05 / PROJECT 51 · MECHANICAL REELS v0.3.2
Prospect 51.
Five reels. One hand. Hold what matters. Discover what comes next.
You choose what stays.
51 CARDS / 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.
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
Reduced-motion preferences use an instant result. Reveal now ends the animation, not the draw.
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 |
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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.
THE RULE CARD / P51-0.3.1
Keep the object.
Declare the reading.
The 51 identities and their exact card–symbol dictionary are unchanged.
Deal five distinct identities. Press HOLD below any to keep them. 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 scrolling tiles are decorative travel, not a preview of future draws or a claim about which card nearly won. Only the five center stops form your hand. 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.
Demo points are local to this browser tab and have no monetary value. They are not shared jbits, are not Finance holdings, and are not a site-wide jackpot. No autoplay, payment, or cash-out is provided.
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.
Working research demo · Prospect 51 v0.3.1 / Project 51 rules 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.