Principles game building list for connections

🧠 Mentalism (The All is Mind; Mind shapes reality)

• 🌠 A child imagines flying every night — years later, they become a pilot.

• 🖋️ A poet holds grief in thought — and it bleeds into every line they write.

• 🌿 A woman envisions healing her sick garden… the plants revive.

• 🖍️ A child draws a world of kindness… later builds community.

• 🫧 “I’m drowning” becomes “I am rising” — the body follows the thought.

• 🌧️ A community prays for rain… clouds gather, land drinks.

• 🧘‍♂️ An elder meditates on peace… neighbors soften, town lightens.

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🪞 Correspondence (As above, so below; patterns repeat across scales)

• 🐚 Spirals in seashells match galaxies in the sky.

• 🫀 River branches look like the veins in your hand.

• 🪴 A fern’s fractals mirror lightning’s branches.

• 🪐 Electron orbits echo planets round a star.

• 🌗 Moon phases mirror human emotion cycles.

• 🧬 DNA’s helix spirals like whirlpools and ram’s horns.

• 🏛️ Civilizations rise/fall like a single human breath.

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📡 Vibration (Nothing rests, all moves; frequency shapes form)

• 🥁 A drumbeat steadies a racing heart.

• 🗣️ Anger raises the voice, kindness softens it.

• 🎻 A violin string hums the same note as a singing glass.

• 🪨 Quakes ripple through stone like ripples on water.

• 🕯️ A whispered prayer shifts a room’s energy.

• 🧪 Plants thrive to resonance, wither in dissonance.

• 😂 Laughter’s frequency lifts everyone nearby.

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⚖️ Polarity (Opposites are the same in degree; unity in extremes)

• 🔥 Fire cooks food or burns a home.

• 💘 Love and hate both bind you tightly.

• 🧊 Ice and steam are both water, only in degree.

• 🌞 Light makes darkness known (and vice versa).

• 🐍 Poison heals in micro-dose, harms in macro.

• 🤫 Silence is peace to one, torture to another.

• 🌪️ Calm sea ↔ raging storm — one ocean, different intensity.

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🕰️ Rhythm (Flow in cycles, rise and fall of all things)

• 🌊 The moon pulls tides in and out.

• 🌬️ Breath expands, then releases.

• 🍂 Trees bud in spring, shed in autumn.

• 🎼 A song swells in chorus, softens in verse.

• 🌓 Day yields to night, then returns.

• ❤️ A heartbeat quickens in joy, slows in rest.

• 🔁 History repeats — empires rise and fall.

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🔗 Cause & Effect (Every action echoes through time)

• 🌾 Plant seeds today → harvest in autumn.

• 💬 A kind word today → kindness tomorrow.

• 🦋 A butterfly stirs air → storms shift afar.

• 📵 A texting driver → a chain of accidents.

• 📚 Hours of study → wisdom for a lifetime.

• 🧨 One spark lit → a forest turns to ash.

• 🕊️ Choosing forgiveness → generations heal.

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🪽 Gender (Creation through balance)

• 🌸 Flowers bloom with pollen and petals, each needing the other.

• 🧲 Night/day, active/receptive — attraction weaves balance.

• 🐝 Workers and drones together sustain the hive.

• 🪢 Two strands twined — neither whole alone.

• 🎶 Harmony arises when high and low join.

• 🌦️ Earth receives, sky sends — life from their embrace.

• 🌱 Idea (seed) + nurture (soil) = reality.

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How to use

• Treat each emoji as the unique token for that scenario.

• The principle icons (🧠 🪞 📡 ⚖️ 🕰️ 🔗 🪽) label the drop-zones only—don’t reuse them on cards.

• If a card is dropped on the wrong zone, “spit it back” and optionally flash a one-line hint.