Earth and Water produces Plant, for example, and Fire and Wind leads to Smoke.

Your progress starts to spiral quickly, however.

Your first living creature.

A web of crafted ideas in Infinite Craft, each idea just a word and an emoji.

Instead you’re feeling out a conceptual space, uncovering connections in a vast dictionary of ideas.

you’re free to make rapid progress by combining items with themselves.

The real joy comes when you think of a logical connection between two concepts from different family trees entirely.

There’s a huge relief in having the game confirm your hunches.

I created Stephen Colbert, then combined him with a Troll to create Trollbert.

I wasn’t the first to do so.

Perhaps best of all, Infinite Craft is keeping track of everything its players create.

Craft something original and it’ll be marked with “First Discovery”.

I was the first person to create Corrupt Politics, for which I can only apologise.

You canplay around with Infinite Craft in your online window now.

It’s the work of Neal Agarwal, who last year createdThe Password Game.