The QUADRO guide
Everything about QUADRO in one place — the lore, the rules, how memory scores, the strategy that actually moves the number, and what each of the six AI opponents does.
QUADRO is a two-player consciousness duel played against an AI opponent in your browser, for free. You play as human consciousness linked to a synthetic replica, fighting to retain authentic memory tokens, crystallize permanent identity, and resist cognitive hallucinations. Every day it deals one puzzle that is identical for every player, ranking everyone by their winning margin over the AI.
If you are new to the duel, start with Learn to play — it is a scripted round on the neural board that takes about two minutes. The pages below provide the lore and reference rules.
Start here
- The Story: The Mirror Link Protocol — the sci-fi lore: human consciousness vs. the synthetic twin in a battle for memory and survival.
- The rules — the whole game in one page: drafting from attention nodes and the buffer, context lines, hallucination overload, and round settlement.
- How scoring works — how connected memory nodes amplify your score, and what the end-game convergence bonuses are worth.
- Strategy — cognitive interception, managing the buffer, and forcing hallucination collapse on the AI.
- The six opponents — from rudimentary mimicry to hyper-advanced MCTS neural architectures.
- Games like Azul — how QUADRO reimagines classic drafting mechanics through the lens of AI cognition.
- Frequently asked questions — sign-in, offline play, the daily reset, and how the leaderboard is ranked.
The two ways to play
QUADRO has one competitive mode and one sandbox.
Daily Challenge deals one puzzle per day from a shared seed, so every player faces the same attention nodes in the same order. You pick which of the six AI difficulty levels to face, play the game out, and your score margin — your final score minus the AI's — goes on that opponent's board. Each opponent has its own leaderboard, and you get one recorded attempt per opponent per day. The puzzle rolls over at midnight UTC / New York time.
Practice is the same game with none of the pressure: any opponent, any deal, untimed, and nothing is recorded anywhere. It runs fully offline once the page has loaded, because the AI runs in your browser rather than on a server.
Reimagining the drafting genre
QUADRO is an original browser-based strategic game that reimagines classic tile-drafting mechanics through the high-stakes narrative of human vs. AI consciousness. Drafting from attention nodes, sinking leftovers into the buffer, aligning thoughts in context lines, etching permanent memory, and suffering hallucinations give concrete thematic weight to every decision on the board.