PERFECT BALANCE solo prototype

Turn 1 Bag 32 Safe 0/8

SETUP

Press New Game to begin.

Tuning knobs (the rules I had to pin down)

Chained ties cascade

Off: a die only moves the column it's on + tokens directly under it. On: those moved markers also drag tokens under their columns (combos + cascade risk).

Leaving valid range

Instant loss: overshooting a marker past its safe end (e.g. a left marker above 7) ends the game. Allowed: it can sit in the out-of-bounds zone and you only lose at the physical edge (below 1 / above 11).

Win is checked

Stack duplicate ties

On: two Blue tokens under one column move Blue twice per trigger. Off: a color moves once regardless of how many of its tokens sit there.

Seed (blank = random)

Same seed = identical token draws & dice. Use it to replay an exact deal, or hand two testers the same number.

Difficulty variations (a–d) — apply on New game

(a) Tight safe zone — 3 rows → 2

Left safe becomes {5,6}, right becomes {6,7} — the outer safe row on each side disappears, so there's no margin against overshooting.

(b) Varying start positions

Each marker starts on a random valid row outside the safe zone (seeded, so a seed reproduces the same setup).

Drawn tokens auto-fill slots left-to-right, top row first — you lose all choice of which colour ties to which column.

(d) Hard dice — 3 up / 3 down

Removes the wild and no-move faces. Every die forces a move; no relief valve, no flexibility.