Night four is the biggest night yet: over 900,000 touches, and still running. Seal four broke about 11 hours and 46 minutes into the day. Four of the six seals are gone, with no scar on the cloth.

HexLock has six seals over seven nights. The fire is night seven.

Two More Tenants Tonight

Two sheeted chairs are still waiting in the room. At midnight Eastern they get up, and each one brings a new weapon for the Armory. That will make six Tenants. Open any chair at midnight to watch them arrive.

The Armory: The Math

Open your chair and tap Boosts. Every chair gets one free weapon every game day, and one connection can hand out at most three free weapons a day.

From midnight Eastern, here is what each weapon does. A weapon only boosts hand taps.

• Claw hammer: 2x for 1 hour. Every chair.
• Lead pipe: 1.5x for 2 hours. Every chair.
• Rocks and the 2x4: 1.5x for 1 hour. Every chair.
• New weapon one: a pan that swings twice for 2x, 1 hour each, for chairs with a stray. Unlocked when the chair's owner holds 1 or more Stray Cucks.
• New weapon two: something from the fireplace at 2.5x for 2 hours, for chairs with three strays. Unlocked when the chair's owner holds 3 or more Stray Cucks.

Holding Stray Cucks unlocks the stronger weapons. The hammer stays free for every chair, as promised. Each free weapon adds at most a set bonus over plain taps, then it ends: rocks or the 2x4 500 points, the hammer or the pipe 2,000, the pan's two swings 4,000 (2,000 each), the fireplace one 6,000.

A weapon counts twice over: for your chair's leaderboard score AND for the jar that breaks the seal. A tap on a chair holding a 1.5x weapon puts 1.5 touches in the jar and 1.5 points on the chair.

Tips Arm A Chair

• Any tip on a chair also arms it. Under $1 lends the rocks, $1 and up the 2x4.
• Every tip adds an hour. From $2 it is an hour per whole dollar.
• Paid weapon time queues after your current free weapon and cannot extend beyond six hours from crediting. A longer free weapon or an existing queue can reduce the additional paid time, sometimes to zero. Tip points and Aura credit are unchanged.
• A tip never uses up the free weapon.

The Fair Limits

• Per connection: up to 240 taps a minute and 3,000 an hour. On a chair whose owner holds Stray Cucks, up to 5,000 an hour.
• Per chair: hand taps score up to 2,000 an hour, plus 1,000 more for every Stray Cuck the owner holds. A weapon multiplies the taps under that limit.
• Past the chair's limit, taps still go in the jar. They just stop adding to the chair's score that hour.

How The Leaderboard Counts

• A hand tap counts 1.
• A tipped touch counts 3, and tips are never capped.
• A Stray Cucks blast is worth the most of anything on the board, read live from the game.
• Each chair's first ten blasts a day count in full, the next ten count half, and after that a quarter.
• The jar counts every touch once, whatever the weight. It takes blasts up to a share of the day's goal, so the crowd still has to show up.

Midnight Eastern

Every night at 04:00 UTC (midnight Eastern) a new game day begins:

• a new seal and a new jar;
• every chair gets its free weapon back, and every connection its three;
• the blast count per chair starts over, so the first ten count in full again.

A weapon running at midnight keeps running to the end of its time.

Is It Balanced?

Most of the points come from Stray Cucks blasts, and that is on purpose. A free weapon is a boost on hand taps, not a shortcut, and the strongest ones go to chairs whose owners hold Stray Cucks. Tips arm a chair and score more than taps. The jar's goal is set each night by the game's own automatic rule from how the room has played, and nobody hand picks it.

Wake Your Chair

A spent Stray Cucks blast comes back 12 hours after it was used, so yours are probably ready. Open your chair and fire them.

What Is Next

Two seals left. The fire comes on night seven.

The leaderboard is in every chair's menu, and the whole room plays live on the arena: hexlock.straycucks.com/arena

How to play: hexlock.straycucks.com/guide

Find your chair: hexlock.straycucks.com/find