SCRUPLE
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
SCRUPLE is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
A tray of sealed packets of metal. Each one is stamped with what it weighs. Exactly one of them is lying. SCRUPLE is a Game Boy ROM containing forty assay problems. Play the first six free in your browser, right here on this page. The paid download is the forty-case ROM itself (32,768 bytes), its Readme and its licence: you play it in a Game Boy emulator or on a flash cartridge. It has no browser version.
The balance tells you almost nothing Every packet carries an assay mark: a wax disc with an engraved device and a row of punched pips that declares its weight in scruples. You can count them. One packet’s true weight is a single scruple away from what its mark claims. The docket tells you whether it runs heavy, or light, or — on the harder cases — only that one of them is false.
The balance takes two marks a side and it says one thing: which way it tips. Never by how much. So a weighing is a question, and the answer is the gap between what the marks declare and what the beam actually does: These two declare five between them, and that one declares five. They should balance.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.