Now that his video has been released, you should update this to show the red dot moving in front of the car just before the car moves forward. His step/lean/lunge is visible at 0:40 in his video.

I re-read the original right before it went out of print. I want to wait a year or three to forget most of the details before I dive into the new version.

I had so much fun a couple of decades ago when all the countdowns were one second off because they didn't account for an impending leap second. Then I got to count down out of sync for the last 11 seconds.

Whenever possible, order from places that pay their employees a living wage.

4 hours per person, 10 people per courtroom per day, how many courtrooms per city and state? Does this process waste a hundred thousand person hours every day across the country?

I think this actually makes it a better game, mechanically speaking. Two thirds of the win conditions are achievable at any time, and you can pursue those directly throughout the year. But if you make it to December without success, the balance of goals shifts.

I once read a story about a future where "Christmas Season" is ultra commercialized and runs summer through December 25, and a marketing person is confused that his religious friend's family "only celebrates Christmas on the last day".