A table may ask each seat to rank its choices before the deal, in secret; the start line keeps the rankings and create reads them

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG

template/src/lib/game/spec.ts

@@ -65,7 +65,17 @@ export interface GameSpec<State, Input> {
 	 */
 	currentRules: number;
 
-	create(names: Record<SeatId, string>, seed: number, rules: number, options?: TableOptions): State;
+	/**
+	 * Begin the game. `rankings` are the seats' preferences, best first, at a
+	 * table that asks for them (`rankable`); the ledger's start line keeps them.
+	 */
+	create(names: Record<SeatId, string>, seed: number, rules: number, options?: TableOptions, rankings?: Record<SeatId, string[]>): State;
+	/**
+	 * Whether a table with these options asks each seat to rank something
+	 * before the deal (sides, roles, colours): the choices to rank, or null.
+	 * Each seat ranks in secret; `create` reads every ranking at once.
+	 */
+	rankable?(options: TableOptions): { value: string; label: string }[] | null;
 	/** Resolve one round. Must be a pure function of its arguments: the ledger is replayed through it. */
 	resolve(state: State, inputs: Record<SeatId, Input>): State;
 	/** Whether this seat's input is needed before the next resolution. */