Braid Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-06 · 69 entries checked · 26 flagged · 63 issues confirmed · 0 corrected · 63 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Tim — The entry claims 'TIM also refers to the video game series The Incredible Machine', but The Incredible Machine is not commonly abbreviated as TIM and that abbreviation is non-standard.

Tim — The entry says 'the Russian abbreviation for the Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theatre' but the correct abbreviation for that theatre is not TIM.

The Giant — The Giant is not an inhabitant of The Black Lodge; in Twin Peaks canon, the Giant resides in the White Lodge or a related benevolent realm.

The Giant — The Giant is not the Primary Antagonist or a Catalyst in the sense described; he is a benevolent, mysterious figure who aids Agent Cooper, not an antagonist.

The Dragon — The entity first appears in World 3 (The Lair), not World 2.

The Dragon — The entity does not universally retain momentum; in World 3 it reverses with time, and in World 2 it moves independently of time but this is not universal momentum retention.

King — The entry describes a generic historical and linguistic definition of 'king' unrelated to Braid, and includes elements like 'Recover the World Tree' and 'Kingdom' that do not exist in Braid's canon.

Xbox Live Arcade — The claim that 'Every Arcade title on the Xbox 360 supports leaderboards, has 200 Achievement points, and high-definition 720p graphics' is false; not all XBLA titles had leaderboards, some had different Achievement point totals, and not all supported 720p.

Xbox Live Arcade — The claim that 'The size limit for games started at 50 MB and was later increased to 150 MB, then 350 MB, and then 2 GB' is inaccurate; the correct progression was 50 MB, then 150 MB, then 250 MB, then 2 GB, with later increases to 4 GB and beyond.

Jonathan Blow — Blow studied computer science and creative writing at UC Berkeley, not computer science and English

Jonathan Blow — The Experimental Gameplay Workshop was founded in 2005, not 2002

Number None Inc — The entry states 'Number None Inc is the company founded by Jonathan Blow', but the company behind Braid and The Witness is actually Number None, Inc., and it is not a separate entity from Thekla Inc.; Thekla Inc. is the company Blow formed later for The Witne

Metacritic — The entry states Metacritic was created in 1999, but the site launched in January 2001; 1999 refers to the start of development, not creation of the site.

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