CASUAL & IDLE

Casual and idle-progression games for low-pressure play: a cookie-clicker incrementer with upgrades, an auto-miner with depth and upgrade trees, and two physics-puzzle mini-games (Pull the Pin and Fill the Cup). Sessions are short (under 5 minutes) and progress saves locally for return visits.

Idle games introduce simple economic loops (earn → spend → earn faster) that mirror compound-interest intuition. Pull the Pin and Fill the Cup are physics puzzles with one obvious failure mode and several non-obvious ways to succeed; the failure-and-retry loop trains the kind of rapid hypothesis testing that more serious puzzle games (and engineering work) reward.