About

The counts, as open data

The game counts first answers and nothing else. This page says what that means and where the counts can be read.

What is counted

When a player answers a call for the first time, the game sends which call and which choice.

The site adds one to a number. A call played again is not counted a second time.

What is never kept

No account, no device number, no time of day and no order of play goes with an answer.

Nothing a player types is sent with it.

• The network address of a request is used for a moment, in memory, so that one device cannot flood a count.
• It is never written to storage.
• One switch in the game’s menu turns the counts off. Then nothing is sent.

When a count is shown

A call’s split is given only once enough first answers are in, so a number never describes a handful of people.

In the game, a player sees how others split only after making their own call.

Read the counts

Each journey’s counts are one small file of numbers, read from this site:

• The Junction
• The Rescue
• The Distribution
• The Hospital
• The Radio
• The Gate
• The Reconstruction
• The Court
• The Review

A call told again in a later edition is counted under a new number, so two tellings are never mixed.

Using them

You may use and republish these counts, with credit to The Junction, goodenomics.com.

They describe people who chose to play this game. They are not a sample of any population.

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More about the game: About The Junction