On the Subject of Money Games

This is business economics in a nursery rhyme.

  • The Money Game module consists of a display with five buttons.
  • The display’s text should be in the color green. If the text is yellow, you are looking at a different module.
  • The display will show a phrase. The first two words of the phrase refer to a row of Table 1. The third and fourth words refer to a column of Table 1. The remainder of the phrase refers to the portion of the song “Money Game pt. 2” by Ren that the labels of the buttons are taken from with the portions listed in Table 2.
  • Table 1 gives a sequence of digits from 1 to 5. 1 refers to the button whose word appears first in the excerpt, 2 refers to the second word that appears in the excerpt, and so on. The numbers are based on the first appearance of the words in the excerpt should a word occur multiple times.
  • The buttons must be pushed in the order obtained from Table 1 using the lyrics obtained from Table 2.
  • Inputting a correct sequence three times will disarm the module.

Table 1:

SEA SHELLS SHE SHELLS SEA SELLS SHE SELLS
SHE SELLS 1542413 145322 5315524 1523351
SHE SHELLS 544343 322431 545225 43233
SEA SHELLS 35335 453151 31415 123531
SEA SELLS 3435545 42135 3515413 51142

Table 2:

SEA SHORE She sells sea shells on the sea shore, but the value of these shells will fall due to the laws of supply and demand. No one wants to buy shells cus there’s loads on the sand.
SHE SORE You must create a sense of scarcity. Shells will sell much better if the people think they’re rare, you see, bare with me, and take as many shells as you can find and hide ‘em on an island, stock pile ‘em high until they’re rarer than a diamond.
SHE SURE You gotta make the people think that they want ‘em. Really want ‘em. Really fuckin want ‘em. Hit ‘em like Bronson. Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment. If you haven’t got a shell, then you’re just a fucking waste, man.
SEESAW It’s Monopoly, invest inside some property, start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly. These shells must sell, that will be your new philosophy. Swallow all your morals - they’re a poor man’s quality.
SEIZURE Expand. Expand. Expand. Clear forest. Make land. Fresh blood. On hands.
SHELL SEA Why just shells? Why limit yourself? She sells sea shells, sell oil as well.
STEEP STORE Guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks, sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock.
SHEER SORT Press on the gas. Take your foot off the brakes. Then run to be the president of the United States.
SEED SPORE Big smile mate, big wave, that’s great. Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate.
SIEVE HORN Polarize the people, controversy is the game. It don’t matter if they hate you if they all say your name.
STEEL SWORD The world is yours. Step out on a stage to a round of applause. You’re a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore, and you sell sea shells on the sea shore.