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No Mercy UNO as a rules dial on the existing tier, not a fourth table: 168 cards, draw-until-playable, draw-stacking, and the twenty-five card mercy kill. Six tiers now; a normal game never runs a line of the new code. The engine is the whole of it so far — the felt hasn't been touched, so there is no way to play this in a browser yet. Two things worth knowing. The normal tiers were mispriced, and had been for a while. They were set against a naive win rate of 43/32/27%; it now measures 40.3/29.2/23.3%. The bots got better at some point after the multiples were written down and nobody re-ran the measurement — which the plan explicitly warns about, because the bots and the tiers are a pair. Table and Full House had been charging an 18–19% house edge instead of the 8% they were meant to. All six tiers are repriced off a fresh measurement, and TestTheMultiplesAreStillPriced now fails the build if they drift again. It is the test the normal tiers never had, which is how they drifted. And No Mercy is *easier* than UNO, at every table size, so it pays less. The mercy rule does not care whose hand hits twenty-five: it kills bots too, and every bot it buries is one fewer seat that can beat you to the last card. A deck built to be merciless turns out to be merciless mostly to the table. The rake test used to assert a payout of 214, which was the 2.2x duel written down as a number. It failed on a rake that was entirely correct. It derives the arithmetic from the tier now: the rule is that the house takes its cut of the profit and never touches the stake, and that holds at any multiple. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013M5nD7PgUboJXoDcYHzpuJ
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