01 · the deck, as it is today
Rematch waiting · still talking
The Grinder NEMESIS
He's got two on you. Settle it.
The only change on the deck: the line reads as a record ("two on you") and the tap now goes to the sit-down below instead of a general Lineup.
02 · the sit-down
Case 0447 · the rematch
a.k.a. Marcus Vane
The Grinder
aces the wrong question
⚙️
He ran this on you on the 1st, and once before that. Same job, different numbers. He solves the thing flawlessly and hands you the answer to a question nobody asked.
Two on youOne hand settles oneHe's in it
Sit down
Not tonight
Every line here is corpus data. Alias and case number from the con's rap sheet, the habit line and gloss from the roster, the dates from his grudge records. Nothing invented at runtime. The mark under the portrait is the same object that appears under his card at the table.
03 · the table, before the turn
Case 0447 · the rematchhand 1 of 2
One of these is hisHold a card to turn it
A rectangle is three times as long as it is wide. Its perimeter is 48 cm.
What is the area of the rectangle, in square centimeters?
A18
B72
C108
D216
Turn his card first

"I solved this one clean, kid. Just not the one you think."
The paper stays test-shaped: passage, stem, vertical A to D. The only thing the table adds is the hold-to-turn gesture and the chip saying he is in the hand. The heckler bar is the one Beat the Shakedown already has, fed from his own lines. Before a pick it never names a choice. Once the player has a card in hand it may needle that pick and only that pick, which is pressure without information.
04 · his card turned
Case 0447 · the rematchhand 1 of 2
⚙️ You turned A. Now take the hand.
A rectangle is three times as long as it is wide. Its perimeter is 48 cm.
What is the area of the rectangle, in square centimeters?
A⚙️18his
B72
C108your hand
D216
Take the hand

"A hundred and eight, huh? Bold. Stupid, maybe. But bold."
Two commits, two tempos. Turning is a hold on a card (light detent, the card flips to its back and shows his mark). Taking the hand is the commit. Turning the wrong card is allowed; it is just a bad read, and the reveal says so. "Expose the plant" is the accessibility label on the hold and the hint under the chip.
05 · the four reveals
Dead to
rights
turned his card · took the hand
One grudge settled. He's got one on you.
"Smart kid. Wrong reasons, but smart."
Made him,
lost the hand
turned his card · missed
You saw him coming. The area still isn't 72. Nothing settled, nothing added.
"I'll be around. I'm always around."
Still
talking
took his card
Eighteen is the long side. He's got three on you now.
"Pleasure doing business."
Not his
work
missed elsewhere
Nobody ran anything. You brought the wrong tools.
Routed to the drill, not to him.
Only one outcome adds a grudge: taking his card. The honest fourth cell is the spec's canonical rule that the rematch frame never claims a miss he did not cause. The parting lines are his existing payoff and exit lines.
06 · the reveal, in full (dead to rights)
Dead to rights
A⚙️18his · the long side
C108the area
where he broke
Width w, length 3w. Perimeter's 2(w + 3w), so 8w = 48. w is 6, and the length is three times that. Eighteen. That's what they're after. The long side. Done.
the stem asked for area · he handed you a side
the record
He's got one on you.
"Smart kid. Wrong reasons, but smart."
Next hand
Leave the table
The payoff is his own reasoning with the break marked. The Lineup rounds already carry the con's monologue and the index where it goes wrong, so this is content the bank has today. For a Wager item the same slot shows the distractor's mechanism line instead.
07 · the last grudge
Case 0447 closed
The Grinder
Nothing on you. He'll be back the next time you solve the wrong thing flawlessly.
"I'll be around. I'm always around."
Back to the deck
With the count at zero the hero slot goes back to a painted game. The con's portrait goes grey on the record, and the grudge count starts again from the next confident miss he causes.