PLAY · EXPLAINED

You are Sable's door.

Sealed requests pass and become receipts. Broken seals and runaway loops must be refused before they reach the door. Everything below is that sentence, taken apart.

THE DOOR

Three things come at the door. Press start and decide what must not pass.

01 · IN PLAIN WORDS

What you are doing

Software is now given real work and left alone with it. It reads, it decides, and it spends money without a person watching. Every request it makes passes through one door on its way to the machine that does the thinking.

You are that door. What passes costs money. What is broken can cost a great deal of it. The game is two and a half minutes of standing there and deciding.

02 · THE FOUR THINGS

What arrives, and what to do

Sealed request

Leave it. It is in order. It passes the door and becomes a receipt, a signed note of what ran and what it cost. Refuse it and you have stopped work that was allowed.

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Broken seal

Tap it. The envelope was opened on the way. Refused, and it never reaches the budget, so no money moves.

Runaway loop

A chain of identical requests, the same question asked again and again until the budget is gone. Tap any link and the whole chain is cut at the cap.

Attest

The button, or the space bar. It slows time. Three charges for the whole run. They are worth more when several things arrive together.

03 · THE POINT

The refusal is the feature

Only refusals build your streak. Letting a sealed request through earns nothing. It is the job done correctly, and correct work is not a score.

What is counted is what you stopped. Every correct refusal makes the streak longer, and one wrong call returns it to zero.

This is the same measure the real system asks to be judged by. Not what it can do. What it will not let happen.

04 · BEFORE YOU PLAY

How a run works

Two and a half minutes. The same arena for everyone today: the seed is the date plus the whitepaper record's latest hash, so nobody is given an easier run than you.

There are no accounts. You choose a name for the board and, if you want, an X handle. Nothing you do on the page is sent to Sable.

05 · WORDS

The five terms

door
The single point every request passes through. Sable is the door, not the computer behind it.
seal
The envelope a request travels in. Intact means nobody read it or changed it on the way.
receipt
A signed note attached to an answer. Proves what ran and what it cost. Never contains your words.
cap
A budget the system enforces rather than a warning it sends. Past the cap the request is refused before any money moves.
streak
Consecutive correct refusals. The only thing the board counts.