PATA
A live two-player number hunt
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PATA - A live two-player number hunt

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PATA is a two-player number hunt. One hundred numbers, shuffled every match. One of you picks a target; the other races to find it on a 10x10 board. Every microsecond the finder takes gets added to the picker score. Then you swap. Five, ten or twenty turns each – most points wins. No signup. Share a link, your friend taps it, you are playing. It installs to your home screen like an app, and it is free all the way: no ads, no coins, no paywall.

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I wanted a game I could play with one other person in the time it takes to boil water. Not a lobby, not a queue, not a Discord server. Just: send a link, play ten turns, talk about something else.

PATA (Swahili for "get") is what came out of that. 100 numbers on a 10x10 grid, shuffled fresh each match. On your turn you pick a number from the board. Your opponent then has to find that same number, and the clock is running. Whatever time they take is literally your score, measured in microseconds. Then the roles flip. Highest total after the agreed turns wins.