Constraints breed innovation and creativity, so here is a thread of things that are also, impossibly and arbitrarily, other things - basically, classic hacks.

This single tweet from @alokmenghrajani contains code for both a retro video game and a CD-ROM booter for the game. 1/n

This PDF is also a ZIP file is also a Nintendo ROM that prints its own hash. It is also the table of contents to the issue of the journal that carried the article with the PDF. 2/n https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo14.pdf

These are single lines of text that you can paste into your browser address bar that turn it into a stripped-down office suit with drawing, word processing, slides, and even a spreadsheet. (On mobile, you will need to use Chrome). 3/ https://zserge.com/posts/awfice/ 

And here is... this... 4/ https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1316265910471196674

And here is how to build a 29-card Magic the Gathering deck that makes your opponents play Uno instead of Magic the Gathering: 5/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/bpmc8g/turn_mtg_into_uno_with_one_simple_29card_trick/

Of course, Magic the Gathering is Turing complete, and therefore you can theoretically use MtG decks as general purpose computers which can then literally be used to play any other game. This paper explains how: 6/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828 

And here’s Civilization in Excel https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1171472558689902598