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Thirteen cases, all playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end at 100/100 (Case One is 95 + 5 optional by design). Case Three — Rendezvous at Big Gulch. The racket only shakes down businesses that are doing well, so to get extorted you must run a genuinely excellent locksmith shop. Frank reads MODERN LOCKSMITHING cover to cover and retains all of it while understanding none of it, which for locksmithing is the correct ratio. The street won't talk because paper doesn't stand in your doorway on a Friday; Halloran opens up only after you offer to fix his door, and his extortion ledger has been lying open on a public counter for two and a half years because nobody ever asked to see his book. Case Four — Revenge and Remorse. Section 14 paragraph 9 was written in 1949 for a 1949 timer, and this bomber files his timing stub twice because he cannot leave a thing not-quite-square, which shortens the contact throw and energises the trigger first. Follow the manual and it completes. So Frank disarms it backwards — the one time in nineteen years he departs from a written instruction, because he can prove the instruction is wrong in four sentences. Carries PQ1's Captain loop and an explicit refusal of PQ3's centre-pixel bug. Case Five — The Butler Did It. Chain of custody on a birthday cake: photograph, weigh with a witness, seal all forty forks. Eleven pounds light in the tier nobody cuts, because she was inside it for four minutes while forty people looked at it. And Frank will not suspect the butler because the literature says it is always the butler, so suspecting him would be quoting rather than investigating. It is the butler. Case Nine — The Final Insult. The marriage is a gate, not a subplot: the finale is locked behind actually answering the counsellor's question, and Jane's terms are "before you go, not after". He doesn't disarm the envelope, he swaps it and writes in a winner by hand. He picks the one he liked. Two point budgets came in over (110, 115) and are trimmed to exactly 100. Sprite generation needed a kill-and-restart: two overlapping runs were competing for the farm and producing "Resource temporarily unavailable" — one clean pass at pool 2 completed all four sets with zero failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"name": "4 Cranbourne Drive — The Ballroom",
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"enter_text": "Forty guests, forty coats, and a cake that nobody has been allowed to move since a quarter to eight.",
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"music": 2,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 60, "color": 15, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 12, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 61, "w": 160, "h": 107, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 20, "w": 30, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 24, "w": 22, "h": 26, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 62, "y": 18, "w": 36, "h": 36, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 66, "y": 22, "w": 28, "h": 28, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 20, "w": 30, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 24, "w": 22, "h": 26, "color": 8, "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": [18, 146],
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"exits": [null, 2, null, 0],
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"exit_flags": ["", "cake_sealed", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "There is one object in this room that was here at 7:40 and is here now, and you have not secured it.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{ "name": "cake", "sprite": "cake", "x": 78, "y": 122,
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"look": "Four tiers, on a trolley, wheeled in at 7:40 by a butler and never lit. Forty guests have had a fork in it in the two hours since, because nobody thought to stop them, because it is a cake.",
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"synonyms": "trolley tiers candles birthday",
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"points": 25, "sets_flag": "cake_sealed",
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"use_text": "You treat it as an exhibit, because Captain Hocken told you to treat it like a body and you do what you are told. You photograph it in situ. You measure the trolley. You take the weight of the cake on the kitchen scales with a witness, and you seal, label and initial every one of the forty forks. Forty-one people in this house watch a police detective weigh a birthday cake, and every one of them thinks less of him, and one of them thinks a great deal less of him and cannot entirely hide it. The cake weighs eleven pounds under what a cake of that size and construction should weigh, and it weighs it in the bottom tier, which nobody cut, because nobody cuts the bottom tier at a children's party. (+25)" },
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{ "name": "tycoon", "sprite": "tycoon", "x": 42, "y": 130,
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"look": "Cornelius Vane. Shipping, mostly. He has been on the telephone to three men since eight o'clock and none of them were police.",
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"synonyms": "cornelius vane father shipping man",
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"use_text": "You ask him who he has been calling. He tells you: his lawyer, his broker, and a man in Long Beach whose name he would rather not give, and he gives it, because you asked him plainly and he is too tired to do anything else." },
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{ "name": "governess", "sprite": "governess", "x": 116, "y": 128,
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"look": "Miss Aldritch, governess, four years in the house. She was in the ballroom at 7:40 in front of forty witnesses and has said so eleven times.",
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"synonyms": "aldritch miss woman teacher",
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"use_text": "You clear her in nine minutes, thoroughly, with three independent witnesses and a photograph. You then clear the cook, the two hired girls, the man on the step, and thirty-eight of the forty guests, in order, over five hours, while a butler stands in the corner of the room holding a tray." },
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{ "name": "butler", "sprite": "butler", "x": 138, "y": 144,
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"look": "Hobbs. Thirty-one years with the family. He wheeled the cake in at 7:40 and has been standing in the corner of this room ever since, holding a tray, waiting to be asked. You are not going to ask him, because the literature is unanimous, and a detective who arrives at a house like this and immediately suspects the butler is not investigating, he is quoting.",
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"synonyms": "hobbs servant manservant tray",
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"use_text": "You do not question the butler. You have now not questioned the butler for five hours. He has brought you a cup of tea twice. The second time he stood beside you for slightly longer than a man stands who is putting down a cup." }
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]
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}
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