The internet game decathlon

publish Opened 2024-01-16. Related to Resources for readers.

What is this

Games, mostly internet games, which can be used to compete against your friends. Originally called “The master decathlon” because it was the method Samarth and I were going to use to determine who got the master bedroom on 2024-01-17.

Months later, I threw a party to play these games: Internet Olympics rules

Games

(!) = personal favorites

Internet games

• (!) Wikipedia Race - Race from one Wikipedia article to another.
  • Wikipedia officially acknowledges the existence of this game!
• The human benchmark - Brain games and cognitive tests.
• (!) That game where you try to name all SF streets from memory - What it sounds like
• (!) Geoguessr
  • Note: requires $1 subscription :(
• (!) Infinite Craft - open this with a friend and race to craft something, almost literally anything you can think of is in here
• Movie to movie - Movie/actor adjacency game
• (!) TimeGuessr - Guess the year and location of iconic photos
• PokeDoku - Pokemon sudoku. DIFFICULT even if you know Pokemon well.
• MovieGrid.io - Movie sudoku.
• Guess the Game - Guess the video game based on the screenshot
• RPSGame - Rock Paper Scissors
• Suika World - Suika game. Like tetris but for matching 2-of-a-kind fruit, and the fruit has gravity physics
• Tetr.io - Tetris online
• ChronoPhoto - Guess what year a photo was taken
• Framed - Guess the movie based on the frame
• Higher Lower Game - Last as long as possible guessing which query gets queried more on Google Search
• TypeRacer - Type fast(er than your friends)
• Picross puzzle generator - Generate infinite picross puzzles
• Connect 4 - Connect 4 online
• Random quizzes on https://sporcle.com
• Google: Coin flip - Heads or tails. Very skillful game.
• Button Masher - Click the button as fast as you can. Also very skillful.
• Joined Words - Guess the compound word using three clues given to you.
• Blockables - A 5x5 mini crossword, but with non-contiguous letters and secret hints.
• FoodGuessr - Guess what country the food is from.
• NYT mini crossword - Crossword, but mini!
• NYT Connections - Group 4 words with subtle similarities. Very quick games.
• Word cloud association graph puzzle game hosted at the Google Games for a few years ~201X. It’s referenced in this blog post but never named. I’m not sure if it was a private game or if it was ever made public. If you know what I’m talking about, please contact me!

Wordle variants

• Wordle - The classic. 6 chances to guess a 5 letter word
• Dordle/Quordle/Octordle/Sedecorle/Kilordle - 2/4/8/16/1000 Wordles simultaneously!!
• Adoptle - Guess the name of the (real) dog you can adopt
• Angle - Guess the geometric angle
• Boardle - Guess the 5 optimal chess moves
• (!) Costcodle - Guess the price of the Costco product
• (!) Factle - Rank the trivia options in the right order
• Globle - Guess the country based on border distance
• Heardle - Guess the song.
• Housle - Guess the price of the house
• (!) Muni Routle - Guess the SF Muni route based on shape
• Nerdle - Guess the (pretty simple) mathematical expression
• (!) Redactle - Guess the name of the redacted Wikipedia article, where every guess reveals that word in the article
• Searchle - Guess how Google autocompletes a search
• (!) Semantle - Guess words based on word2vec similarities
  • Contexto - Same thing; different website
• Sudokle - 4x4 Wordle
• (!) Tradle - Guess the country based on its exports
• (!) Travle - Guess the path between two countries
• Waffle Wordle - Wordle, but up to 25 words being guessed at once in a waffle shape

Silly Wordles

I debated whether to mix these in with the other Wordles, but they’re kind of confusing to click on when you’re expecting a real puzzle. They’re funny though.

• Bazingle - Wordle but with 7 (glorious) letters
• Horsle - Same, but horse
• Letterle - Guess the individual letter
• Turdle - Guess the order of the jumping turtles
• Eldrow - Reverse Wordle. The algorithm guesses your Wordle word!

Internet games (competitively viable)

• Super Auto Pets - simple turn-based battle royale you can get on phones and play with friends. Good for road trips
• Pokemon Showdown - competitive Pokemon battle simulator. DIFFICULT

Actual video games

• Beat Saber - I will smoke anyone at this game
• LoL ARAM 1v1 - unfortunately requires downloading League of Legends. First to {100 creeps, tower kill, player elimination} wins
• Smash Bros 1v1 - self explanatory. Use competitive ruleset so it’s a game of skill
• Discord golf minigame - People in the same Discord call can play this. It’s fun

Irl games:

• Chess
• Connect 4
• Tellstones - don’t buy the physical game. Just learn the rules from this excellent video and play with any 7 tokens (Pokemon energy cards are ideal, but playing cards are OK too)

Just for fun:

• FromSoft word processor - legit just a blank text word processor. 1 typo and it’s game over