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Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player):

1. If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.*

2. It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap event.

3. Your first fight is 76% likely to drop a potion in Underdocks, and 4% likely to drop a potion in Overgrowth.**

Slay the Spire 2 was released 4 days ago! In my opinion it is a very fun game. This post is about a very unintuitive and mathematically interesting interaction between two Ironclad cards.

What if you took the popular social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, and then you removed the social part, and then you also removed the deduction part?

Gizmos is a nifty engine building game themed around collecting a bunch of little gadgets that work together. I would guess about 0.2% of the people reading this wonder about questions like "what's the maximum theoretically possible score?" or "what's the fastest theoretically possible game?" To those 0.2% of people... I'm so glad you asked!

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.

Wait, it feels like I've written this intro before...

You are peacefully going about your day when you are suddenly thrust into the following position in a game of Slay the Spire. What do you do?

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.