Fun Games

Two games ran here. Neither one's source code survived the archive, for two different reasons — so the first two of these are rebuilds, and each says so on its own page. The last two are not rebuilds of anything and say that too. The adventure is the one to start with if you have not read the columns yet, since losing at it is how you find them.

Find The Cheese!

playable — recreated, see the note on the page

A maze of rooms. Walk off the edge of one and you are in the next. Three locked doors, three keys, and a cheese at the end of it all.

Othello

playable — the four opponents are original, the code behind them is not

Human or computer on either side. The four opponents the archived setup form named are all here — Chaos, Greedy, Strangler and Edgy — along with a fifth that is considerably less fun to play.

I Want My Own Column

playable — new work, built out of the archive

It is 2001 and you want a column of your own. Mopkin says get three of the columnists to vouch for you, and whatever you do, do not bother Lina. Every question they ask you is answerable from something they published — and every wrong answer hands you the column you should have read.

The Daily Word Search

playable — new work, not from the archive

A fresh grid every day, built from the date, so everyone who opens it today gets the same one. Twelve categories take turns — two of them drawn from what this site actually used to write about.