This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam
What I Built
Beat the Oracle is a free-to-play World Cup 2026 prediction game where you go head-to-head with an algorithm.
An "Oracle" — a prediction engine built on 125 years of international football results — has already simulated the entire tournament. It rates all 48 teams, decides every match with a single probability formula, and runs the bracket thousands of times to estimate who lifts the trophy. It always backs the favourite.
Your job is to find where it's wrong. You predict the real 2026 group stage and knockouts yourself. Match the Oracle and you keep pace — but call an upset it never saw, and reality obeys you instead of the math, and you bank Defiance points the machine can't earn. The whole game is a duel between human intuition and cold expected value.
