OBJECTIVE
Complete 3 wards without your energy hitting zero or your ITU filling up.
A score is generated whether you win or lose, based on how far you get, how accurately you answered, and how fast.
WARDRUN BLITZ™
Blitz is a 5-patient speedrun. Same WardRun feel, much shorter deck. One attempt per day, same 5 patients for everyone.
No emergencies. No complex cases. No break room. Just five short cases, answered as fast as you can.
Your time is measured to the millisecond. Each wrong answer adds a +5s penalty to your clock.
Blitz has its own leaderboard, its own streak, and its own season score, fully separate from Daily.
HOW SCORING WORKS
Your run is scored on accuracy first, speed second.
Base is how many you got right, out of 5, squared, so each correct answer is worth more than the last.
A perfect 5/5 is special: it adds a +200 bonus for a base of 300, then the clock multiplies it. Match par (60 seconds) and you keep the 300; beat it and the score climbs, past 500 for the very fastest; a slow run floors at half (150).
Speed moves every run, but accuracy is the gate: anything short of 5/5 scores below a perfect run, however fast.
EXAMPLE SCORES
2 / 58–29
3 / 518–66
4 / 532–117
5/5 slow150
5/5 at par (60s)300
5/5 fast (~10s)~550
ENERGY
Energy is your stamina. Hit zero and the run ends.
Correct answers restore 1 energy. Wrong answers drain it based on difficulty: −1 easy, −2 intermediate, −3 advanced.
Drinks in the break room can raise or lower your energy. Read the side effects before you choose.
ITU BEDS
The ITU has a fixed number of beds. When a bed is needed and none are free, the run ends.
Beds fill when CRITICAL status is active and you answer wrongly, or when a complex case goes badly.
Beds free up when you perform well on a complex case.
QUESTIONS
Questions span six categories: Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Surgery, and Medicine.
Difficulty is shown as 1–3 dots. Every question has five answer options, one best answer: the exam's format.
Drawn from a bank of over 5,000 questions. No two runs are the same.
EMERGENCIES
Emergencies strike between questions without warning. You cannot avoid them.
Each one applies one or two status effects for a fixed number of cards. You see what's coming before it hits. Press ATTEND to review, then CONTINUE when ready.
STATUS EFFECTS
CRITICAL
Every wrong answer costs an ITU bed. Lethal when the ward is already full.
RARE
Upcoming patients have rare or atypical presentations, drawn from the less-common end of the bank.
FRAIL
No reserve. The further your answer is from the right one, the more energy it costs: a near miss drains the usual, a wide miss drains up to 2 more.
CRASHING
Every wrong answer drains 1 extra energy until you answer a question correctly.
COMPLEX CASES
At the end of each ward, a complex case replaces the final question: three linked questions on one clinical scenario, each building on the last.
Your score determines the ITU outcome:
3 / 3 — one bed freed
2 / 3 — no change
1 / 3 — one bed lost
0 / 3 — two beds lost
Entering a complex case with a full ITU is extremely dangerous.
BREAK ROOM
Between wards you get a break. Pick one of two options. The other disappears.
NAP — always available. Restores +3 energy. No catch.
DRINK — a randomly drawn coffee or tea. Every drink has an upside and a downside. The benefit might free an ITU bed or top up energy. The side effect might trigger a status or cost you energy.
Read both before you decide. Low energy? Take the nap. Full ITU? A drink might be worth the gamble.
