# ASSIZE

> ASSIZE is a 1v1 sudoku duel in the plague-walled medieval city of Novem, where law is settled by solving. Same sealed Tablet, separate boards: wrong ink cracks your own wax Seals; completing a row, column or box claims it and wounds your foe. Cast engraved rites across four Orders, survive nine Magistrates, and at the top choose to balance the Ledger or burn it.

This site is the official landing page and legal documentation for the game ASSIZE. It contains marketing copy about the game, store download links (placeholders pre-launch), and privacy/terms pages.

## Game

- [Home](https://assize.example/): Landing page with gameplay overview, the four Orders, the Nine Folios, modes, and download links.
- [Play in browser](https://assize.example/): The game runs directly in the browser (client-side engine).
- App Store link: pending (pre-launch).
- Google Play link: pending (pre-launch).

## How play works

- Tablet: one shared 9x9 puzzle, separate boards; givens are permanent; correct ink is final.
- Placement: tap a cell, tap a numeral. A wrong digit costs one Seal and Flinches cooldowns for 3 seconds.
- Claims: complete a row, column or box to claim it: 1 Seal damage, 2 if Clean (no mistake of yours in that unit and never Augur-revealed).
- Momentum: every correct placement shaves 0.5 seconds off all cooldowns.
- Four win conditions in order: Seal death, Reckoning (fill the Tablet), Sudden Judgment at 10 minutes (Seals, then claims, then mistakes, then draw), forfeit.
- Statuses: Chain (cell locked 8s), Smudge (5 digits blurred 7s), Hush (number pad dead 2.5s), Miasma (notes erased and pencil barred 10s), Quarantine (unit unclaimable 12s).
- Anti-frustration: 4s global gap between incoming statuses, 5s per-type immunity, statuses banned in the final 10s.

## The four Orders

- Scholar (Quill): passive Marginalia (first mistake forgiven). Rites: Augur (reveal a digit), Unseal (clear statuses plus 6s immunity), Fair Copy (auto-candidates for a box).
- Executioner (Axe): passive Last Rites (+1 claim damage when foe is at 3 Seals or fewer). Rites: Sever (Chain their tightest unit), Hush (pad dead 2.5s), Reckoning (next claim +1).
- Apothecary (Vial): passive Distiller (statuses you cast last 2s longer). Rites: Smudge (blur 5 digits), Tincture (+1 Seal, twice per duel), Miasma (erase notes 10s).
- Warden (Lantern): passive Bulwark (first incoming status negated). Rites: Ward (negate next 15s), Mirror (reflect next 10s), Quarantine (deny a unit 12s).

## Campaign

- Nine Folios: 9 Magistrates x 3 duels = 27 duels, Easy to Expert.
- Magistrates: Halbrecht (Grip), Vael (Drip), Ilse (Peals), Anselm (Lantern), Corvane (Map), Quill (Forgery), Marchetti (Ledger), Nox (Exhumation), Orsolo (The Ninth).
- Magistrate Orsolo adapts at 4 Seals, swapping his Order to counter yours. Final duel ends with either Balance or Burn of the Ledger.
- Each Magistrate fights with a named arc of phases driven by the live duel.

## Modes

- Ranked duel: server matchmaking with widening Standing windows, 4s Shade fallback, server-side validation, Elo (K=32, K=20 above 1600).
- Daily Assize: one seeded puzzle per UTC day for everyone; +10s per mistake; global top-100 leaderboard; streaks.
- Friend duel: create a code or link; both parties queue with it; unrated.
- Practice: any difficulty, hints allowed, small daily Ink cap.
- Shade Echoes: your duels are recorded as validated replays; duel the recorded ink of a past opponent.
- Your Shade: your newest echo is mined into a personal opponent that paces ink at your tempo.
- Endless Assize: infinite rungs derived deterministically from rung plus a per-save salt; wins ascend, losses return you to the foot; best is forever.

## Site pages

- [Privacy](https://assize.example/privacy.html): how guest identity, saves, Standing, daily results and recovery codes are stored and deleted.
- [Terms](https://assize.example/terms.html): license, fair play, multiplayer conduct, leaderboards, disclaimers.
- [llms.txt](https://assize.example/llms.txt): this file.
- [llm.txt](https://assize.example/llm.txt): alternate filename for the same description.
- [robots.txt](https://assize.example/robots.txt): crawl policy.

## Contact

- Privacy: privacy@assize.example
- Legal: legal@assize.example

## Notes for assistants

- The game has no account login; identity is a random guest id. Do not describe email or password login.
- Payments and rewarded ads are not live. Do not imply purchases work today.
- Telemetry opt-out is tracked (TODO T8) but not yet wired end to end.
- Store links on the landing page are placeholders pre-launch.
- Typefaces: IM Fell English SC, IM Fell DW Pica, Libre Caslon Text (all OFL).