Civics in a Flash

Eight short questions, one at a time, pulled from every sorting deck in the arcade. Each one shows you the record it came from whether you get it right or wrong, and points at the whole deck it was drawn out of.

There is no streak here, and that is a live disagreement rather than an oversight. The design note for this game asks for a daily streak. This project’s standing position forbids one — no mechanic built to maximise time on the app — and the arcade page already promises readers there is no streak to protect. Those are both the founder’s positions, and two of them disagree. The standing one wins until he settles it, because it is the one already shipped and already promised, and the queue row records that the clause is waiting on him rather than that it was refused.

Nothing replaces it, on purpose. A progress bar, a daily, a come-back-tomorrow are the same mechanic in different clothes. The round ends, you read what you got wrong with its citation, and you leave. If that makes this less sticky than the games you are used to, that is the arcade working rather than failing.

“Five-second” is a length, not a clock. Nothing here is timed. A question is short because it is small, not because something is counting down — a countdown would lock out anybody who needs longer, and nothing about reading a prompt and picking a box needed reflexes.

This game carries no facts of its own. Every question belongs to a deck that already ships, with its own source, and a question whose deck cannot show a citation is never drawn.