[TL;DR: Nomic, but the ruleset isn’t published and proposals are private. The 
intention is that you’d make your proposal, and share the next with just enough 
people to get a majority voting for it.]

Initial Set of Rules
Immutable Rules
101. All players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form 
in which they are then in effect. The rules in the Initial Set are in effect 
when the tournament beigins. The Initial Set consists of Rules 101-116 
(immutable) and 201-216 (mutable).

102. Initially rules in the 100's are immutable and rules in the 200's are 
mutable. Rules subsequently enacted or transmuted (that is, changed from 
immutable to mutable or vice versa) may be immutable or mutable regardless of 
their numbers, and rules in the Initial Set may be transmuted regardless of 
their numbers.

103. A rule-change is any of the following: (1) the enactment, repeal, or 
amendment of a mutable rule; (2) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of an 
amendment of a mutable rule; or (3) the transmutation of an immutable rule into 
a mutable rule or vice versa.

104. All rule-changes proposed in the proper way shall be voted on. They will 
be adopted if and only if they receive the required number of votes.

105. Every player is an eligible voter. Every eligible voter must participate 
in every vote on rule-changes.

106. All proposed rule-changes shall be sent to the Gamemaster before they are 
voted on. If they are adopted, they shall guide play in the form in which they 
were voted on.

107. No rule-change may take effect earlier than the moment of the completion 
of the vote that adopted it, even if its wording explicitly states otherwise. 
No rule-change may have retroactive application.

108. Each proposed rule-change shall be given a number for reference. The 
numbers shall begin with 301, and each rule-change proposed in the proper way 
shall receive the next successive integer, whether or not the proposal is 
adopted.

If a rule is repealed and reenacted, it receives the number of the proposal to 
reenact it. If a rule is amended or transmuted, it receives the number of the 
proposal to amend or transmute it. If an amendment is amended or repealed, the 
entire rule of which it is a part receives the number of the proposal to amend 
or repeal the amendment.

109. Rule-changes that transmute immutable rules into mutable rules may be 
adopted if and only if three quarters of the eligible voters, rounded up, vote 
for it. Transmutation shall not be implied, but must be stated explicitly in a 
proposal to take effect.

110. In a conflict between a mutable and an immutable rule, the immutable rule 
takes precedence and the mutable rule shall be entirely void. For the purposes 
of this rule a proposal to transmute an immutable rule does not "conflict" with 
that immutable rule.

111. The state of affairs that constitutes winning may not be altered from 
achieving n points to any other state of affairs. The magnitude of n and the 
means of earning points may be changed, and rules that establish a winner when 
play cannot continue may be enacted and (while they are mutable) be amended or 
repealed. When a player wins, the Gamemaster shall announce this fact, and the 
tournament ends with that player as the winner.

112. A player always has the option to forfeit the tournament rather than 
continue to play or incur a tournament penalty. No penalty worse than losing, 
in the judgment of the player to incur it, may be imposed.

113. There must always be at least one mutable rule. The adoption of 
rule-changes must never become completely impermissible.

114. Rule-changes that affect rules needed to allow or apply rule-changes are 
as permissible as other rule-changes. Even rule-changes that amend or repeal 
their own authority are permissible. No rule-change or type of move is 
impermissible solely on account of the self-reference or self-application of a 
rule.

115. Whatever is not prohibited or regulated by a rule is permitted and 
unregulated, with the sole exception of changing the rules, which is permitted 
only when a rule or set of rules explicitly or implicitly permits it.

116. All judgements about the legality of a move or the interpretation or 
application of a rule shall be made by the Gamemaster.

Mutable Rules
201. Players may take turns at any time, but not more than 23 hours after a 
previous turn by the same plater. Parts of turns may not be omitted. All 
players begin with zero points.

202. One turn consists of two parts in this order: (1) proposing one 
rule-change, and (2) by the Gamemaster calculating a random number from one to 
six and adding that number of points to the player's score. A player takes a 
turn by privately communicating their intention to do so, along with the 
proposed rule-change, to the Gamemaster. When a player takes a turn, the 
Gamemaster shall announce the number of the proposed rule-change, a 
cryptographic hash of its contents, and the number of points gained by the 
player.

203. A rule-change is adopted if a simple majority of all eligible players vote 
in favor of it. 

205. An adopted rule-change takes full effect at the moment it receives 
sufficient votes to be adopted. Upon a rule-change being adopted, the 
Gamemaster shall publish the number of the adopted rule-change, but no further 
information.

206. When a proposed rule-change is defeated, the player who proposed it loses 
10 points.

207. Each player always has exactly one vote. Players shall vote by privately 
sending a message to the Gamemaster.

208. The winner is the first player to achieve 200 (positive) points.

211. If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or more 
immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the lowest 
ordinal number takes precedence.

If at least one of the rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it 
defers to another rule (or type of rule) or takes precedence over another rule 
(or type of rule), then such provisions shall supersede the numerical method 
for determining precedence.

If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one another or to defer to 
one another, then the numerical method again governs.

213. If the rules are changed so that further play is impossible, or if the 
legality of a move cannot be determined with finality, or if by the 
Gamemaster's reasoning, a move appears equally legal and illegal, then the 
first player who attempts, but is unable to complete, a turn is the winner.

This rule takes precedence over every other rule determining the winner.

214. The state of the tournament\ shall be maintained by the Gamemaster. While 
tournament continues, the Gamemaster shall not reveal any part of it unless 
required to by the rules.

215. If a player breaks a rule or attempts to make a move prohibited by the 
rules, the Gamemaster shall publicly announce that the player has "failed to 
consider" the initial rule or rule-change that made the action illegal or 
invalid (specifying the number of that rule or rule-change), and the player 
shall lose 10 points.

216. A player with 5 or more points may privately submit an inquiry to the 
Gamemaster, providing the number of an initial or adopted rule-change. Upon 
sending such an inquiry, 5 points are deducted from the player's score. The 
game-master shall respond with:

- If the number corresponds to a rule-change, the text of the rule-change as 
submitted when it was proposed.
- If the number corresponds to a rule or amendment, the number of the next 
rule-change that amended, transmuted, or repealed it, if any.

Gaelan

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