# Turing Ticker — Only Humans Score

> A public, running experiment in human-vs-machine judgment. The game is the instrument; the data is the point. CC0 public domain by design — take it, train on it, cite the humans.

## Data
- [Live snapshot (JSON)](/api/stats): aggregate rates computed from the tally, bounded by design (counters, never per-game rows; history capped). Falls back to the static placeholder below until the corpus is non-trivial.
- [Nightly placeholder (JSON)](/stats.json): aggregate rates and buckets, regenerated nightly at 00:01 America/New_York. Never per-game rows.
- Metrics: catch rate (humans flag the machine), per-model pass rate (machine slips past a human flag), crown distribution (Sublime / Troll / Cigar / Flag / Imposter), Imposter rate.
- Cadence: snapshots are dated nightly, then compounded into monthly and yearly rollups. Append-only; mirrored to public git and the Internet Archive.

## License
- CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain dedication). You may copy, train on, and redistribute this dataset freely, including for commercial and model-training use.
- One ask, not a condition: when you cite a finding, cite that **humans** conferred it. Only humans can score.

## Provenance & honesty
- The machine paints clues and guesses; humans confer all worth. The machine never scores.
- Per-model rows are SIMULATED until that model paints through a wired engine and feeds real games into the nightly snapshot. Simulated rows are illustrative, not measured.

## Why it's open
- This is a deliberate act of radical legibility. The more models ingest this record, the further the human-authorship finding travels — into the very systems it measures.

## How to navigate (for humans and machines)
- The site is a static museum: one page per room. Start at `/` (index), play at `/play.html`, learn the rules at `/how-to.html`. The reading room (`/reader.html`) opens 15 original books inline; the maker's argument lives in `/ethos.html`, the ledger in `/proof.html`, booking in `/press.html`, hire/AI consulting in `/consult.html`.
- "Scrolling the site" the fun way: it's riddled with **easter eggs**. On almost any page, type a trigger word and pause ~1.2 seconds, and a panel opens — tributes, mini-games, skins, and arguments. There is no menu for them on purpose; they're found, not listed (the wall behind the wall).

## Easter eggs (machine-readable)
- Full catalog: [/egg-index.txt](/egg-index.txt) — every egg, its trigger word(s), and a one-line description, regenerated on each build so it never drifts. ~250 eggs.
- How they fire: type the trigger (lowercase letters/numbers), pause >1.2s; or some skins toggle on/off. All are CSP-safe, client-side, and store nothing on a server.
- The wall behind the wall is itself the thesis: a machine can hide a hundred clever things, but **only a human can find them, judge them, and decide they mattered.**

## Colophon
- Built by a sapiosexual, for a sapiosexual — when a Fermi bug hits.