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Eight cases playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end. John asked what 1950s bumbling criminals Drebin Sr could look good against. Clouseau is the wrong shape twice — 1963, and a bumbling detective rather than a criminal. The right seam is the Ealing comedies: The Ladykillers (1955) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Done as archetype parody, never character import, which is exactly what ZAZ did to M Squad — take the form, not the people — and which lets the gang be tuned to make Sr's twist land. Five lodgers calling themselves a barbershop quartet, and in eleven weeks nobody in that house has raised the arithmetic. A mastermind who is nought for eleven and blames personnel every time. Muscle brought for the violence who offers you an aniseed ball. A driver who cannot drive and came with the goggles. A safecracker who is the best in the state and has been deaf since 1943, and has been asking about that since August. An inside man who works at a different company on a different street and has raised it four times. The twist: they tunnel eleven feet through Victorian brick for eleven weeks to reach a vault Frank Drebin Sr emptied five weeks earlier — legitimately, on his own written recommendation, signing the transfer manifest at both ends. Arrested inside an empty room. The paper calls it the finest detective work in the city in twenty years and every word of it is true. This is why he has never been caught: the visible criminals are loud and his own crimes are silent. The case is actually cracked by a seventy-nine-year-old landlady who took a bus to the police station to complain about the noise, and she never learns it. New lint rule, from a real 10-point loss here: two DIFFERENT objects awarding points for setting the same flag — points fire on the false->true flip, so whichever runs second silently pays nothing and max_score goes unreachable. Same object paying via `use` or its own dialogue is fine; those are alternatives. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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70 lines
4.9 KiB
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{
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"name": "Meridian Street — Saturday, 11:40 PM",
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"enter_text": "Rain. A van at the kerb with its engine running and nobody at the wheel.",
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"music": 3,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 52, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 8, "y": 6, "w": 40, "h": 44, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 14, "y": 12, "w": 12, "h": 10, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 32, "y": 26, "w": 12, "h": 10, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 112, "y": 6, "w": 42, "h": 44, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 14, "w": 12, "h": 10, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 136, "y": 30, "w": 12, "h": 10, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 50, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 53, "w": 160, "h": 115, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 118, "w": 160, "h": 2, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 20, "y": 128, "w": 16, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 60, "y": 128, "w": 16, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 128, "w": 16, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }
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],
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"spawn": [16, 152],
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"exits": [null, 4, null, 2],
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"exit_flags": ["", "arrests_made", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "There are five men in a hole in the ground behind you.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "van",
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"sprite": "van",
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"x": 122,
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"y": 148,
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"look": "The van, at the kerb, engine running, nearside door tied shut with rope. It has been there since nine o'clock. Nobody is in it. Nobody has been in it. The driver is in the cellar with the others, because he could not think of a way to say that he could not drive that would not come up later.",
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"synonyms": "vehicle lorry truck motor",
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"points": 15,
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"sets_flag": "van_secured",
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"use_text": "You reach in and switch off the engine and take the key, which is in the ignition, which it has been for two and a half hours on a public street in the rain. In the back: five canvas sacks, folded; a crowbar; a Thermos; and a hand-lettered card reading ORDER OF EXIT — 1. PROF 2. THE BOY 3. ARTHUR 4. ME 5. THE BIG FELLA (LAST, WIDTH). (+15)"
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},
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{
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"name": "streetlamp",
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"sprite": "streetlamp",
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"x": 76,
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"y": 112,
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"look": "The corner lamp, and beneath it, from eleven forty until eleven fifty-one, nothing at all happens on Meridian Street. Then a sound comes up through the pavement grating like a wall coming down, which is what it is.",
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"synonyms": "lamp light post corner grating",
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"use_text": "You stand out of the light, which is where you have stood on every stakeout you have ever run, and you wait, and at eleven fifty-one the east wall of the Meridian Street Bonded Depository comes down into the vault floor with five men behind it."
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},
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{
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"name": "partner",
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"sprite": "partner",
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"x": 40,
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"y": 140,
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"look": "Kowalczyk, in the doorway opposite, soaked through, on his first stakeout, taking notes in the rain.",
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"synonyms": "kowalczyk officer kid rookie young",
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"use_text": "You tell him: nobody goes in until all five are through the wall and inside, because a man arrested in a hole climbs back down the hole. He writes it down. He will still be doing it that way in 1974, and he will tell people where he got it."
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},
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{
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"name": "gang",
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"sprite": "professor",
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"x": 92,
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"y": 138,
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"look": "Through the grating you can hear them coming through the last course. You can hear all of it. They have not stopped talking since August.",
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"synonyms": "quartet men five crew professor prof",
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"requires_flag": "van_secured",
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"points": 20,
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"sets_flag": "arrests_made",
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"use_text": "At eleven fifty-one the wall comes down and five men climb through it into an empty vault. You give them four minutes. It takes them all four to accept it. You can hear the Professor going round the walls twice, saying that it is not possible, that the plan is immaculate, that this has never been the plan's fault. At eleven fifty-five you come down the vault stairs on your own with your hat on and you say good evening. Nobody runs. The big fellow offers you an aniseed ball. The old man says 'WHAT?' The driver says he was only there to hold the van, which is true, and which is the most damaging thing anybody says all night. The clerk with the briefcase says, to nobody, that he did try to tell them about the street. You advise all five of their rights in the correct order and in full, twice for the gentleman with the ear trumpet, and you write down the time. (+20)"
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}
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]
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}
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