Zero to Hero – A Haskell Puzzle Game
Hi HN. I am a researcher from Monash University. For one of our projects, we made a Haskell puzzle game called Zero to Hero. I invite you to try out the puzzles and share your thoughts (optional). The game contains 10 unique puzzles; each challenges you to implement a seemingly impossible function. You will seek help from a handful of strange-looking helper functions and your own wits. The game starts easy but quickly escalates into madness. The game requires you to be comfortable with basic Haskell syntax to progress. But no other prior knowledge is needed. You can choose to participate in…
Zero to Hero – A Haskell Puzzle Game launched on December 4, 2023 with 22 votes, #838 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Zero to Hero is a puzzle game developed by researchers at Monash University that teaches Haskell through 10 progressively challenging puzzles. Players implement seemingly impossible functions by using provided helper functions and problem-solving skills. The game requires basic Haskell syntax knowledge to start but escalates significantly in difficulty. Players can participate in the accompanying research study or play purely for enjoyment without data collection.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Welcome to Zero to Hero - a Haskell puzzle game. Before you start, we kindly encourage you to enable data collection to help us with our research. Here is how we record and use the data: Data collection is opt-in . Enabling data collection allows us to record event data (such as "level started", "button clicked", "input changed") and their timestamps during gameplay. This data is crucial for our research project and is used only in academic publications. We will never give/sell your data to any third parties. Your participation will always remain completely anonymous . At no point, will we ask for your phone number, email, or any other personal information. We don't collect information that…from zerotohero.fly.dev
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN. I am a researcher from Monash University. For one of our projects, we made a Haskell puzzle game called Zero to Hero. I invite you to try out the puzzles and share your thoughts (optional). The game contains 10 unique puzzles; each challenges you to implement a seemingly impossible function. You will seek help…
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