URINAL PROTOCOL
Urinal Protocol is a fast-paced single-player puzzle game about social distance. You play as someone walking into a public restroom — the only goal is to choose the right spot before time runs out.
Each round, the row fills with imaginary occupants. Your task: apply the unwritten rule that everyone knows but nobody talks about. The further from your neighbors, the better your score.
The Urinal Protocol — sometimes called the Bathroom Etiquette Problem — is a real informal rule. In 2010, mathematician Peter Sherwood formally described the optimal strategy as a computational problem.
At its core, it's a max-gap problem: given a row of slots, some occupied, find the empty slot with the greatest minimum distance to its nearest occupied neighbor. Simple to state. Surprisingly satisfying to play.
Urinal Protocol is an independent project, made by one developer over a few weekends.
The goal was to keep it frictionless and free — no accounts, no downloads, no paywalls. Open a browser and you're playing in under five seconds. Every design decision was made to protect that.
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