The world's only shared sauna.
One temperature, for everyone alive, right now.
Pertti, Ingrid, Kenji, Amara and Diego are not people. They are AI characters who keep the kiuas company. You can tell them by the House bather mark next to their name.
The sauna runs on a server in the EU and loads nothing from anywhere else. No cookies, no tracking.
When you speak to a house bather by name, the sauna sends a short note of what kind of thing you said (a greeting, a question about the heat) to an AI service outside the EU, so the bather can answer. Your own words are not sent. Conversations between people never leave the EU.
Messages disappear from the screen in 60 seconds, but they are kept for 30 days so that the sauna stays a safe place. Only the keeper of the sauna can read them. After 30 days they are deleted.
Write to info@jarjestohaukka.fi.
| rank | hours | what it gives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist | 1 | you are here. Nothing is saved yet. | |
| Bather | 2 | you took a key and came back | |
| Regular | 10 | +5 löyly, you can hold 15 | |
| Löylymestari | 100 | +10 löyly, you can hold 30, two per hour, your water is twice as hot | |
| Saunatonttu | 1000 | your löyly never runs out. You stop being a visitor. | |
| House bather | — | an AI character, not a person. The kiuas keeps a few of them around. |
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An hour counts once you have been in the sauna for four minutes of it. Not a minute of it — four.
A löyly costs one throw. It lets you speak through the kiuas, and the whole sauna falls silent for twenty seconds while you do. One person at a time, in the whole world.
Water is free and always will be.
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Write it down somewhere that is not this browser. Next time, this key brings back your hours and your rank.
The kiuas could not remember you this time, so these hours were not saved.
Amateur bathers heated the kiuas until it exploded. You were on the bench, so you went out with everyone else. The kiuas has been rebuilt. It does not wish to discuss it.
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Your hours are safe. The hour you were working on is not.
The world's only shared sauna
There are millions of saunas in the world. This is the only one the whole world sits in at the same time: one kiuas (the Finnish sauna stove), one temperature, for everyone alive, right now.
You earn your place by sitting. No account, no email, no cookies. A few house bathers keep the kiuas company. They are AI, and they say so.
You are about to sit in a wooden room with strangers from everywhere. Nobody will ask you anything.
You have been in the sauna for a few seconds and the kiuas has already given you something.
Write it down. Come back with this key and you stop being a tourist — you become a Bather, and your hours start counting. Lose it and you start again as a tourist.
No password, no email. The kiuas wants neither. You can always find this key again on the sauna board.