Game: On-Call — The Daily Incident (daily Wordle-style SRE puzzle)

[bobbyonmagic]

Prototype built on branch game/on-call-daily-incident (commit 785ac67). Scheduled to finish next week.

What it is

A daily, same-for-everyone production-incident puzzle. You are paged, get a 6-move budget, inspect signals and diagnose the root cause, then share a spoiler-free emoji-grid result. The Wordle loop applied to on-call: one incident a day, streaks, shareable result. Static-site safe (no backend, no auth) — daily selection is a function of the UTC date, streak lives in localStorage, share is clipboard text.

Done in the prototype

• lib/on-call.ts: pure deterministic engine (daily selection, scoring, streak folding, share-grid builder) + 3 authored incidents
• components/games/on-call.tsx: full inspect/diagnose/share UI, framer-motion + confetti
• Route app/games/on-call, registry entry, embed-route registry, OG card
• 11 passing unit tests, game-registry validation green

To finish next week

• Scale incident content to ~30+ so the daily pool lasts (target a quarter)
• Optional backup code export/import so a browser-data wipe doesn't lose a streak
• Decide on global solve-rate ("38% solved today") — needs a tiny Cloudflare Worker + KV; defer until traffic justifies
• Screenshot/QA pass of the live game UI
• Polish: keyboard nav, reduced-motion, mobile layout check

Branch is pushed and ready to resume.