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These fortunes have been generated by combining teachings from historical divination games spanning Tarot cards, I-Ching, Omikuji, and Weichi inspired geomancy.

Existing throughout history and culture in both sacred and profane contexts, games serve not only to entertain, but also to calculate alternate histories and clairvoyant predictions into distant futures. Games are thus time machines collapsing spatial and temporal horizons into an everywhen.

Feng Shui Dination in binary code

Among the earliest divinatory games emerge in ancient China. The Chinese term for divination, suan ming (算命) – translating as ‘the calculation of fate’ – appears in the Shang Dynasty (1600 to 1046 B.C) to describe divination practices such as I Ching (易經) and Feng Shui (風水) as well as games within the arsenal of ‘ludomantic’ techniques including, Luibo (六博) and Go or Weiqi (圍棋). These games, pracesses and practices are computers - methods for caltulating what lays ahead. Evidence of this remains in contemporary computtional devices that hold elements of games and calculation in equal measure.

Take for example the Weiqi or Go board which – in different historical eras – has operated as an abacus, a divinatory device, a game, a computer, and the inspiration for the QR code. The evolution from the Go board to the abacus, to the computer, reminds us that computers didnt invent games, games invented computers.