🎮 game of the day
Every hobby gets a game. Some are puzzles, some are quizzes, some are just strange little things I made at 2am.
Aurora APRS Mapper
Classify incoming APRS packets on a dark aurora map — identify balloons, ground stations, aircraft, and interference to track a stratospheric balloon.
Living Sculpture
Bonsai Apr 6Shape a growing bonsai tree to match the master's vision using physics-based bending, pruning, and wiring.
Tension & Dropouts
Reel-to-Reel Tape Restoration Apr 5Balance tape tension while marking dropouts for splice repair. Watch for sticky-shed syndrome!
Mist Master
Oyster Mushroom Cultivation Apr 3Keep oyster mushroom clusters in the humidity sweet spot by spraying water — but don't overwater or mold will spread!
Molten Pour
Pewter Casting Apr 2Tilt molten pewter into intricate mold cavities. Control temperature and flow to achieve perfect fills without overflow.
Cathode Cycle
Nixie Tube Clock Building Apr 1Tap nixie tubes to cycle their digits and prevent cathode poisoning. Keep all tubes healthy for 2 minutes!
Bias Drift
Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier Building Mar 31Keep four vacuum tubes biased in the sweet spot as they heat up and drift. Drag to adjust each tube's bias voltage.
Gentle Current
Marimo Moss Ball Cultivation Mar 30Guide a marimo moss ball through water currents, collecting sunlight to photosynthesize and float to freedom.
Edge Highlight
Miniature Painting Mar 27Trace highlight edges on miniature silhouettes with steady brush control. Slow and steady wins!
Focal Point
Microscopy Mar 25Adjust the focus dial to bring specimens into clarity, then identify what you see under the microscope.
Iwagumi Balance
Aquascaping Mar 24Arrange stones in a balanced Iwagumi composition with golden ratio harmony.
Ground Truth
Metal Detecting Mar 20Deploy geophones, analyze seismic waveforms, and triangulate the epicenter of hidden underground events.
Cat's Whisker Calibration
Crystal Radio Restoration Mar 19Find hot spots on a galena crystal by dragging the whisker and locking clear signals.
Chain Stitch
Coptic Stitch Flight Logbook Binding Mar 15Path-drawing puzzle where you trace Coptic bookbinding stitches to bind a flight logbook.
Shape the Silence
Bonsai Mar 13Prune branches to match the target silhouette. Every cut is permanent — contemplate before you snip.
Crease Logic
Origami Engineering Mar 8Solve origami crease patterns by toggling folds to satisfy Maekawa's Theorem.
Grit & Spin
Rock Tumbling Mar 7Control tumbler speed to polish rocks through grit stages while avoiding cracks.
Carve & Press
Linocut Printmaking Mar 6Carve linoleum blocks and pull prints — but remember, the image comes out mirrored!
Burn Control
Pyrography Mar 5Press and hold to burn wood to the perfect shade. Master the art of pyrography timing.
Crossdate
Dendrochronology Core Sampling Mar 5Match tree ring patterns by dragging core samples to align them. Date 5 samples using real dendrochronology crossdating technique.
Ebru Flow
Paper Marbling (Ebru) Mar 3Create beautiful marbled patterns by dropping ink and swirling it through water. Use stylus or comb tools to craft flowing designs.
Movement Breakdown
Mechanical Watch Disassembly Mar 2Carefully disassemble a mechanical watch movement by removing parts in the correct order. Delicate parts require slow, steady hands.
Kettle Stitch
Bookbinding Mar 1Thread your way through traditional bookbinding stitch patterns. Drag the golden thread through holes in the correct sequence to bind signatures together.
Golden Seams
Kintsugi Feb 28Trace gold lacquer along cracks in broken pottery. Embrace imperfection in this meditative kintsugi experience.
Escapement Rhythm
Mechanical Watch Disassembly Feb 27Tap in time with an oscillating balance wheel as it reaches the release point. Land 36 perfect ticks to wind one hour before the mechanism jams or time runs out.
Harmonic Resonance Tuner
Harmonic Telegraph Key Restoration Feb 26Restore vintage telegraph keys by tuning them to precise harmonic frequencies using ear and oscilloscope.
Coil Tender
Guitar Pickup Winding Feb 24Wind copper wire onto a guitar pickup bobbin while maintaining perfect tension. Too fast and the wire snaps, too slow and the coil goes microphonic!
Curve Engraver
Roasting Profile Curve Engraving Feb 22Engrave roasting profile curves onto metal plates by tracing temperature over time.
Cathode Preflight
Nixie Tube Flight Instrument Clocks Feb 20Calibrate vintage nixie tube flight instruments by dragging to match target readings before takeoff.
Brass Ear
Cylinder Music Box Transcription Punching Feb 19Listen to a music box melody and punch pins onto a cylinder to recreate it.
Escapement Calibrator
Orrery Clockwork Escapement Printing Feb 17Calibrate the orrery escapement, align planets, and print for points.
Hidden Linkage
Puzzle Box Mechanism Design Feb 16Drag sliding panels in the correct sequence to unlock a puzzle box and uncover hidden dependencies.
Harmonic Ecology
Generative Soundscape Composition Feb 11Drag and mute frequency orbs across low, mid, and high bands to keep a harmony meter balanced. Stay above 25% harmony for 90 seconds to win; drop below and the soundscape collapses.
Flow State
Fountain Pen Restoration Feb 10Calibrate vintage fountain pen nibs by adjusting tine gap, feed depth, and ink saturation to achieve perfect ink flow.
Flightpath Loop Drums
Flightpath Zoetrope Drums Feb 9Match aviation waypoint patterns on a spinning zoetrope drum machine
Orbital Alert
Orbital Decay Audio Notifications Feb 8Listen to satellite decay tones and drag them to the correct priority zone before they burn up.
Colour Cadence Trails
Choir Pitch Lightpainting Feb 3Coloured orbs drift down, each mapped to a musical chord degree. Tap them in the correct cadence order to build glowing light trails across 8 rounds of increasing difficulty.
Knight's Tour VFR Planner
VFR Knight's Tour Grid Flights Feb 2Plan a knight's tour across a VFR chart grid while weather and fuel constraints tighten the puzzle.
Gust and Chord
METAR Chord Briefings Feb 1Weather music quiz — decode wind speed, gust factor, and cloud ceiling from musical chords across 10 METAR briefing rounds.
Lobe Matchdown
Antenna Pattern Chess Set Jan 27Two radiation patterns appear side by side. Identify which chess piece has the matching antenna lobe shape from a palette of six. Quick answers earn bonus points across 10 timed rounds.
Baton Blend Rush
Pitch-Tracking Conductor Baton Jan 23Drag a conductor's baton to match tempo and volume target zones across 8 musical phrases. Stay in the zone to score points.
Doppler Drift Arp
Propeller Doppler Arpeggiator Jan 22An airplane flies past with Doppler-shifted pitch. Drag a slider to match the frequency you hear, then tap LOCK to capture the note. Six rounds build a custom arpeggio.
Hold Pattern Groove
Holding-Pattern Polyrhythm Loops Jan 21Two airplane beats orbit at different rhythms. Tap whenever either one passes through the bottom marker — hit every beat, not just the alignments. 8 rounds of increasingly complex polyrhythm ratios.
Spike Shift
Knight Aperture Star Spikes Jan 20Optical alignment puzzle — drag and rotate aperture mask bars to align diffraction spikes with the target star pattern. Score on angle accuracy across 8 rounds.
Lobe Lantern Lab
Antenna Lobe Lanterns Jan 13Drag sliders to adjust element count, spacing, and phase shift of a virtual antenna array. Match the target radiation pattern, then tap Submit to lock in your answer across 8 rounds.
Beacon Forker
Morse Chess Tactics Beacon Jan 12Chess fork puzzle — find where the knight forks two pieces. Morse code beeps hint at the answer square.
METAR Chord Decoder
METAR Chord Briefings Jan 9Decode real-format METAR weather reports segment by segment — wind, visibility, clouds, temperature, altimeter. Correct answers build a musical chord; wrong answers play dissonance. 5 METARs per game, scored by accuracy and speed.
Morse Trail Stacker
Morse Beacon Star-Trail Lightpainting Jan 8Watch and listen to a morse pattern for a single letter, then replicate it by tapping (dit) and holding (dah). Correct sequences grow a star trail. Progressive difficulty unlocks harder letters across five levels.
Charting the Invisible
Airborne RF Shadow Cartography Jan 7Fly a foam wing over terrain to triangulate hidden RF sources. The signal meter reacts as you get closer — drag to fly, tap to drop markers. Minesweeper meets radio direction-finding across 5 rounds of increasing difficulty.
Mapping the Park
Foam-Wing Orthomosaic Mapping Jan 6Plan a foam-wing drone's flight path over a park, placing waypoints for overlapping photo coverage. Manage limited battery, fight wind drift, and map as much terrain as possible.
Aurora Chorus Sync
Aurora Chorus Sonified Timelapse Jan 2Rhythm game — tap falling aurora pulses in sync with VLF chorus chirps across three frequency lanes. Chain combos for bonus points under the northern lights.
Beat Error
Calibrate mechanical watch movements by adjusting the regulator to match the target beat rate.
Carving the Airwaves into Light
RF Waterfall Lithophanes Jan 5A sculpting puzzle — draw on a pixel grid to match RF waterfall signal patterns and carve lithophanes from radio waves. Score based on pattern accuracy across 5 rounds.
Grain Cloud Composer
Generative Soundscape Composition Jan 1Draw on the canvas to spray sound grains and long-press to place emitters. Fill shifting target zones with enough grains before time runs out across 6 scored rounds of increasing difficulty.
Burst Calculator Challenge
Stratospheric Balloon Telemetry Dec 31Multi-round science puzzle — dial in the perfect helium fill volume for each balloon launch scenario. Score based on how close your burst altitude is to the target. 8 rounds with increasing difficulty: wind, heavy payloads, and nighttime cooling.
Constellation Connect
A 3D star field where players click on stars to form constellations. Connect stars in the right order to match patterns across 5 rounds with increasing difficulty.
Constellation Hunter
Navigate a 3D star field and trace constellation patterns by clicking stars in sequence. Find 5 constellations before time runs out!
Drum Solo
A 4-lane drum rhythm game with falling beats. Hit D/F/J/K or tap lanes in time with the music. Crown beats double your points!
Feel the Pins
A lockpicking simulation where you apply tension and feel for the binding pin to pick a lock.
Origami Fold Slider
Slide origami paper tiles with mountain and valley fold creases to match target patterns. 5 levels from Crane to Dragon with star ratings.
Paper Plane Hangar
Launch paper planes through glowing hoops. Ride thermals to reach high-value targets!
Paper Plane Pilot
Drag to aim and launch paper planes at floating targets. 5 rounds of increasing difficulty with physics-based flight, wall bounces, and near-miss scoring.
Paper Squadron
Launch paper planes through glowing rings in the night sky. Drag to aim, release to fly!
Typebar Tune-Up
Typewriter Restoration Apr 4Restore a vintage typewriter by adjusting misaligned typebars until they all strike the same point on the platen.
Pressure Purge
Espresso Machine Restoration Mar 29Manage boiler pressure and flush scale deposits before the gauges blow!
Trace & Pour
Cold Process Soap Making Mar 28Tilt to pour viscous soap batter into mold cavities. Fill to the target line without overflowing as the soap thickens each level.
Pheromone Trails
Ant Keeping Mar 26Draw pheromone paths to guide foraging ants from nest to food sources before time runs out.
Steady Wraps
Fly Tying Mar 23Control thread tension while wrapping a fly fishing lure.
Mirror Maker
Telescope Mirror Grinding Mar 22Grind a telescope mirror blank into a perfect parabola using careful strokes. Read Foucault test shadows to diagnose the surface.
Sensor Calibration
Weather Station Building Mar 18Calibrate weather station instruments by adjusting dials to match reference values before they drift out of tolerance.
Blueprint Exposure
Cyanotype Printing Mar 17Time the perfect cyanotype exposure — pull the print when the Prussian blue reaches the target depth.
Signal Hunter
Shortwave Listening Mar 16Tune shortwave bands to lock distant stations before propagation shifts.
Thock Tuner
Mechanical Keyboard Building Mar 14Calibrate your ears to match keyboard sound profiles by adjusting sliders.
Tension & Touch
Lockpicking Mar 12Feel your way through a lock — probe pins, hold tension, and sense the binding order to pick the lock before time runs out.
The Pull
Analog Film Photography Development Mar 11Time the perfect moment to pull photographic prints from the developer tray. Watch images emerge and pull at optimal density.
Slide Calibrator
Slide Rule Collecting Mar 10Drag the sliding C-scale of a vintage slide rule to position the answer under the hairline cursor, then tap Submit. Solve multiplication problems against a 90-second clock with tightening precision requirements.
The Turning Point
Pen Turning Mar 10Shape wooden pen blanks on a virtual lathe by dragging your cutting tool. Match the target profile without hitting the brass tube inside!
Waggle Dance Decoder
Beekeeping Mar 9Watch the scout bee's waggle dance and decode where the flowers are! Learn real bee communication science.
Stone & Steel
Knife Sharpening Mar 4Sharpen your blade by swiping at the perfect angle through 4 grit stages, then prove your edge with the paper test.
Spore Match
Mushroom Foraging & Spore Printing Feb 27Mushroom Foraging & Spore Printing
Voicing the Void
Theremin Circuit Voicing Feb 25Guide your hand through electromagnetic gates, matching pitch and volume to lock each frequency zone in this theremin-inspired calibration challenge.
Threshold Guardian
Fermentation Sensor Logging Feb 23Monitor fermentation vessels and keep sensor readings in safe zones by adjusting thresholds and venting when critical.
Score & Bake
Sourdough Bread Baking Feb 21Trace slash patterns on sourdough loaves with confident strokes. Accuracy, smoothness, and speed determine your score!
Vane Calibration
Mechanical Weather Vane Instruments Feb 18Rotate interconnected brass gears to align a mechanical weather vane with shifting wind directions.
Signal Lock
Stratospheric Balloon Telemetry Feb 15Track a stratospheric balloon's drifting radio signal by tuning your receiver dial. Stay locked to receive telemetry packets before burst altitude.
Lunar Light Sorter
Lithophane Lunar Phase Calendars Feb 14Hold lithophane panels to reveal moon phases and drag them into lunar cycle order before they fade.
Tension Feel
Lockpicking Feb 13A lockpicking simulation where you adjust tension and feel for binding pins to pick the lock.
Lissajous Faces
Oscilloscope Art Portraiture Feb 12Drag X-frequency, Y-frequency, and phase knobs to shape Lissajous curves on a virtual oscilloscope. Match the ghosted target pattern to at least 80% accuracy to advance through 5 rounds.
Ping-Triggered Stacks
Meteor-Scatter Shutter Triggers Feb 7Meteors streak across the night sky, each sending a brief radio ping. Tap the SHUTTER button during the ping window to capture it. Longer streaks earn bonus points across an intensifying 60-second round.
Hiss to Harmony
Generative Soundscape Composition Feb 6Place absorbing and reflecting panels in a top-down room grid to transform harsh noise into a pleasant ambience matching a target mood.
Lighttrail Tactics
Chess Move Lighttrail Journaling Feb 5Solve 10 chess tactics puzzles by tapping the source and destination squares. Correct moves leave glowing light trails; wrong moves leave dark scars on the board.
Knight's Canon Chase
Knight's Tour Choral Canons Feb 4Navigate a knight's tour on a 5x5 musical board. Each square plays a note; a ghost knight echoes your path 4 moves behind, forming a canon. Consonant intervals earn points, dissonant ones cost points.
Telemetry Chord Descent
Stratospheric Telemetry Chord Maps Jan 31A balloon descends through 6 altitude stages. Listen to musical chords encoding telemetry, then tap the matching temperature, pressure, and humidity cards from a grid. Data arrives faster as altitude drops.
Radial Rush
QSO Radial VOR Dial Coasters Jan 30Drag the OBS knob to dial in the target VOR radial — watch the CDI needle center and the FROM/TO flag flip, then tap LOCK. 10 rounds with decreasing time limits.
Stellar Groove Matcher
Stellar Spectrum Music Box Discs Jan 29A rotating music box disc plays notes when pegs cross the playhead. Listen to the target melody, then tap to place pegs and recreate it. 8 rounds of increasing difficulty — match the groove!
Drift-Align
Star-Drift Compass Calibration Cards Jan 28Drag a crosshair to track a drifting Polaris star and tap to lock your aim. The star moves faster and the timer shrinks each round across 8 rounds of precision alignment.
Horizon Stitcher
Stratospheric Telemetry Panorama Stitching Jan 26Drag balloon-camera photo tiles to align their horizon lines and rebuild a stratospheric panorama. Telemetry timestamps hint at ordering across 6 rounds with increasing tile counts.
Windchime Morse Mixer
Callsign Morse Windchime Mobile Jan 25Labelled windchime tubes hang from the screen, each showing a letter and its morse code. Tap them in the correct sequence to spell ham radio callsigns across 8 rounds.
Stitch the Signals
Morse Waypoint Flightpath Embroidery Jan 24Tap numbered waypoint circles in the correct order to stitch a flight path spelling a target word. Each stitch plays a tone and shows the letter's morse code across 8 rounds.
Zugzwang Cadence Sprint
Zugzwang Cadence Etudes Jan 24Study a chess endgame position and find the only safe move — or tap 'No Safe Move' if it's true zugzwang. 10 puzzles testing your king-and-pawn intuition.
ATIS Choir Cadence
ATIS Choir Harmonization Jan 20Four ATIS data cards are shuffled on screen. Tap them in the correct broadcast order — Wind, Visibility, Ceiling, Runway — to make the choir sing in harmony across 8 rounds.
Starboard Knight
Knight’s Tour Starfield Mosaic Jan 19Tap valid knight moves across a starfield grid to visit every star tile exactly once. Visited cells light up as a glowing mosaic. Progressive difficulty from 5×5 to 7×7 boards with timer bonuses.
Touch the Chord
Chord Spectrogram Relief Tiles Jan 18Music identification quiz — hear a chord, read its spectrogram relief tile, and tap the correct name. 12 rounds of major, minor, diminished & augmented chords.
Arc Logger
QSO Constellation Overlays Jan 18QSO Constellation Overlays — memorize star colors by frequency band, then draw arcs connecting matching pairs. Overlapping arcs cost points. 6 rounds of increasing difficulty.
Skytrace Pathwright
APRS Skytrace Sculptures Jan 14APRS position reports appear as dots on a map. Connect them in timestamp order by tapping sequentially — wrong order means penalties, speed earns bonuses. As rounds progress, more dots appear and decoy callsigns creep in.
Track Ribbon Relief
VFR Track Relief Printing Jan 11Topographic puzzle — draw a VFR flight route that follows terrain at safe altitude. Score points for following valleys, lose points for clipping peaks, and earn bonuses for hitting waypoints across 5 procedurally generated maps.
Skip Pattern Memory
Memorize ionospheric propagation patterns on a chessboard grid, then recreate them. Watch out for the skip zone!
Spore Print Match
Match mushrooms to their spore prints by remembering the preview animation. Drag and drop to identify species!
Spore Tracer
Trace gill patterns from center outward to create spore prints and identify mushrooms.
Star Tracer
Trace constellations in a rotating 3D star field before time runs out.
Grain Drift
Generative Soundscape Composition Jan 17Meditative collection game — glowing grains drift across the screen, each with a pitch. Tap grains that match the target chord to build harmony. Wrong grains add dissonance. 6 rounds.
Hiss Harmonizer
Generative Soundscape Composition Jan 16Sound matching puzzle — drag a 2D filter control through a noisy signal to isolate hidden tones. X sets frequency, Y sets resonance. Find and crystallize every hidden tone to score.
Canon Clicker
Morse Canon Choir Loops Jan 15Musical canon puzzle — replay morse melodies offset in time. Simon Says meets musical rounds with colored wave voices.
Sky Ink Loops
RC Light-Trace Calligraphy Jan 10Trace faint calligraphy patterns with a glowing light trail. Score by accuracy and coverage across six progressive rounds while wind pushes your brush off course.
Grain Cloud Conductor
Generative Soundscape Composition Jan 4A conducting game where you control a granular synthesis engine with swiping gestures. Match audience mood targets across 5 rounds of increasing difficulty.
Teaching the Static to Breathe
Generative Soundscape Composition Jan 3Listen to a target soundscape with visible level bars, then drag sliders to recreate the biophony, geophony, and anthropophony mix. Score by accuracy and speed across 7 rounds.
Nib Flex Synth
Drag left to right across the canvas to trace a waveform, using vertical position to control nib flex and harmonics. Match the dotted target wave shape for accuracy and smoothness points across 5 rounds.
Thermal Ears
Drag a glider across the sky, listening and watching a LIFT indicator to find invisible thermals. Tap to log their cores, then see how close you were when the thermals are revealed across 5 rounds.