Infinite Craft
is a 2024 sandbox word puzzle browser game created by Neal Agarwal of Password Game fame. The player starts with four elements and can combine those into an endless variety of concepts like objects, people, and fictional characters. AI software such as LLaMA and Together AI are used to produce new items.
Infinite Craft contains examples of:
- Anti-Climax: Sometimes the game starts loading something for a few seconds as if unlocking a new item only to reject the combination or have it result in itself.
- Black Comedy: Combinations and their results can be quite... something due to the AI-generated content.
- Combining burgers with more burgers might result in "Heart Attack".
- Combining "Lies" and "Love" will get you "Marriage". Following up from that, many combinations involving "Marriage" will result in "Divorce."
- The item "Divorce" has the variants "Good Divorce" and "Great Divorce".
- Any oddball combination involving politics, religion, and discrimination.
- Combinations involving "Pedophilia" have a very high chance to give you "Priest."
- Bowdlerise: Many words related to obscene or political topics were purged out of the game in March 2024. This led to words like "Bahamas" also getting erased as a consequence.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: This is sometimes the outcome when two items have no obvious combination. For example, Mud + Spaghetti = Muddy Spaghetti.
- Broken Record: Unlockable items include "Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie" and "Deca-deca-deca-deca-deca-deca-deca".
- Cap:
- There are limits to long running gags in the game.
- There's a rather ridiculous amount of Super Saiyan levels that can be unlocked in the sidebar, but you can only be up to Super Saiyan 100000000000000 and not a single unity more than that. That is, however, a rare Overly Long Gag item you can still use in combinations. It just takes away a couple zeros from the result (e.g. "Donald Duck Avenger Super Saiyan 1000000000").
- Messing with Richie Rich's name caps out at "Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie Richie".
- Any word longer than 20 characters will fail to combine with anything, seemingly as a preventative measure against infinitely long sequences.
- There are limits to long running gags in the game.
- Combinatorial Explosion: You start with the four elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water and you can combine them to find all sorts of things. It's even possible to unlock languages other than English and translate all the items to them.
- Cosmetic Award: If you're the first person to unlock an item, it will be marked as "First Discovery" so you can share the finding on social media and such.
- Endless Game: There is no goal but to see how many items you can unlock on the list.
- Evil Counterpart: You can get those by adding the "Evil" adjective to items.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Quite literally — combining "Fun" and "Death" yields "Funeral."
- Guide Dang It!: Because the associations made by combining words aren't always obvious, you might have to go through several leaps to get to a word you're looking for. For one example, unlocking critters like spiders and ants in the word list might require you to go find "Bill Gates" (Richest + Human) to get "Windows" on plural so you can combine it with "Millennium" to get "Bug".
- Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: If you combine "Time Machine" with "Banned" you get "Hitler" decorated with a neat little crown icon.
- Hurricane of Puns: Often, the result of combining two seemingly unrelated things gives you a Portmanteau or pun based on the components; for example, combining "Pig" and "Bird" gives you "Pigeon."
- Item Crafting: The central (and only) game mechanic.
- Minimalism: It's just a blank canvas and the text blocks with emojis on them. The only visual flair the game has is lines of neurons linking the boxes together, which is misleading because it suggests leaving them connected on the canvas has some kind of effect on the results when it doesn't (however, it allows you to assemble pretty "tech trees" to show off in screenshots).
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: You can fuse various odd concepts like "Evil Demon Zombie Mummy" together, though it might require a roundabout solution. For example, just Ninja+Pirate yields nothing but combining something else can result in "Pirate Ninja".
- No Plot? No Problem!: The game has no plot or goal.
- No Swastikas: The Swastika word is not represented in-game by a swastika icon but it is possible to make it produce the actual symbol, which is marked by a X icon. Amusingly, it represents a "Camel Swastika" with the Star of David as an icon.
- Overly Long Gag: You can unlock a ton of useless items by combining numbers together.
- Combining double cheeseburgers together eventually results in "Deca-decuple Cheeseburger" and then the generic "Deca-deca-deca-deca-deca-deca-deca".
- Filling the item list with nonexistent Super Saiyan forms or Monkey D. Luffy's Gear abilities.
- Google, Gogole, Googleplex... Googleplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplexplex (that's 19 plexes).
- A Billion Shades of Grey. You could even make "50 Shades of [something else]" and then start making a billion shades of that.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: "Infinite Punch" is a possible item for the list.
- Scunthorpe Problem: As mentioned in Bowdlerise, innocent words like "Bahamas" were getting banned just by containing a banned word.
- Shaped Like Itself: Item combinations may result in themselves, become synonyms, or turn in circles. Once you unlock "Unicode", it also becomes possible to unlock flag emojis as items that are categorized under the same flag emoji.
- Shout-Out: The game's AI will give output based on all sorts of media.
- Space "X": The game has many of these items. You can often get them by combining elements with a space-related term (such as rocket).
- Superhero Gods: "Superhero" can be combined with things to create various gods and demigods, such as "Mesopotamia" to create "Gilgamesh''. It works the other way around, too: "Bastet" (a cat-headed goddess) + "Batman" creates "Catwoman".
- Taken for Granite: Adding "Medusa" to things will often result in "Stone".
- Take That!:
- Combining "Killer" with "Simpson" will get you "OJ".
- "Trump" (as in, Donald Trump) is illustrated by the poop emoji and is also often created from various combinations that involve politics-related words (as well as some non-politics related words like "Racist"), resulting in a lot of unsavory recipes that result in "Trump".
- Combining "Trump" with "Putin" creates "Bromance".
- Combining "Politician" and "Smart" creates "Oxymoron".
- "New York" plus "Taxes" gets you "New Jersey".
- "New Jersey" plus "Earth" creates "Toxic Waste", and plus "Food" creates "Garbage".
- "Fox News" plus "Cartoon" equals "Propaganda".
- "Racist" plus "Novel" gives "Gone with the Wind."
- Title Drop: A Reddit user has "beaten" the game by getting it to produce its own title, complete with the infinity symbol for an icon. It was more complicated than it sounds.
- Trial-and-Error Gameplay: You might need a walkthrough to figure out the bizarre logic of unlocking certain words.
- Try Everything: Many players resort to this when crying to create elements if the more straightforward methods fail.
- Word-Salad Humor: One of the main appeals of this game is creating absurd nonsensical phrases such as "Captain Obamapenis" or "Chicken Nuclear Dicklercaust".
- Wide-Open Sandbox: The game only consists of picking items and dropping them over a blank canvas to combine them. No time limit or loss conditions here.
