Minor Works
thoughtful things for playful minds
Minor Works makes small games, quiet tools, and curious experiments—each built around one clear idea, with nothing designed to keep you longer than it should.
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Dappled
Dozens of little toys made from color, movement and sound. Touch, move, make, manipulate or just watch, listen and breathe.
More ▾Weight of all the ants on Earth
Somewhere in here.
Ballpark
A daily game about scale, estimation, and how surprisingly hard it is to know how big anything really is.
Venny
A calm daily word puzzle about convergence — finding the one answer that belongs at the center of it all.
In Beta
United Stats of America
Real data on random, remarkable and ridiculous things—Bigfoot sightings, Waffle Houses, UFO reports and more—state by state.
Throughline
A shifting route puzzle about finding a way through. Turn the tiles, choose a direction, and help your ball find its way home.
“Teen comedy about a forgotten birthday.”
Three Stars
A trivia game for movie lovers! 1k movies, 100s of actors, awesome clues from arthouse to classic to recent hits!
Try a little something
How many tennis balls would fit inside Fenway Park?
Somewhere in here.
More from the studio
Rank and File
Albums sold
Most → Least
Rank and File
Everything has its place, though rarely where you think it does.
Rank five familiar things from most to least, longest to shortest, earliest to latest—and then learn how the real world compares with the one in your head.
QR Tipsheet
A printable homepage for your fridge or bulletin board.
QR codes for the links you're always digging for: the calendar, the team schedule, the WiFi password, the playlist. Customizable with suggested links for local pro teams, schools and community resources, or build your own from a blank sheet.
In development
Dealemma
A game about reading the room—and betting on what everyone else will do.
Dealemma is a game about predicting people. Each round begins with an everyday situation, everyone secretly chooses what they'd do, and then the market opens. Bluff, bargain, and second-guess your friends before discovering which choices were actually worth making.
Massachusetts · 1630–2030
The Winthrop Cipher
A historian, a dead archivist's papers, and a cipher hidden in four centuries of Massachusetts correspondence. Ten gold coins are already in the ground, buried by someone who wanted them found—eventually. Everything else you need is already in the letters, if you know how to read them.
Follow the investigationSylly
Sylly is a word game about taking language apart and discovering what else it wants to become. Split and swap syllables, uncover surprising connections, and find words hiding in plain sight.
Unsaid
Unsaid is a game of recognition, where a hidden person, place, work, or event comes into focus one carefully chosen detail at a time. Guess as soon as you think you know what all the clues are pointing toward—the less that needs to be said, the better.
Minor Works is an independent studio based in Boston creating small experiences about big numbers, language, pattern, and play.
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Questions, feedback, or just want to say the estimation game ruined your afternoon?
A few moments
Outside the studio
Games and tools are what we make. These are a few other things we love and can't stop tinkering with.
The Thickening Plot
A home garden in Jamaica Plain, Boston, that's slowly taken over every inch of usable space — 155+ plants, a custom potting station, and a City of Boston award for 3rd-best large garden. Same instincts as the studio: a lot of small, deliberate decisions, made over a long time.
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Little Free Herbary
A community sharing movement, inspired by the Little Free Library — free herbs, freely shared, one shared garden box at a time. Plant one, take a sprig, or just say hi to a neighbor.
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