Ostraka

Ostraka, the daily cultural investigation

Investigation #9 · Friday, October 23, 2026

What disappeared today?

A memory has come undone… an invention.

It clacked, steadily, like a door being shut a thousand times. Then nothing.

How to play

  1. Every day, a memory disappears: a place, a work, a famous person… It is broken into three fragments.
  2. Each workshop you finish, solved or not, restores a fragment and reveals a trace: a place, a date, a person…
  3. After each trace, only one guess: moving on to the next workshop means giving it up. Found with one trace, it's the Gold crest; with two, Silver; with three, Bronze.
  4. The picture is deliberately off: the Archive has misunderstood the memory. Trust the traces first.
  5. Found: its card joins your collection. Missed: it stays tarnished there, without a crest, but you still get the explanation.