The symptom
A miss needed to be funny more than once.
What was tried
Daniel requested at least five losing animations.
What the evidence supports
The historical report described a nonrepeating rotation of five losses.
The lesson
A failure state is still part of the game.
Reported implementation; later isolated capture listed separately.
Evidence & perspective
- Recovered origins and development history
September 29 corrected history supplied through the shared project archive. Preserves direct user excerpts and separates assistant work reports from player observations. Its opening correction supersedes older missing-origin claims.