Small Games
Small games. Good company.
Thoughtful little games you can play right here, in your browser.
Arcade
4 games
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Brick Breaker
Hold a shield at the threshold of a sealed armoury and keep a forge-spark alive: sixteen hand-cut vaults, no power-downs, a heat multiplier that pays for the tunnel, and nineteen public boards of ten that re-play every run.
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Mini Golf
Putt an awakened pearl across eighteen open fantasy courses, all solver-proven, with public records for time and strokes.
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Snake
Steer a ward-serpent across a Sundered cistern floor: three chamber sizes, walls of stone or walls of seam-light, and six public boards of ten.
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Space Shooter
Fly an Aurensh moonwing through twenty-four finite sorties: dodge violet spells, break the incoming flock and bring down its captain under two haunted moons.
Card Games
4 games
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FreeCell
FreeCell at a warden's table, with the deal numbers everybody already argues about: 1,000 of the real Microsoft deals, every one solved and its winning line replayed before it shipped, four tiers cut on how much searching the position really demands, and a best time and fewest moves on each.
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Hearts
Hearts against three opponents that cannot see your cards — and a table you can open afterwards to check.
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Pyramid Solitaire
Pair exposed cards to thirteen across 120 open, replay-proven fantasy deals with named records for time and moves.
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Solitaire
Klondike on a warden's counting table: 120 shuffled deals, each solver-proved from its opening layout, with Draw 1 and Draw 3 tables, unlimited undo and a gentle hint when the ward goes quiet.
Puzzles
29 games
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2048
The classic four-by-four number puzzle on an ember forge: fuse coal, flame and starfire until the Phoenix wakes at 2048.
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Block Fit
A warding tablet broken into shards. Forty-eight tablets and a daily — every one proved to fit back together exactly one way.
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Borrowed Ink
A little stamp, a sheet of paper and thirty ink-exchange puzzles. Match the pattern and leave the stamp empty.
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Bridges
Reconnect 120 open floating archipelagos with luminous bridges, each unique answer independently proved and each map keeping a named fastest time.
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Bubble Shooter
Aim carved glass wards through an Aurensh observatory: real bank-shot previews, thirty-six proved chambers and a shared daily vault.
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Jigsaw
Set the shards of a broken window back into the lead: 228 painted places on nine shelves, four cuts up to ninety-six shards, drops that take when they are merely near, and a pane that survives a closed tab.
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Kakuro
The crossword of sums, on a merchant's ledger: 320 pages in five sizes plus a daily, every one proven to need no guess, a table of combinations under the board, and a public best time on every page.
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Lanternward
Light every street of Veldrenmar. An Akari logic puzzle with 300 graded levels and a daily, one solution each, never a guess.
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Mahjong
Mahjong solitaire on a warden's counting table: thirty hand-built layouts, a best time on each, and every deal proved solvable before it is dealt. No shuffle button, because it never needs one.
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Marble Shooter
Fire engraved rune-stones into a moving Aurensh circuit: twelve open, solver-checked boards with recoil chains and separate records for time and shots.
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Mastermind
Crack 120 open potion formulae from gold exact-vial and silver wrong-vial assay marks, with named records for time and guesses.
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Match Three
A match-three gem swapper on a Korthen cutting bench — and the chutes above every column show the next three stones, so a cascade is something you build rather than something you were handed.
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Minesweeper
Minesweeper on a Sundered floor. The first stone is always safe, and you never have to guess.
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Nonogram
Picture logic puzzles by candlelight. 240 hand-drawn pictures and a daily, one folio from our novel The Cistern Heresy. Never a guess.
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Numberlink
Join paired mana springs across 120 open full-cover wards, each with one exact answer and named records for time and moves.
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Nurikabe
Raise sanctuary islands through 120 open tidal charts, each with exactly one proven answer and a named fastest-time record.
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Pairs
The matching game on a scholar's sorting table: six tray sizes up to seventy-two marks, no flip-back timer to sit through, two numbers that are both lower-is-better, and a finish card that tells you what a perfect memory would have spent on your own deal.
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Peg Solitaire
Leap star-jewels through 120 open celestial challenges, each solver-proven to finish on its marked shrine with a named fastest-time record.
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Pipe Connect
Turn rune-cut stones across 120 open, unique-solution moonwell chambers with named records for time and quarter-turns.
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Reversi
Turn sun and moon seals across 120 open, exact-solver-proven observatory trials, plus three computer rivals and same-device play.
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Shikaku
Charter 120 open enchanted survey maps into rectangular provinces, each with one exact answer and a named fastest-time record.
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Sliding Puzzle
The 15 puzzle on a keeper's ward-tablet. Ten measured boards per size and a daily — every board tells you its shortest way home.
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Slitherlink
Ink one unbroken ward across 120 open, unique-solution cartographer maps with named records for fastest time.
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Sokoban
Restore rune-bound reliquaries across 72 open fantasy vaults, every chamber solver-proven, with public records for time and steps.
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Sudoku
Sudoku under two moons. 480 boards and a daily, one answer each, never a guess.
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Tents and Trees
Billet 120 open moonlit groves: one pavilion beside every heartwood elder, none touching, with a named fastest-time record on each.
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Tetromino
The falling-block puzzle by the published rules, in a Korthen descent shaft. Marathon, Sprint and Ultra — and a top ten where every place is a replay you can watch.
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Water Sort
Sort luminous reagents across 120 open alchemical formulae, all proved completable, with separate public records for time and moves.
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Word Search
Trace themed English words across forty-eight open pages of an enchanted archive, from calm four-direction grids to dense eight-direction folios.