Home of the shared pixel canvas where millions of people fought surprisingly politely over a few million squares.
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r/place sits in Crowd Experiments under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Shared spaces where everyone acts at once. Sometimes it becomes art, usually it becomes a mess, and the mess is the interesting part.
Yes. r/place is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use r/place without signing up for anything.
Yes. r/place works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Archive of the experiment where one button and one click each spawned genuine factions, martyrs and a working theology within days.
A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.
Pixel canvas laid over a world map where you claim a handful of tiles at a time and defend them against the neighbouring country.
Infinite shared canvas of plain text where anyone can type anywhere. Scroll far enough and you find things nobody meant you to read.
Two floppy archers, one bow each, and physics that decides the winner considerably more often than aim does.
Loose-surface rally driving where every corner is taken sideways, largely because there is no other way to take them.
Leaves a trail of emoji behind your cursor. There is nothing more to it than that, and nothing more is needed.
Low-poly team shooter with tanks and jetpacks, free and playable the moment the page finishes loading.
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