🎲 The Game of 42

A shared key to understanding. A governance assembly mechanic and its visualisation: six home bases — compute · connection · delegation · protection · memory · value, the six dimensions of the privacy value model — each grow a heptad of seven stations. Six heptads of seven make forty-two, and a complete board seals only when every axis holds.

The math

• 42 = 6 × 7. Six lattice basis roots; each heptad is the seven non-empty mixes of the head / heart / hands cube.
• Multiplicative collapse. The whole seals only when every axis stands — one dead axis zeroes the product. Sovereignty is not a sum.
• The six roots are the same six strands the guide federation is seated on: this game and the Star Chart share one geometry.

How it plays

1. The Flower — the first turn: choose your six mages around one centre, name them, fold the City closed.
2. Fill 42 — open the full board; build each of the six heptads station by station.
3. The Merge — seat another player's whole flower at one of your six roots; two games become one lattice.

Finished games are Game Artefacts — shareable and rehydratable. A worked example: Example Game · The First Six.

See it live

The visualisation engine runs at 42.agentprivacy.ai — five live views (Flower · Map · Territory · Constellation · Grid). Visualisations walks each one.

The six roots

• Axis · compute
• Axis · connection
• Axis · delegation
• Axis · protection
• Axis · memory
• Axis · value

The seven stations

Stations — the head / heart / hands cube:

• Station · head · Station · heart · Station · hands
• Station · head+heart · Station · head+hands · Station · heart+hands
• Station · head+heart+hands — the full mix

The 42 seats themselves: Personas — the 42 roster.

Read the system

• SPEC — the system · GEOMETRY — board + fold · GAME-FLOW — the state machine
• TRUST-PROTOCOL — VRC → κ → seal · VISUAL-SPEC — palette + rendering · MODEL-SYNC — binding to the model
• AXIOMS — the canon game42 conforms to · SCREENS — Territory · Map · Confluence
• The Game of 42 — the source README · Welcome — the original door

six axes × seven stations = 42 · the game is the assembly, the assembly is the game · origin: 0xagentprivacy