← CHOKEPOINTEvery button press plays a real, dated statement

THE VERY CLOSE
SIMULATOR™

Experience 234 days of diplomacy in about a minute. You press the button. The record does the rest.

no percentages were
invented for this game

The full deck · 25 statements · press the button

NO PROGRESS ANNOUNCED. YET.

OPTIMISM STREAKawaiting your first press
“soon” / “very close” “done” not pressed yetred bar: a collapse on record between two presses

SIMULATION STATS

Announcements on file
25
DEAL_SOON, DEAL_VERY_CLOSE, DEAL_EXISTS
…from the President
19
role: President
Laps around the loop
7
deals announced (M3), the deal loop’s “laps completed” (M12)
Agreements still in force
0
M13 · None observed holding. No formal termination on record.
Days since the last press
76
last: Aug 4, 2026, Scott Bessent

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Each button plays only statements of that kind from the corpus, with the date and source.

RULES · The deck is every claim tagged DEAL_SOON, DEAL_VERY_CLOSE, DEAL_EXISTS, in date order (25 today). “What happened next” shows only later corpus records of type DEAL_DEAD, CEASEFIRE_BROKEN, TALKS_OFF, or a STRIKE/RETALIATION of severity 4 or more, and only records marked verification: recorded, each with its date and source. The game invents no quotes, no progress percentages and no outcomes.