Passing Notes
How to play Tic-Tac-Date
Five options sit on a 3x3. A three-in-a-row locks tonight. Shared option bank. Categories this game uses: 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: place, mood, when. You need exactly five live options in every category this game uses or you do not start.
The ritual
- Draw a 3x3. Put the five options on north, west, center, east, south. Corners are blocks.
- You play X. Partner plays O.
- First three-in-a-row locks tonight. The option cell that completed the line is place, mood, and when.
- If a line has no option cell, ignore it and play on.
Digital is the same plus-five board. Print is paper. Same completing cell, same winners. Say 1–5 if you skip the marks. That is the real a11y path. Deterministic. No random.
Locked oracle
completingCell 2 → Place Kitchen floor / Mood A little extra / When After dinner.
Unit: Place completingCell 2 → Kitchen floor.