What it is
A daily puzzle game for lawyers and law students. Each day, one famous case. Five clues, revealed one at a time, from the deliberately vague to the nearly obvious. Identify the case in as few clues as possible — fewer is better.
The mechanic borrows from the Framed tradition of progressive-clue guessing, applied to the cases every law-trained person carries in their head. It is not a vocabulary quiz. It is not a bar-prep tool. It is a one-minute daily ritual for people who find law interesting enough to have opinions about which circuit got Erie wrong.
The curve
The first week opens with canonical decisions every first-year law student knows: Miranda, Brown, Marbury. The curve steepens through the month, mixing SCOTUS landmarks with the occasional Court of Appeals classic — Palsgraf, MacPherson, Hadley v. Baxendale — each flagged so the court of origin is never a surprise. By month three, expect decisions that require genuine recall of procedural posture, authoring justice, and the precise language of a holding.
The rules
- IOne case per day. Resets at midnight local time.
- IIFive clues, numbered I through V. Clue I is the hardest; Clue V is the near-giveaway.
- IIISubmit a guess at any clue. A correct guess ends the round at that clue count.
- IVA wrong guess reveals the next clue. Pass does the same without burning a guess.
- VAfter Clue V, one final guess is allowed. Fail that and the case is revealed.
- VIYour streak breaks if you miss a day — no exceptions, no grace periods. That's the habit.
The tools
Two other things live under the same roof, for the same audience. Cite is a free, in-browser Bluebook citation auditor — paste a brief or memo and get every formatting error keyed to the specific rule it violates, with a one-click fix. Count computes filing deadlines under FRCP 6 or Florida's civil procedure rules, citing the governing rule at every step of the calculation. Both are free, require no account, and run entirely in your browser.
The provenance
Caselaw is built and curated by Christopher Pettus, a Florida attorney. Every clue and case explainer is original prose — not reproduced from Quimbee, Oyez, or any casebook. Case names and holdings are public domain; the editorial voice is ours.
For entertainment only. Not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship.