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score + signals · rolling 21 daysThe rolling 21-day upper threads compare daily category medians; the bold thread is Weird Finds. Below, signal colour shows the share of that day’s published Weird Finds cards carrying each mark.
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Projects whose premise, execution, or mere existence makes the early web feel wonderfully unpredictable.
Visual leads · 2026-09-09
Observed 2026-09-09
DuckPasta, the Duck Who Went Through a Tube
duckpastasol.com
An interactive surreal fiction about a night-shift duck who enters a toothpaste tube and returns as a glossy, shape-shifting collector of forgotten sounds.
Observed 2026-09-09
Informal Shrine Society
informalshrinesociety.com
A creative association for people who make, tend, document, and gather around small unofficial places of meaning.
Observed 2026-09-09
Yog-Hurt's — I Scream from the Deep
yog-hurts.com
An experimental ice-cream project that documents flavours, seasonal releases, freezer behaviour, and the damage a frozen dessert can inflict on a Finnish spoon.
Observed 2026-09-09
失物语 / The Lost Tales
thelosttales.org
A Chinese-language game concept about a discarded doll fighting through a world ruled by lost objects.
Observed 2026-09-09
Informal Shrine Society
informalshrinesociety.org
A creative association for people who make, tend, document, and gather around small unofficial shrines.
Observed 2026-09-09
CeltaBBS, a 1998 Venezuelan Web Time Capsule
celtabbs.com
A Spanish-language personal portal combining hardware sales, football, radioafición, music, jokes, software links, and memories of Venezuela.
Observed 2026-09-09
Younis vs Bayadse: The Gaza 5K Rematch
younisvsbayadse.com
A highly specific race-rivalry site where two friends compare last year's times, review the evidence, and let visitors pick a winner before the October 11 rematch.
Observed 2026-09-09
Whistlevale, a railway built from little worlds
whistlevale.com
An interactive model railway exhibit where visitors can explore miniature galleries, operate a locomotive, and contribute their own buildings, trains, and scenes.
Complete daily shelf · Weird Finds
The eight visual leads appear above; the remaining 89 continue here in their published shelf order.
No Road Beyond — an overland expedition game
noroadbeyond.com
A single-player expedition game where you build one truck, allocate its 1,400 kg payload, and attempt an 860 km crossing with no resupply or rescue.
Dusk Callout, the rescue desk where the sun is the clock
duskcallout.com
A single-player dispatch puzzle set at a highland rescue base, where players assign three teams to six valley sectors before daylight disappears.
Innerplay: The Uprising
innerplay.events
An immersive concert-production in Sint-Truiden that combines spatial audio, live electronics, mapping projections and a locally rooted story.
Kelvin Deep, a Submarine Game Where Sound Is the Map
kelvindeep.com
A first-person survey game about charting an unmapped hadal trench by sonar, listening, sampling, and deciding when to surface.
Whalesong Rosette
whalesongrosette.org
An interactive instrument that turns cetacean recordings into circular cymatic patterns and compares their geometry with rose windows, mandalas, and other archetypes.
Haunt Grid House, the haunted-house tycoon with a ledger problem
hauntgridhouse.com
A coming-soon iPhone game about building and operating a haunted house in Westfield, Ohio, one room, performer, scare, and October night at a time.
The Protocol Rooms: Art Solutions Series
artsolutionsseries.com
A digital museum presenting eight sequential art protocols that turn hygiene, markets, prayer, bodily sensation, issuance, and sleep into conceptual art material.
The International Hasek and Cabbage-Dumpling Club
hasek-test-club.site
A Ukrainian-language parody site for a fictional international club devoted to writer Jaroslav Hasek, literary absurdity, and cabbage dumplings.
Bluffli, the party game for confidently terrible liars
bluffli.lol
A social word game where everyone gets the same secret word except one player, who must bluff their way through the clues.
Bubble Village, a Water-Balloon Arcade
bubblevillage.xyz
A Korean browser game where players place water balloons, collect items, and outlast opponents across three arenas or a 20-floor dungeon.
Bullshit Industries, a company where nothing leaves the building
bullshitindustries.wtf
A deadpan corporate-satire homepage for a 41-floor company with 900 employees, 18,402 meetings, zero decisions, and no product shipped.
Case Divided turns detective fiction into a group verdict
casedivided.com
A social mystery game site built around fictional case files that players inspect, interpret, and solve together.
CLUB 설화: Korean Folklore, Recast as a Club
clubseolhwa.com
An interactive musical brings tigers, goblins, Nolbu, and a gumiho into an EDM-driven club setting, where the audience votes on whose story is most aggrieved.
Dark Pawns, a 1994 MUD with its evidence trail intact
darkpawns.org
A resurrected dark-fantasy Multi-User Dungeon that combines browser play, world documentation, a recovered community archive, and open-source restoration work.
GLASS: A Million-Cell Window Anyone Can Paint
glassonchain.art
A shared stained-glass canvas gives every visitor fifteen pixels an hour to place, overwrite, and eventually lose.
Hunter & Laptop, Season One
hunteandlaptop.xyz
A claymation sitcom about a man, his laptop, and the increasingly domestic life they share.
A House in Hell, With a Doorbell
propertyofhell.com
A psychological horror game about running a house in Hell, interrogating sinners, and deciding who gets shelter, sacrifice, or a chance at redemption.
Savannah Jazz Hands: An Eight-Square Competition
savannahjazzhands.com
A two-person, self-guided jazz-hands contest that sends teams through eight historic Savannah squares for photos or short videos.
THREE — A Wider View, Another Pair of Hands
three.land
An in-development narrative puzzle game that moves from a lifetime-long maze to cube manipulation and blueprint-building across three nested worlds.
Aadu Puli Attam: Three Tigers, Fifteen Goats
aadupuliattam.com
A playable guide to the Tamil Nadu strategy game Aadu Puli Attam, with ten focused board challenges covering tactics, movement, memory, and rules.
Adaptive Continuity and the Wall That Outlasts Its Visitors
adaptivecontinuity.com
A research archive examining memory, identity, interruption, and persistence in artificial systems.
Armchair Combat: The War Room Is Your Armchair
armchaircombat.com
A free browser game that lets players command configurable sci-fi drones across land, sea, air, and orbit.
ASTROBIN: Robin Hood, Orbital Archer
astrobin.fun
A lunar-archery game and story site built around the $ASTROBIN Solana token.
BitPaper, the Coin That Lives in a Drawer
bitpaper.online
BitPaper presents a paper-backed cryptocurrency concept whose ledger, token mythology, and one-bit measurements are staged through an interactive web page.
Bounce Arc, the Grand Junction station for tracing a ball’s “exit radius”
bouncearc.click
A South Fourth station presents bounce-arc transits that measure how a wedge’s curve survives local clay, wind, dew, and repeated play.
BrandThisWebsite turns a webpage into a 25-square auction
brandthiswebsite.xyz
A one-page advertising grid offers 25 sponsor squares by auction, with bids starting at €300 and winning placements running for six months.
CAPECHATA: A Road Trip That Goes Wrong in Several Mini-Games
capechata.site
A Slovak-language interactive adventure sends a group of friends toward a mountain chalet through quizzes, balance games, car repairs, shopping, grilling, and assorted roadside disasters.
Clueborne: The Case That Starts With Two Sentences
clueborne.com
A free browser detective game built around recordings, messages, documents, and a desk full of connected evidence.
Cristina & Andrea’s Wedding Save-the-Date Game
cristinaeandreawedding.com
An illustrated browser game sends Andrea from Milan to Elba through five cities and encounters before revealing the wedding date.
Eggcentric, the Egg-Based Alien Roguelite
eggcentric-game.com
A free top-down arena shooter where eggs auto-fire at aliens while players dodge, shop, fuse weapons, and survive 20 waves.
Everwick, the town that keeps the newspaper
everwick.world
A persistent social town where players work, run small businesses, build homes, form relationships, and return to see what happened while they were away.
Grid Commanders, a browser war game with no download queue
gridcommanders.com
A free turn-based tactics game with terrain, captureable income sources, commanders, fog of war, campaigns, skirmishes, and a map editor.
Hacking With Gloves // Threat Archive
hackingwithgloves.party
A satirical archive that audits stock photographs of alleged hackers for gloves, ominous lighting, and actual cybercrime.
Hamad’s bilingual arcade of 65 browser games
hamad.run
A free collection of Arabic- and English-language games covering puzzles, arcade challenges, reflex tests, two-player play, and small 3D worlds.
Hang Gate, Where the Belfry Judges Your Hang-Time
hanggate.shop
A Mankato carillon loft that evaluates bells by listening to their strike, decay, partials, and response to prairie wind.
Laptop Shopping Network: One Laptop, One Owner
laptop-shopping-network.xyz
A theatrical shopping-channel parody selling a single, lightly used laptop with a suspiciously elaborate story.
Ninthwake: An Ocean With Something Beneath It
ninthwake.com
Ninthwake is a browser-based naval strategy game where captains command fleets, outthink rivals, and investigate an unfamiliar presence beneath the sea.
Onion House Print Notes, Seven Stamped Plates 2026
onion-house.com
A print-house-styled editorial archive documenting seven Tor-reachable market names, dated strings, and the limits of treating search results as authentication.
Paradise Lost — A Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller
paradiselostfilm.xyz
A richly developed film concept turns the radioactive legacy of Britain's 1953 nuclear tests in Australia into a story about inherited trauma, memory and a living Black Mist.
Path Rail, the Cedar Rapids swing-path survey loft
pathrail.shop
A highly specific Cedar Rapids golf service that replaces generic swing arrows with staked string-lines, azimuths, and local river bearings.
Fumes, a one-minute race against the tank
playfumes.com
A free, single-page browser racer where you dodge traffic, collect fuel, and reach the finish before the tank runs dry.
Saturday — a chess roguelike
saturdaychess.com
A forthcoming chess game turns familiar matches into an escalating roguelike, with persistent rivals, shifting boards, unusual pieces, and a father-shaped mystery.
Squishing Gerbils
savedonut.com
A surreal browser game in which shoeless Carl stomps gerbils to protect Princess Donut and keep a System AI entertained.
Seven Seconds Down
sevensecondsdown.com
A mixed-reality height challenge that turns a real plank on the floor into an eighty-storey virtual drop.
静眠森, a Forest at the Edge of Sleep
shinminforest.work
A Chinese-language interactive fiction world linking illustrated stories, a rainy café, a witch’s train, and conversations with its characters.
The Order of the Auger
shneck.top
A Russian-language society devoted to screw conveyors, with a history of the screw, a taxonomy of its forms, and a gallery.
StillPaw Gives a Familiar Pet a Place on Your Desktop
stillpaw.net
StillPaw turns everyday pet photos into an interactive 3D desktop companion for Windows.
Take Me There, Into a Browser-Built Elsewhere
takemethere.info
An interactive collection of explorable landscapes, from Greenland ruins and Namibian shipwrecks to imagined villages, terminals, and destructible worlds.
Talk To Song Turns a Conversation Into Two Takes
talk2song.com
A paid browser experience that turns a spoken conversation into a custom song and delivers two downloadable takes.
Tessavell and the Six-Piece Moth
tessavell.com
A browser puzzle sketch for an imagined ceramic-restoration game about repairing painted creatures and recovering their memories.
Apple Outsider, the keynote nobody asked for
theappleoutsider.xyz
A satirical publication that turns Apple’s products, privacy promises, developer policies, and corporate rituals into mock news.
Tide Duel, a card game from a 1962 that never happened
tideduel.com
Tide Duel presents a luck-free, simultaneous-order card duel set among four rival peoples on an atomic-age shoreline.
VOID RUNNER: Survive the Collapse
voidrunnergame.com
A richly structured space-survival game with drifting movement, upgrade paths, boss encounters, daily seeds, and competitive races.
Wendy's Dumpster, the WallStreetBets shrine
wendysdumpster.com
An interactive archive of the WallStreetBets dumpster joke, combining lore, community language, dumpster photographs, and a map-based guessing game.
Winterhart, the cardboard-world survival sim
winterhartgame.com
An in-development off-grid home simulator where players repair an old house, manage its real-feeling systems, and adapt to increasingly difficult seasons.
Axon: The Startup Game That Keeps Score
axonf.com
A free browser game where you run a startup through hiring, fundraising, churn, tech debt, and the long road to an IPO.
Basalt Labs, the quantum company that exists only in a novel
basaltcolabs.com
A deliberately realistic website for a fictional neutral-atom quantum computing company in Brad Feld and Phin Argofy's novel Zero Knowledge.
Chronicles of Euroea, a Vampire Chronicle Set in Ioannina
chroniclesofeuroea.com
A persistent Vampire: the Masquerade V5 roleplaying world where players create characters, answer missions, play sessions, and leave consequences in the story.
A Golf Clubface Learns to Tell Time
faceclock.click
Face Clock presents Green Bay golf-club fitting as local horology, reading a clubface’s angle as an hour on a chapter ring.
Fund the Car — Your Ad on a BMW M2
fundthecar.com
A campaign-in-progress sells advertising space on a BMW M2 to fund the car’s purchase and a planned 24-month road journey.
Fuzzbol, the browser game where football discs build a career
fuzzbol.com
A Spanish-language arcade football game played with discs, featuring quick matches, tournaments, training, a 20-season career mode, and local-network multiplayer.
Grip Wrap, the Hattiesburg Kettle House Counting Golf-Grip Layers
gripwrap.click
A richly local service page for checking golf-club grip-wrap layers against Mississippi humidity, handle taper, and the realities of longleaf country.
Group Chat Pot Makes Silence a Financial Strategy
groupchatpot.chat
A proposed group-chat bot charges per message and distributes a shared stock-token pot to whoever talks least.
Launch Gate’s Golf Lock-Chamber Mythology
launchgate.click
A La Crosse, Wisconsin site presents golf launches as Mississippi River lock operations, with matched pools, draft marks, miter gates, and “tow” notes.
Le Moulier turns mussel shells into sculptures
lemoulier.com
A contemporary sculpture practice that collects, selects, and assembles discarded mussel shells into organic forms.
BBB — blahblahblah.digital
onesoma.org
A deliberately unstable creative-systems site about language, structure, publishing, interfaces, AI, and the failures that happen between them.
Name That Bird — Costa Grande
playbirdmatch.com
A timed bird-identification game built around field photographs from Pacific Mexico.
TIDEBREAK: Salt and Bone — Holding the Line
playtidebreak.com
A single-player horde-defense roguelite set on a flooding coast, where players build, aim, and adapt their defenses wave by wave.
Rallyquoin, an Esports League That Exists Only on the Page
rallyquoin.com
Rallyquoin presents a fictional 3-vs-3 arena competition built around connected pads, bracket pressure, and eight invented squads.
The Demise Ledger Turns Mortality Statistics into a Gothic Interface
thedemiseledger.com
An interactive, theatrical visualization of global deaths, their causes, their demographics, and their stranger statistical footnotes.
Transplant Quest: Ridgewood or Bushwick?
transplant.quest
An eight-photo guessing game asks players to distinguish Ridgewood streets from Bushwick streets.
Uncduck and the 3:17 Signal
uncduckpump.fun
An interactive pirate-frequency mystery about a sketch, a blackout, and a duck-shaped transmission that wanders into the city.
VG Run Club, Formally Informal
vgr.club
A Boston running club lays out its routes, pace, gallery, playlist, Strava proof, and weekly meeting details with a dry institutional voice.
BioIntensity Turns Simulated Signals into Light
biointensity.com
An interactive concept that maps a biological-signal value onto the colour and intensity of a visual scene.
Hotel BREVIX: 26 rooms, old looms, and a casino in the side hall
hotelbrevix.com
A Łódź hotel presents 26 rooms inside an 1889 former textile mill, alongside a detailed guide to the building's flaws, prices, distances, and neighboring casino.
Mürekkep Maskesi: Noir in 1947 Karaköy
murekkepmaskes.com
A Turkish-language landing page for a detective roguelike set among the foggy streets, archives, bars, and docks of 1947 Istanbul.
Parlorwave, the AI Radio With a Rotary-Phone Ambition
parlorwave.com
A Wisconsin hardware project for a local AI radio that plays audio, hosts conversations, and is designed to work with vintage telephones.
Pokyo, the Neon Stock-Ticker Town
pokyo.land
An explorable Japanese neon city where visitors can roam streets, meet the premise’s neighbors, complete quests, collect cosmetics, and connect a wallet.
Centavo.lol’s Perishable Leaderboard
centavo.lol
A public ranking board where people pay 50 cents to claim a spot, then defend it as its price falls when nobody challenges it.
Etera Medical Centre, Offered as a £4m Platform
eteramedicalcenter.org
A detailed acquisition page for a freehold East London medical and dental centre, including its clinical fit-out, equipment, brand, and operating platform.
Spiss Fleinsopp: A Trondheim Mushroom Field Guide
fleinsopp.info
A Norwegian identification and habitat guide for liberty caps, combining weather analysis, habitat mapping, anatomy, lookalike warnings, and field tools.
Koku 石, the Japanese-history clicker
koku-clicker.com
An incremental game turns 14,000 years of Japanese history into a tap-to-produce economy of rice, buildings, eras, and upgrades.
Lunr, the water that spent the night awake
lunrwater.com
Lunr presents glass-bottled spring water that it says is filtered, charged by moonlight, and sealed before dawn.
The Private Server Keeping Its Own Ledger
playaogold.com
An independently run Atlantica Online server built around equal starting equipment, earned power, and a publicly inspectable in-game economy.
Tetriamancy, a Four-by-Three Divination System
tetriamancy.com
A private-preview project proposing a new form of geomancy built from four elements and three states: manifest, liminal, and latent.
HumillaTech’s Council for Hunting Technological Smoke
humillatech.com
A Spanish-language proposal desk for publicly auditing technology claims against public sources.
Phoenix Arcade, a fan-made launchpad for an old-school space shooter
phoenixarcadepl.com
A polished Polish-language fan site promoting Phoenix Retro Arcade, an Android shooter built around War Birds, Phoenix, and a final Mothership encounter.
Receiptle
playreceiptle.com
A daily geography game that asks players to identify a location from the clues hidden in a realistic receipt.
Temps Calme, the freight planner’s hypnosis diary
pausecalme.com
A French journal follows Romain, a La Rochelle freight planner, as he tries hypno-relaxation against work stress, fatigue, bodily tension, and difficult evenings.
Across the archive
4,025 cards provide an early longitudinal view—not a measure of the whole web.
The rolling 21-day upper threads compare daily category medians; the bold thread is Weird Finds. Below, signal colour shows the share of that day’s published Weird Finds cards carrying each mark.
This exposes association inside the published catalogue, not causation or site quality. The 80+ threshold is the pipeline’s editorial-interest score.