The following rules concern this original demo alone. Its calculations do not establish the mathematics, security, legality or catalogue of another product. There are no monetary deposits or customer accounts in the demo.
Independent guide and Diagonal Companions
KM98 is a search name here without a confirmed commercial identity. This guide hosts its own Diagonal Companions game. It confirms no outside operator, affiliation, official domain, licence, payment service or app. Similar naming does not establish a shared publisher.
The following rules concern this original demo alone. Its calculations do not establish the mathematics, security, legality or catalogue of another product. There are no monetary deposits or customer accounts in the demo.
Exactly one main-diagonal hazard with companions
Choose 3, 4 or 5 hazards on the 4×4 board. Exactly one hazard lies on the main diagonal from top-left to bottom-right. Every hazard, including that one, must have another hazard one row and one column away. Orthogonal adjacency alone does not qualify.
The anti-diagonal has no quota and separate diagonal-connected groups are allowed. Legal supports contain 6, 40 and 120 layouts for three, four and five hazards. Sample uniformly once; never relocate. A1 and D4 are safe in every supported mode: a corner hazard would require its diagonal neighbour, creating two main-diagonal hazards.
Independent boards and conditional prices
Independent enumeration checks all 65,536 binary 4×4 boards for the chosen hazard count, exactly one main-diagonal hazard and a diagonal companion for every hazard. It compares the support and conditional cell probabilities with the actual source. At least one million actual-source rounds are simulated for each mode.
This is evidence about this original demo only. It does not establish an outside publisher, licence, certified RNG, payment feature, legal permission or app safety.
Local storage and page requests
The game does not require a customer account, identity document or bank information. Local storage explains the balance and fractional carry, but does not imply that every request made while loading the page stays on the device.
Font, analytics, hosting and CDN requests may transmit technical information such as IP address and request details. This guide promises no complete anonymity, precise retention period, absence of profiling or third-party data-sale policy. Those questions require the providers’ own information.
Optional use and personal limits
Participation is optional and offers no monetary prize. You may choose not to begin another round. Past outcomes do not make a fresh layout more favourable. A personal time limit does not change the layout distribution or conditional quote calculation.
This guide provides no clinical self-test, universal legal-age claim, confirmed external self-exclusion feature or promised transferable gambling skill. If play disrupts daily life, qualified local support may help. A free demo does not establish another product’s safety.
Frequently asked questions
Does the name establish a publisher?
KM98 is a search name here without a confirmed commercial identity. This guide hosts its own Diagonal Companions game. It confirms no outside operator, affiliation, official domain, licence, payment service or app. Similar naming does not establish a shared publisher. The following rules concern this original demo alone. Its calculations do not establish the mathematics, security, legality or catalogue of another product. There are no monetary deposits or customer accounts in the demo.
What makes a hazard layout legal?
Choose 3, 4 or 5 hazards on the 4×4 board. Exactly one hazard lies on the main diagonal from top-left to bottom-right. Every hazard, including that one, must have another hazard one row and one column away. Orthogonal adjacency alone does not qualify. The anti-diagonal has no quota and separate diagonal-connected groups are allowed. Legal supports contain 6, 40 and 120 layouts for three, four and five hazards. Sample uniformly once; never relocate. A1 and D4 are safe in every supported mode: a corner hazard would require its diagonal neighbour, creating two main-diagonal hazards.
How is the chosen cell priced?
After the opened safe cells are known, let N be the number of legal layouts consistent with that history. For an unopened cell let K be the number of those layouts where it is safe. Its safe probability is K/N. Each eligible cell shows that probability; it is not a generic remaining-safe-cells ratio. The quote starts at 0.97. A safe reveal changes quote q to q×N/K, using the probability of that very chosen cell before revealing it. A hazard ends the round with zero return. Collect returns captured stake times quote, with fractional carry. The identity (K/N)×(q×N/K)=q explains 97% expected gross return for choices using revealed information. This is not a win probability or a guaranteed session return.
Do guaranteed-safe cells remove the opening loss?
A cell safe in every remaining layout has probability one. Opening it leaves the quote unchanged. Collecting after a guaranteed-safe first pick returns 0.97 times the captured stake, so it does not avoid the opening three-percent expected loss. If no eligible uncertain cell remains, the current quote settles automatically even when unopened proven-safe cells remain. Proven hazards and quotes above 1,000× are disabled.
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