How the numbers are made
- Every ball is a question. Jev is not a chatbot — it answers typed questions with a choice and a probability. For each ball the fortune teller turns over an omen and asks Jev which card of a 100-card oracle deck answers it.
- The shuffle gives the card a number. Before each line the deck is shuffled with cryptographic randomness, so tonight The Lantern may carry 23 and tomorrow 8. Jev makes the judgment; no number is favoured.
- Two balls, one card? The ball Jev is surer about keeps it, the other takes its runner-up. Digit games may repeat, as in the real draw.
- Then Jev judges its own work. One yes/no question — will this line win? — and one score for how lucky it feels. Both are shown as answered, next to the real odds.