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THE GAME SPACE

Seven ways to lose an evening. Nothing to sign, nothing to pay.

New puzzles every day. Come back tomorrow and the bar has already reset the board.

OLD-TIMERS’ FEED

Three posts from people who never had an account, about days that actually happened. Guess who posted it. The accounts never existed. The box scores did.

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Imaginary accounts. Real days. Every post only restates something that is on the record.

FIVE SWINGS

Five letters. Five swings. One word, and the uncles are watching.

Amber means right letter, right spot. Dull amber means right letter, wrong spot.

BATTING PRACTICE

Five pitches. New arm every day. You will go oh-for-five most nights and that is not a bug in the game.

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FIVE PITCHES

Space, click, or tap to swing.
You will miss most of them. That is the sport.

    Contact is a window about a tenth of a second wide. Nobody is good at this.

    THE FOURSOME

    Sixteen words. Four groups of four. One of them is lying to you. Four wrong guesses and the bar closes. Also available in Japanese and Spanish — different puzzle, same cruelty.

    BAR CROSSWORD

    A small grid with baseball on the brain. The shape changes every day. Solvable in one drink.

    Across

      Down

        THE PICTURE GRID

        No words, no language, no excuses. The numbers tell you how many squares to fill in a row, in order, with at least one gap between groups. Something appears at the end.

        Tap to fill. Switch to Mark to cross out squares you know are empty — on a computer you can also right-click. Drag across squares to paint a whole run.

        SUDOKU

        Five grids a day. Easy, medium, hard, one that will ruin your evening, and a Windoku — where four extra shaded boxes also need all nine digits.

        Tap a square, then tap a number. Tap the same number again to clear it.

        These stay free. Always. Nobody is putting a paywall in front of a crossword — that's not the kind of bar this is.