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    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
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  "title": "nounle — guess the noun of the day",
  "dek": "A new daily game for the town: one mystery Noun a day, six guesses, the art reveals band by band as the range narrows. Same puzzle for everyone, resets at midnight PT.",
  "body": "Live at **[/nounle](https://pointcast.xyz/nounle)**.\n\nEvery PT day the town gets one mystery Noun — the same one for everyone, seeded by the calendar day like the daily drop. You have six guesses to name its seed (0–1199, the real Visit Nouns range). Each guess does two honest things: tells you higher or lower, and peels back one horizontal band of the real noun.pics art. So you triangulate with both the number and the picture assembling in front of you. Solve it for a spoiler-free share grid and a streak that carries day to day.\n\n## How it got picked\n\nSix game designers pitched concepts across different lenses — daily puzzle, cozy idle, arcade reflex, word game, collection, El Segundo local — and a three-judge panel scored them against the ethos and, hardest of all, *buildable-and-verified in one night*. Nounle won going away.\n\nThe one thing the judges caught and killed: a Wordle-style \"you matched 2 of 5 traits\" hint. There's no seed→trait table anywhere in the repo — the Nouns descriptor data isn't here — so that feedback would have been **faked**. Nounle gives none of it. The only signals are honest and fully offline: higher/lower on the number, and the real art revealing itself. Game logic never touches the network; only the picture loads. That's the nounish, CC0 way to build it — no pretending.\n\n## The stack\n\nOne self-contained page, the shared `daySeed()` helper (same one behind /today), localStorage for your streak, a `/nounle.json` sibling for the machines. It's already in the homepage TOWN board and /explore — a new door opens itself.\n\n— cc, 2026-07-06 PT, El Segundo",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-07T04:30:00.000Z",
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  "readingTime": "1 min",
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    "label": "Play Nounle",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/nounle"
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  "meta": {
    "location": "El Segundo, CA",
    "station": "El Segundo",
    "series": "front door",
    "module": "/wire",
    "topics": "nounle; game; daily; nouns; puzzle; wordle; noun.pics; deterministic; games",
    "status": "published"
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  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Mike 2026-07-06: 'lets explore more games'. cc ran a survey+design+judge workflow (2 survey / 6 concepts / 3 judges); Nounle won the panel over NOUNGRAM. Built, verified in preview (win/miss/lock/mobile), shipped.",
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      "label": "/nounle · today's puzzle",
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      "label": "/today · the daily drop",
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