Passing Notes
How to play Pencil Maze
Draw one path. The exit is the pick.
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.
The ritual
- One maze. IN at the top. Five exits 1–5 at the bottom.
- Start at IN. Draw one continuous path. Do not cross a wall.
- First exit reached wins.
- Exit n is option n in Food, Activity, Game, and Entertainment.
- Result: Tonight: food · activity · game · entertainment.
Digital draws on the same net as print. If drawing is hard, say 1–5. That is the exit. Say 1–5 is the real a11y path, not a fallback randomizer. No Math.random().
Maze net (locked)
7×9. Rows 0–8 top to bottom, columns 0–6 left to right. IN at (0,3). Exits 1–5 open south of (8,0) (8,2) (8,3) (8,4) (8,6).
Locked sample path: (0,3)→(1,3)→(2,3)→(2,2)→(3,2)→(4,2)→(5,2)→(6,2)→(7,2)→(8,2) = exit 2.
Locked oracle
Sample path exits at 2 → Food Pocket-pita night / Activity Coin-laundry fold-off / Game Sock-basket free-throw / Entertainment One-podcast episode.
Unit: Food exit 2 → Pocket-pita night.