TwistMaster Guide — 3 s + 3 s Frying, Ten Disruptions and Seven Items

This TwistMaster guide walks through the whole arcade game, from the first dough drop to the last item: you fry twisted dough in a big stainless-steel fryer, three seconds a side, and pack it into paper bags for your customers. The numbers and on-screen text come straight from the game’s source, and every picture is a real scene captured from the running game. TwistMaster is still in preparation for release, so values may change. In a hurry? Jump to eight tips for your first day at the stall at the bottom.

It is a portrait-mode 3D fry-shop arcade game. Tap the dough bowl to slide a twist into the oil, fry it 3 seconds on the first side, tap to flip, then 3 seconds on the second side, and pack the finished twists into paper bags for your customers. Every twist has its own clock, so the moment you start frying several at once, your hands get busy.

The target is fixed the moment your finger lands and does not change until you lift it. Since the dough keeps moving, the game grabs the twist that needs something done closest to where you pressed. When inputs overlap, the priority is oil drop, then bag, then dough bowl, then twist. Tap a burnt twist and you only get a Burnt! notice.

One twist goes down this road: drop (0.5 s) → frying side one → ready to flip → frying side two → ready to pack → being packed → packed. Wait too long and it falls off the road into burnt. The cooking clock starts the moment the dough settles in the oil, and it is never reset, even if you leave it alone.

The flip window

• You can flip from 0.2 s before the target, at 2.8 s (Classic, target 3 s). Any earlier and the tap is refused; the clock keeps running.
• Past the target you still succeed within the grace time. At level 1 it is 1.6 s, so the first side is ready at 3.0 s and burns at 4.6 s. The grace shrinks by 0.02 s per level and reaches 1.0 s from level 31.
• Packing works the same way: only within the same grace after the second-side target.

How lateness is punished

Quality — Perfect, Good, Dark

When you pack, quality is decided by the seconds you were late on the flip plus the seconds you were late on the pack. A total of 0.5 s or less is Perfect, 1.1 s or less is Good, and anything later is Dark.

The 3 seconds in the hint text is for the Classic. Each shape in the next chapter fries for a different time, so whenever a new shape shows up, read the seconds in its hint.

New shapes unlock one by one as you level up. Each shape has its own frying time (3 s × a multiplier, rounded to 0.1 s), and the most common one is the Classic.

• Fastest to cook — Thin Stick, 2.1 s
• Slowest to cook — Chubby Peanut, 4.0 s
• Every shape collides as the same single capsule

Which shape comes next is a random draw that depends only on the level. The Classic shows up most often, and a freshly unlocked shape (within 2 levels of unlocking) comes second. The first time a new shape appears, a banner like NEW S-Twist pops up, followed by a hint such as S-Twist 2.8s + 3.0s.

Twists in the oil drift lazily and bump each other out of the way. How many you can fry at once does not depend on the level; it is the width of the tank from the start (about 13 to 16 depending on the phone screen), so putting in too many and failing to keep up is the real penalty.

One bag is one order, and an order is 3, 4 or 5 twists. The count is written on the bag. Customers make reservations: a customer’s hand shows the count with its fingers, says 3 please! and leaves, and that order is hung on the leftmost empty slot as a bag.

Bag slots and order sizes

• Bag slots: levels 1–7 have 3 slots, levels 8–15 have 4, and from level 16 you get 5.
• 4-twist orders start at 25% at level 3 and grow a little each level up to 60%. 5-twist orders start at 12% at level 8 and top out at 35%.
• The gap between reservations shrinks as you level up. Level 1 is generous at about 5.2 s per twist, and from level 11 on that kindness is gone.
• Reservations hanging at the same time: 1 at levels 1–2, 2 at levels 3–7, 3 at levels 8–15, and 4 from level 16.
• For the first 15 seconds after a run starts, the order clock and the time limit are paused. You can see the bag numbers and you can already pack.

Auto-complete — the hand snatches the bag

As long as no twist is in flight and the bag is not toppled, the bag completes automatically the instant its count is reached. 0.55 s later a hand comes and snatches the bag away, and coins burst out of the bag and fly off.

A reservation arrives while every slot is full — pop

If every slot is taken and a new reservation arrives, the oldest unfinished bag bursts (Failed~ and a pop sound). You lose life equal to the missing twists × 7: 21 if you filled none of a 3-twist order, 35 for a 5-twist order. A new bag soon takes the freed slot. The screen shows the time left until the next reservation on the oldest bag, the one that will burst first.

The nudge — just one more to go

If a bag that needs only one more twist sits there for more than 1.5 s, a hand comes, taps the bag with a forefinger and hurries you with Hurry!. While the hand waits (up to 8 s) you lose 0.6 life every 0.5 s (about 10% if it waits the full 8 s). Once the bag fills, the loss stops and the hand takes it. At the same count it nudges only once.

How you win

You clear the level when the number of finished bags reaches the target and the hand has stepped back. Bags that burst (missed orders) do not count toward the target; they are replaced with new orders.

Life starts at 100. Following the code, there are exactly four ways to lose it.

A burn that the Fry Shield item stopped costs nothing. When life drops below 50% and 30%, an alarm sounds once, and under 30% a heartbeat plays and a blinking Danger! appears next to the bar. Disruptions never take life directly.

If you keep losing the same level, the game eases up a little (up to three times): the flip and pack grace grows by 0.15 s each time, and the twists drift 6% slower each time. The same level uses the same seed, so you get the same orders and the same disruptions. Play it again and what you learned will work.

Score

H-Coins

• Timing coins: if you are 0.2 s or less off the target time you get H+3, 0.4 s or less +2, 0.8 s or less +1, otherwise 0. You get them once when you flip and once when you tap to pack.
• Bag coins: when a customer takes a bag normally, H+4 per bag.
• Every 5 Perfects in a row gives H+3.
• Clear reward: a level cleared for the first time pays 12 + 2 × (level − 1), up to 90. A level you have already cleared pays a third of that (at least 3). Each newly gained star adds +4.

Stars

The life you have left at the clear decides it: 80% or more is 3 stars, 50% or more is 2 stars, anything else is 1 star. Only the best result per level is saved.

These values come from the formulas (I did not check each one against in-game judging). The target number of bags is 6 at level 1, 8 at level 2, 10 at level 3, then +1 every two levels up to a maximum of 30. The time limit is round(target × max(7, 13 − 0.15 × (level−1)) + 10) seconds, counted after the 15-second prep ends. In the last 10 seconds the clock turns red, and from 5 seconds it ticks.

The time limit barely changes after level 40, and the pressure comes instead from the bag slots, the number of reservations, the disruptions and the shrinking grace. Here is the flow by range.

• 1–2: 3 bag slots, mostly 3-twist orders. The only disruption, from level 2, is a single oil drop.
• 3–7: 4-twist orders begin and a new kind of disruption is added level after level; the S-Twist, Resistor Twist and Crescent unlock.
• 8–15: 4 bag slots and 5-twist orders. Disruptions that mess with the bags arrive, and the Wave, Elbow, Lightning and Candy Cane unlock.
• 16–29: 5 bag slots. From level 20, up to two disruptions can run at once.
• 30 and beyond: the U-Twist unlocks and the flip grace shrinks to 1.0 s, the final test.

Every disruption comes in the order warning → full effect → leaving. A banner appears at the top during the warning, and the first time you see each kind, a tip shows for 4 seconds. They never take life directly and never touch the cooking clocks. They only mess with your view, the movement and the openings.

• None at level 1, in the first 9 s of a run, or during the tutorial
• One at a time (two from level 20)
• Only one of each kind
• 3 s of rest after one ends
• Rolled every 5 s: 20% + 1.2% per level (max 45%)

Six in the oil

Four that bother bags and customers

A fresh install gives you one each of Slow Oil, Golden Timer and Auto Flip. The items sit in the seven slots of the bottom row, each with a name, a count at the upper left and a golden price tag below. Using one lowers the count by one, but only after the effect has actually kicked in. When you cannot use one, Can’t use that right now and a note on when that item can be used appear in the middle of the screen, and the count stays the same.

The Items tab of the shared bottom bar is this game’s item page. It has seven rows (name · description · owned · price · Buy), an ad-coin button, your records and, at the very bottom, the twist collection. If your coins are below the price the button turns gray and shows Not enough H-Coin.

• Tapping a slot with 0 left: if you have the coins, you buy it and use it right away (Bought!). If you are short, Watch an ad to get it? appears.
• Ad coins: watch a rewarded ad to the end on the item page and you get min(600, 150 + 8 × levels cleared) coins (in multiples of 5). You can do it 5 times a day, and after the fifth you see No more ads today.
• Continue: costs min(600, 80 + 5 × level) coins (85 at level 1) or a rewarded ad. Continuing revives the failed bags, lifts your life to at least 50, and if you lost on time, gives you +20 s.
• If you open the item window during a run, the run pauses and Game paused appears at the top.

On the first level of a fresh install, a tutorial finger points at the one thing to do next. The order is dough bowl → first side → flip → second side → pack into a bag → bag, and the customer clock stays stopped until you finish your first order. During a run, the shared hint (light bulb) button shows the same finger for 4 seconds.

1. Dough one piece at a time, slowly. Put in too many at once and you cannot keep up with the twists, each on its own clock, so they burn. Two or three are plenty at first.
2. Tap when the bar turns green. The Classic can be flipped from 2.8 s, but if you land within 0.2 s of the 3.0 s target you earn the timing coin H+3.
3. A burn is −5, dawdling is −1 every 0.5 s. When a bar goes red, put everything else off and deal with that one first.
4. Read the bag. Each bag is its own order, so pack into the bag whose count fits.
5. Do not leave a bag that is one short. After 1.5 s a nudging hand comes and drains your life.
6. If a reservation arrives while every slot is full, a bag bursts. That is missing twists × 7, so fill the oldest bag first.
7. Disruptions do not change the clocks. Just watch the bars and the bag numbers. Only oil drops need wiping, and a toppled bag is stood up with a tap.
8. Items are for emergencies; save them when chasing score. The moment you use one, the +50 on the open bags is gone.