10 November 2026 · Identity and finding players
Three things to judge. Each player's mark as a true fingerprint. The card a profile link shows when it's shared. And a dock at the bottom of the phone with Play, Players and You.
Today: a 3 × 3 board, mirrored, all on slate, about 700 different marks, so two players share one almost at once. Both options below keep the idea (ivory and ebony stones on a board) and are given out once per account, checked to be unused, so no two players ever share a mark. Your mark then stays with you through a change of username.
"Share profile" on your own profile sends zei.st/you. This is the card Messages, WhatsApp, X and Discord show for it: your mark large, your name, your ranks, a few milestone tokens. Drawn the same way as the game cards.
On iPhone this is the system's own Liquid Glass tab bar (iOS 26), so it moves, sounds and reads like every good app on the phone. Phone web gets the same three in the glass dock the landing already uses. Players is search plus the people you follow.