Tiny Tools.
One Idea Each.
A small arcade of single-purpose web things. No signups, no streaks, no notifications. Pick one, play, leave.
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The Conversation You'll Never Have
Set the scene — who, where, what was never said. You get back only the staging: the room, the light, the pause. No dialogue, ever, and nothing leaves your browser.
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The Placebo Button
The crosswalk button. The close-door button. The office thermostat. Press each one and read what is actually wired up behind it. Two of the six are lying.
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The Stroop Machine
The word RED printed in blue, and your job is the colour, not the word. Forty trials later, the exact cost of overriding your own reading — in milliseconds.
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Fold It to the Moon
How many times must you fold a sheet of paper in half to reach the Moon? Guess first. It is 42, and watching it get there is the whole point.
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Read This Fast
Every reading-speed test hands you a number and lets you keep it. This one hides the passage afterwards, asks three questions, and multiplies.
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Seven Things
A sequence flashes and gets one digit longer every round until you break. Everyone believes they will reach twelve. Almost nobody passes eight.
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The Odds
Five probability puzzles where your intuition is wrong. Commit to a guess, then watch ten thousand trials run in front of you and settle on the truth.
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How High Can You Hear?
A tone climbs from 8 kHz until it disappears. Then catch trials check whether you were really hearing it — including two that are silent.
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The Mercator Lie
Drag Greenland down to the equator and watch it shrink to a fourteenth of Africa. Fifteen countries you can pick up, rescaling correctly as they move.
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A Minute, Exactly
Press start, press stop when you think sixty seconds have passed. No clock, no counting. Then see how far off you were, and which way your clock runs.
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The Button That Ends the World
One big red button under a safety cover. Every press changes the world permanently and absurdly. Twenty-three presses to the end, and no undo.
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What the Sky Did the Second You Were Born
Where the Sun sat, how much of the Moon was lit, which star stood highest — and roughly which number human you were. Real astronomy, no astrology.
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The Oldest Living Things
Not fossils — organisms alive at this moment. Climb from a tortoise hatched in 1832 to a seagrass meadow that may predate our species leaving Africa.
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The Quiet Feed
Every feed gets louder the longer you stay. This one is built backwards — it thins out, softens, stops shouting, and then it ends.
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The Center of Your World
List everywhere you’ve lived and find the single point on Earth they all balance around — and how far that point has drifted from where you began.
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Password Life Expectancy
Don’t type a password — describe its shape. Then watch how long it would actually survive three very different kinds of attack. The gap will annoy you.
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Guess the Flag from One Stripe
A flag sits behind twelve panels that lift one at a time. Name the country before the whole thing shows — the fewer stripes you need, the better you score.
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The Loneliest Number
Pick a number from 1 to 100. Be as random as you like — then find out how many thousands of other people picked exactly the same one.
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Speak to the Void
Type the thing you can’t say. Press release, and watch it come apart and drift away. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent, nothing comes back.
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How Rich Are You, Really?
Not compared to your neighbours — compared to everyone alive. Enter what your household earns and see where it actually sits, adjusted for what money buys where you live.
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Reaction Time vs. the World
The panel sits on red. At some point it flips green — tap the instant it does. Five attempts, then your median lands on the curve of everyone else’s.
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The Decibel Ladder
Climb the loudness scale one sound at a time, from a snowflake landing at 0 dB to the 194 dB ceiling where sound itself gives out and becomes a shockwave.
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Every Word You Know
You use a few thousand words a week and recognise many more. Click the ones you know — including the fakes hidden among them — and get a real estimate of your vocabulary.
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Draw a Country from Memory
You’ve seen Italy a thousand times. Now draw it from memory, with no map in front of you, and find out how much of that familiarity was real. Eight countries, one blank sheet.
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Deep Time Scroll
All 4.5 billion years of Earth at true scale. Life takes forever to arrive, dinosaurs show up near the end, and every human who ever lived fits in the last two pixels.
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Guess How Big
Eight real things, one slider, no clues. How long is a blue whale? How tall is the Great Pyramid? You know roughly — and "roughly" is about to be measured.
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The Museum of Lost Sounds
Twelve sounds technology quietly retired — the CRT whine, the floppy drive, the rotary dial — every one rebuilt live from oscillators. No recordings, no files.
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Your Age on Every Planet
A year is just one lap around the Sun — and everyone laps at a different speed. Enter your birthday to find you’re a pensioner on Mercury and still an infant on Neptune.
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The Distance You’ve Traveled
You have never once been still. Enter your birthday and see how many billions of kilometres the spinning Earth, its orbit, and the galaxy itself have already carried you.
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The Perfect Circle
Draw a circle around the dot in one smooth stroke, then get a brutally honest score on how round it really was. No undo, no second try — slower is rounder.
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The Decision Museum
Log the small choices of your week — what you ate, skipped, almost said — and watch them become museum exhibits with curator plaques. "The visitor chose oat milk, a turning point."
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Your Life in Heartbeats
Enter your birthday and watch your heartbeats tick by in real time — and see how many you've already spent sleeping, in traffic, and on hold.
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The Honest Terms & Conditions
Scroll a real-looking Terms of Service with a margin that translates each clause into what it actually means. "We can change this anytime" → "We will, and you won't know."
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Unsubscribe Simulator
Try to actually unsubscribe from a newsletter that fights back — hidden links, guilt trips, surveys, "are you sure?", and "we'll miss you 😢". Win by escaping.
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Your Atoms' Résumé
Enter your weight and read your atoms' CV — the jobs they held before you. Some were star. Some were sea. Some, almost certainly, were dinosaur.
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The Sound of Earth
Spin a globe and hear each place come alive — desert wind, rainforest at dusk, city hum, the polar howl, even the hum of the ISS. All made live in your browser.
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What's Underneath You
Set your location and scroll straight down through soil, bedrock, the mantle, and the white-hot core — out the other side of the Earth.
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CAPTCHA: The Game
Prove you're human through CAPTCHAs that lose their minds. Identify the traffic lights. Now the happy one. Now the one that's lying.
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Negotiate with a Toddler
Bargain, bribe, and plead your way into getting a stubborn four-year-old to put on their shoes — before the meltdown.
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The Email Game
An inbox that fills faster than you can reply. Triage your mom, your boss, and a Nigerian prince — and chase inbox zero.
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Run a Country for a Day
Take charge of a real country's actual budget and survive the day — without riots, deficits, or a coup.
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You vs. History
Type your age and see which famous figures had already made history — and which were still nobodies.
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Rewind the Internet
Drag a slider from 1991 to today and watch a browser morph through every era of web design.
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The Map of Now
Watch one real moment at a time — the true local time and light somewhere on Earth, right now.
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Every Second on Earth
A live ticker of the whole planet — births, emails, lightning, heartbeats, burgers — counting up at once.
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Zoom Into a Pixel
Fall from the pixels on your screen all the way down to a single quark.
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The Last Time…
Oddly specific last times — the last Moon walk, your last blink, the last passenger pigeon.
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The Weight of Everything
Scroll from a grain of pollen all the way up to the Moon, one mass at a time.
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The Slow Web
A webpage loading at real 1990s dial-up speed, with the modem screech and all.
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