When Mr. Hendricks walked by, he saw 12 screens full of spinning circles and tiny bobblehead players kicking a virtual ball. He squinted. “Is that… educational geometry?”

Landon’s high school had a fortress-like firewall. They’d blocked everything : Cool Math Games, Krunker, even Google Doodles. The only thing the IT department left untouched was a dusty HTML5 test page. But the students knew a secret: that test page could run Haxball .

Landon didn’t flinch. “Physics simulation, sir. Angles, velocity, collision detection.” Mr. Hendricks nodded and walked away.