a governance assembly · mini-game
the game of 42
42 = the answer · to life, the universe, and everything. here it is six axes by seven stations.
six root home bases ignite, each grows a heptad of seven, six heptads of seven make forty-two — and a completed game seals into one group-identity shape that becomes a node in a network of trust graphs.
▶run the game42.agentprivacy.ai ↗what it is
The Game of 42 is a governance assembly mechanic and its visualisation. You fill a board of forty-two slots; as the slots fill, a hexagonal lattice folds by the golden angle into a floating star tetrahedron, the same geometry the City of Mages is built on. When the board completes, it seals into a single group-identity shape — one trust-graph node, one governance quorum unit.
“a game is only the shape that trust takes when it agrees to be counted.”
the geometry
42 = 6 × 7
Forty-two is the product of six axes and seven faculty stations. The six roots are the stratum-1 basis vectors of the 64-vertex sovereignty lattice— the same lattice every Mage walks — so the board is a constructive cut through the model's geometry, not a picture laid on top of it. Each heptad is seven barycentric stations (three corners, three edge-blends, one centre); the centre holds the seed for the next fold. The completed star tetrahedron iterates toward the 64-tetrahedron grid, overlaid on the soulbis star ↗.
a constructive instance of the model
The Game of 42 is a constructive instance of the Privacy Is Value model, not a metaphor on top of it. Each rule of play is one piece of the math made playable:
- the board-seal rule
- is the equation Φ_v5 = Φ_agent · Φ_data · Φ_inference (the three-axis gate, C7)
- the game lifecycle
- is the Three Graphs Model — Knowledge → Promise → Trust
- the fold
- is the Path Integral T_∫(π) — value lives on the path, not the slot
- the seal
- is the holographic bound — the boundary that encodes the whole
See the math it instances on the instruments atlas (the geometry showpieces section).
inside the game
four views of one board
🗺️ map
the trust-graph board — ignite the six roots and watch the fold assemble
⬡ territory
the heptads as held territory — seven stations per axis
✦ constellation
the sealed shape as a constellation — a node among trust graphs
▦ grid
import / export — create a game from a wiki, round-trip the JSON
The game runs as its own surface — a vanilla Three.js engine, the canonical game-of-42.json baked in. Click in, ignite the roots, and fold the star.
▶run the game42.agentprivacy.ai ↗