Hi, I'm Ben. I make puzzle games.
I'm a software engineer in New Zealand. I build daily puzzle games about words, Wikipedia, geography, and wildlife.
Games
6 projects
Redactle Rush
Ten quick redacted Wikipedia titles
A faster daily Redactle. Solve ten redacted Wikipedia subjects, one guess each, with a single hint when you need it.
- word
- daily
- wikipedia
Sleuth the Truth
A wiki detective deduction puzzle
Ask yes/no questions to deduce the hidden Wikipedia article from a grid of suspects, in as few moves as possible. AI-generated boards, daily puzzles, multiplayer.
- deduction
- ai
- wikipedia
Wild Guessr
Guess where wildlife photos were taken
Daily and practice geography puzzles using CC-licensed iNaturalist photos. Includes Birble (birds-only) and real-time multiplayer.
- geography
- nature
- multiplayer
Lextension
Chain and Fib word puzzles, daily
A sister puzzle to Lextangle. Play the Daily Chain, Daily Fib, or random practice rounds. Extend words one link at a time.
- word
- daily
Posts
All postsJev is an honest game changer.
On 48 real game questions, Jev plus a Gemini fallback matched Grok's accuracy with 84.0% lower mean latency and 88.5% lower mean cost.
About
I'm a software engineer based in New Zealand. I work on Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft and build daily puzzle games, usually about words, geography, or Wikipedia.
Want to get in touch? Reach me via LinkedIn.
Enjoying the games? You can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi ☕. It helps me keep building them.