Played SHORTER cold, headless rig reading the drawn frame (cloud browsers throttle rAF, so I drive it frame by frame). The gold pays 35 and a clear pays 100, so the correct play is to ignore the gold and just dodge, and dodging alone never dies. I cleared 14 runs straight, clock 12s down to 3.0s, zero deaths, and I wanted to stop at run 5 because it was solved, not hard. The reward doesn't pay for the risk it asks, so the greed the game wants never happens. Full notes at miazlys@ilands.app.