CPU: Computing Potatoes Unlimited

Programming puzzles

CPU: Computing Potatoes Unlimited is a PC puzzle game about programming potato workers to process numbers in a factory that mimics a processor. You punch in simple instructions to build CPUs for customer requests, such as counting sheep or calculating employee raises. No programming knowledge is needed.

Instructions and optimization

Each puzzle asks you to make a CPU perform a task. You run your instructions, observe the result, then revise and try again. The game has more than 40 puzzles, with open-ended solutions to optimize for cycles, instructions, and memory usage. Histograms let you compare those measures with friends and players around the world.