Hack Job
A restoration project and a final walkthrough. Eight pieces, one afternoon, sixteen disasters, and a homeowner who is home.
- Tap once to set left and right. Tap again to set up and down.
- Eight pieces. The house and the yard both count.
- All eight right and you find out how to make a million dollars.
- One or two wrong and you live with it.
- Three or more wrong and the weather takes the house.
- The weather is not a party to this agreement.
Terms
One dollar buys one house. The machine does not give change.
Refunds. You may have your dollar back. Email tasha@terriblegameco.com and say so. You do not have to explain. There is no form.
What this browser remembers. Your headstones and what you wrote on them, your career earnings, how many houses you have built, and whether you have paid. That stays on your device.
What goes with a payment. A random id for this browser, which play it is, and which site you arrived from. No name, no email, no address, nothing that says who you are. It is how I can tell one person playing eleven times from eleven people playing once.
Your card goes to Stripe. It never touches this site and I never see it.
No warranty. Things will go wrong. That is the game.
Hack Job is copyright 2026 Tasha Elflein. All rights reserved. Terrible Game Co is a sole proprietorship in the United States.
Insert coin
One dollar per house.
The machine does not give change.
Your card goes to Stripe. It does not come to me. I get sixty seven cents.
You may have your dollar back. Ask. There is no form.
How much
do you want
to suffer
Many kinds of people
take on a job like this
You have
1 roof 1 front door 2 windows
1 chimney 1 mailbox 1 tree 1 dog
One tap sets left and right. A second tap sets up and down. The yard counts too.
| Replacement cost | $1,000,000.00 |
| Less depreciation | -$996,534.66 |
| Actual cash value | $3,465.34 |
| Less deductible | -$2,500.00 |
| Your check | $965.34 |
You will receive the remaining $996,534.66 when the work is complete.
How to make
one million dollars
- Build a dumb game. Charge one million people one dollar to play it.
- Find the thing quietly costing you a million dollars. Turn the page.
Hi. I'm Tasha.
First day on earth.
You just played a really dumb thing I made. Thank you for pointing and laughing with me.
I've been in this industry a decade and now I work in tech, which is really dope, but I'm still just a weird girl with a lot of nerdy interests.
So I took my hard earned pennies and my love of old DOS games, because #nostalgia, and made one relevant to us. Maybe.
I do know a thing or two about some things, though.
Screenshot it. We want to see the damage.
I'm going to email you. New games, and whatever else I'm up to. Want in?
You did not earn that. Read it anyway. I'm not a cop.