Four pancakes. One button. Read the batter, not the clock.
Best with sound on — flick the side switch off silent.
One tap anywhere and the pan starts heating. Wait for the sizzle before you pour.
Press and hold to pour. Let go when the puddle fills the dotted circle. Too much and you get Pancake Soup — an instant zero for that pancake.
A quick swipe up tosses the pancake. Swipe harder for more air. Swipe sideways and it drifts sideways — sling it too hard and it lands on the floor.
When side two is done, swipe down toward the plate to slide it out.
Same tell as a real pancake. Bubbles rise to the surface and pop. Early on the batter is still loose, so each hole fills straight back in. As the pancake sets, holes start to stay open as little craters — and the shine goes matte from the edge inward.
They don't all switch over at once. A few hold first, then more, then all of them. What you are reading is how many are staying open.
Roughly half the holes staying open is the moment. You get points from the very first crater onward, full marks across a comfortably wide window, and if you hang on until every last hole has set you have already started losing them.
Timings are real pancake timings run at about 6× speed, and every round is shuffled ±20% — you cannot count your way through it.