Compass Turns FAQ: Traces and Saved Coins

Start at coordinate(0,0) facing east. A complete hidden sequence of twelve independent fair left/right choices is sampled once. On each choice, turn the current heading 90 degrees left or right BEFORE moving one unit in that new heading. Subsequent heading is relative to the previous heading rather than a fresh east direction. Animation reveals only the actual trace reached so far, without future path information or redraws.

Include the origin and every reached coordinate. Width is maximum x minus minimum x; height is maximum y minus minimum y. Neither extent includes an extra one. Raw score is max(0,width×height−1). It is the area of that axis-aligned rectangle minus one, not the area enclosed by the path or the number of visited cells. A completed trace confined to a one-by-one rectangle scores zero. Alternating L/R turns form a north/east staircase with width and height six, giving score 35.

Select linear, squared or cubed positive-score weighting. Gross multiplier is 0.96 times raw score raised to selected power divided by that power’s exact unconditional mean. The means are 8.37890625,93.80859375 and 1322.578125. Four of 4096 equally likely paths have score zero;4092 are positive. Zero remains zero. Every mode has 96% exact unrounded expected gross credit, not winning frequency or a session promise. Mode changes do not change an already captured drop.

At most six priced drops can be active concurrently. Each captures and debits its own whole stake and selected mode once. Settings affect later launches rather than drops already active. Auto schedules ten drops. Stop cancels future launches while active drops complete and settle. There is no early collection or row-share stake. Refill remains locked until every ball and queued launch has settled or been cancelled.

The wallet begins with 1000 free virtual coins. Settled wallet and fractional-credit carry persist in browser localStorage. Only while idle below ten coins can manual refill set balance to 1000 preserving carry; it does not add 1000. Saved debited wallet and carry survive reload, but unfinished drops are not recovered or refunded. Keep active drops open until settlement. The guide has no customer account, deposit, withdrawal, cash prize or coin exchange.

The guide has no customer registration, payment or identity-document form. Settled virtual wallet and fractional-credit carry use browser localStorage. Google Fonts, Statinside and server or CDN requests may expose IP, device and request information. Complete third-party processing, retention, profiling, anonymity and cookie lifetimes are not established here. LocalStorage differs from cache, cookies and history; check which categories a removal action covers. Removed local values cannot be recovered through an account, nor does local deletion remove information already processed elsewhere.

Choose when to finish and take breaks away from the screen. Free virtual coins create no obligation to refill or undo a result. Pause if play is uncomfortable or competes with ordinary responsibilities. Qualified local assistance can be sought through independently identifiable health or public-service sources; no diagnosis or verified named service is supplied. The guide applies its own 18+ restriction; applicable legal age and activity requirements vary and are not determined here.