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Notification Casino: a free game about notifications

Every pull lights up a red badge. You win dopamine and lose your Sunday. Leave the table in time.

What is Notification Casino?

Your phone is a slot machine. Every pull of the lever lights up red badges and eats 20 minutes of your Sunday. Mute the noisy apps, keep the urge down and get your real plans done before the day runs out.

Notification Casino is a free satire game about red badges and buzzes. Your phone works like a slot machine, and every pull eats 20 minutes of your Sunday.

Mute the noisy apps, keep the urge below 70 and get your real plans done before the day runs out.

At a glance

Category
Social Engineering
Difficulty
Medium
Play time
3–5 min
Price
Free, in your browser, sign-up optional

How to play

Urge
Every app still buzzing grows the urge. Above 70, plans fail; at 100, you pull without meaning to.
Win
Do all your plans before Sunday ends.
Three levels
Beginner, Intermediate or Expert, picked before you play: the content and the clock change, and each level keeps its own best score.
Satire
Satire with a lesson: every name, brand and platform is made up, and every run ends on how to spot the trick.

Scoring

250 per plan done, 40 per app muted. Win by finishing every plan before Sunday ends.

Each level keeps its own best score in this browser.

What it trains

Attention awareness
Seeing how badges pull you in.
Planning
Protecting time for what matters.

Strategy and tips

Mute first
Every app still allowed to buzz grows the urge.
Mind the 70
Above 70 urge, plans fail. At 100, you pull without meaning to.
Expert
Six apps, four plans, and the phone buzzes on its own.

Why play Notification Casino?

Notifications are designed to pull you back. Feeling the pull in a game makes it easier to switch them off for real.

Frequently asked questions

Is Notification Casino free?

Yes. It is free and runs in your browser, with no download. Signing up is optional.

Are the apps real?

No. Every name, brand, platform and coin in the game is made up. The tricks, though, are real ones you'll meet online.

Should I mute everything?

Not real people who need you. The game is about the rest: likes, streaks, “you might have missed”.