The internet game decathlon
publish Opened 2024-01-16. Related to Stuff I made.
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.
- https://pkmnquiz.com/ - name pokemon
- https://graphs.world - guess the graph
- https://linxicon.com - develop a bridge between distant words where each word means the same as its neighbor
- https://semantical.fun/ - like an easier multiple choice version of Linxicon but with a hidden destination
- https://raddle.quest - solve quiz-style questions vertically down and up a “ladder” of questions, and each answer provides the starting point for the next question
- https://neal.fun/password-game - game about creating a password that fits wacky criteria
- 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
- Cutle - Cut the shape exactly in half
- (!) 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!
- Doctordle - Medical Wordle. Diagnose a patient. Lowkey requires you have a medical degree to have any shot at these puzzles
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