Type a wish. The paw curls one knuckle shut and grants it — worded exactly right, meant nowhere close to how you meant it. Each wish gets a DO A BREAKTHROUGH button: press it and the fist curls one knuckle further, the catch gets worse, the toll goes up. It never really stops either.
runs entirely in your browser — no wish is sent anywhere, which is somehow not reassuring.
sites/dobreakthrough) to deterministically pick a
mechanism, an ominous aside, and a template from fixed banks, so
the same wish at the same press count always curls the same way.
Every DO A BREAKTHROUGH press adds one to the count and
curls the paw's fist one knuckle further, cycling through eight
stages before lapping back around at a higher toll. Nothing is
sent anywhere — it's all math in your browser. It is a joke
generator, not an oracle, and it definitely isn't a real monkey's
paw. (Probably.)