Passing Notes
How to play Cootie Choice
Pick a color, count the letters, lift a flap.
Don't plan the date. Play for it. You don't have to agree on a plan. Just agree to play.
Start
- Pick a mode: Zero Thought (schema defaults, skip edit), Make It Ours (defaults loaded, replace any slot), or Blank Slate (empty lists — does not silently refill defaults).
- Each category is authored with five options: food, activity, game, entertainment. You need exactly five live options in every category or you do not start.
- Filter: trim, drop blanks, 1–40 characters. Duplicates are case-sensitive. Pizza and pizza are both allowed; two "pizza" collapse to one.
Colors and letter counts
One lift per color. Any remaining-color order. Count that color's letters (open-close, or tap-through).
| Color | Letters | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Cherry | 6 | food |
| Lake | 4 | activity |
| Sun | 3 | game |
| Lime | 4 | entertainment |
The ritual
- Pick a remaining color: Cherry, Lake, Sun, or Lime.
- Count that color's letters (Cherry 6, Lake 4, Sun 3, Lime 4).
- Pick a number 1–8.
- Count that number.
- Lift that flap. Read the mapped option for that color's category.
- Repeat until all four colors have been lifted.
- Result: Tonight: food · activity · game · entertainment.
Reduced motion uses tap-through: color buttons, number buttons, lift is instant text. No animation. That is the real path, not a fallback randomizer.
Printed flap map
This map is printed. Flaps 6, 7, and 8 repeat 1, 2, and 3. That is not hidden.
| Flap | Option index (1-based) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 |
winner = options[mapFlap(flap) − 1]. If that slot is missing after filter, it is a dead landing — pick again. Do not invent a winner.
Locked oracle
Cherry + flap 4 → Tomato-soup mugs.
Food list: 1 Bagel-shop booth, 2 Leftover remix bowls, 3 Street-taco truck, 4 Tomato-soup mugs, 5 Frozen-pizza glow-up. mapFlap(4) = 4. Flap 4 is not Frozen-pizza glow-up.