base
Each search hashes its own base — use, utility, aura, price, worth — with a 64-bit little-endian counter appended: sha256( base ‖ counter ). Every search seeks art.
ascii8
One byte per character. A match means the SHA-256 hash prefix spells the word in ASCII hex.
targets
art, five times over — one search per theory of value, each successively longer prefix match kept on the way to the full word.
counters
Winning counter values from 12 million to 34 million, within a 248 budget per search.