Court Order Edition · Planned
Practice your court orders before real life tests them.
A board-and-card game that turns bond conditions, protection orders and custody orders into daily practice, to support understanding of daily conditions.
Planned edition—not playable on this website yet. The capabilities described below are concepts; features, pricing, and launch timing may change.
Don’t trip on your own order. Practice the traps first.
19 in 100
people released before trial broke a release rule or worse
~9 in 10
of those were technical violations: missed tests, contact or curfew
3 courts
can write rules for one person, and they don't always agree
Sources: BJS, Pretrial Release and Misconduct in Federal District Courts (NCJ 239243); ideas42 and UChicago Crime Lab (2018).
The problems it aims to address
Ranked by what's at stake
- 1
Violations are about the rules, not new crimes
Practice turns each condition into a situation you rehearse before it counts.
- 2
Orders from different courts contradict
The game shows which order controls before a tether alarms and police arrive.
- 3
Dense legal language
Your order, rewritten as plain daily choices.
- 4
Routines are easy to miss
Mini-games for the daily testing call, tether charging, check-ins and court dates.
Planned experience
Step by step, start to finish
1
Upload
Paste or photograph the bond, protection order or custody order.
2
Roll
Each square is a day; draw a situation built from your conditions.
3
Decide
Pick what you'd do. A lawyer card can step in. Three strikes revokes your bond.
4
Finish
Clear every day and earn badges and a certificate of completion.
Planned capabilities
Four levels
From one simple bond to three orders that contradict each other.
Lawyer card
Highlights the safest choice and explains why.
Reminders
Real-world nudges for tests, check-ins and court dates.
Completion only
Courts see who finished, never the answers.
From the research to the rehearsal
Small daily decisions can carry serious consequences.
The Order Gauntlet deck turns dense conditions into everyday situations: a testing call, a missed check-in, an unexpected message, or overlapping orders. The goal is to recognize uncertainty before acting.
Translate the order into a routine
Identify required appointments, testing, contact restrictions, and other conditions. Rehearse the everyday situations that make a written rule easy to overlook.
Pause when orders overlap
Different orders can create confusing obligations. Do not guess which one controls; ask your lawyer or the issuing court for clarification.
Learn safely, before it counts
In the prototype, scenario cards and a lawyer card explain choices and consequences. A practice mistake is a chance to understand the condition before facing it in real life.
Research: Order Gauntlet Pitch; BJS, Pretrial Release and Misconduct in Federal District Courts, 2008–2010 (NCJ 239243). The release statistics above describe a federal cohort, not all people under state, custody, or protection orders. The deck’s pilot targets are not proven outcomes.
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