The Game of 42

A shared key to understanding. 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 × seven = 42 governance positions. Every station is a head/heart/hands mix (also soil/soul/society) bound to a persona; fill them and the board folds into a star and seals into one shareable key.

https://42.agentprivacy.ai/constellation.html
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42 games of 42, folding into one star — see Visualisations for all four views

How it plays

1. The flower — the first turn: choose your six mages around one centre, name them, fold the City closed (The Flower).
2. Fill 42 — open the full board; build each of the forty-two stations (persona, role, info, even an attached key).
3. Seal: when all six heptads lock, a trust task → a relationship credential → a κ; the board folds and seals.
4. Merge & share — seat other players' flowers at your six roots (The Merge), share the game (a PNG or this wiki), and compose many games into a constellation.

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 locks (Φ = Φ·Φ·Φ); one missing heptad keeps it open.
• The fold is a readout: p = sealed/42 drives a hinge-lift + golden twist into the star tetrahedron.
• Identity is content-addressed: κ = SHA-256 of a canonical form. See Axioms.

The first turn

• The Flower — the 6 + 1 compression; choose the first six mages
• The Merge — seat another player's whole flower at one of your six roots

See it

• Visualisations — the five live views (Flower · Map · Territory · Constellation · Grid)

Read

• Spec — the system
• Geometry — board + fold
• Game Flow — the state machine
• Trust Protocol — VRC → κ → seal
• Visual Spec — palette + rendering
• Model Sync — Privacy-is-Value mapping
• Screens — the pages
• Axioms — the load-bearing canon
• Readme — overview

The six roots

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

Structure

• Stations (the seven) · Personas (the 42)
• Game Artefacts — shared games you can rehydrate

Welcome · the Game of 42 — six axes × seven stations = 42