Life & fun · September 29, 2023
RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)
I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to look at programs as things she can change, and make them do whatever she wants. Building your exploit in memory and jumping to it feels so cool. I hope this game teaches kids and programmers (who seem to have forgotten what computers actually are) that its quite fun to mess with programs. We used to have that excitement few years ago, just break into softice and change a branch into a nop and ignore the serial number check, or go to a different game level because this one is too annoying. While working on the game…
RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) launched on September 29, 2023 with 400 votes, #67 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
RISC-V Assembly Tabletop Board Game is a physical game that teaches buffer overflow exploits and low-level computer manipulation through gameplay. Players build and execute exploits against opponents' programs using RISC-V assembly concepts. Designed for kids and programmers, it aims to revive hands-on engagement with how computers actually work by making memory manipulation and code modification feel engaging and accessible.
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From the sources
I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. My favorite part of comuting is looking at programs as something you can play with, and poke and twist and make it whatever you want. When your microwave oven gets an update and starts crashing, you can hack it. Or when your keyboard controller's firmware is bad, you can hack it (looking at you vortex pok3r). She is 12 yo now, but her assembler skills are getting better and better, hopefully one day she will be able to hack her own keyboard :) The game is about creating a small shellcode in memory by copying existing instructions and then exploiting a buffer overflow to jump into it, so that you can overwrite your opponent’s…from punkx.org
In the maker’s words, at launch
I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to look at programs as things she can change, and make them do whatever she wants. Building your exploit in memory and jumping to it feels so cool. I hope this game teaches kids and programmers (who seem to have forgotten what computers…
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