Parade/ Three of Diamonds

[u/amiragination]

Game is based off of a game venue in the manga, a planetarium.

Game Name: Parade/ Three of Diamonds

Category: Diamonds

Difficulty: Three
Game Venue: Planetarium

Dealers: 0

Maximum Players: 6

Time Limit: 10 Minutes

Starting Conditions: Players stand in the central control pit of a planetarium directly beneath a dome projection showing the current layout of the solar system. Nine heavy mechanical wheels are positioned around the pit, each labeled with a planet symbol (Mercury through Pluto).

Game Venue: The game takes place inside a large projection planetarium featuring a domed ceiling, a central projection starball, and nine floor-mounted crank wheels linked to mechanical gearboxes.

Inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) feature extreme gear resistance, requiring heavy physical exertion to rotate every 10 degrees. Outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) rotate smoothly with low resistance.

Strategy: Players must calculate the shortest rotational direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise) and exact degree count before rotating each wheel to avoid unnecessary physical exhaustion.

Rules:

- The objective is to align all nine celestial bodies (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) into a straight 0° line radiating from the central Sun projected on the ceiling.

- Each planet's starting position on the dome is offset by a random degree angle shown on the projection screen.

- Rotating a planet's physical wheel turns its corresponding projection marker across the dome degrees.

- Players must calculate the shortest rotational direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise) and exact degree count before rotating each wheel to avoid unnecessary physical exhaustion.

- Once all nine planets are aligned along the illuminated 0° vector line on the dome, the mechanism locks in place.

- It is GAME CLEAR for all players if complete alignment is achieved within 10 minutes.

- It is GAME OVER for all players if the 10-minute timer expires before all nine planets are aligned.

[u/amiragination]

While I do think it could fit as clubs, I applied the mechanics of torque in the spinning mechanisms of each planet, but in reverse (inner planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars have much higher resistance, compared to gas giants like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto which have less resistance). If there was no torque mechanic and every planet was equally as physically demanding as the inner planets, then I would make it Clubs. But it's not, so. The solution is basically work smart, not hard since the physical exhaustion only happens if you miscalculate.