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Blackout
Browser game for two, 2026

Art Yavorsky
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Rules: open a room and send the link to one other person. Arrange your eight buildings — drag to move, double-click to rotate — and deploy. Take turns probing one cell at a time: a breach earns another probe, a miss passes the turn. While your ops room stands, your turn survives one miss. When your plant is breached, your next turn is a brownout: half of the cells you have not yet probed lose power for that turn. When the plant goes fully dark, one cell of your largest surviving datacenter is shown to the other side. The first to take everything on the other map offline wins. The opening move alternates between rounds; buildings may touch. While the other player aims, you see where their pointer rests on your sheet. The breaches and the ops room are fiction; the datacenters and the plant are not. Figures are as publicly reported between 2024 and 2026, rounded, and for unfinished sites they are plans, not measurements. The score is generated in the browser and tightens as buildings go dark. The camera is optional. If you switch it on, then each time one of your buildings is breached the other player sees your face for about three seconds, drawn over their copy of your sheet as a coarse grid of dim red digits. You see the same thing over your own sheet, so you know what they are looking at. The picture itself never leaves your browser and nothing is recorded. The two browsers connect directly for this, which shows each of you the other's network address. Keyboard: arrows move the selected building, R rotates it, Esc closes a record.