Game: Emergency Fund Survivor (2026-07-17)

Location: Game: Emergency Fund Survivor

What was wrong: The end screen projected the leftover card debt forward one year as the balance compounding at about 27 percent, but captioned it "if you only pay interest." Those disagree. If you only pay the interest each month, the balance stays flat; the compounding figure is what happens if you pay nothing.

What it now says: The caption now reads "if you pay nothing on it," which matches both the math and the verdict line, which already described the debt as compounding against you. On a $3,000 balance the projection is about $3,805 after a year of paying nothing. Paying only the interest would instead hold the balance at $3,000 and cost about $805 in interest over the year.

Why it was wrong and how it was caught: A wrong caption on a live interactive whose whole purpose is teaching how card interest compounds. The number was right for the "pay nothing" case and the words described a different case. Caught in the full-site audit, calculator and game math pass, on July 17, 2026. The projection is now a tested pure function so the number and its meaning cannot drift apart again.