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Course of the week Everyone races the same arena — new course every Monday. Take the crown. Race it Stories and places to play
61 short story games and 47 places — play one now, or make your own in any of them.
Stories
Short story games
People to talk to, choices that matter and an ending. A few minutes each.
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Play Lights Out The sanatorium goes dark at 3:07. Sneak past the night nurses in the graveyard, find three fuses, outrun what comes out of the ground, and face the matron in the crypt. - Play The Eighth Seat The King is dying, the council has seven seats, and the Chancellor is already counting to eight.
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Play The Light in 3B A rain night, a letter that came under the wrong door, and a neighbour who has not opened his since the funeral. -
Play The Green Cathedral A tree on the map as a landmark, a guide who has been near it, and a question of whether you go the last mile together. - Play Back in Twenty Two in the morning, rain on the window, and her side of the bed is cold. Then the phone rings. It is the hospital.
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Play Biscuit Is Missing Second period, the class hamster is loose, and the fire drill is in twenty minutes. -
Play The Umbrella Ledger A client, a missing bookkeeper, and a ledger that three people want for three different reasons. -
Play Hanami for One A bench under the oldest tree, a council number, and a lantern nobody has lit. -
Play The Warden's Bargain Two ways out of Halvard Penitentiary. One goes through the vents. The other goes through your cellmate. -
Play Το Τελευταίο Καφενείο Τέσσερα τραπέζια στη γωνία Αχαρνών και Ηπείρου. Την Παρασκευή κλείνει, εκτός αν κάποιος στη γειτονιά θυμάται πού πήγε το συμβόλαιο του 1974. -
Play The Ferry Is Late The midwife must cross by midnight. The ferryman has lost his pole and says his nerve. -
Play Room 13 Is Booked The same guest has checked into room 13 every night for forty years. He is waiting for a telegram that arrived in 1987.
All 61 stories
- Play Room Nine You came to collect your aunt’s things. The sanatorium has a bed made up for you, and a file with your photograph in it.
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Play The Ash Ledger A widow at base camp, a notebook by the vent, and a mountain that turns the pages itself. -
Play Ward C, Three in the Morning One nurse, forty beds, and a retired postman with a letter to deliver. -
Play Vacancy A motel at the end of the road, a knock at two in the morning, and wet footprints going down to the dock. - Play Lantern Day The parade starts at dusk and the town has lost its lanterns, its band and its nerve. You have until the drums.
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Play Ο Ορφέας Γυρίζει Πίσω Η Ευρυδίκη πέθανε το απόγευμα. Ο Ορφέας κατέβηκε το βράδυ, χωρίς τη λύρα του. Οι σκιές την κρατάνε, ο Άδης δεν ακούει λόγια, και στο τέλος υπάρχει μία στροφή. -
Play Quarterly Review Servers down, coffee machine honking, the boss hiding in the bathroom. Investors at ten. -
Play Two Wells The first well went bad in April. The second is in the canyon, behind the scorpions. - Play The Bell at Midnight A castle whose bell stopped, a forest road, and the founder who is not done with it.
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Play The Bear in the Back Office Day thirty of lost property. Get past the drone and bring Captain home. -
Play Coolant Three valves, one engineer who will not leave her post, and a core that is getting warmer by the minute. - Play Η Κατάληψη της Πέμπτης Το καλοριφέρ δεν άναψε ξανά. Η Μαρίνα θέλει ψήφους ως την Πέμπτη· η Διευθύντρια έχει κλειδωμένη πόρτα και μια αντιπρόταση.
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Play Low Gravity, Long Shift Two hundred litres of water, a snapped drill bit in a crashed lander, and a cavern of glass that hums. - Play The Clock Loft Account A medium is haunting a hotel to buy it cheap. One of the ghosts is real, and she is annoyed about the competition.
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Play The Standpipe The water has been off for four days. The landlord is not answering. The neighbours will, if you ask them right. -
Play The Last Plow The plow went out at two and did not come back. Take the dog. - Play Night Shift The hospital generator is dying and the only spare part in town belongs to a man who does not answer his door.
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Play Dentist on Holiday A week somewhere with no teeth in it. The brochure said Sugar Hills. - Play Orbital Four A prison station with a robot warden, one working escape pod, and a mechanic who has already decided who is taking it.
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Play Η Γοργόνα του Αυγούστου Κάθε Αύγουστο στη Βάρκιζα κάποια κολυμπάει πέρα από τις σημαδούρες. Ο ναυαγοσώστης θέλει να ρωτήσει, η γιαγιά Φανή ξέρει τη σωστή απάντηση, κι ο ύφαλος περιμένει. - Play The Card It is Sam's last day and nobody did a card. You have until five and one Get Well Soon.
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Play Ninety Nights A weather station, a late plane, one dog who can hear the wolves coming. Keep him alive until the headlights. -
Play What the Rubble Kept A bombed city, a dig that should have stopped at the cellar, and three pieces of a thing older than the street above it. - Play Snow on the Battlements The passes are closed, the granary is lying, and the Queen Regent needs a true count before the horns sound.
- Play The Notebook Job Steal back three years of research from the morgue before the day shift clocks in.
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Play The Torch Count Thirty torches went in. Twenty-nine were counted. Take nothing. - Play The Audit Three pages went missing from the accounts. The shredder went to the scrapyard. The auditors arrive at noon.
- Play Το Προζύμι του Παντελή Ο φούρνος ψήνει με το ίδιο προζύμι από το 1952. Σήμερα στις τέσσερις και μισή το βάζο έλειπε, και τρεις άνθρωποι είχαν κλειδί.
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Play Dusk Census Once a century somebody counts the town that is not there. Keep low; the uncounted startle easily. - Play Headcount Blackrow closed in 1974 with four hundred inmates and came back with four hundred and one. The warden is still counting.
- Play Closing Time The last day of the season at a seaside sweet shop, and a brother who has not come in from the water.
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Play Specimen Nine The lab grew something it cannot put back. The night technician has a plan, a blaster and a bad feeling. - Play Το Ξενοδοχείο των Εννέα Το «Ελικών» στο Λουτράκι έκλεισε το 1987 με τις εννιά Μούσες μέσα. Η Καλλιόπη θέλει την πένα της από τη σοφίτα· ο πορτιέρης δεν ξεχωρίζει ζωντανούς από πεθαμένους.
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Play The Long Count Twelve lions ticked, one collar silent somewhere in the badlands. - Play The Night Caretaker Vera's first night shift in a school where the music room does not know the bell has gone.
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Play Neon Receipt A courier grabbed the wrong package on the strip. Get it back before the people who ordered it do. -
Play The Harvest House Clearing a grandmother’s house in autumn, and the walk out to the orchard and the ruins she never talked about. - Play What the Lesser Hall Remembers A castle where the cook has been dead for sixty years and still will not let anyone hold a feast.
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Play Salt and Kelp A chapel bell the sea took, a clapper in the rubble, and a tide that leans the kelp all at once. - Play Forty Orders and One The oven dies on a Friday. Thirty-nine refunds, and one pizza that has to happen.
- Play Parole An orbital prison, a warden who never reads his own ledger, and a shuttle that leaves whether you are on it or not.
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Play Night Audit Every label counted against the book, and tonight one of them is wrong. - Play Ο Μίτος της Αριάδνης Κνωσός. Ένα κουβάρι στο παρεκκλήσι, ένας μηχανικός κλειδωμένος στον πύργο, και κάτω από το παλάτι κάποιος που θυμάται ακόμα το όνομά του.
- Play Detention A pupil stayed late in a school that should be empty, and something from the wood wants its spore back.
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Play The Forty-Second Floor A corporation, a whistleblower who has gone quiet, and three people on the forty-second floor who each know a third of why. - Play The Cairn Road Three cairns, three carried stones, and one true thing to say at the top into a west wind.
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Play Έξι Σπόροι Η γη άνοιξε στη μέση του λιβαδιού. Η Δήμητρα δεν ξέρει από πόρτες, ο Ερμής ξέρει, και κάτω στην κρύπτη ο Άδης προσφέρει ένα ρόδι με πολύ καλούς τρόπους. -
Play Where the Glass Sings A cave held up by a chord, three flat notes walking around inside it, and a tuner who cannot hear the high end. - Play The Deep Hall A crypt with a stone that has to go back into the mountain, and the thing in the mountain that does not want it.
Places to play
Every place is a real, finished world. Play it, or make your own game there. 12 of them build themselves room by room — furnished, lived in, and a new layout every visit.
Places you can walk into 9
Buildings built room by room — furnished, lived in, and one door always wants a key.
Quiet places for dark stories 3
Rain on a window, fog in a garden, black water past a dock — places for drama and slow-burn thrillers.
Towns & cities 5
Streets and blocks that go on forever, from noon traffic to neon rain.
Woods, fields & shores 7
The green half of the world — trees to hide in, water to swim past.
Cold & high 4
Thin air and white ground, all the way up to airless grey.
Hot & harsh 7
Places that do not want you there: sun, ash, rust and cracked ground.
Strange & magic 7
Worlds that stopped obeying the rules — glowing, sweet, haunted or simply old.
Indoors & machines 5
Roofs over your head: corridors, catwalks and stone the sun never reaches.