Accessibility
Quick to learn, slow to master. Easy-to-read tiles and clearly distinct colours should make it simple for everyone to get started.
Idea and history
About nummix
How a game night that broke the rules turned into a game of its own – and why it is free.
More than a puzzle game
There's an idea behind the numbers. Just as 136 tiles keep finding new ways to fit together, people with very different experiences come together around the table. In nummix, those differences don't divide. They open up new possibilities.
nummix wants to welcome people, not impress them.
Openness
No fixed board, no rigid order. Tiles and people come together in new ways every round, and the rules stay open to your ideas too.
Curiosity
nummix started with a question: what happens if you simply play a classic differently? That question still drives us today.
Coming together
Lively debate or focused silence: in the end, everyone is looking at the same table. That's exactly what the four segments in the logo stand for.
From breaking the rules to a game of our own
Two friends are playing a classic game, and at some point they start breaking the rules.
Numbers get laid differently, runs get split up, old rules get thrown out. Messing about turns into an experiment, and the question “How hard can it be to make a game?” turns into a pretty big learning adventure.
Others pull up a chair, learn the game and take it home to their own tables. And so, almost by accident, a small game culture begins.
Milestones
- The idea – December 2024
During a games night, the first rules get broken. Curiosity turns into an experiment.
- Rules and first rounds – 2025
The ideas become a fair game system. At Easterhegg nummix is played in public for the first time, the first 3D-printed tiles arrive in summer, and at the end of the year we play at 39C3.
- Trademark and look – early 2026
nummix is registered as a trademark and gets its logo, colours and typeface. More test rounds at Easterhegg 2026.
- nummix goes online – October 2026
Website with the rulebook, online play on play.nummix.de, print files, a Discord community with a monthly nummix night, and Instagram.
- nummix as an app – in progress
You can already try the browser version with its tutorial at play.nummix.de (opens in a new window).
Why nummix is free
Take a seat. nummix costs nothing, doesn’t track you and lives on people who pass it on.
Free to play
Rules, browser version and tutorial cost nothing and need no account.
No ads
Neither here nor on play.nummix.de – not even paid ads for nummix itself.
No tracking
No analytics tools, no tracking cookies, no embedded third-party content.
Donations, not prices
Whoever gives does so voluntarily and gets no advantage in the game.
Open about money
What nummix costs and what comes in is openly on the donations page (opens in a new tab).
One home
Instagram is our shop window, Discord the meeting place – everything leads back here.
From the workshop
Everything at nummix is handmade: buttons from the press, stickers, bags and shirts – and of course lots of test rounds.
The people behind nummix
Game design
Jenny Bartz
Bastian Ziegler
The creators of nummix, registered with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
Design
Laura Ziegler
Jenny Bartz
Logo, colours and the look of nummix – Jenny Bartz also prototypes, workshop and merch.
Honored Tester
- flip
- daizy
- bunthoernchen
- lau
- nolo
- fienchin
- algorix
- eba
- EmilderRiese
Thanks to everyone who played nummix in early rounds, questioned rules and found bugs – and to everyone who signed up among the first 42 accounts on play.nummix.de and played. You tested with us and are missing here? Just let us know – we will add you.