Toy Box
Small browser experiments pinned to one board: pixel scenes, simulations and odd little toys. Each one runs on its own page. Pick one up.
12 toys on the board-
Pocket Pet
An egg-shaped virtual pet you can turn in your hand. Hatch it, then feed it, clean up after it, put it to bed, give it medicine and keep it in line. How you raise it decides what it grows into. It lives in your browser, calls you when it needs something, and keeps living while you're away. Trade pets with friends by code.
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Tables & Chairs
Stack tables and chairs into a tower, each a little smaller than the last. They're 3D but only tip left or right, and they obey gravity: load one side and it leans, then goes. Only the bottom table may touch the ground. The music starts as a spa and ends as metal.
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Builders
Type, and scaffolding goes up around a ghost of each letter. Little crews in orange vests and white hard hats climb up and lay it brick by brick, in the order you typed, three crews at a time. Floodlights below throw their shadows up the wall. Share a phrase with ?text=HELLO|WORLD.
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First Light
A Mount Hood-ish peak painted at sunrise, in the manner of a certain soft-spoken TV painter. Clouds drift, and two tiny hikers climb the long ridge, reaching the summit about three and a half minutes after you arrive, just as the sun clears the shoulder.
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Marble
Pour a few colors of resin into a clear acrylic mold and tip it around while it's runny. The colors don't blend. They stretch into veins, and when the resin sets you pop out a polished slab of stone that nobody has made before. Keep your favorites in the showcase.
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Pools of Cash
How many backyard pools would a fortune fill with dollar bills? Type a net worth or pick a billionaire and watch the pools fill, compare two fortunes side by side, then click any pool to watch a tycoon cannonball into the cash.
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Switchboard
You're the operator on a cord switchboard. When a row lamp and a column lamp blink together, plug your headset in where they cross and listen. Every caller wants the one on the other board who wah-wahs just like them, so match the voices from memory, patch them through with a cord, and keep up before they hang up.
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Candle
A white wax candle in a brass chamberstick. Turn on your microphone and blow at the screen: the flame bends away from you, and a hard puff snuffs it into a curl of smoke before it relights. It burns down over an hour, dripping wax into the dish.
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Elsewhere
Walk through rolling alien hills. Walking is the clock: about 30 seconds of walking is 12 hours, so the sun sets, the moon and Milky Way come out, and the strange plants fold up into glowing cactus shapes. Walk back to turn time back.
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Fidget Board
A wooden busy board for small hands learning the mouse. Every switch, button, key and dial does something you can see: LEDs, a gauge, radar, a colour lamp, a fan with streamers, a rocket launch, a beacon, music notes. The big red button puts everything back.
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Glowmoss Hollow
A pixel-art cave lit by bioluminescent plants, and the eight places beyond it. Click the glowing crack to open the way into a moonlit wood, then on to peaks, snowfields, a blossom grove, dunes, a lava cavern, a reef and a bayou, until nine places tile the screen. Click one to zoom in and wake its creatures.
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Swirl
A thin crystal glass of deep red wine. Drag it in small circles, or on a phone swirl the phone itself, and it sloshes like the real thing, spins up, climbs the glass and leaves legs as it drains. Let go and it settles.