Taste the Traits
House rules for the Tasting Flight.
Everything about how this works, written out plain: what it costs (nothing), how a ticket is earned, when the counter closes, how the draw is done, and how you check the result yourself afterwards.
Every picture in the Tasting Flight was drawn by a machine.
They’re concept sketches: mood, shape, vibe. Nothing more. We generated them with AI so there would be something to argue about on day one instead of month four.
Our artist draws the finals. Your picks are the mood board.
What wins here changes what gets drawn. It does not become the art. The final collection will look different, and some of what you vote on won’t survive at all — that’s the whole idea. A trait that finishes first is a note to the artist that says “the room wants a big silly hat,” not a finished big silly hat.
So vote for what you’d want to see a real hand draw. That’s the job.
AI concepts. Our artist draws the finals — your picks are the mood board.— the kitchen
The whole deal on one check.
The long version is underneath. Nothing below contradicts anything here — if it ever looks like it does, the server is right and this page is stale, so tell us.
- Cost to enterFree. Always.
- How long it runs7 days
- Flights for a ticket10 a day
- Most tickets possible8
- Whitelist spots drawnabout 20
- Counter closeswhen the seven days are up
- Draw methodCommit–reveal, checkable by hand
Live numbers load when the counter is open. Everything above is the house default.
It’s free. All of it.
There is nothing to buy, nothing to hold, and nothing to pay — not to vote, not to earn a ticket, not to win a spot.
No money, no token, no gas.
You never pay us anything to taste, to earn a ticket, or to be drawn. There is no entry fee, no minimum balance, and no transaction of any kind on this side of the counter.
If you connect a wallet, all you do is sign a message. Signing proves the wallet is yours. It is not a transaction, it costs no gas, it moves nothing, and it gives us no permission to touch anything you own. Anyone who tells you the Doughies asked for a payment or an approval to vote is not us.
You don’t need a wallet to vote.
Anybody can walk in and start tasting — no name, no sign-in, nothing. Those picks are recorded and they go into the same pile the artist reads. That’s the point: we’d rather have the honest opinion of somebody who will never own an NFT than lock the door to keep the room tidy.
A ticket is the one thing that needs a name, because the drum has to be able to shout for somebody. Sign in with X or a signed wallet and today’s ticket is yours.
Voting without a name can’t be cashed in later.
If you taste anonymously and sign in afterwards, those earlier flights don’t turn into a ticket retroactively. We know that reads a little mean, and we’d rather explain it than dress it up: “clear the cookie, vote ten, connect a second wallet” is the easiest farm in the world, and closing it is the only reason the drum means anything.
Sign in first and the same twenty-five flights earn you the day. The label you already agreed to comes with you either way — we won’t make you read it twice.
Twenty-five flights a day. One ticket. That’s the whole trick.
Tickets are earned by showing up, not by grinding. Volume buys you nothing at the drum, on purpose — the person who taps four hundred times in one sitting should not out-vote seven people who came back all week.
How it adds up
A day is a Doughies day — it flips at midnight New York time, same as the punch card in the Game Room. The clock in the footer is the one we run on. Eight is the ceiling for everyone. Nobody can hold nine.
A flight is one screen of four concepts.
You get four trait concepts from the same category and you tap the one you’d most want drawn. If none of them deserve it, hit “none of these” — that is a real answer, it counts toward your ten, and it is genuinely the most useful thing you can tell the artist. A trait everybody skips is a trait that gets cut.
Thin categories may serve two or three tiles instead of four. Same rules.
Twenty-five flights in a day earns one ticket — one, and no more.
The tenth qualifying flight of the day mints the ticket on the spot. Flight eleven does not add a second one. Neither does flight three hundred.
Keep tasting anyway if you’re enjoying it: everything past ten is pure signal for the artist, and it’s the part that actually decides which traits live. We just won’t pay you twice for it.
Take a second to look.
A tap under about a second isn’t a look at four pictures, so it gets recorded but doesn’t count toward the day’s ten. We’re telling you the number plainly because a script would find it by timing in an afternoon anyway, and a genuinely fast human deserves to know why a round didn’t tick over.
Nothing is lost. Slow down half a beat and the next one counts.
A ticket needs a name you can prove.
Either a connected X account or a wallet you’ve signed with. Both work, neither is better at the drum, and you can link the two later without losing anything — your flights and your tickets follow the account.
Typing a handle into a box is a claim, not proof, so it doesn’t earn tickets. That has nothing to do with trusting you and everything to do with the fact that a text box will happily accept somebody else’s name.
Show up all seven days and we throw one in.
Seven days earned out of seven pays a bonus ticket — eight in total. Miss a day and the streak just stops paying the bonus; every ticket you already earned stays exactly where it is. Nothing you’ve banked can be taken back by a bad week.
Things that will never earn a ticket.
- Referrals. There is no invite link, no referral code, and there never will be. It is the single most reliable way to turn a community vote into a bot farm, so the feature simply does not exist.
- Volume. Ten is ten. Four hundred flights is ten.
- Following, posting, or reposting. Sharing is welcome and it earns you a card and a spot on the tasters board. It does not earn tickets.
- Extra wallets. One person with six wallets is still one person to us, and the caps in the next section are built around exactly that.
- Paying us. See above. There is no version of this where money buys a ticket.
How we keep it honest.
Two things are being protected here and they’re not the same thing: the artist’s read of what people actually like, and a fair drum. We treat them differently.
Nobody loses a ticket to a robot’s hunch.
When a lot of accounts earn tickets from one device in a day, the extra ones get set aside as held rather than granted. Held is not gone and it is not an accusation — it means a person in the kitchen looks at it and either releases it or doesn’t. A shared house, a school, a phone passed around a table: all of that is normal, and all of it gets released.
A shared IP address on its own never disqualifies anything. Offices, campuses and whole countries share addresses; punishing that would punish the wrong people every single time.
The artist’s read is weighted. Your ticket isn’t.
When we tally what the room liked, one account can only push a category so far before its extra opinions stop moving the needle. That keeps a single well-organised group — or a single very enthusiastic person — from deciding a whole category on their own.
That weighting only ever touches the ranking. It never reduces a ticket, never cancels a day, and never shows up as a score on your screen. You will not get a message telling you your vote didn’t count, because we don’t do that.
The kitchen can pull a ticket, and it says so out loud.
If we find a genuine farm — scripted taps, a wall of throwaway wallets — we’ll void those tickets before the draw. That decision is made by a person, it’s recorded, and it happens before the entry list is sealed and published, so the sealed list you can inspect is the list that was actually drawn from.
The team is not in the drum.
Nobody on the Doughies team — the kitchen, the artist, anyone holding a studio password — enters the Tasting Flight or takes a spot from it. Team and treasury wallets are excluded from the draw, and any that somehow appear in the entry list are removed before it’s sealed, not after.
The sealed list is public, so this is a promise you can audit rather than one you have to take on faith.
Seven days, then the counter closes.
The window is seven Doughies days in a row, and a Doughies day flips at midnight New York time. The server owns the clock — your device’s timezone never decides whether a flight landed on Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Openedannounced on the feed
- Last day to tasteseven days after it opens
- Counter closesmidnight New York, end of day seven
- Entry list sealedafter the close, before the seed is shown
- Drawannounced on the feed, results posted here
When the last day ends the flight screen stops accepting picks and points you at the standings. Nothing is lost mid-session — a pick that lands a second after the close is answered honestly, not silently dropped.
How the draw is done.
Same machinery the community raffles use, with one extra lock on it. The short version: the random number was fixed before anybody voted, the entry list was published before the random number was shown, and both halves are yours to check.
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Before day one
We generate a secret and publish its fingerprint.
Before a single flight is served, the server picks a secret number and publishes
sha256(secret)— a fingerprint that can’t be run backwards. It goes up on the raffle page and on our feed. Because it exists before anyone has entered, the shuffle was already decided before we knew who would be in it. -
Every day, while it runs
Each day gets sealed with its own fingerprint.
When a Doughies day flips, we hash that day’s ticket ledger — who qualified, how many flights, granted or held — and publish that fingerprint too. It means nobody can quietly hand a friend a ticket on day six and pretend it was there on day two. Tampering with an earlier day would break a fingerprint that’s already public.
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After the close
The entry list is frozen and published — seed still secret.
Once the counter closes we build the drum: one line per person, with their ticket count and the days they earned. We publish the exact bytes and their fingerprint while the secret is still sealed.
This is the extra lock, and it’s the whole reason we bothered. Ticket counts are earned after the seed fingerprint goes up, so committing to the seed alone would still leave room to quietly change somebody’s weight at the end. Publishing the frozen list first closes that door: after this moment, neither the list nor the seed can move.
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The draw
The secret is revealed and the winners fall out of it.
We publish the secret. Anyone can check it against the fingerprint from step one, then run the shuffle themselves over the published list and get the same winners, in the same order. We can’t re-roll it and neither can anyone else.
Do it yourself
More tickets means more chances, and this is exactly how — each ticket gets its own draw key and you keep your best one. At a few hundred voters that’s a couple of thousand hashes, which is a spreadsheet’s afternoon.
check the fingerprint:
sha256(secret) === the fingerprint published before day one
then, for every entry on the sealed list,
and for each of its tickets numbered 0, 1, 2, ...:
key = sha256(secret + "|" + entry id + "#" + ticket number)
keep each entry's SMALLEST key
sort those keys as text, lowest first
the first 20 are the winners, in that order
Where the numbers live.
- The proof page — the fingerprint, the daily seals, the sealed entry list, the revealed secret once it’s out, and the winners.
- The raw ledger — the exact bytes that were hashed, as plain text, so you can hash them yourself instead of trusting our arithmetic. Empty until the list is sealed.
- The raffle page — the fingerprint and the draw, on the same commit–reveal page the community raffles use. The raffle page — the same commit–reveal page the community raffles use. It gets a link right here the moment a tasting opens.
Everything is served from this site. Nothing on the proof page depends on a link that could quietly expire.
Why your name isn’t on the sealed list in full.
X handles show as handles — that’s a public name and there’s nothing to hide. Wallets are masked the way they are everywhere else on this site, because “provably fair” shouldn’t mean publishing three hundred addresses for anyone to scrape.
Every entry carries a short code derived from the campaign and your account, so you can recompute your own line and find yourself in the list without us publishing anyone’s address. The recipe for that code is on the proof page too.
What a whitelist spot is — and what it isn’t.
We’d rather undersell this than have anybody feel sold to. Here is the honest shape of the prize.
It is a reserved place in line.
A whitelist spot means that if there is a mint, you get first shot at it before the general public, under whatever terms are announced at the time. It’s recorded on the same whitelist ledger every other lane in the diner feeds into, and it doesn’t expire on its own.
It is not a guaranteed mint.
It is not a free NFT, not a reservation of a specific Doughie, and not a promise that a mint happens at all. We have no date and no countdown, and we’ve said so on the front page since the first day. If a drop happens, a spot means you’re at the front of the line for it — nothing more than that, and we won’t pretend otherwise to make this sound bigger.
There is no price, no supply number and no schedule attached to a spot today, because none of those exist yet.
It isn’t an investment, and it isn’t for sale.
Nothing here is a financial product or financial advice, and nobody should treat a spot as one. A spot belongs to the account that earned it. It isn’t transferable and we won’t honour one that’s been sold, traded or handed off — if a spot shows up on a marketplace, it stops being a spot.
How you claim it.
Winners are posted on the results page and announced on the feed. If you won under an X handle, connect a wallet to your account whenever you like — there’s no rush and no separate form to hunt down. If you won with a wallet, it’s already attached.
We will never DM you a link, never ask you to sign a transaction to “confirm” a spot, and never ask for a seed phrase. Anything that does is a scam, no matter whose name is on it.
If something goes wrong, we’ll say so.
If the tasting has to be voided — a real bug, a botched deploy, a farm big enough to poison the whole thing — we’ll void it publicly, explain what happened in plain words, and re-run it. We won’t quietly change a rule mid-week and hope nobody re-reads this page.
The spot count is set when the tasting opens and doesn’t shrink afterwards. Approximately twenty is the plan; the exact number is on the check at the top of this page and on the raffle page from day one.
Straight answers.
Do I have to vote every day?
No. Every day you do twenty-five flights is a ticket; days you skip are just days you skip. Only the perfect-week bonus needs all seven.
Can I change a pick?
No — a flight is counted the moment you tap, and the reveal shows you the room’s split straight away. First instinct is the honest one anyway.
Does “none of these” hurt my ticket?
Not at all. It counts toward your ten exactly like a pick, and it’s worth more to the artist than a shrug. Say it when you mean it.
I voted on my phone and my laptop.
Fine, as long as it’s the same account. The account is the unit, not the device. Many devices, one you: normal. Many accounts, one device: that’s where the caps live.
I have an X handle and a wallet.
Link them and they become one account — flights, tickets, streak and badges all follow. You don’t get two drums by having two ways in.
Will my favourite trait actually get made?
Maybe, in spirit. Your picks tell the artist what the room wants; the artist draws it by hand from scratch. Nothing you vote on ships as-is.
Can I see what the room is picking?
Yes — the standings are public, including the chopping block, which is the bottom of each category and openly rescuable while the counter is still open.
My ticket says “held”.
It means a person will look at it, not that you did something wrong. Held tickets get released by hand before the list is sealed. Nothing is lost while it waits.
Is this the same as the Game Room punch card?
Separate lane, separate ledger. Tasting doesn’t punch your card and punching your card doesn’t earn tasting tickets. You can do both, every day.
That’s the whole rulebook.
If something on this page turns out to be wrong or unclear, tell us on the feed and we’ll fix the page rather than argue with you about it. Rules that only make sense to the house aren’t rules, they’re a trap.
AI concepts. Our artist draws the finals — your picks are the mood board.