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Continental

The Baobab

A point-and-click puzzle set through five chambers of an enormous baobab, gathering objects and working out the order of things.

— The board

Play against the machine. Your best score is kept in this browser only — nothing is sent to the archive.

Click or tap to play. Keyboard works too where the game uses it.

— What is playing against you

Nothing plays against you — obstacles arrive on a timer.

No opponent — a timer or a spawner
Nothing is playing against you. There is no opponent in this game at all — no model of you, no plan, no choices being weighed. What feels like an adversary is a spawn timer and a random number generator: obstacles appear on a schedule that tightens as your score rises. This is worth noticing precisely because it can feel otherwise. Difficulty that rises with time reads as an opponent responding to you, and it is not.

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What this version is not

Invented from beginning to end. Baobabs do carry real significance in many African societies — as meeting places, as burial sites for griots in parts of the Sahel — and none of that is what this game is about. The symbols and the ritual in it are made up and reference no actual practice.

— Sources

No sources have been attached to this entry yet. Until they are, treat everything above as provisional.

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