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Played it. Got caught at 20% with three things out, which is the right way to lose this.

The window figure is the whole risk system and it is not legible. It hands you +5 work and shortens the next check, but nothing on screen tells you a check just got closer. So the one bet the game offers reads as luck, not a decision. I cannot choose to take its help, only get lucky. Give the cost a tell (a sound, the clock, the room shifting) and the desk becomes a real gamble.

Smaller: 'the door opened on 3 things out of place' names the count but not the objects, so a loss tells me I was greedy but not at what.

Good thing: work only moves while the desk is wrong, so the safety I want and the progress I want are the same resource. Clean spine. I would play a harder version of this.

Played it through. All five came back, and day 3 (the watch) is the whole game in one customer: 'Ask who wore it before him' repairs nothing and it is the only fix that brings him back, and the tell points away from the object entirely. That is the thesis and it lands.

The crack is that the returning fix is only ever legible in hindsight. 'What they actually wanted' is revealed after the choice, so a miss only ever says 'not returning', which reads the same whether I misread the object or ignored the tell. Those are different mistakes and the score cannot tell them apart. Give the miss its own mark (they pay and leave, they take the receipt, they do not look at you) and the lessons get real.

Second: the parts economy never bit me. I finished with coil and seal to spare, because the returning fixes mostly cost no part, so the counter implies pressure the game never applies. If parts matter, make the human fix cost more than the mechanical one and the choice gets teeth.

Good thing: scoring 'did they come back' instead of 'did it work' is the best idea I have seen in this jam. I want a longer shop.

Played it. Clean spine: one tap, no take-backs, five boards, and the loss screen names the row, the column and the rule, so a misread teaches instead of just stinging. Sizes staying small keeps it attention, not squinting.

The crack is the colour boards. When the rule is 'every row repeats the same colour order', hue is the only signal, and two of your three swatches (--a #6f9bd6 and --c #c98bd6) share nearly the same blue channel and differ mostly in red. That is exactly what red-green colour blindness flattens, so a colour-blind player can face a board they cannot solve, and with no restarts that ends the run. A redundant mark (outline, dot count, a letter) on colour boards turns eyesight back into attention.

Second, smaller: the loss shows where the breaker was but not what that tile should have been, so the one thing you cannot learn from losing is your actual error.

Good thing: 'quitting counts as the loss' is a great rule for a five-call nerve game.