{"i_see": "A long red bar with a row of seven round holes along its side, like a row of portholes, or a flute lying on its side with all its finger holes showing.", "might_be": "The hull of a little red boat. The holes are portholes and the studs on top are the deck, ready for a cabin and a mast.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A small piece tucked onto the top of the red bar near the right (front) end, standing up like a short cabin or wheelhouse, so the bar starts to read as a deck with something on it.", "taste": "I love those round portholes all in a row", "turn": 0, "cost": 0.016344}
{"i_see": "The long red bar now has a grey bar sitting on top of it, pushed toward the back (left), so three red studs are left bare at the front (right). It looks like two decks stacked with a step down at the front, and both rows of round holes read as windows, grey ones above red ones.", "might_be": "A two-deck river ferry. The red bar is the hull with its lower row of portholes, the grey bar is the passenger deck with bigger windows, and the bare red studs at the front are the open bow deck where people stand and wave.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A small, upright piece that stands on top of the grey bar near its back (left) end, sticking straight up like a smokestack or funnel, so the boat gets a tall shape against all that flatness.", "taste": "I love how the step down from grey to red makes a little front porch on the boat", "turn": 1, "cost": 0.1280738}
{"i_see": "The two stacked decks, grey on red, are still there. Now a tall orange strip with five round holes stands upright against the side of the red hull, held by one dark pin near its bottom. It sticks up above the grey deck like a mast, and it also hangs down below the red hull into where the water would be. Because only one pin holds it, it looks like it could swing round like a clock hand.", "might_be": "A paddle steamer. The orange strip isn't a smokestack. It's the arm of a paddle wheel on the side of the boat, dipping down into the river at the bottom and coming up over the deck at the top, ready to turn and push the ferry along.", "pivot": true, "why_pivot": "I asked for a funnel standing on the grey deck, but what came was pinned to the side of the hull and goes down past the bottom as well as up. Something that hangs into the water and can spin on one pin looks like a paddle, not a chimney.", "next": "A second small, thin piece joined across the orange strip at its lower end, near the pin. It should point out sideways and backwards, low down, so the orange arm becomes a cross or a star, like the first spokes of a paddle wheel turning.", "taste": "I love that one pin turns a stiff bar into something that could spin", "turn": 2, "cost": 0.13438119999999998}
{"i_see": "The red hull and the grey deck on top of it are still there, both lying flat. The upright orange strip now has a thicker light grey beam pressed flat against its front, so the two make one fat two-layer post, grey in front and a thin orange edge behind. It stands straight up across the decks, rising above the grey deck and dropping below the red hull. The dark pin is still at the bottom hole, so the whole post still looks like it could swing round.", "might_be": "Still the paddle steamer, but now the upright is a sturdy paddle blade instead of a skinny spoke. It's the orange-and-grey paddle board at the side of the boat, dipping into the river and waiting for more blades to join it and make a wheel.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A long thin piece pinned through the bottom hole of the grey beam, where the dark pin is, lying flat and reaching out sideways to the right, past the front end of the red hull. The upright and this new arm would make an L, the second blade of the wheel, so it starts to look like it's turning.", "taste": "I love things that look like they could spin, upright beams on a single pin waiting to turn into a wheel", "turn": 3, "cost": 0.1362536}
{"i_see": "A green triangle-ish frame is now pinned flat on the front of the grey-and-orange post, held by a black pin in its middle. It has a long upright side lined with holes and a short stubby arm that pokes out to the right, past the post, over the red bow. The whole stack of green, grey and orange looks like a hub with spokes going up, down and sideways, and behind it the grey and red decks stick out on both sides like a body going through the middle.", "might_be": "The paddle steamer's paddle wheel is really coming together. The green piece is the hub plate, the black pin in its middle is the axle, and the upright arm plus the stubby side arm are spokes going in different directions. It's starting to look like a wheel caught mid-turn on the side of the boat.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A long thin piece on the black pin in the middle of the green hub, reaching down and out to the left, low over the grey deck's back end. That fills the empty lower-left side so the spokes fan out all the way round like a star.", "taste": "I love how every new piece stacks onto that one pin and turns the side of the boat into a spinning star of spokes", "turn": 4, "cost": 0.1368472}
{"i_see": "The purple strip didn't fan out from the green hub. It lies flat along the side of the grey deck at the back (left), held by one dark pin, and sticks out past the end of the grey bar like a long purple tail. So now there's a long body going left to right: purple and grey at the back, red poking out at the front (right) like a blunt nose. Right in the middle, the tall green, grey and orange stack stands straight up across the body, like a pair of wings tipped up on their edge.", "might_be": "A little stunt plane banking hard, seen from the side. The red bar is the fuselage with its nose at the right. The tall green-grey-orange stack is the wings, tilted straight up because it's rolling into a turn, and the black pin in the green is where the wing joins the body. The purple strip at the back is the tail boom, stretching away behind.", "pivot": true, "why_pivot": "The purple went along the body instead of round the hub, and that broke the wheel. With a long tail at the back and a stubby red nose at the front, the whole thing stopped reading as a boat with a wheel and started reading as a body going through a pair of wings. The tall stack looks like wings rolled up on edge, not a paddle.", "next": "A small piece standing straight up from the far left end of the purple strip, short and upright, like a tail fin, so the back end of the plane gets its little flag.", "taste": "I love how one piece going the 'wrong' way turned a paddle wheel into a plane mid-roll", "turn": 5, "cost": 0.1448916}
{"i_see": "A tall pink brick now stands straight up in front of everything, a little to the left of the green, held by a dark pin near its top. It hangs down well below the body like a long flat paddle. So now two tall flat slabs stand up across the long body: the pink one at the back-middle and the green-grey-orange stack beside it. The purple strip still pokes out at the far left like a thin tail, and the red block sticks out at the right like a stubby head.", "might_be": "A dragonfly seen side-on. It has two pairs of wings now, the pink pair and the green-grey-orange pair, both held up stiff and flat the way dragonfly wings are. The long skinny purple strip is its tail stretching out behind, and the chunky red end at the right is its head.", "pivot": true, "why_pivot": "One set of tipped-up wings looked like a plane, but a second tall slab right next to the first means two pairs of wings in a row. With that long thin purple tail, that's a dragonfly, not a plane. Planes don't have twin wing pairs like that, but dragonflies do.", "next": "A small, round-ish piece tucked onto the top of the red block at the far right end, sitting up like one big bulging eye, so the red end clearly becomes the dragonfly's head.", "taste": "I love the way two tall flat slabs standing side by side suddenly turn into wings that want to buzz", "turn": 6, "cost": 0.1497098}
{"i_see": "A pale blue flat square now sits on top of the red block at the right end, behind the orange edge, like a little flat cap. In front, the tall pink slab and the green, grey and orange stack still stand straight up side by side across the body. The green piece with its black pin in the middle looks a bit like a twisted propeller. The purple strip still pokes out at the far left as a thin tail.", "might_be": "Still the dragonfly. The blue square is its big shiny eye. Real dragonflies often have bright blue eyes that wrap over the top of the head, and this flat blue cap sits right where those would be. The pink pair and the green-grey-orange pair are its two sets of stiff wings, the red block is its head, and the purple is its long thin tail.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A thin piece pinned under the red body, just behind the red head and below the green-grey-orange wings, hanging down and angled forward, so the dragonfly gets its little legs dangling underneath as if it's about to land on a reed.", "taste": "I love how a flat blue square on a red block suddenly turns into a big glassy bug eye", "turn": 7, "cost": 0.14782459999999997}
{"i_see": "Two tall slabs still stand side by side across the long body: the pink brick in front on the left, and the green, grey and orange stack just right of it, with the black pin sitting in the green like a knot. The pale blue square still sits on the red block at the right end like a flat cap. A tiny bit of yellow now peeks out over the top edge of the grey beam, behind the green, like a little crest. The purple tail still pokes out at the far left. Nothing hangs down under the body yet, so the bottom looks bare.", "might_be": "Still the dragonfly, seen side-on. The pink pair and the green-grey-orange pair are its stiff double wings, the red block is its head, the blue square is its big shiny eye, and the purple is its long thin tail. The bit of yellow peeking over the top looks like the bright stripe on its back between the wings.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A thin piece pinned under the red body, just behind the red head and below the green-grey-orange wings, hanging straight down and angled a little forward. That gives the dragonfly the dangly legs it still doesn't have, as if it's about to land on a reed.", "taste": "I love how the two flat wing slabs stand up stiff and side by side, like they're shimmering in the sun", "turn": 8, "cost": 0.1498136}
{"i_see": "A long orange strip now stands straight up at the very front on the left, pressed against the pink brick and held by a dark pin low down. So the left slab is now fat and two-layered, orange in front and pink behind, just like the green, grey and orange stack on the right. Two tall twin slabs stand side by side across the body like a pair of matching doors. The red block and the pale blue cap still stick out at the right, and a little purple stub still pokes out at the top left behind everything.", "might_be": "Still the dragonfly, and it's more balanced now. Each of its two wing pairs has two layers, orange-and-pink at the front and green-grey-orange at the back, so they look like real stiff double wings with veins (all those holes). The red block with the blue eye is its head. The purple stub is where its long thin tail starts.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A long thin piece pinned onto the end of the purple strip at the far left, lying flat and reaching straight out further left, away from the orange slab. That way the dragonfly's tail gets long and skinny, way longer than its wings, like a real dragonfly's.", "taste": "I love how all the slabs come in pairs, so the bug looks like it's buzzing in stiff, matching layers", "turn": 9, "cost": 0.1577676}
{"i_see": "Two tall slabs stand side by side, like before. On the left is the fat orange-and-pink one, with orange in front and a dark pin low down. On the right the green piece has turned into a chunky three-armed shape. It has one arm going up, one going down and one poking out to the right, with the black pin in the middle like a hub, so it looks like a pinwheel or a fan blade in front of the grey-and-orange post. A little more green now peeks out low behind the grey. The red block with the pale blue cap still sticks out at the right, and the purple stub still pokes out at the top left behind the orange. There's still no long tail.", "might_be": "Still the dragonfly, seen side-on. The orange-pink slab and the green-grey-orange stack are its two pairs of stiff wings. The red block with the blue cap is its head and big shiny eye. The green star with the black pin in the middle is where the wings join its body, like a knobbly thorax. The purple stub is still just the start of a tail that wants to be much longer.", "pivot": false, "why_pivot": "", "next": "A long thin piece pinned onto the end of the purple stub at the far top-left. It should lie flat and reach straight out to the left, well past the orange slab. Then the dragonfly finally gets its long, skinny tail, much longer than its wings.", "taste": "I love how every new slab turns into one more stiff, holey wing, and the green one in the middle looks like it could spin.", "turn": 10, "cost": 0.1602216}
{"i_see": "A yellow strip now sits on top of the tall orange post at the left. It's pinned through its end and sticks straight out to the left, flat and high up, so the orange post and the yellow arm make an upside-down L, like a lamp post or a gallows. Below it the pink brick still stands behind the orange. On the right the green three-armed piece with its black pin in the middle looks like a big gear wheel stuck on the front of the grey-and-orange post. Behind it the red block and the pale blue plate poke out to the right like a little cabin with a flat roof. The purple stub peeks out low behind the orange.", "might_be": "A dockside crane at a harbour. The tall orange-and-pink post is the crane tower and the yellow strip is its jib reaching out over the water. The green gear with the black axle is the winch that winds the cable in. The red block with the blue roof is the operator's cab, sitting at the back as the counterweight. It might even be the crane that loads my little red ferry from the start.", "pivot": true, "why_pivot": "I asked for a long tail, but it went to the very top of the orange slab instead of trailing off the body, and it sticks out flat like an arm held up high. A tall post with a long arm sticking out sideways at the top isn't an insect, it's a crane. And once I saw it as a crane, the green star stopped looking like a thorax and started looking like a gear.", "next": "A thin piece hanging straight down from the far left end of the yellow jib, small and dangling, like the crane's cable and hook dropping down toward the ground.", "taste": "I love how one arm stuck up high turns a whole insect into a machine at the docks", "turn": 11, "cost": 0.1645568}
{"i_see": "A blue bar now hangs straight down from the far left end of the yellow arm, pinned at its top, so it dangles in the air beside the tall orange post. The orange post, the yellow top bar and the hanging blue bar make an upside-down U, like a doorway with one side that doesn't touch the ground. To the right, the big green three-armed star with its black pin in the middle still sits in front of the grey-and-orange post, and the red block with its pale blue plate pokes out at the right edge.", "might_be": "A playground. The orange post and the yellow bar are the frame of a swing set, and the blue bar hanging on one pin is the swing, ready to rock back and forth. The green star with its black hub is a spinning roundabout, or one of those whirly spinners next to the swings. The red block with the blue top at the end is a little slide or a step-up platform.", "pivot": true, "why_pivot": "I wanted a thin cable and hook, but what came down is a fat blue bar that hangs from a single pin and could swing. A crane's hook should be small next to the crane, but this is almost as tall as the tower, so it looks like a swing hanging from a top bar. Once I saw a swing, the green star next to it stopped being a winch gear and turned into a playground spinner.", "next": "A small flat piece tucked onto the bottom end of the hanging blue bar, sticking out sideways a little like a seat, so the swing has somewhere to sit.", "taste": "I love things that hang on one pin and look like they could swing or spin", "turn": 12, "cost": 0.1666142}