the why

These all began with me thinking of how to make daily office life a tad less boring, first came the Quiz-a-Rama ( big hit that one in my office ), then I moved on to and am still working on Silver Mountain. The others, NumberNest, twordle, AcChess and most recent AccessTris have been ideas by me.

For example when I came back with the two player chess ( still not finished by the way ) was said very good, but what about three player ( challenge accepted but still again not finished )

twordle was jokingly suggested as an idea by a work colleague again and seems to be as good a hit as Quiz-a-Rama, for that few minutes in the day where you forget about deadlines or the like and try and guess what the hell is that five letter German word..

So here at The Database Playground, as you can see our aim is to make databases not as stuffy or boring as you may recall, and with our following attempts I'm sure you'll agree, that databases. Will ( hopefully ) never be boring again

These are all made within MS Access using VBA, and some SQL

if you try them out please get in touch at murrayk983@gmail.com and be more then happy to hear your feedback or bugs found

and most of all I hope you find them fun

Kev

Finished Apps

Quiz-A-Rama

A quizzing app, with up to 5 rounds of any subject you choose, each question would have 4 options and in the vain of the tv show "Who wants to be a millionaire" you have lifelines to make it easier

each question is limited to 30 seconds and as well as just text you can have pictures and video questions

( just working on a Quiz-a-Rama 2.0 for better admin so will upload that shortly )

NumberNest

got a few minutes spare in the day, spreadsheets getting you down. then try some NumberNest ( sudoku in all but name ) with levels for all with. Very Easy, Easy, Medium and Hard

Please find the latest version in the Download section

twordle

Daily word game much like the NY Times' wordle.

But this is for the office worker who has a few seconds/minutes in the day and just needs to rest the mind from work

Latest version can be downloaded on downloads page

AccessSweeper

Who here recalsl when Office/Windows would ship with Minesweeper

Well now thanks to me ( and what nobody asked for ) you can play a close copy in MS Access, again built using VBA, SQL and of course MS Access

We have 3 levels of fun 8x8, 9x9 and 10x10

please try and feedback is always welcome

Latest version can be downloaded on downloads page

AccessTris

Tetris anyone again built using the great MS Access ( i cant be the only one making games in this thing )

simple 16 * 10 grid, controls all on arrow keys

Up = Rotate, Down = Down, Left = Left, Right = Right and Space = Pause

current version can be downloaded from the downloads page

Work in Progress

AcChess

Chess but within MS Access, 2 and 3 player variants. Almost there but getting there three player is a bit harder and then the logic for 2 player is coming along

Silver Mountain

My first and ( so far longest ) Silver Mountain. Is a point and click adventure built within MS Access, using AI drawn backdrops to improve the look of it.

We have sounds and music no longer just text on a screen as it was in the day and the book its based on

as its rather large link for latest version is here - Update 10/04/2025

can see a video of it here in action below

TickingAway

Based off the TV Show Countdown, at the moment we have numbers round, letters and a conundrum ( which you can guess ) but just need to stitch it all together

WordWeave

Scrabble, but I wanted that database report done by end of the day.

All need some down time

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