Passing Notes
How to play Hot Note
Pass a folded note. When it stops, that is tonight. Shared option bank. Categories this game uses: mood, when. Do not fork a list.
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: mood, when. You need exactly five live options in every category this game uses or you do not start.
The ritual
- Fold one note. The stop number is the pick.
- Pass it back and forth. One of you says numbers 1 to 5, one beat per pass.
- When you stop, the last number is mood and when.
- Open early and you restart. Number n is option n.
Digital is pass-and-stop. Print is a folded note. Same stop, same winners. Say 1-5 if you skip the pass. That is the real a11y path. Deterministic. No random.
Locked oracle
stopCount 5 → Mood Competitive / When Sunday morning.
Unit: Mood stopCount 5 → Competitive.