the gym · hear the door closing
Every specimen below is a door swinging shut — a sentence that ends deliberation a beat before the alternatives existed. Your rep: name what most needs opening, and by what mechanism, before the key is revealed. Misses come back sooner than hits.
Read the closing sentence, set both axes, submit. Both right counts as got-it. Where a specimen genuinely admits two answers, both score.
“We tried that in 2019 and it didn't work.”
a director, dismissing a proposal in planning review
Now finish one yourself — the first axis is read for you, you set the mechanism. Then the deck is yours.
Five specimens on a spaced schedule: box 1 daily, box 2 every third day, box 3 weekly. Wrong answers fall back to box 1.
Sightings logged from the catalogue index collect here — doors you heard closing in real rooms, moves you saw run or missed. The assignment is standing: catch one in the wild by Friday.
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Two scenes, one confusable pair of moves. Click the one the question names; the distinguishing criterion is the prize.
Coordinates given; you produce the opening. Write yours before revealing the examples — production is the rep, the examples are only the check.
A concrete situation; five phase-questions. Pick the one bearing the load — the reveal names the phase and the rival it is most often mistaken for.
The catalogue's most-confused neighbourhoods: moves grouped by what they open, lines joining the pairs people mix up. Click a move to see what separates it from each neighbour.