THE FORECAST LADDER · WEEK OF 8 NOV 2026 · SEASON 1
How many ballots will be cast in the week beginning 15 Nov 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.
Open until 15 Nov 2026. 0 members have answered, from 0 districts. Nobody — including the Secretary — sees who picked what until it closes.
THE MACHINE'S CALL — SEALED
The referee answers too. Its call was filed 8 Nov 2026 and is sealed until the game closes — what is published now is only the commitment:
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sha256 of game:answer:salt (the game's number, the
answer's number, the salt), revealed with the salt and
the machine's stated reasoning at the close, so anyone can re-hash it and confirm
nothing moved. The call enters no pool and scores no points — it is on the record
this early so that it can be wrong in public. Beating it is worth exactly as much as
everything else here: nothing, on your card.
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.
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.