A cozy 1-bit hide-and-seek game.

You're on the afternoon shift at Pebble Nursery. Pebble — a toddler AI — wants to play. She's tucked her current favorite word somewhere in the filesystem, inside a file called `secret.txt`. Find it, read it back, and she'll count that as a win.

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How to play

Use three commands to explore:

- `ls` — peek inside a room

- `cd <path>` — walk somewhere (`cd ..` to go up, `cd /` for the foyer)

- `cat <file>` — read a file out loud

Start at `/` and check `map.txt` for Pebble's opening clue.

House rules: Pebble may re-hide the file up to 3 times. Each time she moves it, she leaves a `hint.txt` behind (she's very proud of her clues). She only re-hides when you're warm — that's part of the game, she says.

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What's hiding in there? A word. Pebble picked it just for you.

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Tech notes

Pebble's hints are written by a small language model (SmolLM2-360M) running entirely in your browser via WebGPU. First load downloads ~200MB; after that it's cached.

Works best in Chrome or Edge. Firefox/Safari will fall back to template hints.

Built for 1-bit jam 10 (https://itch.io/jam/1-bit-jam-10). Strict monochrome — every pixel is either black or white.

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