Games for hardware nerds

Wordle for silicon: one mystery processor a day, six guesses. Vendor, year, bits, ISA, transistors, and T2 support point the way — come back at UTC midnight for the next one.

A mystery machine boots on a CRT, one serial-console line at a time — and every line costs you points. Real boot logs, captured by booting actual T2 ISOs in QEMU.

Three cryptic clues, one CPU architecture. From the 68000 to RISC-V — how deep does your hardware lore go?

An idle game about T2's actual core loop: build the world from source. One wheezing 68k Mac, a dependency tree for a tech tree, and an ISO to release for all 11 architectures.

We show you a name. Real Linux distribution, or did we make it up? One wrong call ends the streak. (There are 2,500+ of them, after all.)

Bare silicon under the microscope, slowly zooming out. Name the chip before the view gives it away — real, license-verified die shots, iridescent cityscapes included.

Read a machine's spec sheet and drop a marker on the year it shipped. Bonus a-ha: T2 still builds for most of them.

One spec sheet, two possibilities: a serious vintage computer, or the gadget on your counter. Your charger out-computes the Moon landing.