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Wirespan, the daily power-line puzzle

wirespan.app ↗ · Oddly Specific · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A shared daily grid puzzle where you route power from a plant to every house before running out of towers.

Why it surfaced

Wirespan turns power-grid planning into a compact ritual: the same map faces everyone worldwide, with a new one arriving at midnight. Its careful extras—including an archive, practice maps, drills, shareable results, and settings for haptics, high contrast, reduced motion, and larger text—make this feel like a deliberately authored game rather than a disposable puzzle page.

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