Swans on Tea

No, that’s not a euphemism. Browser Pong.

Rands in Repose: Gaming the System
There’s a discoverable structure to the rules. There’s a correct order, which, when followed, offers a type of reward. It’s the advantage of thinking three blocks ahead in Tetris or holding onto those beguiling hypercubes in Bejeweled. This is the advanced discovery of the system around the rules that [...]

Gimme Friction, Baby
Flash-based game that involves collisional dynamics, with friction. Don’t let the projectile return across the dotted line. When they come to rest, they expand until they hit a boundary of some sort.

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Get Out of Jail Free: Monopoly’s Hidden Maps
During World War II, as the number of British airmen held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the country’s secret service enlisted an unlikely partner in the ongoing war effort: The board game Monopoly.
It was the perfect accomplice.
Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute [...]

Circle the Cat
I’ve done it, but it isn’t easy

A chess simulation, which shows you the moves that the computer is contemplating.
An easy way to evaluate the game in a given moment is by calculating the total value of all the pieces left on the board. These values vary with position, but in the most basic calculations a pawn is given one [...]

Effing Hail
Click and hold the mouse to create an updraft. Hail becomes larger the longer it is kept in the air. Large hail causes massive damage.

Zapperz has stumbled across the ideal gift for that geek who loves to play prime-number-card stud, or superconducting supercollider hold ‘em, or even CP-symmetry-not-conserved (e.g. deuces wild) games.
Physicist playing cards at the AIP store. “Historic” deck and “modern” deck.
I already have the Periodic Table playing card decks.

White Jigsaw
Solve it, and the next one is bigger

Scrabble keyboard

Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers
We determined that, generally speaking, the gravity in each Mario game, as game hardware has increased, is getting closer to the true value of gravity on earth of 9.8 m/s2. However, gravity, even on the newest consoles, is still extreme. According to Wikipedia, a typical person can withstand 5 [...]