TELLS

Goal: Each round, five symbols sit on the ring: ▲ ● ■ ◆ ✦. Pick one — silently, at the same moment the AI locks in its own pick.

The cycle: each symbol beats the two "two steps away" from it and loses to the other two (an extended rock-paper-scissors). The ring shows who beats whom if you tap ? mid-run.

Confidence bars: the fill inside each wedge is the AI's live guess at what you'll play next, learned from your last 1-3 moves. Watch it rise as you fall into a pattern.

Read Level: the bar up top is the AI's rolling hit-rate against you. It climbs when it reads you, and drops the moment you break the pattern — that's the whole game.

Fairness, proven not promised: the AI never shows more than 78% confidence and actually plays that uncertainty — it will sometimes ignore its own top guess. Against a truly random player it cannot beat 1-in-5 odds on average, ever. Against a human, it usually can — humans are bad at being random.

Match length: every duel is exactly 60 rounds — fixed, so a Daily Duel score means the same thing for everyone, win or lose. Beating the AI scores points and builds a streak; a tie changes nothing.

Hearts: a composure meter, not a countdown to game over — losing a read costs a heart, a good streak earns one back. Empty hearts just mean the AI currently has your number; the match still runs the full 60 rounds.

Pace: the clock to decide starts at 1.4s and shortens toward 0.7s as the run goes on — think fast, but don't overthink either.

Daily Duel: one seed per day, identical worldwide. The AI always starts with zero knowledge of you — nothing carries over between runs, so everyone's daily AI begins exactly as blank as yours.

Sound & vibration: bottom right or M · Everything stays local, no account.