Chaos Statement : How to Play

Chaos Statement is played in rounds. If you survive 7 rounds, you win the game.

In each round, you have a limited pool of words and must build one premise for a syllogism.

A syllogism is an argument involving at least two true premises, and a conclusion drawn from them.
Here's an example:

All cats are evil. (premise 1)
Some cats are gray. (premise 2)
Therefore, some gray things are evil. (conclusion)

Each player starts the game with the same limited pool of words, and new words are drawn based on your premises. To construct a premise, move the words into a logical, grammatic statement.
There are a few rules:

• The premise must have at least 4 words.
• The premise must start with a Quantifier (all, no, some).
  Additional Quantifiers can be unlocked as you play.
• The premise must have at least one noun.
• The premise must generally have only one verb.
  Exception: Once you unlock conjunctions you and can string two phrases together.
• In the first round, you must use the Featured Word.

Each word holds significance in a four-suited battle system.
The general strategy is to outweigh your opponent in these statistics:

• Tech Affinity
• Asset Value
• Martial Skill
• Social Capital

As you construct your premise, the display will show an estimate of the statistical strength. Once your premise is ready, you can click the 'Battle' buton to initiate and resolve the battle.

Your premise matched based on these requirements:

• Your premise and your opponent's must have a similar overall strength (based on the value of the words)
• There must be one noun in common.
• Your premise and your opponent's cannot be exactly the same.

If an opponent cannot be found, your premise will be matched against a bot equipped to compliment it.

As an auto-battler, you have no interaction during the battle phase. During battle, the overall strengths of the premises are calculated for the four primary statistics (Tech Affinity, Asset Value, Martial Skill, Social Capital) based on a simple subtraction of their value from yours. For each of these statistics, a net positive will be applied as damage toward your opponent, and a net negative will be applied as damage towards you. The damage applied is capped to the (maximimum) Damage statistic of the winning player.

Each player possesses an HP stat which persists across rounds. If a player loses all HP, they immediately lose the round and the game.

At the end of the battle phase, an appropriate conclusion is generated to complete the syllogism. The Conclusion is generated from the most powerful words in each premise; it's unlikely to make logical sense, but nonetheless should be taken as absolute fact.

Following battle, you gain new words in two ways:

• Conclusion Words: any new words in the Conclusion are immediately added to your word pool for future premises.
• Word Drawing: Choose one of four new words to add to your word pool. Increasing your Vocabulary stat can allow drawing of more powerful words.

• You win the game if you can survive 7 rounds without losing all of your HP.
  The highest scores for each day are enshrined on the Thought Leaders list.
• The game will end early if your HP reaches 0.