^GOODBYE$

You have 20 seconds to type matches to regular expressions so you can Rapture the faithful!

Match the crowd against a regex and strike them from existence.  Clear a level, climb the multiplier, loop back.  Tab to skip levels for double-or-nothing.  Conjure an entity that doesn't exist and earn a bonus.

Don't miss.

A tiny arcade-typing game about pattern recognition, scored by precision and speed.  How nice could be The End Of It All!

Entry for the 20 Second Game Jam 2026.

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AI Note:  I use a curated, heavily-customized open weights LLM setup on my homelab to help me with glue code and instrumentation.  It mostly uses code I've already written a zillion times before to make me more efficient.

As a full-time software engineer and dad, I don't have the free time it would take to rewrite the stuff I've written a zillion times before.  I just want to make fun stuff!  The agent really lets me do that without feeling like a thief of time.