Identification practice

Practice spotting counterfeits and appraising goods. Pick one item from the list, or all items at random: Whole items hands you one random example after another, built the way the demo builds them and drawn on the game’s own inspection panels; Single checks drills one part at a time; and Quiz asks ten of them and gives your score at the end, with the right answer for each. Confront Hemingway cigarettes, Food Stamps and Immunivax injectors on the counterfeit receipt, or accept them as genuine; estimate Plasma Cartridges, Bionic Hands and Ribwiches on the appraisal panel; and sort BloomBerries by their look. The item’s handbook or guide book from the game sits beside it, page by page.

Think you can spot a fake?

Take the quiz and see how good you are: ten items cross your counter, and you get a score and a title at the end.

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What each item tests

Item	You decide	What decides it
Hemingway cigarettes	Confront or accept	Lettering, box color, security seal, logo; a box problem only on the story’s blank pack
Food Stamps	Confront or accept	Lettering, logo, the seal against the printed value, the value itself, the chip
Immunivax injectors	Confront or accept	Indicator, label, serial number and recalled batches, cracked body, body colors
Plasma Cartridges	Estimate	Plasma color, casing condition, manufacturer seal
Bionic Hands	Estimate	Material, condition, control interface, add-ons, set bonuses
Ribwiches	Estimate	Wrap, Davre logo, Ribwich sticker, production date, packing facility, deluxe edition, double meat
BloomBerries	Pick the condition	Normal, small, underripe, overripe or moldy

A confront is right when the item really has the problem you ticked, which is how the game judges it; accepting is right only for a genuine item. An estimate is right when the appraisal service would grade it Perfect: within 95–105% of the true value.

Counterfeits carry exactly the faults the game gives them. How often one comes up is the practice’s choice: half of the cigarettes and Food Stamps, and an even share of genuine, expired, unusable and counterfeit injectors. One cigarette in ten is one of the story’s three packs. Plasma Cartridges, Bionic Hands, Ribwiches and BloomBerries come with the demo’s own odds. The demo’s foreign-script cigarette lettering is blank, so that fake shows no lettering at all.

Sources: the inspection panels, guides, receipt and appraisal panel in the demo’s level1 scene, and the item rules in its GameAssembly.dll (build 049-Rev3-L).