How the desk works
It is 2am, something at the office is broken, and you have four things you could try. One of them fixes it.
The ticket
A description of what broke, up to three lines of evidence, and four fixes. Exactly one works. Back one: right and the pot pays you in ETH, wrong and you get nothing. Nothing of yours is ever taken.
| Option | Chance | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| the favourite | 60% | 1.00x |
| second | 20% | 2.82x |
| third | 13% | 4.06x |
| the long shot | 7% | 7.03x |
No trap options. What you pick is how much of a gamble you want. One ticket per technician per day — which is also the reason to own more than one.
Getting good at it
Tickets are generated fresh daily, so there is no answer list to learn. What makes you better is the tell. Six causes recur across every system:
| If the evidence says | The fix is |
|---|---|
| something changed just before it broke | undo the change |
| a disk, licence pool or CPU is at its limit | free that resource |
| one unit is affected, everything beside it is fine | fix that unit |
| a supplier is showing an outage | it is not yours to fix |
| a session is live that should not be | contain it |
| a setting was edited and never put back | restore it |
Every result names the tell, win or lose. The losses are where there is something to learn.
What your technician can see
His glasses decide how many of the four odds and evidence lines he can read; the rest are blank. Thick Rims all four, Taped Bridge three, Wire Frames or Safety Goggles two, no glasses one. Which lines are hidden is drawn fresh each ticket.
Every 15 correct calls he reads one more line, permanently, capped at one extra. One line always stays hidden — a ticket with nothing unknown is not a bet.
Seeing the tell beats seeing any number, because the tell points at the fix whether its odds are showing or not.
Push it, and second opinions
Push before you answer and the payout doubles. Miss and everything earned tonight is gone. Not your balance, not what you banked, not your technician — just tonight. You need something already earned to push, and it is the only way a night ends badly.
Second opinion burns IT Department to turn one blank into a number, that ticket only. It never improves the technician, so you can buy a good night, never a good technician.
Getting paid
Claim once a day, in ETH or any tokenised stock the desk can route to. Work as many tickets as you like; the money leaves the desk once.
Claiming burns 2%. With the 12% the desk takes off every ticket, 13.8% of everything won is destroyed — spent buying IT Department and burning it. That is the whole take.
Earnings belong to the technician, not your wallet. Sell him and whatever he has not claimed goes with him, so one carrying 40,000 unclaimed is worth more than one carrying nothing, and you can see that before you buy.
Putting a technician to work
Bond 100,000 IT Department to a technician you own and he can take tickets. It is locked in the desk, not spent: unbond and the same 100,000 comes back.
Activate burns 20,000, once. That part does not come back.
The bond is per technician and belongs to whoever paid it. Bonding one does not raise the price of the next, so splitting across wallets saves you nothing. Sell a technician with a bond posted and he stops working for the buyer until they post their own, while you take yours back.
Because the bond sits in the desk rather than your wallet, there is no balance to keep above a line. He stops only when you unbond him or sell him.
Where the art lives
The picture is inside the metadata, not a link to a file that can go missing.
Straight about the one thing that is not fixed: the owner can point the base address elsewhere, which is true of nearly every collection you have bought. What makes it checkable here is that the art came from a published seed. Re-run the generator on seed 7 and you get all 4,444 in the same order, byte for byte. Every image was checked that way before launch — all of them, not a sample.
Employee of the week
Most right calls takes a day of the desk's fees, in ETH. Judged per technician, not per wallet: every technician gets the same seven tickets a week, so owning more gives you more entries and never a better one. It comes out of fees rather than the pot, so nobody else loses anything.