What Are Your Values, Mapache?

Start With 100 Values—or Add Your Own

The game includes 100 values from the public-domain 2011 Personal Values Card Sort. No list can include every value that may matter to every person, so you can add as many private Custom Values as are useful to you, with your own names and definitions.

Choose Between Two Values

Tap, click, or select the value that matters more to you. Both values may be important. The point is to make an honest comparison when you cannot choose both.

Build an Evolving Ranking

The value you choose gains XP. Each win awards 4 times the opponent’s payout tier at the start of the pair cycle, up to 400 XP. Your choices gradually shape your levels, Top Five, and complete ranking.

Every first-cycle win awards 4 XP because every value begins at payout tier 1. Later cycles use each opponent’s frozen payout tier, capped at 100, so pair order inside a cycle cannot change the award.

See Your Top Five—and Every Value

Your Top Five compresses a large set of possibilities into something memorable. Browse All Values whenever you want the complete picture. Definitions are already visible in Battle and All Values; the Hub uses concise rows and does not hide meaning behind a definition interaction.

Play for as Long—or as Little—as You Want

The game eventually presents every possible pair in a balanced order. With the 100 included values, a complete cycle contains 4,950 unique comparisons. Adding Custom Values increases that total, but you never have to complete a cycle in one sitting. Stop anywhere and continue later.

Change Your Custom Values Carefully

Adding, editing, or removing a Custom Value changes the meaning or membership of your value deck. WAYVM preserves every retained value’s progress, explains that the current pair cycle and Undo/Redo history will clear, offers a JSON export before confirmation, and starts a deterministic Join Pass when a value joins.

Undo Mistakes

One tap or click makes a choice. If you choose the wrong card by accident—or simply reconsider—use Undo. Redo restores an undone choice until you create a new branch.

How This Differs From the Source Card Sort

The 2011 Personal Values Card Sort asks a person to sort values into three to five importance groups, identify five to ten central values, and rank those selected values. It often continues through an interview with open questions and reflective listening.

WAYVM takes a different path: it repeatedly compares pairs across your entire active deck and preserves an evolving result you can revisit. It is an adaptation, not a replacement for conversation, ACT, motivational interviewing, therapy, or professional care.

Treat the Result as a Reflection, Not a Verdict

Your ranking is generated by this game from your choices over time. It is not a diagnosis, moral score, or permanent label. Preferences can change, and that is useful information.

Private. Offline. Account-free.

This app uses storage on your device to save your progress, Custom Values, achievements, language, and settings and to work offline. It does not use this storage for analytics, advertising, or tracking.

WAYVM has no account, cloud sync, global leaderboard, advertising, or behavioral analytics. The app does not send your comparisons, canonical or Custom Values, definitions, ranking, Top Five, achievements, or settings to us.

WAYVM does not set tracking or advertising cookies.

Export happens only when you choose it. JSON export creates a backup you control. If you send a file to another app or service, that destination handles it under its own privacy policy.

External resource links open websites outside WAYVM. Those sites can receive ordinary web request information and follow their own privacy practices.

Local data is not encrypted by WAYVM at launch. Someone with access to your unlocked device or browser profile may be able to access it. Use your device’s security features if that matters for your situation.

Clearing browser or site data, using private-browsing storage, uninstalling the app, or resetting the device may remove local progress. Export a JSON backup if you want a portable copy.

Reset Levels & Experience returns every active value to Level 1 with 0 XP while keeping Custom Value definitions, achievements, language, and settings. Delete All Data removes all WAYVM player data from this device or browser profile.

A Reflection Game, Not Therapy

WAYVM is not a medical device, diagnostic test, psychotherapy service, crisis service, or substitute for professional care. It does not determine whether a value is good, healthy, moral, or correct.

Created by Dr. Derek Austin

What Are Your Values, Mapache? is a Mapachito Enterprise intellectual property.

Values Source

The 100 included values and definitions are adapted from the 2011 update of the Personal Values Card Sort by William R. Miller, Janet C’de Baca, Daniel B. Matthews, and Paula L. Wilbourne, University of New Mexico. The source instrument states that it is in the public domain and may be copied or adapted without further permission.

The source also includes three blank “Other Value” cards, demonstrating that its printed vocabulary is intentionally open-ended. WAYVM adapts that openness through optional private values written by the player without treating the paper template’s three blanks as a product ceiling. Player-authored names and definitions are not part of the source instrument and are not endorsed by its authors.

Intellectual Influences

WAYVM is inspired by values-sorting exercises used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and informed by ideas about meaning, freedom, practice, and honest self-expression. Reference to ACT, the World Health Organization, Viktor Frankl, Erich Fromm, Bruce Lee, Buddhism, or any linked organization does not imply endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship.

Art and Audio

Phase 1 uses original typography, interface design, and silent game presentation. Complete open-source software notices are available in the project’s license records.

Source Code

The application code may be available under its stated open-source license. Commercial art, fonts, music, and other third-party assets remain under their own licenses and are not granted by the code license.