Passing Notes
How to play Scratchers
Scratch the boxes. What you reveal is tonight. Shared option bank. Categories this game uses: food, place, 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: food, place, mood, when. You need exactly five live options in every category this game uses or you do not start.
The ritual
- Four tickets, five boxes each. Boxes hide the option until you rub.
- Digital: click-and-hold (and drag) to rub foil away. Not a tap-to-reveal.
- Print: no latex. Cover each box with a thick crayon or pencil scribble (or tape). Partner coin-scratches. Not tap-the-box.
- You rub Food and Mood. Partner rubs Place and When. One box per ticket.
- Two boxes on one ticket voids it. Do not write 2.
- Box n is option n on that ticket.
Digital: hold and drag to rub the foil off. A tap does not reveal. Print: cover each box with crayon or tape, then coin-scratch. Same box numbers, same winners. Say 1-5 if you skip the rub. That is the real a11y path. Deterministic. No random.
Locked oracle
scratchedBox 1 / 3 / 4 / 5 → Food Butter-noodle bowls / Place Creek bank / Mood Silly / When Sunday morning.
Unit: Food scratchedBox 1 → Butter-noodle bowls.