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Sugar SlotInvent a sweet. See if it would sell.
Pick a base, up to three flavours, a finish, a shape and a wrapper, and give it a name. The page draws it, loads it into the machine and checks what it can: the flavour pairing, the texture, the name on the coil label and the wrapper. One run asks a shelf-appeal panel to score it, fix what holds it back and write the shelf card.
1 Build the sweet
2 The machine
Flavour pairs
The page's flags
3 Ask the panel
One run scores the sweet on five things (craving, how it stands out, the name, the wrapper, and how it fits who it is for), gives one fix per flag, offers three new names that fit the coil label, and writes a short shelf card. No health or diet claims, ever.
The verdict follows a fixed order: rethink it if the page found a red flag (a flavour clash, or a finish that fights the base); otherwise tweak it if it found an amber flag; otherwise stock it.
4 Saved sweets
How the free side works
Each flavour belongs to a family (berry, citrus, cream, nut and so on). The page rates every pair of families with its own rule of thumb, not a taste test: the same family, or a familiar match such as berry with cream or caramel with salt, is classic; a known clash such as mint with salt is a clash; everything else is bold. The sweet, sour and kick gauges average the page's rough estimates for each flavour, nudged by the finish - treat them as estimates.
Red flags: a clashing pair, or a finish that fights the base (a sour dusting on chocolate, fudge or toffee; a soft centre in rock candy). Amber flags: three flavours with no classic pair, a finish that adds nothing, a name over 18 characters or 3 words (the coil label), a name made only of everyday sweet words, lettering under 3:1 contrast on the wrapper (the WCAG large-text threshold), and, for kids, a grown-up flavour (coffee, chili, dark chocolate, matcha, Earl Grey) or a treat price. A panel reply is checked against all of it: the verdict, each score's range, one fix per flag, the name ideas, the shelf card's flavours, and any health claim.
Sugar Slot is for fun and for planning a stall or a party bag. It is not a recipe and says nothing about ingredients, allergies or nutrition.