NumberBroker

NUMBER BROKER

You have a lucky number. Nobody will tell you what it is.

Pack charms into a bag, watch them fire, and work out the number you were secretly dealt, while fighting twelve zodiac animals with it.

How to play

Each charm fires on its own cooldown and changes one running number: your charge. Some add, some double it, reverse its digits, or trade charges with your opponent.

JACKPOT the charge IS your lucky number | x6 |

KIN a factor or multiple of it | x2.4 |

ECHO shares a digit with it | x1.2|

BUST over 49 | the luck passes, charge gone

You are never told your number. Each win reveals one true omen about it, and every value your charge lands on is graded on screen, so a KIN at 18 rules out most of the pool. 占 DIVINE, three times a fight, cashes your charge where it stands: use it to escape a bust, or to ask whether a number is yours.

Start broad, because a bag that reaches one total is useless when you do not know which. End precise, because by then you do.

Mouse only. Drag charms into the bag, click any charm to read it. Twelve rungs, about ten minutes.

 On the theme

The lucky number is the only source of damage. Charms do not deal damage, they move a number; damage happens when that number resonates with yours. Remove it and the bag is a calculator with nothing to calculate toward.

The numerology is real: 8 is wealth, 9 longevity, and 4 the one everybody avoids, so the Four Ghost is the cheapest charm on the stall and the Rabbit fights on 4 because nobody else wants it.

 Made for the jam

Every sound is synthesised on the Chinese pentatonic scale. The twelve opponents' bags were searched for by a headless simulator, because whether a set of charms can land exactly on a number is not something to judge by eye.

Font: [ZCOOL QingKe HuangYou](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/ZCOOL+QingKe+HuangYou), SIL Open Font License.