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| Developer(s) | Nolen Royalty |
| Platform(s) | Browser |
| Release | June 26, 2024 |
| Genre(s) | Incremental game |
One Million Checkboxes was a free web-based incremental game created and developed by American software engineer and video game developer Nolen Royalty in June 2024. The game consisted of a web page containing one million checkboxes, which visitors could check or uncheck. All visitors saw the same state of the checkboxes, leading them to interact with each other by checking and unchecking the same boxes. According to Royalty, the website took him two days to develop.
Although Royalty expected the site to receive no more than a few hundred visitors, the game saw thousands of participants and more than 650 million check and uncheck actions being taken before it was shut down two weeks after it began. Methods such as Internet bots, scripting languages, and hacking were used to rapidly check and uncheck boxes.
The Washington Post described One Million Checkboxes as "the most pointless website on the planet" but praised the game for providing "pointless joy", while The New York Times noted that the site became "an unintentional case study in human behavior".