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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami cover artvsKholat cover art

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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Kholat leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Execution0 vs 1

Kholat leans harder on execution: Walking the mountain takes no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami leans harder on optimization: Fill-in-the-blank deductions resolve to one fixed solution

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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