05 / PROJECT 51 · SHARED JBITS
Prospect 51.
Five reels. One hand. Hold what matters, then change what comes next.
You choose what stays.
51 IDENTITIES / 5 ROTORS
Free play · no cash value
The archive lock
One exact five-card order. Initial deal only.
Deal five, hold any, then draw once or bank the hand.
Tap a tile to read its other face.
Tap a center card to hold it or inspect its paper symbol.
Read the decision Exact conditional odds
Keep a hold pattern, then count every possible draw from the 46 identities not in the first hand. Discarded cards stay out. These are draw odds for this decision, not the opening-deal odds.
Set the rotors Frozen during a hand
Different valid wiring changes the mapping, not the uniform opening odds. The live moduli follow the remaining inventory: 51, 50, 49, 48, 47. A redraw starts at 46.
Inspect the record No hidden redraw peeks
| Slot | mod | a | b | digit | index | Identity |
|---|
Each row records e = (a·digit + b) mod m, then removes that indexed identity. It is a reproducibility record of observed draws, not a fairness certificate.
Awards · archive key & examples
Rule Card · Project 51 paper
THE RULE CARD / R51-0.3
Keep the object.
Declare the reading.
The 51 identities and their exact card–symbol dictionary are unchanged.
Deal five distinct identities. Tap a center card and choose Hold. Draw once to replace the others from the remaining 46, or bank the original hand. A redraw settles immediately. All five original identities stay out of the replacement inventory, including discards.
Poker reads an unordered hand. The archive lock reads an ordered string. A swap can preserve the poker award and change the jackpot result. That distinction is the experiment.
PROBABILITY HAS A DOMAIN
A rule, not a promise.
There are 2,349,060 possible five-card subsets of this 51-identity alphabet. Four are royal flushes. Those are opening-deal counts, before the player chooses a hold. The conditional-odds panel enumerates the appropriate remaining inventory instead.
The numbered-ring styling is rotor-inspired, not an Enigma simulation and not encryption. Rotors are selection maps; no stored zeta ordinate is used as a random seed. The triangular offsets are a declared design choice, not a discovered probability law.
jbits are the site’s browser-local play currency with no cash value. Entries, saved hands, and awards use the same bank as the other games and Finance. The archive meter is local to this browser, not a global prize pool.
Open the mechanism Dial count, modulus, and lost distinctions
TWO DIALS / ONE IDENTITY
3 × 17 = 51
Mixed radix, not a new alphabet. Set u and v; i = 17u + v names canonical identity ai+1. Neither dial alone identifies the token.
ONE DIAL / TEST THE GEAR
Not every step is a permutation.
For e = a·d mod 51, coprime steps reach all identities. A shared factor removes possibilities. The dots show reachable positions, not a play prediction.
Five live depletion rotors produce 51·50·49·48·47 equally likely ordered hands under independent uniform input digits. Five independent mod-51 reels instead allow duplicate identities; that would be a different game with a different score table. Changing to three- or seven-card play likewise requires new scoring and fresh probability counts.
Browser-local play currency · Project 51 v0.3 · Exact identity map retained from the supplied v0.2 fixtures. The paper proves recovery statements; a game win is not evidence of a zero law, semantic meaning, or predictive power.