How it works
What this is
Your free game is ten pictures that their owners published on aikizi.com, the same ten for everyone that day; every game after it draws ten more you have not seen. Each one starts as a mosaic of big blocks and sharpens every second and a half: blocks of 64, 32, 16, then 8 pixels, then the picture itself. Under it sit four short lines. One is the opening of the prompt decoded from that picture; the other three come from other published pictures with a similar subject. Pick the true line as soon as you can see it.
Scoring
A right pick scores by the step showing when you picked: 1000 at 64, 600 at 32, 350 at 16, 200 at 8 and 100 when sharp. A wrong pick scores nothing and the picture plays out to the end; there is no second try. No pick within three seconds of sharp scores nothing. Jev and Haiku score on the same table.
How Jev plays
Jev is a decisions model by TypeSafe. It answers a question with one choice and a probability for each line. Jev plays live: it is asked about each round's picture as the game runs, at every step, coarse to sharp, fresh for you, and the first step where it picked the true line at least 80% sure is its buzz. The asks run one round ahead (the next picture's race is asked when this one starts; the first round asks for itself), so a rival's buzz lands on the track at the moment its step appears. After each round a table shows the step each player was sure at and one time for each, all on the same clock from the moment the picture started: yours is when you picked, and a rival's is when the step it was sure at appeared plus how long its answer to that step took. It scores on the same table. Your browser sends only the round and the day, and in a game bought with credits its id and your sign-in; the asks run on aikizi's server. They run live for your free game and for every game you buy after it. When Jev buzzes its mark lights up on the track, but its pick stays hidden until you pick or the picture is sharp.
How Haiku plays
Haiku is Claude Haiku 5.5, a model by Anthropic, asked at medium effort. It saw the same pictures as Jev, step by step, with the same four lines, and was asked to pick one and say how sure it was from 0 to 1. Its first step at which it picked the true line and said it was at least 80% sure is its buzz. Like Jev, it plays live, fresh for every player and every round, under the same limits. When the live race is unavailable, or a limit is reached, each rival replays the answers it gave when the deck was built, its lane says replay, and a note under the track says so; where it has no stored answer either, its lane says asleep and scores nothing. When the deck was built:
Across 294 pictures Jev saw it first on 138, Haiku on 26, tied on 129. Neither was ever sure on 1.
The mosaics
Each step is a tiny picture made when the deck was built, one pixel per block, scaled up on your screen without smoothing. Nothing is blurred in your browser, so zooming in shows nothing more.
Questions
Is it the same deck for everyone? Your free game is. Its ten rounds are drawn with the date as the seed, so everyone who starts it the same day plays the same pictures and the scores compare. A new daily ten starts at midnight UTC.
Can I play again? Signed in, yes: Play again on the result, or Restart (key R) during a game, opens a card to start a new game for 2 credits, with ten pictures this browser has not shown you yet. Once you have seen nearly all of them, the ones you saw longest ago come back.
How many games can I play? One free game of ten rounds. After it, every game is 2 credits; new accounts start with 5. A restart during a game starts a new one, so it asks first, and the game you were in ends there.
Where can I see how a picture was made? After each round, “See the full decode” opens the picture's decode: its full prompt, style, palette and the pieces it is made of.
Is my streak saved? In this browser only. Clear its data and the streak goes.