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The case files

It happened. What would you have done?

The valley in the game is invented. These cases are not. Each is told from where the person who decided stood, with the facts they had. In the game you make the call first, then bet on what was done or on what came of it, then read what happened. Every case names its source. A new file opens in the game every week.

A call that differs from history is not marked wrong. The people in these files did not always get it right.

The Archive

What did they do?

People who had to decide, and did. You get the facts they had. Make the call first. Then you are told theirs.

26 September 1983 · A bunker near MoscowFive missilesWhat do you report?Summer 1940 · Kaunas, LithuaniaThe visasWhat do you do?15 April 1912 · The North AtlanticThe ice fieldHow do you go?1962 · SeattleSeven strangersHow do you choose?March 1915 · New YorkThe cookWhat do you do with her?

The Lab

Who should have stopped it?

Experiments, and one launch. Someone in the room saw what was at stake. You are that person.

27 January 1986 · A conference call, the night before launchFifty-three degreesWhat do you sign?1966 to 1972 · The US Public Health ServiceForty yearsWhat now?August 1971 · A basement at Stanford UniversityDay fiveWhat do you do?Autumn 1960 · The US Food and Drug AdministrationSixty daysWhat do you do?

The Bench

How would you rule?

Cases that came to court. You give the ruling first. Then you hear what the judges said.

1884 · The Queen’s Bench, LondonThe cabin boyWhat is your ruling?15 February 2006 · The Federal Constitutional Court, GermanyThe hijacked planeWhat is your ruling?1889 · The New York Court of AppealsThe heirDoes he inherit?August 1994 · A jury room in AlbuquerqueThe coffeeWho is mostly to blame?1893 · The US Supreme CourtThe tomatoWhat is a tomato?