← Range ArcadeWORLD Nº 014 · WEATHER THAT KEEPS ITS WORD
☂ sixteen skiesWATCH THE SKY. CALL THE NEXT SIX HOURS.

SIX SKIES. EACH ONE KEEPS A PROMISE.

Watch the clouds.
Then say what comes.

On these planets the weather is a proven cycle.
Learn it by watching, then call rain or shine for the next six hours.

THE ALMANACSKY 1 / 6 · EARTH
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The sky will show you
its pattern.

Hours tick by on the strip: cloud, rain, wind.
When the watch ends, tap each of the next six hours to call rain or shine, then submit.
The period is revealed after.

0 POINTS1–6 TOGGLE AN HOUR · ENTER TO CALLFAIR SKIES

Almanac(driver).at(tick) reads a precomputed cycle; nothing is forecast, only remembered.

ANOTHER STARTING HOUR

Words pick where in each cycle you begin watching.

THE ALMANAC

Sixteen drivers, sixteen kinds of weather.

A triangular XOR system runs fourteen cells with one of sixteen drivers. Cloud, rain, and wind are three of its cells, read once an hour, and every cell is exactly periodic with a power-of-two period.

Each sky starts you somewhere in its cycle and lets you watch fewer hours than the cycle holds. Then you call the next six: tap an hour to toggle rain, and submit.

Five points an hour, twenty more for a perfect six. Six skies from the eight-hour Halfmoon to the sixty-four hour Earth, which is driver 14, rule 30's own edge. Three stars is every hour right.

SIX SKIES CALLED

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You learned
what the sky repeats.

A LITTLE ALMANAC FOR A FRIEND

Watch these skies with me.