Screwcap Games · Est. 2026 · Seven games, one cabinet
Seven games about judgment, money and nerve — each one built as its own world, each one grounded in something real. An eighth is in the workshop. No apologies. Come get some.
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FREEYou're the Fed. Try not to crash.
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LIVECall the market. Outplay the experts.
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LIVEMost people do extraordinary things and never count them.
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NEWKorean bluffing. Two cards. No mercy.
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LIVEIt counted better than you. It will show you how.
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LIVEThe money comes in when it comes in. Decide anyway.
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COMING SOONFive things money can be asked to do. Most games model one.
Peek through →2,184 decisions today
Most of what we make is one question asked at three different altitudes: you have to decide before you can see, and then you live inside it. What changes from rung to rung is not the difficulty — it is what the money is for.
“What gets paid this month?”
A year at one table on an income that does not arrive evenly. Four real years, built on actual price and rate data, and no move that makes any of them comfortable. What it scores is whether you kept a cushion — not whether you got rich.
Play Kitchen Table
“What is the surplus actually for?”
The rung where there is money left over and the question changes shape. Five ways of deciding, run against the same fifteen years, with the arithmetic shown rather than summarised. It is called the Library because this is the level where the papers live — every series on screen with its provenance.
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“What survives you?”
Three generations, not fifteen years. You decide what the money is for, then you build something to outlive your own judgement, and then you watch an heir spend it while you are advisory at best. The mechanic is that you stop being the decision-maker halfway through — which is the one thing a thousand allocation calculators cannot do.
Nothing to play yet — the brief is written, the build is not started.
The rungs overlap at their edges the way real money does, and that is intentional. Everything else in the cabinet — the dominoes, the cards, the Fed — is the same studio asking the same question with the money taken out. More about how we work.
Wednesday 30 September· Dealer's choice
Five things money can be asked to do. Most games model one.
Short slice · Capital sim · Unfinished
Take a seat →Three questions. We'll point you at one drawer instead of five.
Sketches, rules, characters and development notes. The games are the output; this is the working.
Training log
19× faster than v19 on the 3090 — 4.6 hours instead of 34. It also collapsed. The batched-GPU rewrite and what the shortcut cost us.
Rules card
The nine Gwang, the Ttang, and why 3-8 beats a pair. Printed as a card you can keep open beside the game.
Character sheet
The neural opponent (v22) plays a measurably different game than the bots that came before it — higher scoring, first place more often. Not scripted: that’s 25 billion hands of self-play talking.
Method note
Expectations-augmented Phillips curve, two-to-three quarter policy lag. The papers are linked in the footer.
The opponents are trained, not scripted. Here is the machine that does it.
As of Sep 1, 2026.
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Neural agents vs. the scripted bots they train against — measured Glicko, not a simulated curve.
Three things on the bench. Nothing here is announced until it works.
DoubleFives
The AI explains its reasoning after every move. Learn why it played that tile, what it counted, and what trap you just walked into.
In TrainingDoubleFives & Sutda
Play against friends instead of just AI. Same brutal difficulty, now with the added pressure of someone watching you lose.
Design Phasewww.chairmanmode.app
Replay any Fed decision from 1929-2024. See what Volcker did, then try it yourself. Compare your choices to what actually happened. Learn why you'd have been fired.
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