MindGames

A playable field guide to the manipulated mind

Learn psychology by getting played.

Short games that quietly bias, nudge, and trick you — then pull back the curtain on the cognitive bias or dark pattern that just got you. Once you have felt one, you start spotting it everywhere.

21 games across 3 families
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Cognitive Biases

Systematic glitches in how the mind judges, values, and decides.

Dark Patterns

Interface tricks engineered to nudge you against your own interest.

Social Psychology

How the presence and opinions of others quietly reshape your behavior.