Minor Works
thoughtful things for playful minds
Minor Works makes small games, quiet tools, and curious experiments—each built around one clear idea, with nothing designed to keep you longer than it should.
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Dappled
Dozens of little toys made from color, movement and sound. Touch, move, make, manipulate or just watch, listen and breathe.
More ▾Weight of all the ants on Earth
Somewhere in here.
Ballpark
A daily game about scale, estimation, and how surprisingly hard it is to know how big anything really is.
Venny
A calm daily word puzzle about convergence — finding the one answer that belongs at the center of it all.
One word at a time.
Unsaid
A daily guessing game where a hidden person, place, work, or event comes into focus one word at a time. Guess early to score more.
Five countries.
One surprising statistic.
Rank & File
Five countries. One surprising statistic. Rank them, then discover how the world really compares. Five new rounds every day.
United Stats of America
Real data on random, remarkable and ridiculous things—Bigfoot sightings, Waffle Houses, UFO reports and more—state by state.
Throughline
A shifting route puzzle about finding a way through. Turn the tiles, choose a direction, and help your ball find its way home.
“Teen comedy about a forgotten birthday.”
Three Stars
A trivia game for movie lovers! 1k movies, 100s of actors, awesome clues from arthouse to classic to recent hits!
Costa Rica Trip
Margin
A scratch calculator and ledger for Chrome. Collect numbers from around the web, keep each one tied to its source, and see what they add up to.
QR Tipsheet
A printable homepage for your fridge or bulletin board — QR codes for the calendar, WiFi password, team schedule, and playlist links you're always digging for.
More from the studio
In development
Dealemma
A game about reading the room—and betting on what everyone else will do.
Dealemma is a game about predicting people. Each round begins with an everyday situation, everyone secretly chooses what they'd do, and then the market opens. Bluff, bargain, and second-guess your friends before discovering which choices were actually worth making.
Massachusetts · 1630–2030
The Winthrop Cipher
A historian, a dead archivist's papers, and a cipher hidden in four centuries of Massachusetts correspondence. Ten gold coins are already in the ground, buried by someone who wanted them found—eventually. Everything else you need is already in the letters, if you know how to read them.
Follow the investigationSylly
Sylly is a word game about taking language apart and discovering what else it wants to become. Split and swap syllables, uncover surprising connections, and find words hiding in plain sight.
Once Upon
a Photo
There's always more to the picture.
Once Upon a Photo
Once Upon a Photo reconnects old photographs and home movies to the people, places, and stories that time has obscured. A shared effort—shared on Instagram, gathered here as it grows.
Coming soon
Highlightr
Highlightr is a better memory for what you read. Save the exact passage that mattered, keep it connected to its source, and add a note or topic while the thought is still fresh.
Minor Works is an independent studio based in Boston creating small experiences about big numbers, language, pattern, and play.
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