The game
You are the transport volume manager of PackDel, a parcel delivery company. Every Monday for 52 weeks you decide how the week's parcel volume in six delivery regions is split across roughly 30 third-party transport providers. One goal: end the year with as much profit as possible. PackDel earns a fixed amount per parcel delivered, so profit is made — or lost — on your two KPIs: cost per parcel and delivery error rate.
The network
- Midtown Core — dense city centre, short stops, heavy volume.
- Northvale — urban north, apartment blocks and offices.
- Eastbrook — suburban east, driveways and doorsteps.
- Southmoor — industrial south, business parks, B2B heavy.
- Lakeshore — lakeside towns, spread out, seasonal traffic.
- Westfield Plains — rural west, long drives between stops.
How a week works
- Fixed footprints. Each carrier delivers a fixed set of regions — half a region, one region, or several. A carrier covering half a region can physically reach at most half of that region's parcels in a week.
- Capacity is real. Every carrier has a weekly capacity. Allocate more and the excess bounces back. Carriers running near full quote higher prices the next weeks; hungry ones get cheaper.
- Spot or contract. Without a contract you ride the weekly spot rates, free to chase the cheapest carrier every Monday. Carriers regularly offer fixed-term contracts: a locked, discounted rate for a committed weekly volume — any week you deliver them less, the shortfall is invoiced per parcel.
- Relationships pay. Carriers who get steady volume quote better prices. Carriers you ignore or jerk around quote worse — and a hostile one quietly serves its other customers first.
- Errors cost hard money. Every late parcel triggers a goodwill refund, every damaged one a replacement cost. Each carrier has its own (hidden) error rate; your analysts publish observed figures weekly. Cheap usually has a reason.
- Demand is stable-ish. Regional volumes follow a fairly predictable seasonal pattern (summer dip, big year-end peak) with weekly noise. Marketing announces campaign weeks in advance — read your inbox.
- Disruptions happen. Strikes, driver shortages, storms, sort-centre incidents, fuel spikes, tariff changes, new depots. Some are announced ahead of time, some are not.
- Nothing goes undelivered. Whatever you fail to place with a carrier is swept up by an expensive crowd-courier backup with an ugly error rate. It saves the parcel and wrecks your KPIs.
- Profit is everything. Score = revenue − carrier costs − backup costs − error refunds/write-offs − contract penalties.
All rates, error rates, capacities, demand and events are generated fresh on the server for every game — there is nothing to memorise between runs. You can save the game at any moment by leaving your email, then find and continue it from anywhere; a finished year enters the leaderboard once it also has a manager name. The game is pure HTML forms, so it works for humans and for AI agents driving a browser alike.
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