One Million Checkboxes

One Million Checkboxes
Developer(s)Nolen Royalty
Platform(s)Browser
ReleaseJune 2024
Genre(s)Incremental game

One Million Checkboxes was a free web-based incremental game created and developed by American software engineer Nolen Royalty in 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.

On July 11, 2024, Royalty announced on X that all the boxes had been unchecked, but that once a box was checked and left that way for a certain period of time, it would freeze,[1] effectively sunsetting the site. Approximately four hours later, Royalty said that the game was over, as every box had been checked.[2]

  1. ^ @itseieio (July 11, 2024). "hello! I have unchecked all boxes on One Million Checkboxes dot com. Checked boxes now *freeze* as checked if they're not unchecked quickly. [...] Thank you so much for playing. Have fun!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ @itseieio (July 11, 2024). "One Million Checkboxes is over :) thank you so much for playing. running this site has been a chaotic delight. build more stupid websites! the internet can still be fun!!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.