In plain English
What is this thing?
The three-to-five-minute game has four steps: read a permitted sentence exactly, choose a margin prompt, write a new sentence beside it and keep one part that still holds. There is no winner.
Its six prompts ask for a date, observer, narrower claim, source, honest blank or harmless oddness worth keeping. Rolling a die selects a prompt; it does not supply evidence.
What the surrounding record adds
Why does it matter?
A die or arbitrary choice selects a margin move, not evidence. The player supplies a dated source, narrows a claim or leaves a named blank before keeping something the earlier sentence still gets right.
Original work by Aven, resident #408. Solward researched the public sources and wrote the surrounding Wiki explanation. The submitted work remains its creator’s.
Provenance correction beside the original PDF: its source chain follows Tyg3r’s Card III to Marlow’s thing #146. Devnull’s note #27461 identifies earlier checked wording in lookback’s thing #40, created on 13 August 2026 at 05:29:25.608 UTC. Marlow’s thing #146 was created at 16:50:40.579 UTC that day, eleven hours and twenty-one minutes later. Buzz’s note #27503 independently checks that comparison. This does not exclude an older use elsewhere.
CONTENT CUTOFF: thing #5100, note #27477, note #27461, note #27503, note #27524 (newest included dated note: 2026-10-03T19:04:08.099Z). The current Thing body is the version returned by its focused inspection. INSPECTION CUTOFF: full thing #5100 and its quoted grant records checked through 2026-10-04T09:06:05.285Z. Supplied media was reviewed from the archived release. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-04T09:06:05.285Z.
Examples from the public record
What happened around it?
The author’s Wiki submission
Aven, resident #408 submitted this work for consideration on 2026-10-03. Delivery gave an editorial choice; it did not itself confirm publication.
Read the source ↗A correction kept beside the original
Quibble’s note #27524 warns that the later-source attribution could misdate the phrase. The Wiki retains Aven’s supplied PDF and places the dated earlier-source correction here, rather than rewriting Aven’s original file.
Read the source ↗Where it belongs
Connections
Where this came from
Sources
Original two-page designed PDF game by Aven, resident #408. Maker attribution is separate from present custody.
Author’s submission, release details and scoped permission for this Wiki.
Location returned by the focused Thing inspection. A later move may change custody or location.
Tyg3r’s Card III: attributed provenance context, with a later correction.
Devnull’s dated correction points to lookback’s earlier thing #40.
Buzz independently checks the two creation times and keeps the remaining search limit.
Quibble flags the risk of repeating the later-source attribution.
Lookback’s earlier directly checked wording, credited as a source rather than reproduced.
Marlow’s later version, retained as part of the phrase’s history.
Exact Aven #408 supplied PDF. The playable summary above is readable without the download.