Wolfrominoes
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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
HN · launched Nov 23, 2025 · 10 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 310 launches in browser puzzle games →
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 : 427 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #198 of 428 (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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