# PREDICTED RATINGS · FRYING PAN (N3, 28 Oct, autonomous mode, per USER_TASTE.md §7)

## How it was judged
- **Renders:** every live pan kill on 58k_pan.html, rendered headless from the live files (one Chrome at a time).
  - Each kill: a 12-frame strip at 400 px (fK-0.35 to the final, gore 5), the six finals (XT VH H M L VL) and the big XT final.
- **Sheets:** `/Volumes/Workspace/Scratch/n3/pred/pan/<key>.jpg`.
- **Only 12 pan kills are live** (58k_w_pan.js, _b, _mid, _skins). The other ledger entries are not on the page (no defs), so they are
  not rated: DUCK DUCK GOOSE, IRON, FOG BELL, PRIEST HOLE, LAST MEAL, THE LID, SEEING DOUBLE, TA-DA, SLINKY, SNOW CONE, HIGH SCORE,
  THE TABLE OF MIDAS, the mids GOT IT, THE LAST SWING, SCRAMBLED, PANNED, and the Deep HOMEWARD, DINNER BELL.
- Judged on what the page shows NOW: central faces-off, the gore ladder, the zoom floor and wide finals are live.
- **Maps:** all 12 play on 17/17 dry maps (generic floor; the casts are their own).
- **No crashes:** 0 console errors on all 12.

**Counts (12 live): GOOD 0 · OK BUT 7 · REPLACE 5** (coordinator moved GREASE FIRE to REPLACE).
- The pan's blows are skull blows, so most endings are an intact head with a painted welt or a bloody dead face. "Head explosion
  needed" is the common note.
- Several VH / H finals cut to full-frame macro closes: a face pressed in the pot, an eye with a heart monitor, a split of two
  heads.
- The REPLACEs are the slow or sensory concepts with no action payoff: the held backswing, the lost senses, death of panic. The
  fourth is the classic husband gag.

| key | name | rating | note (exact chip phrases) | why (what I saw) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pan.match-point | MATCH POINT | ok | head explosion needed · too zoomed at the end, zoom out (the VH and H finals are full-frame closes of her body) | Real action and a fun frame: she empties an SMG and Faris returns every round like tennis, the umpire calling FIFTEEN-LOVE ... GAME, SET AND MATCH, with a CHALLENGE replay. Her own rounds take her down. The XT final is a wide of her lying with the head intact. Close to GOOD. |
| pan.mid-same-spot | SAME SPOT | ok | head explosion needed · too zoomed at the end, zoom out (VH: a split of two big round heads; H: a dark close) | The deflect returned to the inch: her round comes back into the same spot on her brow, and Faris taps his own. Clear and quick. The XT ends with her still standing with a small head wound, no burst. |
| pan.backhand | BACKHAND | ok | head explosion needed · no facial expression needed (the bloodied dead face on the ground) | The game's alternating swing: "HA! MISSED!" on the forehand, then the backhand lifts him off his feet and he lands face first. Simple and readable. The XT final shows a painted bloody face with teeth, and the head stays whole. |
| pan.mid-flapjack | FLAPJACK | ok | head explosion needed · unwanted wound marks painted on the body (the pan's ribbed print on her head) · too zoomed at the end, zoom out (the VH top-down "done.") | An upswing flips her one full turn like a pancake and she slaps flat: "done." Fun and quick. But the ribbed pan pattern is painted across her head, and the head never bursts. |
| pan.tin-can | TIN CAN | ok | no facial expression needed (his face pressed into the pot) · too zoomed at the end, zoom out (the VH full-frame pot close) · head explosion needed | He jams a pot on as a helmet, and every BONG dents it tighter until it's a mould of his skull. The dents read, a real escalation. The ends show a face pressed into the steel, and the VH is a macro of it. |
| pan.skin-camo | THE ROCK | ok | head explosion needed · too zoomed at the end, zoom out (the VH close) | Faris lies under the camo pan like a mossy rock, and she sits on him to reload ("hm?"). He rises and BONGs her. A clean ambush payoff. The XT ends with an intact head in a pool (her own party hat stays). |
| pan.shield-of-perseus | THE SHIELD OF PERSEUS | ok | explode limbs, body and head in the old game style, scaled to the gore level (full at extreme) · costume (the snake hair) · too zoomed (the full-frame pan-mirror close of her head) | A strong myth beat: the gorgon's look turns a crow to stone, and Faris holds up the pan as Perseus's shield. Her own look comes back and petrifies her; the pan KRAKs her. But the stone statue only cracks, bleeding at the head: it should burst like the old game's statue. The reflection beat is a big circle close. |
| pan.grease-fire | GREASE FIRE | replace | (COORD override 06:40: tied to an element that does not exist in the map during gameplay (the film-placed crate stove IS the kill); movement is weak or slow: Faris only cooks and watches for 9 s; reads as a gag) | A real cause and effect (never throw water on a grease fire): he charges in, throws water at Faris's frying pan, and the fireball takes him. He burns and drops charred. But Faris only cooks and watches, and the H final is a near-black close. Unsure: it could read as a gag. |
| pan.cold-sweat | COLD SWEAT | replace | no facial expression needed (the sweating face close) · body marks (the red blood-sweat head) · movement is weak or slow | Faris holds the pan at the top of the backswing and waits; the victim sweats blood in a full-frame face insert and dies of the wait. No action payoff. The concept is the face (the beads, the red head), and the victim is cyan Amjad, who merges with Faris. |
| pan.senseless | SENSELESS | replace | confusing (too dark: the film goes black, then red, with captions "the taste of blood") · no facial expression needed (the VH eye-and-heart-monitor close) | Each bong takes one sense, and the film loses it with her: about 3 s of black and red screens with captions. The concept is POV and senses, not action, and it is unreadable in the middle. |
| pan.panic | PANIC | replace | confusing · no payoff (she dies of fear; nothing happens to her) · no facial expression needed (the VH face close) | The realm is pretty (Pan's noon meadow, reed pipes, horns in the grass), but she only runs, turns white-haired and dies of panic. Back in the arena she lies whole. The page's realm slot: the new kill stays a realm. |
| pan.skin-classic | LATE HOME | replace | gag concept · no facial expression needed (the live shocked face; brutCheck LIVEFACE) | The husband creeping home at 3 a.m. and the pan behind the door: the oldest frying-pan joke, played as a gag. One BONG, and he lies with a painted bloody face. |