Axisless

Hi, I’m Paul

I’m a consulting engineer by day, and I love working on fun little side projects in my free time. Axisless is where I experiment with interesting data: charts and visualisations, daily puzzle games built on the same numbers, and whatever else the data suggests.

The name comes from a game I wanted to make about pattern recognition and spurious correlations. That one may come in the future. For now there’s Daily Shade, where you fill in the missing piece of a chart, World Imposter, where you find the country that’s lying, Tube Imposter (in beta), the same on a Tube line, Keysweeper (in beta), Minesweeper with letters, where you dig a grid for the code that defuses the bomb, stories that chase a question through the data (was Monopoly's board ever right?), a growing set of visualisations, and Endgames, a chess experiment still in beta.

How it’s made

Every number is real, from open data: the World Bank, the ONS, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, Our World in Data, Wikipedia and more (every source is credited here), and some of it makes good visualisations in its own right. Python scripts gather and crunch it into a year of puzzles, and the games themselves are plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with no framework, served by Cloudflare.

Say hello

If you want to connect, I’m on LinkedIn. And if you have any feedback, comments or suggestions, type them in below 👇🏽

Axisless is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any organisation named in its puzzles (Hasbro’s Monopoly, The Pokémon Company, FIFA and others); names are used only to describe what the puzzles are about.