Thanks for playing! Shuffling the laundry by loading them in and out of the machine was 100% intended so I'm happy you've figured it out. 🙏 I found it early on in development and decided that it's both a neat thing to reward advanced play and also not the be all and end all if a player does exploit it, since the technique is not very scalable in the later rounds when you have more laundry than you do empty slots.
I considered adding a timer on each machine, but I wanted to create a little bit of anticipation for the scenarios that you're describing, where you're not quite sure if you have enough time before the end of the day or not. At least you get paid a little bit for those that aren't finished 😌
Sorry to hear about the sound balance wasn't quite right - certainly the result of it being a jam game lol. Phaser also doesn't give you the most amount of options for that kind of thing... or at least maybe I don't leverage it enough if it does 😅
Thanks again for playing, and for your feedback!