KEY

Every keyhole is cut in the shape of exactly one key.

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▎ Read the ward pattern. Pick the key off the rack whose teeth match it. Push it in — then turn it yourself. Nothing unlocks on its own here; the cylinder follows your hand degree for degree, and if you let go before ninety it springs back and stays locked.

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▎ Wrong key too fat? It jams partway. Thin but wrong? It slides home and binds at 24°. Both cost you time you don't have.

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▎ Every lock you crack pays out — faster and deeper pays more, and a clean streak multiplies it up to ×5. One wrong key kills it.

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▎ No tutorial, no prompts. A lock, a rack of keys, and a clock.

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▎ Drag a key. Turn it.