audio.cues — the tally of what was actually played

game.Sound bumps a counter every time it hands a clip to the mixer, so a round can be checked against the events that drove it: one kick sound per kick, one line per say, one surge and one lamp.

local C = require("audio.cues")
C.reset()
-- play a round --
C.report()   -- { played = { kick = 34, land = 33, ... }, refused = {}, total = 71 }

Reading a component's fields says what was ASKED for. This says what was SENT, which is the half that a missing clip or a cue with nothing behind it otherwise hides — refused counts exactly those.

It counts; it decides nothing. Nothing in the game reads it.