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Some of them I hadn't thought about at all until I saw them written down:
Repeated Button Presses for someone who can't mash. Infinite Breath for someone who can't hold one down underwater. Skip Puzzle Option for someone who wants the story and can't do the puzzle. Guitar Vibration Cues so a deaf player can feel a song. And Hostages Don't Escape, which is there so a slower player doesn't lose the person they were trying to save.
On a hunt to find them all, and learn everything about them, this is what I found.
Made an interactive version, if anyone wants to view.
Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.
The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.
So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.
My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.
Fifty paintings. One HTML file, 200KB, no dependencies.
Last flight I had 8D. Row 8. Practically the front.
Door to seat: almost twelve minutes. People in the aisle. Kids in the aisle. Bags going up one at a time while the rest of us practised standing.
So I went looking for whether anyone has measured this properly. What is the best way to let people in during boarding? Someone has. In 2011 an astrophysicist hired 72 people and a mock 757 cabin and timed five boarding orders with a stopwatch.
Various different ways, front to back, row to row, all windows first, alternate windows, everything possible, and it turns out, the airlines use one of the slowest way possible, and obviously to make more money.
United switched economy to windows-first in October 2023 and says it saves two minutes a flight. Delta and American still board in blocks, the slowest thing measured. Nobody has ever flown the winning order.
Source on the chart: Steffen & Hotchkiss, Journal of Air Transport Management, 2012.
What's the longest you've stood in an aisle?
In Detail, if anyone wants to learn more.
Fifty paintings. One HTML file, 200KB, no dependencies.
I've got a photo from the Brera in Milan of a painting I can't name. That's most of my gallery experience. You read the little card, it says oil on canvas and a date, you move on.
So I made a thing where the camera moves to the bit it's talking about. One painting, one idea at a time. Tap for the next.
The Arnolfini Portrait gets ten stops. One is the mirror on the back wall. The room turns up again inside it, and two figures are standing in the doorway who appear nowhere else in the painting. One might be van Eyck.
It's tiny. You'd walk past it.
Fifty paintings. One HTML file, 200KB, no dependencies.
Each drawn as the same twenty-four measurements. The green shape is the dog. The dotted outline is the average of all 208 breeds anybody has scored, so wherever the green pushes past the dots is where that dog is.