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The Return of a Cult Site From the 2000s

How the Flash mini-games portal GozoGozo, lost when Flash Player was discontinued, was found, bought back and relaunched in HTML5 for a new generation.

5 Techniques to Get Better at Minesweeper

The real logical deduction methods used by experienced Minesweeper players, beyond random clicking, explained step by step.

How Does Quiz Gozo Work?

Bank of 100 questions, random draw of 10 per round, scoring system: discover exactly how the GozoGozo general knowledge Quiz works.

Where Does 2048 Come From?

The true story of 2048: created in one weekend by 19-year-old Gabriele Cirulli, this free open-source game became a worldwide phenomenon in days.

Where Does Snake Come From?

From Blockade in 1976 to the Nokia 6110 in 1997: fifty years of history behind the Snake game, from forgotten arcade game to mobile phone classic.

Where Does Whack-a-Mole Come From?

The history of Whack-A-Mole: born from a faulty Japanese prototype in 1976, fixed by a young American inventor who gave it its final name.

Where Does Sudoku Come From?

Invented in the US in 1979, popularized in Japan by Nikoli, then globalized in 2004 thanks to a retired New Zealand judge: the history of Sudoku.

4 Techniques to Improve Your Visual Memory

The real memorization methods used to remember a position or visual pattern faster: verbalizing, image association, grouping.

5 Tricks to Calculate Faster in Your Head

Concrete shortcuts for multiplying, adding and subtracting without a calculator: multiply by 5 or 9, round before adding, and more.

Why It's Hard to Spot the Differences

Change blindness, the very real cognitive phenomenon that explains why certain visual details escape us, even when they seem obvious once found.

Where Does Solitaire Come From?

From 18th-century Patience to the Klondike gold rush, via an unpaid Microsoft intern in 1988: the full history of Solitaire.

How to Spot a Number Sequence

The systematic method for identifying the rule behind any number sequence: constant gaps, geometric sequences, squares and prime numbers.

5 Common Myths Everyone Believes Are True

Widespread myths about goldfish, ostriches, the Great Wall of China and the Sahara desert, debunked one by one with verified facts.