Packet Run — a kids' game that teaches how the internet really works

You play the spirit of a message trying to get home. You shatter into five packet-fragments and race across the physical internet — storms, sniffers, jammed pipes, undersea cables — with a toolbelt of real networking verbs. Every hazard is a real phenomenon, every tool a real answer, and losing teaches as much as winning.

Made for ages 9–12. One run takes 5–10 minutes on a phone, portrait-first. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.

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