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The Sovereign Trials

Five puzzles. Each one requires breaking the surface to see the system underneath. No trick questions. No coding required. Just curiosity, patience, and the willingness to look where other people don't.

The people we back — geologists in the desert, engineers in classified labs, veterans running contested logistics — all share one habit of mind. This is how we find you.

The Trials

01
Signal discipline

OVERT

Not all things that are invisible are hidden.

Attempt
02
Reconnaissance

GHOSTPATH

Locked — clear the trial before this one.

03
OSINT

STYLESHEET

Locked — clear the trial before this one.

04
Tradecraft

DIPLOMATIC BAG

Locked — clear the trial before this one.

05
Cryptanalysis

DECLASSIFIED

Locked — clear the trial before this one.

Rules — please read

  • Every trial has a solution reachable from the page you're on. You don't need to leave the site, buy anything, install anything, or write any code.
  • Do not contact anyone named on any page for hints. Do not email us for hints.
  • Answers are not case-sensitive; punctuation and spaces are ignored.
  • Cleared trials save to your device (localStorage). Clearing your browser resets progress.
  • Progress cannot be spoofed — completion tokens are signed on our server; a fake token won't mint an Operator code.
  • If a trial genuinely appears broken, come back tomorrow. We rotate one every quarter.
Why we do this

We are not testing whether you know rare-earth chemistry or can quote export-control statutes. We are testing whether, when handed something opaque, you take it apart. That single trait — the reflex to look under the hood — separates the people who built America's arsenal from the people who wrote memos about it.