Cardiff: Before Deadline
A 25–35 minute documentary newsroom adventure across three editions. Decide what the record supports in October 1869, revisit your claims as new examinations arrive, and publish a retrospective in 1878.
Archive documents, faithful reconstructions, and dramatized scenes are explicitly labelled. Fully playable by keyboard, without sound, and in direct-reading mode.
A TRUE ARCHIVE MYSTERY
THE CARDIFF COLOSSUS
A ten-foot body rises from the earth. Scientists disagree. Crowds pay to stare. In 1869, can you tell discovery from spectacle?
- 01Follow contradictory witnesses
- 02Fill your notebook automatically
- 03Choose what to publish
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The history behind the case →
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
A body, a crowd, and fifty cents at the door.
Workers digging a well on William Newell’s farm uncover a stone figure more than ten feet long. Some call it a petrified man; others an ancient statue. Before facts settle, thousands arrive and ownership changes hands. Your editor wants an answer: relic, ancient statue, or deliberate fraud?
EVIDENCE DESK · 0 / 8
Follow the paper trail.
The story unfolds in three acts, without locks. Open any clipping; use its permanent evidence button when it earns a place in your file.