Clue: look up at night.
Every switch follows a rule hidden somewhere in the real world. Find them.
Each day you set 24 toggles. Each night at 23:00 UTC the lamps tell you which were right. The answers come from public data anyone can look up. Try three now: the practice week below runs in about thirty seconds.
Season 1, The Harbor starts in
1 month
Monday 4 January at 10:00 UTC
Season 1, The Harbor, opens Monday 4 January.
The first season takes the night shift at the harbor master's desk: 84 days, 24 toggles, and a reveal week at the end. Sign up now and be there on day 1.
Practice panel
Calm
Clue: ask the pier.
Clue: the sea keeps its own clock.
Day 1 of 7
- Moon
- Pier wind
- First high tide
That was the week
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A closed beta starts Monday 30 November. Ask to join
The closed beta
A closed beta starts Monday 30 November.
A few invited testers play a short season first, from Monday 30 November to Sunday 13 December, so Season 1 opens with its rough edges found. You can ask to join them.
Sign up first: one form signs you up for Season 1 and asks Matt for a place in the beta.
Sign up and ask to joinIts board, pages, and leaderboards are for its testers only.
How a season works
Set your board
A season is 84 days. You start with 8 of the 24 toggles live, and more open as you get them right. Your board saves as you go, so there's nothing to submit.
Read the lamps
At 23:00 UTC every board locks and the lamps light: right or wrong for switches, hot, warm or cold for dials, how many lights you got for a light bank.
Follow the clues
Each toggle gets three clues, by days 7, 21 and 42: the general area, the kind of source, then the exact source. Crack a toggle before a clue lands for a bigger bonus. From day 1, the season's riddles in the Charter point at the kinds of data behind the board.
Win the season
Thirty perfect days inside any 35-day stretch wins. Several people can win, and everyone gets a final ranking by points.
New kinds of toggles arrive with later seasons. Read the full rules
The Charter, in short
- Each toggle follows one free, public source that anyone can read on a web page, except two that follow your own history.
- Every value is published before the 10:00 UTC snapshot, so every answer is knowable before the lock.
- A source is changed only by a short list of named steps, such as a last digit or a threshold.
- Nothing changes mid-season, except a broken source swapped for a reserve, with practice days before it counts.
The seasons ahead
| Season | Theme | Starts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Harbor | Mon 4 Jan 2027 |
| 2 | The Observatory | Mon 5 Apr 2027 |
| 3 | The Exchange | Mon 5 Jul 2027 |
| 4 | The Wire | Mon 4 Oct 2027 |
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