The game guide · Trust
How to play A Promise You Can Keep
Arrange a modest promise from offer to follow-through. Put the numbered steps into ascending order. This small sequencing puzzle gives an everyday theme a clear beginning and finish, with room to consider what the steps suggest.
Your starting point
Arrange a modest promise from offer to follow-through.
The rules
Tap the numbered steps from smallest to largest. Each correct tap adds a step to your journey. If a step is out of order, use the feedback to find the next number.
A helpful approach
Find the smallest number first, then look for the next one before tapping. The ordered trail keeps completed steps visible while you choose what comes next. Think of trust as clear information and realistic follow-through, with room for both people to state their limits.
After the game
Which real task would feel clearer if you named only its next small step? 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 A Promise You Can Keep with me, if you fancy a little trust today.
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