I’m wondering whether it could be played with a Unix box connected to the big TV in the living room so that with each command added to the pipe you can see the result. That’s my instinct for what to do with this, although it does feel like it is a play once kind of game.
Would this be something along those lines?
https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
It's a GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines and it shows the output of each step in the pipeline.