Ever wonder how you would have fared as a developer before StackOverflow, GitHub and Google, in a time when the only debugging tools were printed manuals and careful thought?

Want to find out?

Play through our 80s gaming-themed levels of coding puzzles.

A generation of ten-year-olds has fallen sick. Doctors find themselves at a loss, and the one lifeline yet unexhausted lies in your lab of implantable microbots and frequent little explosions.

The Humanoid Hunt is a series of coding puzzles that take you on a journey into the human body. To crack them all, you’ll need serious coding skill – and all the biointerfaces the year 2049 has to offer.

A diamond-mining vessel has gone missing. Three days ago, the ship sent out a distress signal, and then dropped off the face of the Earth. If you and that satellite of yours can’t find the ship…well, let’s just say that we’re likely to lose more than precious cargo.

Use your coding skills to track terrorists, and save the world. Play The Tracking Game.

Say goodbye to daylight. Somewhere over the Arctic Circle, halfway between mainland and the North Pole, you’re standing on permafrost. The unsettling creaking of the glaciers and soft hum of the wind are the only sounds that break the pressing silence.

Your job is to break into a doomsday vault before it’s too late. Bring a rifle, the polar bears get hungry. 

Ho ho holy smokes! Santa is in dire need of your help. Our planet is warming up at an alarming pace, and the red man is fervently looking for ways to cut down on CO2 emissions.

Help Santa reduce his carbon footprint by optimizing his logistics by using data from the world’s highly guarded trade secret, the Nice List.

Solved them all? Very impressive. We’ll be updating this page as we find more puzzles for you to take a stab at. Stay tuned…