Two sites, up close

The puzzles are real mechanisms rather than riddles. A lamp is rewired on a cable that hangs and swings under Verlet physics on canvas. A sliding-block tray was generated and then solved exhaustively by breadth-first search before shipping, so its seventeen-move minimum is a measured fact instead of a guess. Every sound — the drawer, the dial, the flourish when the last lock gives — is synthesised at runtime, which is why there is nothing to download.

It is built to be played by everyone. Each of the five puzzles has a keyboard route to its solution, motion respects the reduced-motion setting, and progress survives a closed tab, so a drawer opened tonight is still open tomorrow.

The site around it was built with the same care as the game. The case room drifts behind the words as you scroll, dust moves through the lamplight, and the five drawers slide open in sequence as you reach them. Its original artwork was generated for it and compressed from 4.2 MB to 176 KB, so all of that atmosphere costs almost nothing to load.

Customers browse a categorised menu with dietary tags, build a cart, and pay by card without leaving the site. Checkout runs on Square Web Payments, so card details never touch the server and the business inherits Square's compliance rather than having to earn it.

A loyalty programme runs underneath: diners earn points on every order and redeem them at checkout, which is the part that turns a first order into a second. Catering is handled separately, with pre-built platter packages priced in tiers — the revenue the old contact form was quietly losing.

Three of Square's systems are wired in at once — payments, live catalogue, and loyalty — with Supabase behind them. Prices are settled server-side against the real catalogue, so an order is always charged what the kitchen actually set.

The owner ran a full order through it himself, start to finish, before it went anywhere near a customer.