Scorey
Rock, paper, scissors, Scorey.
Scorey keeps the score and you've already lost. Sorry.
Choose rock, paper or scissors. Scorey chooses its own pick, invents a reason that it wins, and makes the result official on the scoreboard. Even choosing the same thing offers no protection: Scorey's version is somehow better.
The round has a structure
The runtime keeps the selected picks and the allowed matchup intact. The model supplies the invented winning and losing states, together with the unfair score claim. The response has to keep both objects recognisable while explaining its own small, rigged logic.
Diagram
The structure of an unfair round
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The user pick and Scorey’s pick determine a matchup route. That route supplies Scorey’s winning state and the user’s worse state. Both states join the scoreboard claim in response composition, producing the final round.
The allowed pairings deliberately reverse the familiar game or compare two versions of the same object:
| Selected pick | Scorey's allowed picks |
|---|---|
| Rock | Scissors or rock |
| Paper | Rock or paper |
| Scissors | Paper or scissors |
What the early checks could see
The first research gate looked only at the pick pair. Later work isolated one object at a time, then widened the questions to tone, scoreboard language, prose and the character of the full round.
This matters because a valid pairing tells us very little about the sentence that follows it. An explanation still has to connect the objects, make its unfair premise legible and carry the intended playful pressure.
Finding the right kind of unfair
The later menace criterion asks whether the round feels compact, deliberate, playful and specific to the picks. Generic aggression, condescension and padded explanations can miss that interaction even when the underlying round is valid.
The research therefore follows both the structure of the invented explanation and what it feels like to receive it. A new criterion can reveal a distinction that an earlier gate was never asking about.
Sources & further reading
- Scorey: round structureProject documentation
- Scorey’s routing gateProject documentation
- Scorey’s full-round character criterionProject documentation