Micro-Challenge: The Anomaly Audit

Purpose: Train the brain to notice anomalies.

Turn the city into a live-action ARG with no rules and no prize, just the joy of decoding the unnoticed.

Instructions:

1. Step outside and walk one block in any direction. Doesn’t matter where. Just pick a direction.
2. As you walk, look for something that doesn’t belong such as a broken tile, a rusted lock, a boot on a wire, a door with no handle, a faded symbol, a strange echo. Anything.
3. Don’t take a photo. Don’t record it.
4. Instead, draw it from memory when you return home. Not well, not perfectly, just draw it.
5. Label your drawing “Anomaly #001” in the corner, add a timestamp to it if desired.
6. File it away. Or hide it somewhere in a book. Or slip it into a stranger’s mailbox if you’re bold enough.

Optional bonus:

Make up a wild theory about what it is. Write two sentences. Keep it vague. Keep it weird.