Product contract

Two deliberately separate loops

Nindova House is for adults 18 and over. Five Grand Salon category doors hold eight authored games. The Night Room is the original bounded wind-down Session.

The Two-Loop Law applies without exception inside the Night Room: Nindova may be satisfying during the current Session and inviting when a person returns another night, but it must never use satisfaction to make the current Session harder to leave.

Anything that makes tonight harder to leave is a bug.

Grand Salon contract

• Five category doors group eight games, each with five authored chapters, tactical studies, or Acts and a deterministic curtain call.
• Navakankari, Aadu Puli Aattam, and Pallanguzhi remain visibly labeled sourced authored rule studies. Their documented scopes, included mechanics, and omitted full-match rules must remain available from the play surface. They are not complete matches or claims of one definitive pan-Indian ruleset.
• Chapter position is allowed inside the chosen entertainment game. There is no leaderboard, streak, randomized reward, social comparison, or attention-pressure language.
• Sector Sprint is an original Chandigarh exploration playground: deliberate walking, jump/dash courses, temporary power-ups, ordinary errand props, and a five-encounter homecoming. The first three courses are open in any order. Guided help and a complete narrated route require no precision, motion, vision or sound. Ten foreground minutes replace the old runner boundary; pause/hide/blur/exit suspend it, and unfinished or early closure records no completion. Positions, power-ups, ribbons, bag and timing stay in memory. No scores, lives, random rewards, persistent collection or sleep claims. The Night Room is unchanged.
• Completion is recorded only as a versioned entertainment result. The Gallery keeps at most one replaceable result per game.
• Entertainment play does not produce an assessment result or infer a cognitive trait.
• The House has no account, analytics, advertising, app telemetry, app-controlled remote logging, or third-party runtime request.
• Adult acknowledgement is local audience framing, not identity or date-of-birth verification.

Night Room contract

• One Rasoi Pairs rule and two equal tonight-only board profiles inside the Night Room; no rounds, progression levels, unlocks, or escalating difficulty.
• A production Session closes itself within fifteen minutes.
• No score, visible count, timer, countdown, streak, grade, achievement, collection, missed-night state, sleep score, or randomized reward.
• The board is authored and deterministic. Every reachable nonterminal state exposes a legal pair, and every legal choice preserves solvability.
• Help identifies a safe pair but does not remove it.
• Audio, animation, precision movement, and sight are optional; native controls and visible text names carry the rule.
• State stays local. There is no account, analytics, advertising, app telemetry, app-controlled remote logging, or third-party runtime request. Static-host operational logs are outside the app boundary.
• Same-night voluntary return is quiet and idempotent, and starts from intake rather than a promoted replay button. Reselecting the same profile yields its identical deterministic board.
• “Not now” never prevents a voluntary return later that night.
• “Same time tomorrow?” stores a local intention, sends no notification, and creates no urgency.
• Match feedback is deterministic and bounded; no flash, screen shake, particle shower, combo, or randomized effect may turn it into a reward schedule.
• Gentle and Deeper alter authored occlusion only. They never create a stored result, ability label, history, rank, payout, longer deadline, or different ending.
• “Dim and rest” remains the primary completion action. Optional Rasoi Image Drift collects no response and contains no route back to play.

Immutable language

The intake promise is: “Nothing to win. Nothing tracked. Nothing you can do wrong.”

The end card begins: “The session is over. That’s the point.”

Nindova House is intended for adults 18 and over. The Night Room is a behavioral design study, not a sleep tracker, sleep-performance tool, memory intervention, or treatment. Masala Mound has not been clinically shown to make people sleepy, improve sleep, improve general memory, or create a useful dopamine response at any age. Persistent sleep difficulty deserves evidence-based care such as CBT-I with a qualified clinician.

Cultural direction

The motifs are everyday forms: belan, chakla, tawa, chimta, steel katori, tiffin, masala dabba, chai glass, and pressure cooker. Indigo, madder, marigold, brass, wood, and restrained phulkari-inspired geometry shape the surface.

Sacred symbols, flags, festival collage, and generic “exotic” styling are excluded. The direction is Punjabi-inspired; completed human cultural-authenticity review is not claimed.