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Mirroring what dsinkerii said, I really wanted to see the wheel used more, and truthfully only found the wheel once I started actively looking for why the game was included in wheel jam :( jams are short and there isn't always time to get to everything, which I understand, but the wheel really felt tacked on as opposed to a highlighted feature.

Taking the game as it is, however, there was a lot of charm. Bar-tending games are always fun with getting to learn recipes and mix drinks to fill orders, and although the controls took a bit of figuring out (I struggled to pick up and place glasses for a lot longer than I probably should have) I liked the dungeon-crawler-esque navigation. 

The drinks had cute names, and I liked that there were a handful of glass choices instead of just throwing everything in the same type of cup, especially considering the "amount of fill" angle to things. That having been said, I had absolutely no clue if I was getting anywhere near the correct amount of drink in those cups. Probably something that would've worked itself out if the wheel-drink-pouring aspect had made it in, since then there could be some math puzzling to see directly how much drink is getting added. 

Some less significant issues which I assume are mostly just due to time pressure, but maybe it'll be helpful to have pointed out: I didn't understand at all what was causing me to lose "lives" the text implied it was from taking too long, but I couldn't really tell what was measuring that. My best guess is the color of the bar was going from green to red? But I didn't really notice if that was the case while playing. Also there wasn't really any downtime (that I found) to restock, nor did I really feel like I needed to restock in general since I never got far enough to run out of any drinks (maybe just luck of the draw with the recipes/fill-amounts people wanted).

Also as a side note, I think you could *cheese* (hehe) the shopkeeper by solving wheels until you get a perfect discount, purchasing nothing to reset bad discounts and then just adding everything to your cart *after* you have a good discount and purchasing for cheap.