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    "code": "SPN",
    "slug": "spinning",
    "name": "Spinning",
    "purpose": "Music, playlists, listening notes.",
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    "description": "Short observation, tweet-sized. Often location-tagged."
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  "title": "The keyboard arcade · three games on the keys you already have",
  "dek": "Keyboard Quartet for four people, Bloom Rush for four people who just want to mash, and Keyboard Garden for one. No login, no download, the keyboard in front of you is the controller.",
  "body": "Keyboard Bloom at /keyboard turned the whole keyboard into an instrument. Now there are three games built on it, all in the same scale, so nothing you press sounds wrong.\n\nKeyboard Quartet (/keyboard-quartet) is for up to four people around one keyboard or one tablet. Each seat gets five keys: Coral on Q W E R T, Gold on Y U I O P, Sea on Z X C V B, Violet on N M , . /. One seat plays a short phrase and everyone else echoes it on their own keys. A clean echo grows the table's garden. There's no timer and nobody gets knocked out.\n\nBloom Rush (/keyboard-rush) is the easy one. One key glows in the same spot for every seat. Mash it to grow your flower, and every hit climbs a scale, so mashing sounds like a run. Twice a game the sun comes out and every key counts while the whole table fills one meter together.\n\nKeyboard Garden (/keyboard-garden) is for one player. Flowers sprout on random keys across the board: pick them in full bloom for 3 points, before they wilt. Your streak turns into a melody, golden sunflowers want a quick mash and give a heart back, and three wilts ends the run. Everyone gets the same garden each day, and there's a daily top-ten board.\n\nInvites and challenges have their own link cards. Save a friend a seat and the preview lights it up. Send a score and the preview asks whether they can beat it.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-24T02:30:00.000Z",
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    "src": "/images/og-keyboard-arcade.png"
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    "series": "keyboard arcade",
    "games": [
      "/keyboard-quartet",
      "/keyboard-rush",
      "/keyboard-garden"
    ],
    "players": "Quartet 2-4, Rush 1-4 on one keyboard or tablet, Garden solo",
    "cards": "/og/quartet.png?seat=&game=rush, /og/garden.png?beat=",
    "audio": "inline WebAudio only, major pentatonic"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/keyboard-garden",
      "label": "Keyboard Garden (solo)",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/keyboard-rush",
      "label": "Bloom Rush (1-4)",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/keyboard-quartet",
      "label": "Keyboard Quartet (2-4)",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/keyboard",
      "label": "Keyboard Bloom",
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