Radioactive Pooping Knights
Details
- External ID
- 46170106
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Radioactive Pooping Knights
- Website domain
- minichessgames.com
- Launched
- Dec. 6, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 27
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.708969465648855
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I've been having fun building out a really simple chess learning app for my daughter (7). It started with just "maze like" puzzles [1] and I've added a few more.This "radioactive pooping knights" idea came from an Irish primary school chess website [2]. Really simple idea, two knights moving around the board leaving poo behind... Don't be the one forced to step on it.* best played with sound on.[1]. https://minichessgames.com/#/movement/knight[2]. https://ficheall.ie/ *highly subjective, may not be better for you to play with sound at all ;)p.s. Any "buy me a coffee" goes to my daughter. Annoyingly they only pay out once you get above $10 USD and I think it's currently sitting at 9.85 or something!
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple gamified chess learning mini-app with custom knight movement rules that can easily be coded in canvas or standard DOM elements.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other games with traditional winning melody, Games with minmax AI
Concerns raised: AI is very basic, just takes any free move, Win sound effect is not rewarding
Feature requests: Better win reward/sound
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