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Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Pokémon Trading Card Game leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Execution1 vs 0

Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans harder on execution: Tapping and swapping tiles needs no physical skill

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Pokémon Trading Card Game leans harder on optimization: Deckbuilding around energy curves is the real game

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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