Gemini said A screenshot showing a successful charity fundraiser for the Trans Visibility Bundle. At the top, a celebratory banner with confetti says, "You did it! Wow, you all did it! THANK YOU!!! $1,040 will be donated to Transgender Law Center." A green progress bar shows $520 out of a $500 goal has been reached, marked with a checkmark. Below the banner, a central graphic features a white goose avatar with a Trans Pride flag pixel heart accessory. The bundle is titled "Trans Visibility Bundle" and notes it unlocks two cosmetics: a Trans Gradient background and a Trans 8-bit Heart accessory. A caption states that 100% of sales are donated to the Transgender Law Center. At the bottom, a large grey button reads "Sold Out."

WE DID IT!! We raised $520 for the Trans Law Center 🩵🩷🤍

so grateful for our amazing players at ponderclub.co that got us to a $1,040 donation with match 🪿

Top section: Donation Progress, We're matching bundle purchases up to $500 for the Transgender Law Center. Progress bar 48% $240/500. Card: Banner, 33 left. Avatar with trans gradient background and 8bit heart around a cartoon goose. Title: Trans Visibility Bundle. Sub section: Unlocks two cosmetics: Trans Gradient background, Trans 8-bit Heart accessory. 100% of sales of this pack are donated to the Transgender Law Center Disabled button: You already own this pack Button: Gift to a friend sub text: Prefer to donate to a trans organization directly? Let us know in feedback which organization you donated to and we'll grant you the Trans Visibility Bundle

We've already hit 50% of our fundraiser goal for the Transgender Law Center!

We're matching donations up to $500

So grateful for the 30 players at ponderclub.co who have already donated and got their Trans Viz Bundle 🩵🩷🤍

I hate that we have to have ads on our site to sustain our development. I wish universal income was a thing so many of us game devs could make everything free and fun again

I'm sorry, Dan -- you are absolutely right, I apologize for the oversight. Moving forward I will type more than 3 words. ;)

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So cool to see Ponder Club featured on the DLES! Thank you so much @aukspot.bsky.social 🩵🪿

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Screenshot of 2 comments. Top says "SPOILERS FEATURE IS SO GOOD!!!!!" written by AlmondCreme888. One below is a comment from eden but the comment is hidden and above it it says "Tap to reveal spoiler 🫣"

New feature: mark a comment as a spoiler!

We were getting a lot of comment reports related to comments w/ spoilers so now we've added an option for a player to hide their spoilers

screenshot of ponder club streak leaderboard page. Shows a fire emoji with title Streak Leaderboard, subtitle: "These geese are on fiiiiire 🎶" Then shows 7 users in the top 7 with streaks 147,144,136,135,134,126,125 with users Nick, coni🌙, GooseGeseGoose, JakeDiaz, Nox, Gooseberger, RyKe they all have whimsical geese avatars

🔥New: We now have a leaderboard streak page! 🪿

Ponder club site screenshot it shows an avatar with a goose and a leprechaun hat and a pot of gold with a clover green background underneath it. It shows a handle named Eden underneath that it shows an American flag and says United States.

Screenshot of a game site. It shows one section that says challenges underneath it. It shows an avatar with a green background and title Saint Patty‘s Green subtitle play any three games to unlock the Saint Paddy‘s green background check mark you earned it button go to profile to equip underneath that there is a section for premium design designs there it shows an avatar with a goose with a leprechaun hat and pot of gold clover background underneath that it says lucky clover, bundle underneath that it says lucky, clover, background and pot of gold and leprechaun hat accessory underneath that it shows eight dollars for the price underneath that button that shows you already owned this bundle with a checkmark and disabled

Since our games are free and our ads are unobtrusive we try and find creative ways to monetize without ruining gameplay.

Today for any player who wants to give a little extra support they can get a St. Patrick’s day skin bundle for $8

Screenshot of ponder club site title St. Patrick’s Day 2026 underneath it says last day underneath that it says ends March 17, 2026 underneath that it says challenges underneath that there is a card that shows a goose avatar with a green background and then it says Saint Patty‘s Green play any three games to unlock the Saint Paddy‘s green background with a checkmark that says you earned it and a button that says go to profile to equip

Happy St. Patrick’s day!

If you play 3 games today you can unlock our St. Paddy’s Green background :) 🍀

Image a of a bar chart whiteboard indicating March 2026 as the title, numbers 1k to 16k as the Y value for # of players, X axis indicating the days of March. The last bar shows value 7,858

Day 5: Getting 50,000 DAU for our NYT Games alternative

We've been having a bit of a dip since our TikToks haven't done great this weekend. Sunday we had 7,858 players.

I've been trying to post on more platforms like YouTube shorts and now bsky :)

Hopefully this helps!

A picture of a whiteboard bar graph that says march 2026. Y axis is 1-16k players and X axis is date. Arrow on the 14th shows 7,500

Yesterday we had 7,500 people play our games. We usually have a bit dip on Saturday’s but this was bigger than I expected. Hopefully things are back to normal by tomorrow!

Screenshot of a game of solitaire. Top bar shows a calendar icon, gear icon, game title (Solitaire) message icon and trophy icon. There is a modal that says "No Moves Left 💔" with an image of a cartoon crying goose and a subtitle "You've reached a dead end, my friend" and two options to either "Keep Trying" or "Restart"

🆕 If you play Solitaire but cannot complete it, it still counts as a play so you wont lose your streak 🔥🃏

A screenshot of a website. Title header shows a goose logo, Ponder Club, a moon icon and a goose avatar Beneath there is Common 3 Contributions with subtitle 8 puzzles contributed and a grid of 8 different dates to tap on

A screenshot of a game Common Three. Shows a header with calendar, gear, message and trophy icon and the title of the game Common Three. Below is 5 green checkmarks indicating how many guesses are left and a how to play button. Below states guest contributor Stamps00 with their icon. Below is the gameboard, a venn diagram that is empty. Below is a bank of 7 words: Weight, Lone, Tungsten, Whale, Network, Flour, Truck. Below the word bank is a "Check" button

📣 New feature

You can now see a list of a user's Common Three submissions on their public profile 🧩

Title: victory lab bundle subtitle: only available March 3 to March 15 underneath there are three images, one of a gold medal one of an Olympic ice background and one of halo hair underneath that it says limited time, Olympic ice background and gold and halo hair accessory underneath that there are six avatars previewing what the bundle looks like that there’s eight dollars on a button

We’ve decided to make all of our games and archives 100% free forever which means we need to find creative ways to monetize without impacting gameplay for our players

This week we’re putting out an Olympic lap bundle in case players want to style their avatar and support the devs!

I hope your like our minis! 🩵🪿

a bar graph with two stacked colors purple and orange one showing false one saying true that ranges between 8,000 and 12,000 for Mar 5 to Mar 12

screenshot of game site Ponder Club shows the title "Ponder Club", a moon icon for dark mode a menu icon, a banner that says "Limited Time: Victory Lap Bundle 🥇A title "Thoughtful games for restless minds." Then a Most Loved section with games Mini 5x5, Color Flood, Common 3 then partial view of a Word games section

our nyt games alternative ponderclub.co just reached 10,000 DAU 🪿🩵

it's still so hard to believe!!

screenshot of a game similar to flappy bird. there is a pond background, two yellow pipes a flying pixelated goose, "Score: 6" and a Play Again button

working on a flappy bird dupe on our site, Flappy Goose! 🪿

experimenting with some trans visibility day skins for ponderclub.co 👀

i make a 100% free alternative to the NYT games 💙

join 10,000+ players and try out our games :D

www.ponderclub.co

A new setting for our anxious puzzlers! You can now hide the timer for any of our timed games. Thanks everyone for the feedback on how we can make our games more enjoyable 🩵

at least Daemon always responds to us!

LOL that one is a hard one!!

very cool game @playsillylittlegames.com!

Silly Little Codes
Puzzle #112
0️⃣0️⃣:0️⃣0️⃣:0️⃣3️⃣
www.playsillylittlegames.com/codes

me when i cold outreach

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image of a digital Memo-card that says Happy Mother's Day! From Eden and a button to tap to open. The card has a flower background

i usually make games, but for mother’s day we made a lil interactive card instead 💐

you answer some prompts, it builds a memory card — no login, no data hoarding

built to make moms cry (in a good way)

flyingcometgames.com/memo-card

Never watched Star Wars but I’m super excited about this season!! Looks amazing

Jesus Christ

kind of blows my mind how long this took

wow this is the first time we've successfully outgrown a free API plan