# The AI Race
> A satirical turn-based digital board game about artificial intelligence, tech hubris, and questionable ambition. Players draft tech-leader racers with rule-bending powers and compete over four rounds across two board styles.

The AI Race (The Unicorn Grand Prix) is playable directly in modern desktop and mobile browsers without downloads, accounts, or payments. It features solo play against heuristic AI bots and private multiplayer rooms with live updates.

## Core Pages
- [Play The AI Race](https://ai-race.eamag.me/): Interactive game client. Play solo matches against bots or create private multiplayer rooms.
- [How to Play](https://ai-race.eamag.me/how-to-play): Rules for this unofficial adaptation, draft phase, movement mechanics, track layouts (Mild Mile & Wild Wilds), special spaces, and grand prix scoring.
- [The Racers](https://ai-race.eamag.me/racers): Directory of all 24 tech-leader characters, their epithets, rule-bending abilities and trigger timings.

## Game Mechanics & Facts
- Racers: 24 distinct characters inspired by AI industry figures, each with one unique ability.
- Board Tracks: 30 spaces per track. Mild Mile is straightforward racing; Wild Wilds adds stars, trips, and forward/backward arrows.
- Match Format: 4 sequential races with escalating gold medal (3, 4, 4, 5) and silver medal (1, 2, 2, 3) point values.
- Player Count: Supports 2 to 6 players (human or bot).
- Match Duration: Approximately 20–30 minutes.
- Tech Stack: SvelteKit client on Cloudflare Workers with Durable Objects for multiplayer WebSocket coordination.

## Provenance
This is an independent, unofficial adaptation of Magical Athlete (CMYK), by Takashi Ishida and Richard Garfield. The original game has 36 racers; this version implements 24 powers with original AI-generated caricatures. It is not endorsed by CMYK or the people depicted. The guided tutorial has 7 chapters and 28 steps with fixed dice.