Hon was lead producer and designer of the alternate reality game Perplex City at Mind Candy from 2004 to 2007.
Players solved puzzle cards to uncover the mystery of a missing artifact known as "The Cube" and competed for a real-life £100,000 prize.
In 2022, Hon was featured in an NHK documentary Finding Satoshi about a long-running puzzle, "Billion to One", which was solved in December 2020 by Tom-Lucas Säger and Laura E.
[9] Six to Start and Alderman also created The Walk, a similar game to encourage increased physical activity throughout the day.
[3] The book was the subject of a 2017 art exhibition for the Shanghai Project by artist Chen Xi, curated by Yongwoo Lee and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
[16] In 2020, Hon wrote a viral Twitter thread and follow-up post[17][18] comparing conspiracy theory QAnon to a video game designed to hook consumers.
[19][20] Hon released You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All in 2022, about the development and use of gamification.