Silent Sequence

How to play

1. How do you start a level?: Press and hold the round button in the centre until its ring fills, then let go — the whole team is now live. A short press does not start the level. After a misplay, a reveal or a pause you hold the button again to resume.
2. Whose turn is it in a silent cooperative card game?: There are no turns. You can play your lowest card at any moment, and your computer teammates play on their own timing. The big card in the middle is the current top card, its seat tag shows who played it, and the readout shows how many cards the team still holds.
3. How do you know when to play your card?: Compare your lowest card with the top card and with how many cards remain: the bigger the gap and the fewer cards left, the longer you should wait. A teammate's card back lifts just before they play, and their badge says whether they are quick, steady or slow.
4. What happens when someone plays too high?: If anyone still holds a lower card, it's a misplay: the team loses one life, every lower card is revealed and discarded, and a line names who played and who was holding. You don't restart — hold the button again and finish the same level.
5. How do you win the game?: Empty every hand to clear the level; the replay chart plots each card against time so you can see big cards land late. Levels 2 and 6 give a reveal token, levels 4 and 8 give a life. Clear level 10 to win; run out of lives and your furthest level is recorded.

Rules & variants

Deck: one card of each number from 1 to 100, no suits. The deck is reshuffled every level, and on level L you and every teammate get L cards — one each on level 1, ten each on level 10. Your hand is sorted; you only see teammates' card backs and counts.

Playing: after the team is ready there are no turns. Anyone may play their lowest card at any time. Only your lowest card is a playable button; tapping another card tells you to play the lowest first. The team clears the level when every card has been played in ascending order.

Misplays: when a card is played while anyone still holds a lower one, the team loses exactly one life, every lower card is revealed into the discard row, and the played card stays on the pile. You get ready again and continue. At zero lives the run ends immediately — even if that misplay emptied every hand.

Reveal token: a team vote. Each computer teammate agrees if its lowest card is close enough to the top card. If everyone agrees, every player with cards discards their lowest card with no life lost and the token is spent. If anyone refuses, the token is kept but the vote cools down until the next card is played.

Levels and rewards: a run is always ten levels. You start with 3 lives and 1 reveal token; clearing levels 2 and 6 adds a token, levels 4 and 8 add a life (maximum 5 lives and 3 tokens; rewards at the cap are voided). There are no draws.

Difficulty and team size: on Beginner, computer teammates never misplay against each other; Standard and Challenge add random hesitation or impatience, Challenge more so. Choose 1 to 3 teammates — more teammates mean more cards in play and tighter gaps between numbers.

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