Wolfrominoes
Details
- External ID
- 46020701
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wolfrominoes
- Website domain
- samgentle.com
- Launched
- Nov. 23, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5152838427947598
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
This is a little puzzle game I made based on Wolfram's rule 30[0]. I was doing some sketches based on old Genuary[1] prompts and for some reason this idea stuck with me, so I polished it up into a hopefully playable state.I wanted to keep things minimal, but as a semi-easter egg you can play custom variants using url parameters like https://demos.samgentle.com/wolfrominoes/?rows=20&rule=110[0] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule30.html[1] https://genuary2021.github.io/prompts
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- —
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a pure client-side HTML5 Canvas puzzle game based on Rule 30 cellular automaton math implemented in plain JavaScript.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Game mechanics are unintuitive, Too subtle/unclear what the game does
Feature requests: Click and drag puzzle mechanics
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 220 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 221 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.