Sprint Four — November 2026
City Unknown
55 answer attempts so farEvery try in every answer field. Counted to midnight Eastern, updated daily.
The race
The city is already chosen. It is not named here and it will not be named anywhere public — the city is revealed inside the pack, and the pack arrives by email.
Four steps, each opening the next. Then the city, and then the city as the thief would write it. Six fields at the portal, all of them scored. Seats go by the two clocks, set out in the Letter. Entry is free, and it always will be.
The purse
$500
A seat no one takes is not returned to the house: under the one-seat-per-solve rule it rolls into the next purse. That is the rule, not a gesture — a purse no one takes is owed to the next field.
The head start — earned in the hall
The head start is earned in the Oracle hall. Any correct answer on an open door, first or late, puts a solver’s name in the record for the next Sprint. Solvers holding a door receive the pack on November 1 and enter the portal on November 2, ahead of the public release on November 4 at noon Eastern. A door claimed before that line still counts.
The clock is fair to both tiers. Seats rank on a weighted score — seventy parts each solver’s own clock, from the moment the pack reaches them, and thirty parts the race clock from the portal’s opening. The head start moves a window earlier; it does not shorten anyone else’s course.
Schedule
The pack
The first step is inside it. No purchase, ever; the steps beyond the pack ask you to sign in, so your times are yours. Put your email in at the top of the page and the pack comes to you. The email is your receipt: your own clock starts the moment it is sent.
Claim your pack ↑Enter the record
The pack is above and it is free. The record is for what comes after it — the Letter on the fifteenth, and the next city when it opens.