Terraforming Mars without Terraform

November 30th, 2025

If you haven’t heard of the board game Terraforming Mars yet, I strongly advice you to forget this sentence and return to whatever you where doing a moment ago. Friends and I play it a lot and we might be on the verge to overdoing it.

Playing it, the only thing we hadn’t figured out nicely, was determining the playing order. Every time we came together, one of us googled “random order generator” and always landed on the same janky page. It was fine.

Terraforming Mars board

Me being me, and me having just set up a Kubernetes Cluster, I smelled an opportunity for a coding sidequest.