Edit Ribbon FAQ: Target Strings, Distance and Virtual Coins

Five symbols and unit-cost Levenshtein distance

One spin draws five independent symbols, each uniformly chosen from zero, one and two. Compare the ordered string with the fixed target 01210. Compute Levenshtein edit distance: the smallest number of insertions, deletions and substitutions needed to change one string into the other. Each operation costs one.

Raw score is the larger of zero and three minus that distance. Exact symbol order matters. The result is not just the number of matching positions: insertion and deletion can realign symbols. One whole captured stake covers the entire five-symbol string, without separately paid rows. Players do not choose the symbols or manually edit the outcome.

Exact match, one edit and zero-score examples

The string 01210 exactly matches the target, has distance zero and raw score three. The string 01211 needs one substitution at its final position, has distance one and scores two. The string 00000 has distance three and scores zero.

Distance two gives score one. Distance three or more gives zero, never a negative score. Matching a few symbols or rearranging their order does not automatically qualify: use the minimum unit-cost edit distance to the fixed target. A zero score gives zero credit in every mode.

Exact 243-string means and whole-stake credit

Five independent three-way draws give 243 equally likely ordered strings. Choose Low, Medium or High before spinning. Positive raw scores receive square-root, identity or square weighting respectively; zero remains zero. These are weights rather than final payout multipliers.

For each mode calculate its exact mean weight over all 243 strings, including zeros. Gross credit is the whole captured stake times 0.96 times the observed weight divided by that mean. Every mode has 96% exact expected gross virtual return, with one whole-string return and no separately paid rows.

The stake is deducted before settlement, so gross credit is not net profit. Modes change positive credits after separate normalisation but preserve positive-score frequency. Neither a close target match nor 96% expectation guarantees a session balance or a 96% winning chance. Earlier strings do not change the next draw probabilities.

Captured round and the persisted wallet

A new browser wallet starts with 1,000 free virtual coins. Settled balance and fractional-credit carry persist in localStorage. Reload does not replenish settled funds. Fractions accumulate before whole coins are credited rather than being discarded per spin.

A spin captures one total stake and mode for its five-symbol string. Settings and refill lock during settlement and an active automatic queue. Auto runs at most ten rounds; Stop prevents future rounds while an active spin settles. Optional manual refill is available only while idle with balance below ten. It sets balance to 1,000 and preserves carry. Coins cannot be purchased, transferred, redeemed or withdrawn.

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