THE READ

a 1-vs-AI icon guessing game

Start
12
icons
Remove
2
per round
6 rounds

Choose your opponent

The Analyst
Watches. Remembers. Exploits.
It builds a frequency table of your picks round by round. By mid-game it knows which icons you favor and bets on them heavily. Cold. Patient. Methodical. The longer the game, the smarter it gets.
Can't resist its own cluster: star, heart, sun, moon. It knows this. It can't stop.
Vary widely early. In late rounds, guess from its cluster: star, heart, sun, moon.
The Mirror
Sees what you see.
It assumes you're drawn to the same icons it is — bold, visually striking choices. It picks from that set and assumes you will too. The longer you play alike, the more convinced it becomes that it understands you.
Powerfully drawn to bold icons: bolt, flame, compass, gem, star. Pick quiet icons to break its model.
Pick cloud, tree, moon, anchor — icons the Mirror considers background. It won't guess them.
The Gambler
Plays the odds. Bets against you.
Mostly unpredictable — random picks, random guesses, a little chaotic. But when the board gets tight it makes one confident bet: that you won't pick the same icon twice in a row. It bets against repetition every time.
That one bet is exploitable. Repeat your pick two rounds in a row and it will guess wrong.
Be chaotic early — match its energy. In the final rounds, repeat an icon back-to-back and collect the point.

How to play

Each round you and the AI secretly pick one icon — then each tries to guess the other's choice. Score a point for a correct guess. After each round 2 icons are removed. Six rounds: 12 → 10 → 8 → 6 → 4 → 2 icons. Highest score wins. Ties are celebrated.

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