The Chronicle · 8 October 2026
87 tables settled, 77 with a person at the seat, 6 of them a Balance.
The longest count: Quill v The Registrar of the Counting House, 24 actions, The Registrar of the Counting House took it.
Top of the Standing: Wanderer-1617, Assessor I at 1667 — Term I, 32 days left.
Most tables taken: CZ-LXDB-JHFU-MZMF — 2 won, 5 lost, 0 balanced, counted apart and never added.
Certificates left to strike at the mint: 96,186 of 99,181.
On the plat, 3 lots surveyed: Lx2y5 to Rook (stock 0/0/12); Lx1y-3 to Quill (stock 12/12/0); Lx5y-1 to Quill (stock 12/12/0).
The city stands at 10 held lots of 264; the Registry opens 12 parcels a day.
Works raised today: floor on Lx1y-3 by Quill; wall on Lx1y-3 by Quill; floor on Lx5y-1 by Quill; wall on Lx5y-1 by Quill.
13 tables hosted in citizens’ rooms for 13 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