pawzzle

About

Pawzzle is a fun, highly optimized web application created to turn favorite dog photos into an engaging "swap-tile" puzzle game. Initially a weekend project, it has evolved into a robust Progressive Web App featuring global serverless leaderboards, deterministic daily challenges, and millisecond-level Redis categorization.

Features

• •Swap-Tile Mechanics: A mathematically guaranteed solvable puzzle every time
• •Dynamic Difficulty: Instantly switch between 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 grids
• •Password-protected Admin Dashboard for bulk drag-and-drop uploads
• •Client-Side Compression: Automatically resizes 4K photos in-browser before upload
• •Cloudflare R2 Integration: Auto-discovering lightning fast image galleries
• •Serverless Global Leaderboards powered by Upstash Redis Sorted Sets
• •Daily Challenge Mode with deterministic Math-seeded global permutations
• •O(1) Image Categorization tagging via Redis Pipelines
• •Progressive Web App (PWA) offline game support with Workbox asset caching

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