Playabl & Nakze

Nakze is the same idea pointed at a country. Four games, Lebanese by content and by name. Wasle (وصلة) hands you sixteen words to group into four hidden Lebanese categories. Amthal (أمثال) starts a proverb and asks you to finish it, or to match it to its meaning. Wein? (وين؟) shows you a landmark photo for five seconds, hides it, and gives you ten to pin it on the map from memory. Dabbous (دبّوس) names a town and you drop the pin where it really is.

Three of those four are made of things you can look up. Sixteen Lebanese words, a photo with a license on it, a town with real coordinates. Amthal needed proverbs. The one academic set I found added eight once I dropped the duplicates, and its full 495 sit behind a blank license field. Scraping would break the rule I had already set on Playabl, and generating would break it worse. The plan I wrote that day ends the search in three words. "Did not fabricate."

The look is hand-painted Beirut street signage. Limestone, near-black ink, a brick-red slanted sign panel, hard offset shadows. No blur, no dark mode.

The default script is Arabizi, Latin letters with numerals, the way Lebanese group chats actually type. A full Arabic mode sits behind it, every string already written twice, switched off because the code says the rendering is not finalized.

On 16 June the puzzle rolled over an hour early, because the time zone table the site reads still had Beirut on summer time. A player who finished in that last hour before local midnight showed as done for all of the next day, with the Dabké bonus unlocked, without having played it. I pinned the day to a fixed clock instead.

A long-press on the header opens Dabké, an endless runner over a flat Beirut skyline, and clearing the whole board opens it too. The dancer started as a dot in the logo. "Turn the poke dot into a little dabké dancer (stomping legs + a raised arm waving a mustard mandeel)".