Sunday lunch in full sun, and the table is laid with the good china. You are holding the near end of the cloth. One tap whips it out from under everything — and everything has to stay standing. Every round the table fills up a little nearer the edge.
A marker runs along the meter under your hands; tap anywhere when it is in the gold and the cloth comes out clean, with not a cup moved. Off the gold, everything on the table slides toward you — a little for a near miss, a lot for a real one. Anything that ends up more than halfway over the edge goes over, and it is a good plate gone. You have three.
Every round a fresh cloth goes down and one more piece of crockery joins the table, each one nearer the edge, and nothing ever leaves unless it smashes. The marker speeds up and the gold narrows. A teacup that teeters and stays is still hanging over the edge next time. Five clean yanks in a row win back a good plate.
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A balloon that will not stay up on its own, over a rooftop at golden hour. Tap to bat it back up; the parapet is the line.
Sticky-fingered hands are after the bakery counter. Your mallet patrols on its own — tap the moment it passes over a thief, and never bonk the cat.