Deli Cut

Cut off exactly what the monster orders, by eye, with ten difficulty steps: swipe once and what falls lands on the scale. Butter, salami, cheese, ham and fudge, new every day.

Controls

Swipe with a finger or drag with a mouse

Time limit

50 seconds

Score

Avg off the order, lower is better

Type

Puzzle

How to play Deli Cut

1. Each food hangs from a hook with its total weight on a tag, and the monster orders a part of it: “25 g please!”
2. Swipe once across the food. The cut runs straight along your swipe, right across, and everything the hook isn’t holding falls onto the scale.
3. Land close enough to the order and the next one comes up. On difficulty 5 the six orders must be within 7% of the food’s total weight, down to 5.5% for the last. Too far off ends the run.
4. The foods get harder to judge: butter with a mark every tenth, a salami, a cheese wedge, a ham, Swiss cheese whose holes weigh nothing, and fudge whose dark half weighs twice the light half.
5. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: more orders and a tighter margin. Pick any unlocked difficulty with the arrows on the start card.

Tips

• Think in shares, not lengths: 25 g of 100 g is a quarter of the food, wherever you cut it.
• A wedge hung by its wide end has a light tip. Cutting off a fifth of its weight takes nearly half its length.
• Mind which side keeps the hook. Cut on the wrong side and the big part falls.
• On the fudge, a cut from the light end takes twice as much length as the same weight from the dark end.
• Everyone gets the same orders all day, and new ones at midnight UTC. “Practice a new layout” deals fresh orders any time, off the leaderboard.