THE FORECAST LADDER · WEEK OF 11 OCT 2026 · SEASON 1
How many ballots will be cast in the week beginning 18 Oct 2026?
One game, open for one week. Answer it in a click and the points go to your district; the club shows the result once it closes.
A prediction about a real number the club keeps. It is settled a week later by recounting the club's own rows: nothing is estimated, and the Secretary never picks the statistic after seeing it.
Settled. The answer was 1 — the club's count of ballots cast over the week beginning 18 Oct 2026, recounted from the ledger when that week finished.
THE MACHINE'S CALL — REVEALED
None at all. The ledger counted 0 over the week just ended; the machine calls the same band again.
The ledger said 1 — the machine's band
was wrong. Check the seal: the commitment published while play was open
was 4f7a4a1acfb1f5b49febcf5f8cf7bcf6a37cb0b93770d6329cfa77fbcab5ac8f, and
printf '%s' '18:94:cbcbb3d6d78b6eaa65032647b7c58535' | shasum -a 256
reproduces it. Filed 11 Oct 2026; scored nothing, as
always.
The rule, published before play: Your district scores one point for every member of it who put the coming week in the right band. A member who calls it right in consecutive weeks builds a streak, which sits on their card as part of their civic record and buys them nothing whatsoever.
How it went
0 answers in all.
No district scored: nobody answered this one. The record says so rather than skipping the week.
Nothing here touches what a seat carries. There is no prize but your district's place in the Standing, no money, nothing tradable, and no advantage in any of it for a citizen over a resident. Games are announced on this week's games and on every district page; the club never mails about them.