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SYLLABYSS: SYLLABYSS

Turn your notes into games. Rarer answers sink deeper.

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How it works

Notes in. Games out.

  1. 1

    Upload your slides

    Drop in lecture slides, PDFs or notes. We read every page so each game comes from your material.

  2. 2

    Pick a Game Mode

    Dive, Apogee, Leap, Pairs or Blitz. Same notes, a different way to pull them out of your head.

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    Play and remember

    Type what you know against the clock. Obvious answers score a little; the rare ones you dig up sink deeper.

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Game Modes

Five ways to play the same notes

Hover a tile to watch it play. Pick one to read the rules.

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Dive · Rarer answers sink deeper.

Seven prompts, any answer that's in your notes. The rarer it is, the deeper you sink.

7 prompts · 25 s each · type any answer

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Midnight zone

The Daily Dive

One puzzle a day. Same for everyone.

Seven prompts, a new set at midnight Vancouver time. Share your dive without spoiling the answers.

DAILY DIVE #1PROMPT 1 OF 7

Launch Day: Computing Classics · Computing

Name a sorting algorithm

▼ rarer answers sink deeper ▼

type one answer…DIVE ▼

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SYLLABYSS Daily #1 · −1,400 m
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Why it sticks

Built on how memory works

Active recall

Every round asks you to pull an answer out of memory instead of rereading it. That effort is the part that makes things stick.

Little and often

A Daily Dive and a streak bring you back each day, and replaying a Game revisits the answers you haven't found yet.

Straight from your notes

Every accepted answer links to the page it came from, so you can check the source instead of trusting a chatbot.

Example evidence: Week 9 slides · p.41 — “Mitochondria produce most of the cell's ATP through oxidative phosphorylation.”
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Better with friends

Streaks, friends and leaderboards

Your notes stay private. Your streak, level and badges don't have to.

Keep the flame lit

Finish one Run a day to grow your streak.

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