Four editions in, and the pattern became obvious: when everyone can read what's already been written, the story stops being an exquisite corpse and starts being a very polite group essay. So we're leveling up — exactly as announced — and playing this the way the surrealists actually played it in 1925.

What changes

You will no longer see the story before you write your part.

• 🙈 Each participant who wants to contribute will receive, by private message, only the last three words of the text they need to continue.
• ✍️ You write your paragraph blind — no context, no safety net, just three words and your imagination.
• 📤 Once your part is ready, send it back to the organizer.
• 🧩 The organizer will stitch the pieces together as they come in, in the order received. The full story won't be visible to anyone — including you — until it's assembled and published.

This is the real exquisite corpse: fragments folded over, nobody seeing the whole, nobody steering the ending. If the result is beautifully incoherent, that's not a bug — that's the 1925 experience, working as intended.

What stays the same

• 🗓️ Starts: every Sunday
• 🏁 Closes: every Saturday, 23:45 GMT
• 🌐 Language: English (translate with whatever tool you trust if you don't write in it)
• 📏 Length: no minimum, no maximum
• 👥 Number of participants: unlimited
• 🧠 Your only job is to write something that could plausibly follow three words — coherence with the rest of the story is no longer your problem. It's ours.
• 🤖 Bots, multi-accounts, and AI-generated entries: still not welcome, still subject to being flagged and muted unless legitimacy is demonstrated.

Rewards — updated split

• 50% of the liquid Steem rewards earned by the weekly post goes to the participating authors.
• 25% goes to the community and special beneficiaries.
• 25% goes to the organizer.
• The 500 SP delegation from our dear @weisser-rabe for participants who meet the criteria remains in place.

New rule — proof of participation:

One more thing

This is still evolving. If the "three words by DM" system turns out to be chaos nobody can manage, we'll adjust again. That's the deal with a pilot: it gets better because people play it, break it, and tell us what to fix.

Ready? Write to request your three words, and let's see what we build without seeing it.