diff --git a/internal/check-packet-render.mjs b/internal/check-packet-render.mjs
index 8eb8bffc7..1c23a9b99 100644
--- a/internal/check-packet-render.mjs
+++ b/internal/check-packet-render.mjs
@@ -368,7 +368,15 @@ const r = await page.evaluate(() => {
       .filter((e) => { const r = e.getBoundingClientRect(); return r.width < 4 || r.height < 4 }).length,
     rhythms: RHYTHMS.filter((w) => body.includes(w)).length,
     rhythmsTotal: RHYTHMS.length,
-    wheelSegs: document.querySelectorAll('svg path[fill^="hsl"]').length,
+    // The segments are the wheel sheet's filled ARC paths (M centre L rim A …), whatever their colour notation:
+    // counting fill^="hsl" read 0 once the wheel took the source's hex palette, and the gate went red on every
+    // packet while the wheel was fine. The "Start here" arrow is a path too, but unfilled and arc-less.
+    wheelSegs: (() => {
+      const title = document.querySelector('.wheel-title')
+      const svg = title ? title.closest('.sheet')?.querySelector('svg') : null
+      return svg ? [...svg.querySelectorAll('path')].filter((p) => / A /.test(p.getAttribute('d') || '')
+        && (p.getAttribute('fill') || 'none') !== 'none').length : 0
+    })(),
     // ⚠ COUNT THE WHEEL'S OWN LABELS, SCOPED TO THE WHEEL SHEET. `rhythms` below
     // searches document.body.innerText, and the SAME rhythm vocabulary is rendered
     // TWICE — once per wheel segment, and once per prayer point (each point prints
@@ -389,11 +397,11 @@ const r = await page.evaluate(() => {
       const sheet = title ? title.closest('.sheet') : null
       const svg = sheet ? sheet.querySelector('svg') : null
       if (!svg) return -1
-      // The segment labels are the non-numeric <text> runs: the pips are all "5" and
-      // the footer reads "5 <minutes> x 12".
-      return [...svg.querySelectorAll('text')]
-        .map((t) => (t.textContent || '').trim())
-        .filter((s) => s && !/^\d+$/.test(s) && !/^\d[\s\S]*×\s*12$/.test(s)).length
+      // The segment labels are the wheel's own label runs (class="wheel-label", packet-render wheelPage), counted
+      // when they carry words. Counting every non-numeric <text> read 25 once each rim badge gained its
+      // "minutes" tag and the wheel its "Start here": those are furniture, not segment labels.
+      return [...svg.querySelectorAll('text.wheel-label')]
+        .filter((t) => (t.textContent || '').trim()).length
     })(),
     // ⚠ NOT body.includes('Gadarenes'). That was an ENGLISH proper noun, so this
     // assertion would go RED on a correctly-translated packet and stays green today