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About Clues

How do I play Clues?

A clue about one slot machine appears and you name the slot. Every miss opens another clue, up to six.

Does a wrong guess cost me?

Yes, and it is the main thing that decides your score. The first guess is worth 1,000, and every miss takes 130 off the base, down to 350 if you get there on the sixth.

What sort of clues are they?

The studio, the year, the mechanics, the volatility, the theme and the mood the game is going for. Never the title.

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About Cover

How do I play Cover?

The slot's key art appears under a heavy blur and you name the slot. Each guess sharpens the plate one step.

Can I get at the sharp image?

No. The blur is baked into the picture before it is sent, so the sharp version is not sitting in your browser waiting to be found.

Can I see the art before I start?

The front page shows the heaviest blur step, which is exactly what you would see in the first second of the round anyway.

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About Letters

How do I play Letters?

The slot's title appears as a row of blanks and you pick letters, hangman style. Six wrong letters ends the round.

What happens when I run out of lives?

The round closes as unsolved, the answer is revealed, and you keep the 5 chips every finished daily is worth. The day still counts for your streak.

Do digits count?

Yes. Plenty of slot titles carry a number, so a wrong digit costs a life like any other wrong letter.

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About Safe Breaker

How do I play Safe Breaker?

The safe holds four covers in a fixed order, drawn from the eight below it, and the same cover can appear more than once. Set a row and lock it, and every tile comes back marked where it stands: gold means that cover in that reel, teal means it belongs somewhere else, and a dimmed tile is out of the combination entirely.

Do I need to know these games?

No. The covers are the alphabet, not the puzzle — the lock does not care what is printed on the tiles. Somebody who has never heard of a single one of them is at no disadvantage.

What does the number beside each row mean?

How many of the 4,096 combinations are still consistent with every row you have locked. It is worked out from your own rows and never from the answer, so two players who locked the same rows see the same number.

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About Bigger Payer

How do I play Bigger Payer?

Two slots, one number: the max win, as a multiple of your stake. The left one shows its number and you call whether the right one is higher or lower. Six calls, and a wrong one costs that call rather than the run — a clean sheet is the win.

Why does the winner move to the left?

Because it makes the run a chain rather than six unrelated coin flips. You are never comparing two strangers — you are comparing a stranger to the number you were just shown, so a long run is memory rather than luck.

Can two slots have the same max win?

Plenty do, and you will never be shown a pair that does. A tie has no right answer, so the pairing refuses it outright rather than scoring a guess as correct either way.

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About Slot A Fake

How do I play Slot A Fake?

Every name on the table shipped, except one. Tap the invention. Six tables, each with another name to read and a little less time to read it in. A miss costs you that table and the next one deals; letting the clock go counts the same.

Where do the fake names come from?

They are assembled from the real catalogue's own parts — its naming patterns, its vocabulary and its studios. A hand-written fake always leaks, because it is either too silly to be a candidate or too careful to be wrong. A generated one is rejected if it matches anything real.

Why do the other names look so similar?

Because that is the game. The decoys are chosen to share the invention's pattern, so by the last table you are not reading titles any more, you are reading the grammar of how studios name them.

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About Reassemble

How do I play Reassemble?

A slot's artwork is cut into sixteen pieces and shuffled. Tap a piece, then tap another, and the two swap. Pieces that are already home are outlined, so you can see what is settled. Rebuild the picture in as few swaps as you can.

Why are my swaps limited?

Because the swaps are the score. Your budget is worked out from your own shuffle — the fewest swaps it could possibly take, plus some slack — so an easy deal and a hard one get the same room. Matching that fewest number pays the most, every wasted swap costs a rung, and running out before it is whole ends the round.

Can I just look at the picture in another tab?

No. The image you are sent is already scrambled — the pieces are cut and pasted in your arrangement before it leaves us — so opening it shows exactly what the board shows. Only once the round is over does the real artwork appear.

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About Reel Match

How do I play Reel Match?

Twelve cards hold six slots' artwork, in pairs. Turn two: a pair stays face up, a miss turns back over. Two misses in a row re-spin every card still face down — matched pairs stay where they are — and you have 24 turns to clear the board.

Why do the cards move?

That is the re-spin, and it is the whole game. Plain pairs is an errand once you have seen everything; here a second miss in a row shuffles what is still face down, so what you remember is only worth something while you keep matching. It is always announced one miss in advance.

Can I read the layout out of the page?

No. A face-down card is face down in your browser too — the picture on it only arrives when you flip it. The six slots on the board are public; which card holds which is the secret, and it never leaves the server.

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About One Ticket

How do I play One Ticket?

Nine panels, six titles, one ticket a day. Rub a panel with your finger or the mouse to scratch the foil off. A click on its own will not do it — it leaves a mark where you pressed and nothing more — but Enter or Space with a panel focused opens one outright. Three of a kind anywhere on the ticket pays that title's tier.

Does the order I scratch in matter?

No, and that is the honest answer. The ticket is printed before you touch it, so the only thing the order changes is when you find out. What you score is the tier of the line the ticket was carrying.

Everyone gets the same ticket?

Yes. One ticket a day, the same one for every player, like every other puzzle here. It also means the luck is the same for everybody rather than shuffling the leaderboard — and on a ticket with no line, nobody got one.

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About Shuffle

How do I play Shuffle?

Twelve tiles, four titles, three of each. Every column is labelled with the title that belongs in it. Tap a tile, then tap another, and the two change places. Get all twelve home before the swap budget runs out.

What is par, and why is it on screen?

It is the fewest swaps this board can possibly be sorted in, and it is shown because nothing here is hidden. Solving at par is the top of the ladder and every swap over it costs a rung. The trick is spotting the swap that puts two tiles home at once instead of one.

Is picking a tile a move?

No. Only a completed swap spends anything, so tapping a tile and changing your mind costs nothing — tap it again to let it go.

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About Back Catalogue

How do I play Back Catalogue?

Seven covers, each from a different year. Tap the one you think came out first, then the oldest of what is left, and on down the rail. Every pick welds in place and cannot come back off, and no years appear until the rail is full. The last cover has nowhere else to go, so it places itself and is not judged — which leaves six real calls.

Why did I score five when only one cover looks out of place?

Each pick is judged as the call you actually made: of the covers still loose at that moment, was this the oldest? So one misread costs one rung and the rest of the rail still counts. Scoring the finished line slot by slot would punish a single early slip by wiping everything after it, and it could never award five at all.

Can I undo a placement?

No. The rail keeps what you give it, which is the whole game: every weld narrows what the rest can be, and a pick you could take back would not be a decision. Practice is unlimited and nothing there is posted to a board.

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About Smash the Slot

How do I play Smash the Slot?

Six tiles, one at a time, each under armoured glass. Hit the tile anywhere — tap, click or hammer the Enter key — as fast as your hand goes. Enough blows inside the clock and it breaks; the clock beats you and the tile holds. Every tile needs more blows on less clock than the one before.

Why do some of my taps not count?

Taps faster than a human hand can physically move are discarded on both ends — the counter here and the judge on the server apply the same floor. The fastest verified human clicking is around sixteen taps a second; the floor sits above that, so no honest tap is ever lost.

Is this the game for me if my hands are slow?

It is the one game on the card that is entirely about the hand. Every tile you break still pays its rung even if the last ones hold, practice is unlimited with nothing posted, and every other game on the card needs no speed at all.

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