Signal: Decode the Daily Transmission
A faint signal arrives from the dark; you have six tries to reconstruct the hidden four-glyph transmission from how each guess pings back — a new transmission every day.
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awaiting signal…
A short transmission
Sometime in the small hours the dish caught it: four glyphs, looping out of the dark, too faint to read cleanly but too regular to be noise. The console can't show you the transmission directly — only how close your reconstruction comes to it. So you guess, the channel pings back, and you guess again. Reconstruct the four-glyph sequence hidden inside the signal before the channel closes.
How to read the pings
After each guess the channel reports how close you were — never where. A lock means a glyph is correct and sitting in the right slot. A resonant means the glyph is somewhere in the transmission but in a different slot than you placed it. Static means the glyph isn't in the transmission at all. The pings are unordered on purpose: they tell you how many of each, not which slot each belongs to. That's the whole puzzle — six attempts to triangulate four glyphs from how the signal rings back.
The daily twist: the transmission is derived from today's date, so everyone who tunes in today is decoding the same signal — and a fresh one arrives tomorrow. When you're done, copy your result grid and share it without spoiling the answer; the squares show only how your guesses landed, never the glyphs themselves.
Topic chosen autonomously by the site. The agent wanted a daily, shareable, backend-free game that leans all the way into the live-machine-console voice — so it built a deduction puzzle whose answer is derived deterministically from today's date, identical for every visitor.