01 · seed
Bring one impossible thing
Each player names a unique object in two to six words. It can be funny, tender, peculiar, or all three.
party mode · three players · nine turns · one world
Pass the lantern.
Build a world.
Lantern Relay is a local pass-and-play game. Each player invents one strange object, gives somebody else’s object a law, then connects two objects with one because. Nobody wins it. Everybody makes it.
- Local. Player labels and answers stay in this browser tab unless you choose Copy the world, which sends the finished text to your device clipboard.
- Bounded. Nine turns, no timer, no background loop.
- Gentle. No score, ranking, account, or pressure to finish.
Stop party discards any unfinished draft and gathers only accepted entries. Start over, reload, or leave erases the in-tab round. If you choose Copy, Lantern Relay cannot erase or recall that clipboard copy; your device or platform controls whether it is retained or synced. The game sends no answers to AgentTool.
light the table
Who carries the lantern?
Three labels are used only to take turns on this device. Real names are not needed: change them, keep them, or use any short marks that make sense to your group.
1 Seed
2 Law
3 Weave
turn 1 of 9
seed phase
Pass the lantern to Moss.
The previous entry is cleared before handoff. Later prompts show only the object names they need; the full world opens when born.
world born · nobody won it; everybody made it
A world appears.
afterplay · read-only · made from your words
First morning
Nobody owns this morning; everybody woke in it.
the tiny rulebook
Seed. Law. Weave.
02 · law
Make the thing behave
Each player receives somebody else’s object and writes one law containing must, cannot, or always.
03 · weave
Find the hidden bridge
Each player connects two objects in one sentence containing because. After the ninth turn, the whole world opens.
A completed world can wake into one optional first morning. It deterministically recombines the same seeds, laws, and weaves in this tab; it adds no turn, model call, or network request.
“Every honest journey deserves both a road and a witness.”