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Mark what this run got — the numbers follow. Nothing marked = any run.

Start card
Objective
  • Regular Sentence if nameplates are short — 12 per run. Meat Grinder costs 36 for +50% drops — half the drops per nameplate.
  • Compass — Highest you can still clear: Redgold +80% caches › Mercury +30% › Darkiron +10%.
  • Iron Law — The run lasts 30 days instead of 20.

How to win

  1. Eat every day you can

    on a portrait = it has prey. Each bite: +1 tier, the beast re-rolls; if the new beast has food at the new tier, it eats again.

  2. Who eats whom
    mammotheatslionwolflioneatswolfratwolfeatsratrateatsmammoth

    Same rarity by default — these break the rule:

    • Fanged Guillotine: Alpha Wolf Wolf also eats lower rarity
    • Elephant-Foot Maul: Mammoth Mammoth eats higher rarity
    • Cage Fight (start card) eats own rarity or lower; the beast doesn't re-roll
    • Iron Crown of the Prison King: Berserk Lion Lion eats any beast of its rarity
    • Skewered Rat Heads: Colossal Rat Rat eats Rat of its rarity
  3. Ultimate + Ultimate prey = Rainbow

    Protect that prey: standing on it, End — never Replace. Walk the ring until the eater's cell is offered.

  4. Play to your instruments

    Each instrument changes what a good move is. Look it up in Instrument pick: what it does, its tier and its best partners.

  5. Pick the destination3 of the 6 cells ahead are offered — take the highest step
    1. Cell that eatsany inmate with prey
    2. “!” incidentalmost always a free gain
    3. Locked doorthe farthest one
    4. ReplaceNormal/Magic with nothing to eat

    Plan 1–2 days ahead so the cell of your best eater comes into reach.

  6. Objective first

    Each one gives +1 instrument and an Ultimate/Rainbow cache at the riot. “!” objective → Instigate at the office.

  7. Last days: bodies = caches

    Every inmate left becomes a Warden's Cache. Open doors, take the Ring, no Replace or Execution.

Instrument pick

Last simulation:

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holding:nothing yet

Tap the instrument you took at the start.

Rainbows per run

Tier = how close the instrument comes to the best one in the list (S = the top); once you hold one, how close the pair comes to the best pair. Hover (or tap) a row for what it does and the best second one. Crown and Maul almost never show up live.

Once you hold one, each row says what the two do together. Combo / Clash = Rainbows per run the pair gains or loses against the two apart; no combo = each works on its own (the line is what that one does).

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