How the Alignment Card Grades You
The card at the end of the run does not measure taste. It measures one thing, how closely your simulated calls matched the feed's own pick across the four rounds. Every round works the same way. The search bar takes the phrase, two local spots surface, one of them is the one the algorithm would rank first, and the call has to land before twelve seconds are out. The three outcomes of the call each carry their own points, and the sum of the four is what the card prints.
What Each Call Banks
A match banks thirty points. That is the call where you named the spot the feed would have ranked first, and it is worth the full lane because reading the two-card table correctly means you actually read the vibe, the cuisine, and the price the same way the algorithm would. A deviation banks ten. You picked the other card, the feed gets to point at the one it preferred, and you still get something for staying in the game, because the trend never punishes a miss, it just records one. A timeout banks nothing, and that is the one outcome the format treats as its own beat, because the joke of the phrase is that the machine does not wait, and a round that runs out the clock is the round where the lunch got decided entirely by somebody else without even a vote from you.
The Three Ranks on the Card
Out of one hundred twenty points, the card sorts the run into three bands. The lowest band, zero to forty, is the freethinker, the run that mostly went its own way, which the card treats with respect and a note that lunch is now yours to figure out. The middle band, forty-one to eighty, is the feed follower, the player who mostly matched the machine with moments of rebellion on the side, and the card leans on that middle line because it is the one most runs land in. The top band, eighty-one to one hundred twenty, is the chosen one, the alignment so clean the card calls the player and the feed a single unit, and it lands there when at least three of the four calls matched before the timer ran out.
Why the Number Is the Point
The real reason the card is graded instead of narrated is that the phrase travels as a number. A viewer who finishes the four rounds has one thing to share, the score and the band it landed in, and that is the entire post, because the two cards you matched and the two you missed are already on the screen behind the number. The run does not need a recap. It needs a grade and a download, and the card gives it exactly that.