The goal for day one was 100,000 touches. The room hit it before most of America woke up, then kept going for nineteen more hours and finished at 490,503. That is nearly five times over, on the first day, with nobody explaining what the chair was.

The numbers that matter

• The first seal broke 5 hours and 17 minutes in.
• Day one closed at 490,503 touches, nearly five times its goal.
• About four in five of those touches were hands: people tapping, grabbing and throwing a chair.
• Midnight, when the sheet burned, was the biggest hour HexLock has ever had, about 20% bigger than day one's best.
• Day two reached half its goal in under an hour.

Who played

• Players came from 28 countries. The United States led, then Hong Kong, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.
• 42% played on phones, 58% on desktop.
• About 40% of all play happened inside OpenSea itself: people opened their chair on the marketplace and started tapping right there.
• Only about 1% of touches were turned away by the anti-spam limits. The room played fair.

The shape of the day

The chart tells the story. A slow start in the small hours, a huge morning surge that broke the seal, a long afternoon of steady play, and then a climb all evening, every hour bigger than the last, into the burn at midnight. Nobody had to be told the sheet was coming off. They could feel it.

What we learned, and what changed for day two

• Hands carried day one, so hands still count: 1 point a touch, every hour.
• Scores on day two stay on day one's scale, so nothing earned gets watered down as the goals grow.
• Stray Cucks became real ammo: a blast scores far more than a hand tap on a chair right now, with a fair-play limit so one chair can't soak up a whole wallet.
• Overdrive recharges every cuck when the room pushes past 130% of the day's goal, and again at 175%.

The full rules for stage two: hexlock.straycucks.com/stage2

The board

The top of the board is real and it is earned. The middle is wide open: most of the 500 chairs have barely been touched. One good night of tapping, a few tips, or one cuck volley moves a chair a long way.

Six seals left. It is just a chair.

Find yours: hexlock.straycucks.com/find