Lantern Post — local game prototype, version 0.1.3

An original word-ladder adventure for Play Games Daily. Pip the moth courier,
the four districts, 32 letters, postcard messages, 566 short definitions,
forest and character illustrations, user interface, game logic and gentle
synthesised bell sounds were created for this project. SVG and Canvas are
the artwork source formats. System fonts are used.

Third-party input: 566 selected four-letter word spellings from Wordnik's
MIT-licensed free wordlist. Upstream repository: wordnik/wordlist.
Fixed revision: 46e6215d0f90356afe9c8ba4be347e7e98cb425c.
Source file: wordlist-20210729.txt.
Source SHA-256:
bfd1b4eb4ade1ba81e84c7e24248b9a1aecec9d9baa427453b367a83e30e0451
Source URL:
https://github.com/wordnik/wordlist/blob/46e6215d0f90356afe9c8ba4be347e7e98cb425c/wordlist-20210729.txt

Changes to the word data: extract lowercase ASCII four-letter words,
select a small everyday vocabulary, and write new brief explanations.
No paid Wordnik definitions, frequency, part-of-speech or offence labels
are included. Wordnik's full copyright and MIT permission notice accompany
the selected data in LICENSES.txt and in the game's Credits dialog.

No other game's source code, puzzle bank, characters, art, audio, fonts or
branding is included. This package makes no affiliation claim with Wordnik
or another game. The working title has not undergone a trademark clearance.

Everything needed to play is local. No account, analytics, external service
or external asset request is used. Sound starts only after an interaction
and can be muted. The browser can store a namespaced local notebook; if it
cannot, gameplay remains available in memory with an honest notice.

The daily route changes at 00:00 UTC and follows the 32-letter route book
in a repeating 32-day cycle, starting with letter 01 on 2026-10-19.
Custom practice routes earn no postcards. Each curated letter earns one
postcard on its first completion, shared across daily and route-book play.

version.json records the shipped files and SHA-256 checksums. It excludes
itself from the hash list. Development notes, tests, raw dictionary inputs,
research and build scripts are not runtime files and are not distributed.

Main-site shell integration 1 (2026-10-20): collection navigation points to
/#games. In a same-origin host, an explicit collection-link click requests
player exit through a source-checked message. Standalone sibling promotion
links are omitted. The complete original license texts remain in this package.