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Products that do what The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands does

1. 1PP
   PlayCLI: Play Iteratees + UNIX pipe▲57

   2013 · blog.greweb.fr

2. 2
   Potato Pirates▲91

   Learn programming in 30 minutes through a Potato card game

   2018

3. 3VW
   Variables War, a kid-friendly code playing-cards game▲78

   2018 · github.com

4. 4
   Littlecodr▲145

   Insanely fun card game that teaches kids the basics of code

   2015

5. 5
   Code Cards▲217

   A card game that teaches you how to code

   2015

6. 6
   SQL Cards▲201

   Teach and learn SQL with cards

   2019

7. 7
   Commandline Challenge▲182

   Test your command line skills

   2017

8. 8
   code:deck▲244

   Playing cards, for developers, by developers

   2015

9. 9
   git:deck playing cards▲116

   A playing cards deck which contains useful git commands

   2017

10. 10
    code:deck playing cards▲112

    Standard playing card deck with different coding languages

    2015

11. 11
    Git Grok Cards▲107

    Learn Git with a deck of fantastical cards

    2024

12. 12M1
    My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away▲103

    My 10 year old son Troy has made a card game. It has 27 characters, each with different powers. You can download it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrgphx4vn95va4z/LegimonChristmasSet2013.pdf His goal is to have 100 kids play it, and he wants to give it away free as a Christmas present so that more kids can play it. I have created a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/legimon . He would be ecstatic if anyone has feedback for him.

    2013

13. 13SA
    Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science▲123

    After many months of development, we are releasing Squally as early-access on Steam! This game teaches low-level computer science; topics such as data types, data structures, bin/dec/hex, and x86 assembly are gradually introduced through puzzles and gameplay. https://store.steampowered.com/app/770200/Squally/ It's still very early in development, we currently have only released a card mini-game that teaches binary operations: https://i.gyazo.com/0a33bbac5bbb5421f7eb120edd3ff6bb.gif

    2018

14. 14CK
    Code Kingdoms – a game that teaches kids to code▲34

    2014 · codekingdoms.com

15. 15
    CHKN (alpha)▲97

    A creative, creature-building sandbox game by betaworks

    2015

16. 16CC
    Code Cards – Anki for code▲152

    2017 · codecards.me

17. 17AF
    A Forth-inspired game to teach kids programming▲22

    2016 · matchthestack.com

18. 18AC
    A Cross-Platform Card Game to Teach Binary and Hex▲5

    2018 · kickstarter.com

19. 19IB
    I built a refinery simulator game to explain job to my kids▲127

    Hi HN, I’m a chemical engineer and I manage logistics at a refinery down in Texas. Whenever I try to explain downstream operations to people outside the industry (including my kids), I usually get blank stares. I wanted to build something that visualizes the concepts and chemistry of a plant without completely dumbing down the science, so I put together this 5-minute browser game. Here's a simple runthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-moBz6upU. I pushed to get through a full product pathway to show the V-804 replay. I am not a software developer by trade, so I relied…

    Mar 2026 · fuelingcuriosity.com

20. 20AP
    A puzzle game inspired by functional programming, written in PureScript▲121

    2015 · david-peter.de

21. 21PC
    Pipecat – Connect message queues with Unix pipes▲48

    2016 · github.com

22. 22
    Playing Lean▲104

    A board game that teaches the Lean Startup Methodology

    2015

23. 23N2
    NBSDgames – 21 new, improved, original text games for Unix, DOS, Plan9▲13

    Jun 2026 · github.com

24. 24RP
    Redis-pipe – Use Redis lists like Unix pipes▲49

    2015 · github.com

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