AFTQ

How it works

One continuous line per turn, and the fuse is short: when the ring at your fingertip empties, it ignites where it died. Your line picks up the last element it crossed and carries it forward, so order matters. Cross your own line to tie a knot, which detonates. Points come from the chain reaction, not from what you touch: deep, self-spreading cascades score; scribbling does not.

• Spark · lights your line. Pops when fire reaches it.
• Bramble · fuel. Creeps back into empty space between runs.
• Sap · extends your fuse, reactions reach further. Freezes into amber.
• Frost · blocks creeping fire, but direct heat makes it burst.
• Pollen · multiplies a chain by its length. Route long chains here.
• Echo · copies whatever touches it and re-emits in all directions.
• Void · eats reactions. A firebreak you can aim chains into.
• Seed · becomes more of whatever feeds it, and persists into your next runs.

The world remembers

No fresh boards. Scorch stays scorched, amber stays frozen, seeds keep growing, and bramble regrows on its own. Your old lines return as wisps, faint ghosts retracing your former strokes. Touch a wisp mid-draw to merge its fuse with yours. The game also watches the shapes you draw and quietly names your style.

Hexes

A great board can be crystallized into a hex: a self-contained, playable challenge you hand to someone else. They draw one line on your aftermath and try to beat your score. Beating it passes a mutated hex onward with the lineage of every hand it survived. Opening a stranger's hex cross-pollinates your own world, permanently.

The Commons

One shared daily board, same for everyone on Earth. Three attempts. Share the silhouette of your cascade, not the answer.

Back to the board Burn it all down · start a fresh world