026-09-16",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "retro"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "five_rungs",
    "title": "Five Rungs",
    "description": "Five daily puzzles on one page, and deliberately five different kinds rather than one kind five times over: a region-logic board, an arithmetic grid, a polyomino packing, a word ladder and a country hunt that answers in kilometres and compass points. The date is the only seed, so there is no server and everybody gets the same five — at midnight UTC, written on the page, because local midnight would mean two people on the same calendar day comparing different puzzles. Because the date is the seed an archive costs nothing, so every past day is still playable, which the commercial versions of this genre cannot do. Nothing here is hand-written per day and nothing is authored: each puzzle is generated and then handed to a solver before it is shown. Lanterns and Ledger must come out by deduction with no guessing; Tessera and Lanterns are counted exhaustively for a single answer; Rungs is a breadth-first count of shortest chains, so exactly one ladder of that length exists. Over 220 consecutive days every puzzle generated and every one was unique. Emoji result grids per puzzle and one combined block, showing the run and never the answer, and a streak that survives a private window by falling back to memory.",
    "url": "games/five_rungs.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_340.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-21",
    "updated": "2026-09-21",
    "categories": [
      "puzzle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "logic",
      "educational"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "rack",
    "title": "Rack",
    "description": "A crossword tile game on the classic 15×15 board: seven letters, premium squares, blanks, the 50-point bonus for using all seven. Play a computer opponent or pass one device between up to four people, each rack hidden behind a cover until its owner taps. The referee is a 270,000-word list; the easy and medium computers only play everyday words, so what they put down is something you could have found yourself rather than USQUE, and hard knows the whole list and keeps a balanced rack. After each of your moves the log shows the best play you had, and the end of the game says what share of the available points you took. A seed in the URL deals the same tiles again.",
    "url": "games/rack.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_341.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-22",
    "updated": "2026-09-22",
    "categories": [
      "word"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "multiplayer",
      "competitive"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "bubble_break",
    "title": "Bubble Break — a bubble wrap incremental",
    "description": "An incremental about popping bubble wrap on your coffee break. Press bubbles one at a time until your thumb is strong enough to swipe, hold down on the thick ones, grab the gold before the machine does its rounds, chase sugar rushes and pop zippers that open whole rows. Quit your job for calluses, finish orders to take more with you, and work your way from the office desk through a warehouse and a factory to a city on moving day, where one sheet holds tens of millions of bubbles and a loop of cordon tape pops a million at once, and on to the whole countryside under one sheet, with combine harvesters. Popping builds up static until lightning jumps across the wrap. Now and then a special delivery comes in: jumbo wrap that squashes before it pops, a fragile sheet round a vase whose print must not be touched, and shrink wrap with a heat gun right behind you. Then wrap the world and pop it, and everything after it.",
    "url": "games/bubble_break.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_344.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": true,
    "date": "2026-09-25",
    "updated": "2026-09-26",
    "categories": [
      "arcade"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "firefly_jar",
    "title": "Firefly Jar",
    "description": "A cozy incremental made of summer nights. Sweep the jar, which follows your mouse or finger, through the fireflies as fast as you like. Carry a full jar to the lantern before dawn takes it, and spend the light on a skill tree that is a real tree of hanging lanterns. Turning the season is the prestige: the crown goes dark, the roots keep tree rings, and every season brings something new to do instead of a bigger number. Will-o'-wisp trails lay paths home across the autumn moor, icicles split the light into coloured beams and an aurora dips into the winter meadow, spring buds keep light and pay it back with interest, and Midsummer grows the meadow into a forest until the fireflies rise into the Milky Way. Along the way a field journal fills with the real species you learn to tell by their light: glow-worms in the grass, the steady blue ghost, the synchronous fireflies of the Smoky Mountains that flash in bursts all together, and the femme fatale that fakes other species' signals to eat them. Every night has its own sky: puddles after rain that double what flies over them, wind that herds the fireflies to one edge, fog, a storm far off whose lightning the fireflies answer, and a moon that waxes and wanes, with a forecast after each night. At the end the lantern tree goes up into the sky as a constellation, and another year starts brighter. The meadow, the trees, the frogs and owls and thunder and the soundtrack are all made in code, with a tune of its own for each season: electric piano and guitar in summer, a harp waltz in autumn, a music box in winter and a flute in spring. About two hours from the first jar to the credits; progress is saved in the browser.",
    "url": "games/firefly_jar.html",
    "screenshot": "screenshots/screenshot_345.webp",
    "type": "game",
    "aiPowered": false,
    "featured": false,
    "date": "2026-09-25",
    "updated": "2026-09-26",
    "categories": [
      "simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "singleplayer",
      "relaxing"
    ]
  }
]
