Three paid cards on this weekly game reader masthead
The extra note is not a fourth game. It is the reason the other three notes share a page. On 16 October I wanted a short list of paid Netherlands cards that were not the same toy in three skins, and I wanted the sort rule written down before the order looked natural.
What "paid" meant on the day
Alto's Adventure was €5.99, Monument Valley 2 was €3.99, Threes! was €6.99. None of the three cards presented a free price with a separate purchase tucked into a sentence I had copied. I did not go hunting for a free sibling on another storefront. The masthead is a reading of these ids, not a tour of every edition those studios have ever shipped. If a later check finds a price of zero, the line on the card changes and this paragraph becomes history.
Size did not follow price. The most expensive package was the smallest file. The middle price was the largest file and the only card that asked for iOS 15. I wrote that down because people treat megabytes as a proxy for "how much game", and the cards do not support that proxy without more evidence than a file size.
Why the averages were allowed to lead
Sorting by rating count would have put Monument Valley 2 first, then Threes!, then Alto's Adventure. Sorting by the printed average put Alto's Adventure first, then Monument Valley 2, then Threes!. I picked the average and published the counts beside it so the other sort stays available. A weekly game reader that hides the count is just decorating a number. The bars on the front page are the unrounded averages over five, not a score I awarded.
Genres barely overlap. Action and sports on one card, adventure and puzzle on the next, card and puzzle and education on the last. Puzzle is the only word shared by two of them, which is why the filter on the front page can isolate it and why "one genre ranking" would have been a false title. The chips are a view of the words the store already printed.
What the masthead refused
No install totals, because the App Store cards did not have them. No privacy-label table, because those rows were not in the lookup. No claim that every card is free of ads: only Threes! described itself, in the Dutch text, as the version without ads. No age-gate theatre on this website: the 9+ and 4+ lines stay on the game cards, where Apple put them. No file of the games themselves. The stills are store frames, kept in the ratio they arrived in.
Tomorrow's check, whenever it happens, has to be able to say "this moved" without rewriting the morning. That is the masthead rule. The three cards remain Alto's Adventure, Monument Valley 2 and Threes!, in that order, until a dated re-read says otherwise.