Game: PhD 2048

[sonia]

This game came to mind today, and I managed to find the website. Sure enough, it was published 7 years ago. (Previously linked in 2018)

PhD: Move the bricks to complete your PhD. It's a 2048 game but the tiles have names like Coffee, Code, Conference, Viva, and at the end, PhD. You play in the browser.

There are "garbage" tiles that randomly appear, and sit there and gum up the works until they can be paired with another randomly appearing garbage tile.

A "relationship" tile will also randomly appear. It promotes any tile it touches to the next level - until it turns into a "breakup" tile and demotes on touching as many tiles as were previously promoted before disappearing.

ETA: For more gaming goodness, jesse_the_k points out a source for Timesless (no crossing picket lines) Wordle links in comments.

Comments

[suncat]

Thank you! I had just pulled up the original 2048 last week and have been playing it on and off. Off to try this one.

[sonia]

Enjoy!

[jesse_the_k]

I smiled so hard when I saw the name of this game -- I wish I could track down the designer and buy them the beverage of choice.

Ask.Metafilter had a good thread on Timesless Wordle alternatives https://ask.metafilter.com/382851/Timesless-Wordle and there are more than two dozen!

Timesless because the Tech Guild there is on strike: https://nyguild.org/post/new-york-times-tech-guild-walks-off-the-job

[sonia]

Glad the game sparked joy! At the bottom of the PhD game page, GitHub repo belonging to ymfa and referring to University of Cambridge, but there isn't much more info there.

Thanks for the Wordle link! Will edit the post to note that.