# Games

Games activate the graph. Roles carry asymmetric information and incentives; records confer evidence; instruments move capital and claims; rules constrain action; forces change state; pathologies expose deferred cost.

## Core traversal

- [Purchase Agreement](../nodes/processes/purchase-agreement.md) — Purchase Agreement coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Contingency](../nodes/processes/contingency.md) — Contingency coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Escalation Clause](../nodes/processes/escalation-clause.md) — Escalation Clause coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Bidding War](../nodes/processes/bidding-war.md) — Bidding War coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Seller Concession](../nodes/processes/seller-concession.md) — Seller Concession coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Buyer Representation](../nodes/processes/buyer-representation.md) — Buyer Representation coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Closing](../nodes/processes/closing.md) — Closing coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- [Home Inspection](../nodes/processes/home-inspection.md) — Home Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Property Condition Assessment](../nodes/processes/property-condition-assessment.md) — Property Condition Assessment reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Environmental Site Assessment](../nodes/processes/environmental-site-assessment.md) — Environmental Site Assessment reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Phase I ESA](../nodes/processes/phase-i-esa.md) — Phase I ESA reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Phase II ESA](../nodes/processes/phase-ii-esa.md) — Phase II ESA reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Structural Inspection](../nodes/processes/structural-inspection.md) — Structural Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Roof Inspection](../nodes/processes/roof-inspection.md) — Roof Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Sewer Scope](../nodes/processes/sewer-scope.md) — Sewer Scope reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Pest Inspection](../nodes/processes/pest-inspection.md) — Pest Inspection reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Radon Test](../nodes/processes/radon-test.md) — Radon Test reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse
- [Mold Assessment](../nodes/processes/mold-assessment.md) — Mold Assessment reduces uncertainty before capital and authority become difficult to reverse

## How to read this chapter

Follow claims and cash flows separately. Ask who holds authority, who supplies information, who receives benefit, who carries risk, and what changes when time or scale changes. Keep sourced fact, industry practice, synthesis, interpretation, and symbolic expression distinguishable.

## Mapshifting prompts

1. Change the unit of analysis from property to right, loan, cash flow, role, record, neighborhood, or institution.
2. Change the clock from closing day to thirty years, one market cycle, one building life, or several generations.
3. Change stakeholder and ask which previously invisible cost becomes central.
4. Return to the human map before choosing a move.

## Sentinel handoff

Legal, regulatory, fair-lending, historical, financial, cultural, and jurisdiction-specific annotations remain separate from Engine Output. They inform contextual use without flattening the graph.
