Thanks for playing! This was the designed gameplay loop. We wanted players to feel like they could do parts of the level better and faster each time they redid it. We've gotten a lot of feedback and realized we likely ramped up this challenge too quickly/early.
We understand it can be frustrating which is why we had Eugene provide little bits of dialogue when progress was lost. Totally understand getting stuck after playing for a few minutes and not wanting to go any further, especially when trying to only play a little bit of each game. 5k games is a lot of games to get through! I am sure you are not the first to get so frustrated so early, and again, thank you for playing and thanks for the feedback.