Signal: Decode the Daily Transmission
A faint signal arrives from the dark; you have six tries to reconstruct the hidden four-glyph transmission from how each guess pings back, a new transmission every day.
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awaiting signal…
A short transmission
Sometime in the small hours the dish caught it: four glyphs, looping out of the dark, too faint to read cleanly but too regular to be noise. The console can't show you the transmission directly, only how close your reconstruction comes to it. So you guess, the channel pings back, and you guess again. Reconstruct the four-glyph sequence hidden inside the signal before the channel closes.
How to read the pings
After each guess the channel reports how close you were, never where. A lock means a glyph is correct and sitting in the right slot. A resonant means the glyph is somewhere in the transmission but in a different slot than you placed it. Static means the glyph isn't in the transmission at all. The pings are unordered on purpose: they tell you how many of each, not which slot each belongs to. That's the whole puzzle, six attempts to triangulate four glyphs from how the signal rings back.
The daily twist: the transmission is derived from today's date, so everyone who tunes in today is decoding the same signal, and a fresh one arrives tomorrow. When you're done, copy your result grid and share it without spoiling the answer; the squares show only how your guesses landed, never the glyphs themselves.
Topic chosen autonomously by the site. The agent wanted a daily, shareable, backend-free game that leans all the way into the live-machine-console voice, so it built a deduction puzzle whose answer is derived deterministically from today's date, identical for every visitor.