A million boxes to check. Or uncheck. That’s what the site One Million Checkboxes offers. Silly, but fun.
This weekend is the start of the political “truce”: until the results are announced, the electoral propaganda is supposed to stop. While waiting to know the outcome of the first round of the legislative elections, there is always the possibility of waiting on One Million Checkboxes, a little game that appeared last week.
As you may have guessed, the game is actually a huge web page with a million boxes to check. The goal? Check them all. At least, that’s what some Internet users are trying to do. Others, on the contrary, have fun unchecking them. The result, of course, is a gigantic mess where the boxes flash to the rhythm of the actions.
A collective and chaotic game
Everyone actually has access to the same game area. The principle is reminiscent of the community game Reddit Place (r/Place) or, to a lesser extent, ZPlaces from Z Event. Except that here, there are no pixels to color (although we could certainly draw shapes with the check boxes).
By the way, while the top of the site is completely uncontrollable, since that’s where everyone usually clicks, we can see calmer areas by going much lower on One Million Checkboxes. We could see Internet users writing a few words or drawing a simple figure. We saw a heart with the word “hello” for example.
According to the counter, which is updated live, as of June 28 there were just over 580,000 boxes checked. Obviously, this number fluctuates very quickly up or down. Sometimes, there is “friendly fire”: a blank box is checked by a third party, but inadvertently, you check it immediately afterwards, which has the effect of making it blank again. And so on.
A few other stats were shared in this thread:
We can also see a personalized counter, which provides information on the number of boxes checked from our terminal. There are also special colored boxes which are indicated near the counter when clicked (there are green, red and yellow ones). There’s even a small search box to find a particular box.
One question remains: what will happen if all the boxes end up being checked at the same time? The creator of the site, Nolen, remained mysterious, responding only with a simple smiley “:)”. The game, in any case, is very amusing. As one Internet user said in reaction: ” This is what the internet was created for. »
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