The Public Weigh House · procedure of the weighing
How to Play
One round, by the book
- 1
The lot is presented
The anchor — last round's verified value — sits in the left pan. A new quantity card is lowered into the right, value hidden. You have twenty seconds.
- 2
Cast your weight in secret
Tap HIGHER or LOWER. Your weight drops on your chosen pan; everyone else's falls into the sealed hopper. Nobody sees the split until the reveal.
- 3
Beat one — the crowd's verdict
The hopper opens and the beam lurches toward what the room believes. Some nights the room is dead wrong. That's the point.
- 4
Beat two — the truth
The needle sweeps, the beam shudders, and the true value slams the scale its real way. Correct callers score; the fact is stamped VERIFIED.
- 5
The anchor carries
The verified value replaces the old anchor, and the next lot is chosen relative to it — a rolling sense of scale from wonders of the world to ants on Earth.
The ledger
- Correct call
- +100 × your streak multiplier
- Streak steps
- ×1 → ×1.5 → ×2 → ×2.5 → ×3 (capped)
- Wrong or missed call
- 0 points — the wax seals snap; your score stands
- Longest Run of the Night
- Sealed in wax on the podium
Notices from the weighmaster
- A 62% majority is not evidence. The hopper hides the split for a reason.
- Curveball rounds are gimmes — enjoy the CLANG, bank the easy points, protect the streak.
- Near-miss rounds (under 1.5× apart) are where longest runs go to die.
- Nobody knows how many monkeys are in the Amazon. Trust the feeling.