E23: Experience Untrusted

Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin created a pretty fun programming game called Untrusted in which you solve puzzles by writing (or rewriting) Javascript code.

When you first go to the site, you’ll see “ascii art” that creates a box with an “@” and a cloverleaf character. Use your cursor to move the “@” over the cloverleaf, and the following page appears to start the game:

Basically, you edit the Javascript code in order to solve the current puzzle, which takes you to a new puzzle.

Alex wrote an interesting blog post explaining how the game came to be. I suggest you play the game a bit before you read it (there are no spoilers in the post, it just won’t make as much sense if you haven’t played the game).

Submission instructions

You don’t have to submit anything, but it would be cool to know how far you got in the game. I stopped around Level 10.