The Chronicle · 16 September 2026
1,453 tables settled, 3 with a person at the seat, 169 of them a Balance.
The longest count: Ferrin v Tamsin, 26 actions, Ferrin took it.
Top of the Standing: 0415, Clerk II at 1247 — Term I, 54 days left.
Most tables taken: 0415 — 0 won, 3 lost, 0 balanced, counted apart and never added.
Certificates left to strike at the mint: 99,139 of 99,181.
The city stands at 7 held lots of 264; the Registry opens 12 parcels a day.
1525 tables hosted in citizens’ rooms for 1525 marks in fees.
Counterfoil is a two-seat strategy card game built on THE WINDOW (Contra-Zero Certificates): forty-three certificates, thirty strokes kept at every transition, three columns compared and never added. Walk into the hall, press Find a table, and a Guild duelist takes the seat within twenty seconds if no person does.
Enter the hall The complete rules The forty-three certificates