TGB Arcade

Shooter

Debug Mode

Bugs are invading the codebase. Pilot the soldering iron and squash all four rows before they reach the board.

Classic

Loopback

Pong against the loopback interface. First to seven points wins the handshake.

Arcade

Breakpoint

Breakout, one block of legacy code at a time. Clear the wall, level up, don't drop the pointer.

Classic

Trace Router

Snake on a PCB. Route the copper trace to every solder pad without crossing yourself.

Reflex

Voltage Hop

Flap a spark through the resistor bank. One touch and you're fried — how far can you hop?

Shooter

Solder Storm

Asteroids, but everything is molten solder. Blast the blobs down to droplets before they splash you.

Puzzle

Overflow

Falling blocks until the stack overflows. Four lines at once is called a refactor.

Memory

Signal Echo

Simon in four channels. Watch the signal, echo it back — one wrong bit and you desync.

Puzzle

Short Circuit

Minesweeper on a crowded board. Twenty shorts are hiding — probe every safe pad and flag the rest.

Puzzle

Bitshift

2048 for people who think in binary. Merge equal powers of two — eleven shifts to glory.

Action

Bug Patch

Whack-a-mole with bugs crawling out of the board. 45 seconds, chained hits multiply your score.

Reflex

Latency

How fast is your interrupt handler? Five rounds, tap on terracotta, lowest average wins.

Reflex

Keystroke

Words rain down the terminal. Type them before they hit the floor — three misses and the buffer is full.

Platformer

Stack Jump

Bounce up the call stack, frame by frame. Fall out of scope and it's over.

Runner

Cable Run

Endless sprint across the workbench. Jump the parts bin — double jump is allowed, tripping is not.

Defense

Surge

Voltage spikes rain on the capacitor bank. Detonate suppressors in their path before the lights go out.

Arcade

Data Crossing

You are one precious bit. Cross six lanes of bus traffic and deliver yourself to the register.

Puzzle

Power Grid

Lights Out on a 5×5 grid. Every switch flips its neighbours — shut it all down within the move budget.

Strategy

XOR

Tic-tac-toe against a machine that plays perfectly 80% of the time. Exploit the other 20% and build a streak.

Precision

Steady Hand

The classic wire-loop test from the workshop, digitized. Trace the wire without touching it — it keeps getting narrower.

Reflex

Orbit

One button, two orbits, endless debris. Hop between rings, collect charge, don't get deorbited.