Wanessa Labs Games Introduction

Games Hub Overview

What the Wanessa Labs Games Hub is, which games are live, how the daily puzzle and the Time Machine work, and what is stored on your device instead of in an account.

The Wanessa Labs Games Hub lives at one address, games.wanessalabs.com. Every game on it is either built from scratch or forked from an open-source project with its art replaced.

No ads. No account. Your progress stays in your browser, and the hub works offline once it has loaded.

Live games

36 games are live, grouped on the home page by kind.

Daily puzzles

GameWhat it is
SudokuDaily 9×9 in easy, medium, and hard. Each difficulty has its own puzzle.
6×6 SudokuA gentler daily Sudoku, numbers 1 to 6.
LinkedFind the four groups of four connected words. A bank of 365 puzzles.
Mini CrosswordA small daily grid.
Anagram DailyFind every word hidden in seven letters. Found words come with definitions.
Snack PopMatch food emojis and build combos against the daily board.
Critter BlocksDaily 8×8 block puzzle. Three minutes, and clearing lines buys time back.
Ski RashNinety seconds downhill on the daily course.
Paper SquadronAn origami rail shooter with a daily course.
The Monkey PawMake a wish and watch it come true, exactly as you failed to word it.

Card, tile, and dice games

GameWhat it is
Poker FridayTexas Hold’em against bots, with a live odds coach. Play money only.
SlowPokerHold’em that needs no server and no signal. Play the bots today.
Big Two (鋤大D)The Cantonese climbing game against three AI players.
Mahjong (麻雀)Hong Kong style against three AI players, three-faan minimum.
Thirteen Cards (13张)Chinese Poker. Split 13 cards into rows of 3, 5, and 5.
Last CardHouse-rules Uno against three AI players.
Fibbers Dice (大話骰)Bid on dice you cannot see.
Fibbers PokerClaim a hand hiding across everyone’s cards, and hope nobody calls it.
BlackjackBasic strategy, with a coach that grades every decision.
Pass LineCraps, taught through the best bet on the table. It still loses money, and the game shows you why.
Lemon DiceFive dice, fifteen boxes.
Low RollerA dice game where the lowest score wins.

Puzzle and board games

GameWhat it is
Honey, I Loaded the DishwasherIsometric drag-and-drop loading puzzle. The first 10 levels are free.
2048Slide tiles and chase 2048.
Drop4Four in a row. Two players on one device, or play the computer.
Chinese Checkers (波子棋)Two to six players on one phone.
2x2 Cube TrainerSolve a 2x2 cube and see how close to optimal you got.

Kids and learning

GameWhat it is
Tens and OnesTwo-digit place value.
Rows and GroupsArrays and equal groups.
Parts of a WholeFractions on a number line.
Clocks and CoinsTelling time and counting money.
Math DrillAdaptive arithmetic, addition through division.
Spelling QuizListen and spell, 10 adaptive levels.
Word SearchFind hidden words by dragging.
Typing PracticeWords and sentences for speed and accuracy.
Palette QuestSolve math problems to earn colors, then paint.

There is a separate kids section at /kids with a short daily practice checklist and a page for parents. The Math Trail at /journey walks a child through a sequence of skills and gives parents a progress report. Neither has streaks, on purpose.

How the daily puzzle works

Each daily game makes its puzzle from the date. The same date always gives the same puzzle, so everyone plays the same one that day. Nothing is fetched from a server to do it.

The day changes at midnight UTC, not at your local midnight. In North America that means the new puzzle arrives in the late afternoon or evening.

The Time Machine

Ten of the daily games keep an archive going back to August 11, 2026. Today and yesterday are free. An older day costs 100 coins to open. Archived days never expire and the price never changes.

Streaks

A game’s streak counts the days in a row you finished its daily puzzle. There is also a hub streak in the header, which counts days on which you finished three different games. Both use the UTC day.

Your avatar

Playing earns wardrobe items for a cartoon avatar that appears across the hub. Dress it at /wardrobe. To move it to another device, copy its character code there and paste it on the other one.

What is stored, and where

Scores, streaks, coins, passes, and your avatar are kept on your device, in your browser’s local storage. There is no account and no password. Clearing your browser’s site data for the hub resets all of it, except purchases, which can be restored (see Coins and Purchases).

The privacy policy at /privacy has the details, including how the kids section handles data.

Mobile apps

There is no Android or iOS app to download. The web version works in any mobile browser and can be added to your home screen.

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