The game guide · Trust
How to play The Clearly Marked Way
Use the displayed arrows as clear information for the next move. Follow a displayed arrow sequence using the direction controls. Each turn gives you one clear choice, forming a short imaginary route around the feeling you have selected.
Your starting point
Use the displayed arrows as clear information for the next move.
The rules
Read the displayed arrow sequence. Press the direction controls in that exact order, one arrow at a time. Use the feedback to correct a new attempt.
A helpful approach
Read each arrow in order and connect it with its matching control. Treat the route as a sequence of small turns instead of one large guess. Think of trust as clear information and realistic follow-through, with room for both people to state their limits.
After the game
What makes a next step easier to take when a whole route feels uncertain? What small promise could you make clearer, or what timely update would help someone know what to expect?
There is no need to turn a small moment into a perfect performance. Play again if you want to explore it, or leave it here and take the thought into your day.
The feeling behind it
Trust can grow through ordinary reliability, honest limits and attention to another person’s boundaries. A game never asks for blind faith.
Community practices inspire cooperation. These games do not recreate their rituals or treat trust as unquestioning obedience.
Read our trust story, inspired by Tugging rituals and games in Cambodia, Philippines, Republic of Korea and Viet Nam. The UNESCO: Tugging rituals and games provides the source context.
Share the invitation
A small promise, carefully kept. Try The Clearly Marked Way with me, if you fancy a little trust today.
If someone comes to mind, send them a game they might enjoy. Add your own words, let them choose whether to play, and keep private details out of a public link.