Free · interactive · about 3 minutes
Eight files at 10:00: a branching scenario
You are handing over eight files at 10:00, and two still need a quality check. Choose what to say, ask for the missing half, and see where each path ends. Three ways in, seven endings.
Fictional practice case: the eight-file handoff. The Client is fictional, the QA reviewer and the receiver are only mentioned, and Otto is a fictional AI planning assistant. Your choices stay on this page and are not saved or sent anywhere. After an ending where you asked something, “Try again with what you now know” keeps the answers you asked for in a list at the top, labeled as learned earlier, and starts a fresh run.
Numbers and quotes come from the free handoff case: eight files, six final and two pending, a 30-minute check that only the client's QA reviewer can run after 14:00, 35 minutes to package from 09:00 to 09:35, and a receiver overlap of 09:45 to 10:00. Each ending can skip ahead to 10:00, the handoff time the case names (it gives a time of day but no day); that part uses only the case's arithmetic, its own listed plausible consequences and what was said on your path, and says what the case does not give. A change to the handoff stays a proposal until the Client confirms it.
About this practice
- Teaches: Hand over what is final, label what is not, and send a manifest that names the two pending files.
- Does not claim: A fictional case, and Otto is a fictional AI. One run is not a verdict, and no outcome is measured.
- For: Anyone handing over files while some still need a check from someone else.
More scenarios
Where to go next
- Next case: Credit Repair. Another shared document that other people rely on, now about who gets credit for the work.
- Guide: How to write a handoff someone can actually use. A short read on saying what is ready, what is still open, who closes it and what the receiver should not treat as final.
- Tool: Handover checklist. Mark each item as verified or open, name who can close it, and run the last lines before you send.
Ask the questions yourself.
Play the same case as a solo game: ask the Client or Otto, reveal the missing facts and write your next-step card.
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