The drift check compares the contract, the room store and view, the tally, and the shared dialogs too

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A settled move may be taken back as a draft while the round still waits on others
2026-09-29 12:27:48 -04:00 · 2026-09-29 12:26:32 -04:00 · 2026-09-29 12:25:49 -04:00 · 2026-09-29 12:25:38 -04:00 · 2026-09-29 12:25:07 -04:00 · 2026-09-29 12:21:27 -04:00
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@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ README.
 - **The hall** is the landing page (`/`). Name, *Play now against the bot*,
  *Open a table*, *or join one* with a four-letter code, then *your games*
  (the ledger of tables this browser holds a seat at, with whose move it
-  is and unread talk), *your reports to the keeper*, and *about this game —
+  is and unread talk; for someone coming back it comes first, and finished
+  games wait further down), *your reports to the keeper*, and *about this game —
  a labor of love*, which opens the about panel: a dialog of tabs (The
  game, The tally, More games, Send word; a game may add its own, as Dip's
-  Playing here), `About.svelte`, with each game's words in its hall.
+  Playing here), `TabbedDialog.svelte`, with each game's words in its hall.
+  The address names the dialog (`#about`, `#about/tally`), so a plain link
+  opens it; a game may put its guide and rules in dialogs the same way, as
+  Dip does. Its strip of tabs is `Tabs.svelte`.
 - **A table** is a room. Its code is four letters or digits from an alphabet
  with no look-alikes, and its link is `/join/CODE`. The masthead button
  reads *invite friends · room CODE* and copies the link. Whoever opened
@@ -27,6 +31,10 @@ README.
  *lets the Peanut Gallery talk*; then a watcher signs a name no seat holds
  and their lines read *Name (gallery)*. Each line is a ledger line, so it
  replays with the game, and the hall counts lines said while you were away.
+  A line said while a game is running carries its round (`turn`). A seat
+  may also speak privately, naming seats (`room.say(text, to)`): the line
+  is shown to its sender and those seats alone, never to the gallery, and
+  a game whose talk is its heart puts the choice of whom in its talk box.
 - **A rematch**: a finished table may call for one. A new table of the same
  size opens with the same bots, seats held for the same people, and the
  caller as host; a second call finds it already open. Held seats refuse
@@ -92,11 +100,16 @@ README.
 - **The tally** sits in the about panel: what the ledgers add up to
  (tables, games begun and finished, names seated, turns, time at the
  table, games with a bot, talk), counted on demand from the files and
-  cached a minute. A game adds its own lines through `GameSpec.tally`.
+  cached a minute. A game adds its own lines through `GameSpec.tally` and
+  `GameSpec.tallyBegun`.
 - **Table options** are the host's choices when opening a table (a
  variant, a side, a length): the game declares them in `GameSpec.options`,
  the hall renders them as selects, the room line records them, and
-  `create` receives them. A game with one way to play declares none.
+  `create` receives them. A game with one way to play declares none. An
+  option that changes how many can sit (a smaller map) says so through
+  `GameSpec.seatsFor`. The server, the tally and the ledger replay all read
+  a room line through `cleanOptions` and size a table with `tableSize`,
+  both in `spec.ts`, so each creates the same game from the same ledger.

 ## The engine

@@ -107,7 +120,12 @@ README.
 - Simultaneous by default: every seat that `needsInput` submits, then the
  round resolves at once, bots included. A seat that owes an extra turn
  alone (a time stop, a bonus move) is just a state where only it needs
-  input; the server resolves rounds owed only to bots straight away.
+  input; the server resolves rounds owed only to bots straight away. A few
+  such rounds are played at once; past that (a table every person is out
+  of), the bots play on a round every two seconds so the table can be
+  watched and the server answers everyone else between rounds. The view
+  says so (`playingOn`), and a seat may ask for the rest at once
+  (`room.hurry()`).
 - Hidden information is the engine's business: `view(state, viewer)`
  returns what one seat may see, and the SPECTATOR view is the
  intersection of everyone's. The server sends nothing else.
@@ -116,14 +134,49 @@ README.
  round resolves; keep the old path behind `state.rules < N` and pin both
  with tests. A fix that diverges from no ledger ships without a bump.

+## Optional hooks
+
+A game implements only the hooks it needs; without one, the kit behaves as
+if it were never there.
+
+- `validate(state, seat, input)`: a reason to refuse a move, shown to the player.
+- `seatsFor(options)`: fewer seats for some table options.
+- `settled(input)`: whether an input is final. A game with drafts answers
+  false until the player says it is done; a draft may be replaced (and a
+  settled move taken back as a draft) until the round resolves, and the
+  round waits for every seat's settled input. A seat's view carries its
+  own input in waiting (`yourInput`), so a page reopened shows the draft,
+  and its input in the last round it played (`yourLastInput`), so the page
+  can tell it what became of its own choice.
+- `rankable(options)`: the choices a table asks each seat to rank before
+  the deal (sides, roles, colours). The lobby shows a seat its own ranking
+  and how many have ranked, nothing more; the start line records every
+  ranking and `create` receives them. A solo table asking for one waits in
+  the lobby for the player's.
+- `botPress(state, seat, press, people, trigger)`: bots that talk. A bot
+  speaks when a round opens and when a person writes to it (or says a first
+  word to the table); its lines go privately to the people it names, as
+  ledger lines, with a `note` for its own memory that no view ever carries.
+  `botInput` receives the same press, so a bot can keep what was agreed.
+  `parting(press, viewer)` gives the bots' last words once the game is
+  over. Without `botPress`, private talk to a bot is refused.
+- `tally(state)`: the game's own lines for the tally, from a finished game;
+  `tallyBegun(options)`: lines from every game begun, finished or not, by
+  its table's options (games begun on each variant).
+- `preferences`, `options`: the preferences panel's settings and the
+  host's table choices (above).
+
 ## The server

 One Node process per game, on its own port, run from source with `tsx` as
 a sandboxed systemd service, behind Caddy `handle` blocks that route `/api`
 and `/ws` before the static files. Rooms in memory are evicted after a week
 idle and come back from disk on the next visit. Rate limits sit on the doors
-a stranger can knock on (rooms, seats, talk, the desk); a table of friends
-never nears them. A seat token is minted once, sent once, and compared by
+a stranger can knock on (rooms, seats, talk, the desk), and a looser one
+on a seat's own actions, each a ledger line; a table of friends never nears
+them. An address holds at most twenty sockets, a socket that stops
+answering pings is closed, and a request has seconds, not minutes, to
+arrive. A seat token is minted once, sent once, and compared by
 hash in constant time ever after; a shared link carries none. Room codes
 are checked against the disk as well as memory, so an evicted room's code
 is never reissued over its ledger. A game may refuse a move with a reason
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ The game itself is one file. `src/lib/game/index.ts` implements `GameSpec`
 the ops tools never look past it. The template ships with a demo game,
 High Card, so everything runs before you have written a line.

+Beyond the required methods, a game opts into what it needs through
+optional hooks, and without one the kit behaves as if it were not there:
+`validate` (refuse a move with a reason), `seatsFor` (fewer seats for some
+options), `settled` (drafts a player may replace until final), `rankable`
+(a secret ranking before the deal, read by `create`), `botPress` and
+`parting` (bots that talk, remember by notes and read the talk in
+`botInput`), and `tally` / `tallyBegun` (the game's own lines in the tally).
+`CONVENTIONS.md` says what each does.
+
 ## Start a game

    ./new-game.sh <slug> "<Name>" [port] [domain]
@@ -26,6 +35,7 @@ the new project as `docs/conventions.md`; it is the house style.

 Run the demo locally from a new project:

+    npm run dev:all     # server and site together; Ctrl-C stops both
    npm run server      # the game server on its port
    npm run dev -- --host

@@ -37,7 +47,7 @@ Run the demo locally from a new project:
      src/lib/net/                client.ts (calls, held seats, socket), room.svelte.ts (the room store), talk.ts, view.ts
      src/lib/components/         Hall, Lobby, TableTalk, ReportSlip, Board (demo; replace it)
      src/routes/                 the hall, /join/[code], /rules, /guide
-      server/src/                 index (routes), rooms (game-agnostic), store (ledger), reports (the desk), ratelimit
+      server/src/                 index (routes), rooms (game-agnostic), store (ledger), reports (the desk), tally, ratelimit, and their tests
      deploy/                     deploy, setup, Caddy, systemd, cron, gate + replay, backup, rollup, pulse, visitors, Slack alert, reports tools
      .claude/skills/             <slug>-visitors, <slug>-pulse, <slug>-reports

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ GAME="${1:?usage: drift.sh <game-dir> [slug]}"
 SLUG="${2:-$(basename "$(cd "$GAME" && pwd)")}"
 KIT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
 MAP="$KIT/drift-map/$SLUG.txt"
-SHARED="server/src/index.ts server/src/rooms.ts server/src/store.ts server/src/reports.ts server/src/ratelimit.ts
-src/lib/net/client.ts src/lib/net/talk.ts src/lib/components/TableTalk.svelte src/lib/components/ReportSlip.svelte
+SHARED="server/src/index.ts server/src/rooms.ts server/src/store.ts server/src/reports.ts server/src/ratelimit.ts server/src/tally.ts
+src/lib/game/spec.ts src/lib/net/client.ts src/lib/net/talk.ts src/lib/net/view.ts src/lib/net/room.svelte.ts
+src/lib/components/TableTalk.svelte src/lib/components/ReportSlip.svelte src/lib/components/TabbedDialog.svelte src/lib/components/Tabs.svelte
 deploy/deploy.sh deploy/setup-droplet.sh deploy/setup-server.sh deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl deploy/verify-ledgers.sh
 deploy/replay-ledgers.ts deploy/pulse.sh deploy/visitors.sh deploy/sentry-slack-alert.sh deploy/pull-reports.sh deploy/report-reply.sh
 deploy/__SLUG__.service deploy/__SLUG__.cron deploy/__SLUG__-backup.sh deploy/__SLUG__-rollup.sh"
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ deploy, so the live copies are the repo copies:
  nightly at 00:12 UTC into /var/lib/__SLUG__/rollup.jsonl.
 - `__SLUG__-backup.sh`: nightly at 07:23 UTC, mirrors /var/lib/__SLUG__
  to the `kestrel-wizwar-backups` Space under `__SLUG__/` (a current copy
-  and dated snapshots kept 90 days). It needs rclone with the Spaces
+  less the rollup, and dated snapshots kept 90 days). It needs rclone with the Spaces
  credentials in /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf, copied by hand from the
  wizwar droplet; until then it logs "skipped".

@@ -84,14 +84,16 @@ deploy: the server would rewrite that game on restart.

 Runs the type-checks, the tests and the build locally, rsyncs `build/` to
 the droplet keeping the previous week's hashed assets, rsyncs the server and
-engine sources, installs dependencies, and restarts the game server. A room
-is replayed from its ledger when the server comes back, which takes a few
-seconds; Caddy holds requests that land in the gap.
+engine sources, installs dependencies, and restarts the game server, then
+waits up to twenty seconds for it to answer HTTP and fails with the tail of
+its journal if it does not. A room is replayed from its ledger when the
+server comes back, which takes a few seconds; Caddy holds requests that
+land in the gap.

 ## Operations

 - Logs: `ssh root@<ip> journalctl -u __SLUG__ -f` for the game server,
-  `journalctl -u caddy -f` and /var/lib/caddy/access.log for the web side.
+  `journalctl -u caddy -f` and /var/lib/caddy/__SLUG__-access.log for the web side.
 - Restart: `ssh root@<ip> systemctl restart __SLUG__`
 - Rooms: `/var/lib/__SLUG__/rooms/<CODE>.jsonl`, one ledger per game; the
  nightly backup keeps them in the Space.
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Nightly ledger backup to DigitalOcean Spaces, one prefix per game in the shared bucket.
-#   current/    - exact mirror of /var/lib/__SLUG__
+#   current/    - mirror of /var/lib/__SLUG__, less the rollup (rebuilt from logs)
 #   snapshots/  - one dated copy per day, pruned after 90 days
 # Ledgers are append-only JSONL; the game server never needs stopping.
 # Sentry Crons check-in: /root/.__SLUG__-sentry-cron holds the check-in
 # URL (absent file = no check-ins). SCHEDULE must match /etc/cron.d/__SLUG__.
 set -u
 SCHEDULE="23 7 * * *"
-BUCKET="kestrel-wizwar-backups"
+BUCKET="kestrel-wizwar-backups" # the hall's shared Space, named for its first tenant
 PREFIX="__SLUG__"
 SRC="/var/lib/__SLUG__"
 LOG="/var/log/__SLUG__/backup.log"
@@ -49,7 +49,17 @@ ssh "root@$HOST" '
  systemctl enable --now __SLUG__
  systemctl restart __SLUG__
  systemctl reload caddy
-  sleep 1
-  systemctl --no-pager -l status __SLUG__ | head -3
+  # "active" means only that the process started: wait for it to answer HTTP,
+  # so a server that dies loading its code fails the deploy instead of looping.
+  for i in $(seq 20); do
+    if curl -s -o /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:__PORT__/api/rooms/ZZZZ; then
+      systemctl --no-pager -l status __SLUG__ | head -3
+      exit 0
+    fi
+    sleep 1
+  done
+  echo "the game server is not answering:" >&2
+  journalctl -u __SLUG__ -n 25 --no-pager >&2
+  exit 1
 '
 echo "deployed."
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { game } from '../src/lib/game';
-import type { SeatId } from '../src/lib/game/spec';
+import { cleanOptions, type SeatId } from '../src/lib/game/spec';

 interface Seat {
 	id: SeatId;
@@ -34,13 +34,16 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
 		const seats: Seat[] = [];
 		let state: ReturnType<typeof game.create> | null = null;
 		let turns = 0;
-		// The host's table options ride the room line; a game created without them is a different game.
-		const options = (lines[0]?.t === 'room' ? lines[0].options : undefined) as Record<string, string> | undefined;
+		// The host's table options ride the room line, read exactly as the server reads them.
+		const options = cleanOptions(game, lines[0]?.t === 'room' ? lines[0].options : undefined);
 		try {
 			for (const line of lines) {
 				if (line.t === 'seat') seats.push(line);
-				else if (line.t === 'unseat') seats.splice(seats.findIndex((s) => s.id === line.id), 1);
-				else if (line.t === 'start') state = game.create(Object.fromEntries(seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, options);
+				else if (line.t === 'unseat') {
+					const i = seats.findIndex((s) => s.id === line.id);
+					if (i >= 0) seats.splice(i, 1);
+				}
+				else if (line.t === 'start') state = game.create(Object.fromEntries(seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, options, line.rankings);
 				else if (line.t === 'turn' && state) {
 					state = game.resolve(state, line.inputs);
 					turns += 1;
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ STATUS="${3:?usage: report-reply.sh <host> <reportId> <status> <text...>}"
 shift 3
 TEXT="$*"
 case "$STATUS" in resolved|by-design|open) ;; *) echo "status must be resolved, by-design, or open" >&2; exit 1;; esac
-case "$REPORT_ID" in *[!0-9a-f]*|"") echo "a report id is eight hex characters" >&2; exit 1;; esac
+[[ "$REPORT_ID" =~ ^[0-9a-f]{8}$ ]] || { echo "a report id is eight hex characters" >&2; exit 1; }
 LINE=$(REPORT_ID="$REPORT_ID" STATUS="$STATUS" TEXT="$TEXT" python3 -c '
 import json, os, datetime
 print(json.dumps({"reportId": os.environ["REPORT_ID"], "at": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z"), "status": os.environ["STATUS"], "text": os.environ["TEXT"]}))')
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 	"type": "module",
 	"scripts": {
 		"dev": "vite dev",
+		"dev:all": "node scripts/dev-all.mjs",
 		"build": "vite build",
 		"preview": "vite preview",
 		"prepare": "svelte-kit sync || echo ''",
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// The game server and the site together, for playing locally: one terminal,
+// each line marked with its side, and Ctrl-C (or either one stopping or
+// failing to get its port) stops both.
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
+
+const sides = [
+	['server', ['run', 'server']],
+	['site', ['run', 'dev', '--', ...process.argv.slice(2)]]
+];
+const children = sides.map(([name, args]) => {
+	const child = spawn('npm', args, { stdio: ['inherit', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
+	for (const stream of [child.stdout, child.stderr]) {
+		let rest = '';
+		stream.on('data', (chunk) => {
+			const lines = (rest + chunk).split('\n');
+			rest = lines.pop();
+			for (const line of lines) {
+				console.log(`[${name}] ${line}`);
+				// A watcher outlives the crash it watches, so a port already taken would leave one side running alone.
+				if (line.includes('EADDRINUSE')) {
+					console.log(`[${name}] its port is taken: is another copy already running?`);
+					stop(1);
+				}
+			}
+		});
+	}
+	child.on('exit', (code) => stop(code ?? 0));
+	return child;
+});
+
+let stopping = false;
+function stop(code) {
+	if (stopping) return;
+	stopping = true;
+	for (const c of children) if (c.exitCode === null) c.kill('SIGTERM');
+	process.exitCode = code;
+}
+process.on('SIGINT', () => stop(0));
+process.on('SIGTERM', () => stop(0));
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/bot         {token}            the host seats a bot, before the game begins
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/unseat      {token, seat}      the host sends a bot away before the game begins
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/begin       {token}            the host begins with the players seated so far
+//   POST /api/rooms/:id/rank        {token, ranking}   a seat ranks the table's choices, best first, where the table asks for it
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/turn        {token, input}     this seat's move
-//   POST /api/rooms/:id/say         {token, text}      table talk, from a seat to the whole room;
+//   POST /api/rooms/:id/hurry       {token}            a table the bots are playing on plays the rest at once
+//   POST /api/rooms/:id/say         {token, text, to?} table talk, from a seat to the whole room, or privately to the seats in `to`;
 //                                   {name, text}       or from the gallery, signed, when the host allows it
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/gallery     {token, on}        the host lets the Peanut Gallery talk, or hushes it
 //   POST /api/rooms/:id/challenge   {token}            call the keeper to a held seat; their phone rings
@@ -230,6 +232,14 @@ async function handle(req: IncomingMessage, res: ServerResponse): Promise<void>
 		rooms.begin(room, token);
 		return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, rooms.seatOf(room, token).id));
 	}
+	if (action === 'rank') {
+		rooms.rank(room, token, body.ranking);
+		return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, rooms.seatOf(room, token).id));
+	}
+	if (action === 'hurry') {
+		rooms.hurry(room, token);
+		return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, rooms.seatOf(room, token).id));
+	}
 	if (action === 'turn') {
 		rooms.submit(room, token, body.input, body.resolved);
 		return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, rooms.seatOf(room, token).id));
@@ -241,7 +251,7 @@ async function handle(req: IncomingMessage, res: ServerResponse): Promise<void>
 			return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, SPECTATOR));
 		}
 		if (!voices.allow(clientOf(req))) throw new RoomError('The table has heard enough from here for now.', 429);
-		rooms.say(room, token, body.text);
+		rooms.say(room, token, body.text, body.to);
 		return send(res, 200, rooms.view(room, rooms.seatOf(room, token).id));
 	}
 	if (action === 'gallery') {
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+import { appendFileSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { game, type Input, type State } from '../../src/lib/game';
+import type { GameSpec } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
+import { Rooms } from './rooms';
+import { Store } from './store';
+
+let dir: string;
+beforeEach(() => {
+	dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'rooms-'));
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+	rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+/** A table of the demo game: Ann, who opened it, Bo, and Cy when asked for, the game begun. */
+function table(spec: GameSpec<State, Input> = game, withCy = false) {
+	const rooms = new Rooms(spec, new Store(dir));
+	const host = rooms.create('Ann', 3);
+	const guest = rooms.join(host.room, 'Bo');
+	const third = withCy ? rooms.join(host.room, 'Cy') : null;
+	rooms.begin(host.room, host.token);
+	return { rooms, room: host.room, ann: host.token, bo: guest.token, cy: third?.token };
+}
+
+describe('rooms', () => {
+	it('resolves a round once every seat has moved, and refuses a move for a round already played', () => {
+		const { rooms, room, ann, bo } = table();
+		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, 0);
+		expect(rooms.waitingOn(room)).toEqual(['B']);
+		rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 2 }, 0);
+		expect(room.resolved).toBe(1);
+		expect(() => rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 4 }, 0)).toThrow(/already been played/);
+	});
+
+	it('leaves a room with an unreadable ledger unloaded and opens the rest', () => {
+		const { room } = table();
+		appendFileSync(join(dir, 'ZZZZ.jsonl'), '{"t":"room","id":"ZZZZ","seats":2,"createdAt":1,"options":{}}\n{"t":"seat", torn');
+		const errors = vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+		const reopened = new Rooms(game, new Store(dir));
+		expect(errors).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringMatching(/ZZZZ: ledger unreadable/));
+		expect(reopened.get(room.id).state).not.toBeNull();
+		errors.mockRestore();
+	});
+
+	it('holds a draft until it is settled, and lets it be replaced until then', () => {
+		type Draft = Input & { final?: boolean };
+		const drafts: GameSpec<State, Input> = {
+			...game,
+			cleanInput: (raw) => ({ ...game.cleanInput(raw), final: (raw as Draft)?.final === true }) as Draft,
+			settled: (input) => (input as Draft).final === true
+		};
+		const { rooms, room, ann, bo } = table(drafts);
+		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, 0);
+		rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 2, final: true }, 0);
+		expect(rooms.waitingOn(room)).toEqual(['A']);
+		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 4 }, 0);
+		expect(room.resolved).toBe(0);
+		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 3, final: true }, 0);
+		expect(room.resolved).toBe(1);
+		expect(room.state!.rounds[0].picks).toEqual({ A: 3, B: 2 });
+		rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 1, final: true }, 1);
+		expect(() => rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 2, final: true }, 1)).toThrow(/already in/);
+		rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 2 }, 1);
+		expect(rooms.waitingOn(room)).toEqual(['A', 'B']);
+	});
+
+	it("shows a seat its own move in waiting and its last move played, and nobody else's", () => {
+		const { rooms, room, ann, bo } = table();
+		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, 0);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').yourInput).toEqual({ pick: 5 });
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'B').yourInput).toBeNull();
+		expect(rooms.view(room, '').yourInput).toBeNull();
+		rooms.submit(room, bo, { pick: 2 }, 0);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').yourInput).toBeNull();
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').yourLastInput).toEqual({ pick: 5 });
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'B').yourLastInput).toEqual({ pick: 2 });
+		expect(rooms.view(room, '').yourLastInput).toBeNull();
+	});
+
+	it('shows a private line to its sender and the seats it names, never to anyone else or the gallery', () => {
+		const { rooms, room, ann, bo } = table(game, true);
+		rooms.say(room, ann, 'Everyone, hello.');
+		rooms.say(room, ann, 'Bo, lay a five.', ['B']);
+		const heard = (seat: string) => rooms.view(room, seat).chat.map((l) => l.text);
+		expect(heard('A')).toEqual(['Everyone, hello.', 'Bo, lay a five.']);
+		expect(heard('B')).toEqual(['Everyone, hello.', 'Bo, lay a five.']);
+		expect(heard('C')).toEqual(['Everyone, hello.']);
+		expect(heard('')).toEqual(['Everyone, hello.']);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'B').chat[1]).toMatchObject({ id: 'A', to: ['B'], turn: 1 });
+		expect(() => rooms.say(room, bo, 'Anyone?', ['Q'])).toThrow(/Nobody at this table/);
+	});
+
+	it('keeps each ranking secret until the deal, which reads them all from the start line', () => {
+		const dealt: Record<string, string[]>[] = [];
+		const ranked: GameSpec<State, Input> = {
+			...game,
+			rankable: () => [
+				{ value: 'red', label: 'Red' },
+				{ value: 'blue', label: 'Blue' }
+			],
+			create: (names, seed, rules, options, rankings) => {
+				dealt.push(rankings ?? {});
+				return game.create(names, seed, rules, options);
+			}
+		};
+		const rooms = new Rooms(ranked, new Store(dir));
+		const host = rooms.create('Ann', 2);
+		const guest = rooms.join(host.room, 'Bo');
+		const room = host.room;
+		expect(() => rooms.rank(room, host.token, ['red'])).toThrow(/every choice once/);
+		rooms.rank(room, host.token, ['blue', 'red']);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').yourRanking).toEqual(['blue', 'red']);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'B')).toMatchObject({ yourRanking: null, ranked: 1 });
+		rooms.begin(room, host.token);
+		expect(dealt).toEqual([{ A: ['blue', 'red'] }]);
+		expect(() => rooms.rank(room, guest.token, ['red', 'blue'])).toThrow(/ranking is closed/);
+		new Rooms(ranked, new Store(dir));
+		expect(dealt[1]).toEqual({ A: ['blue', 'red'] });
+	});
+
+	it('refuses a ranking at a table that asks for none', () => {
+		const rooms = new Rooms(game, new Store(dir));
+		const host = rooms.create('Ann', 2);
+		expect(() => rooms.rank(host.room, host.token, ['A'])).toThrow(/asks for no ranking/);
+	});
+
+	it('lets a game give its bots words: when a round opens and when spoken to, with notes kept from every view', () => {
+		const heard: string[][] = [];
+		const talking: GameSpec<State, Input> = {
+			...game,
+			botInput: (state, seat, press) => {
+				heard.push((press ?? []).map((l) => l.text));
+				return game.botInput(state, seat);
+			},
+			botPress: (state, seat, press, people, trigger) =>
+				trigger === 'phase' ? [{ to: people, text: `Round ${game.turn(state)}.`, note: 'secret' }] : [{ to: [press[press.length - 1].id], text: 'I hear you.' }],
+			parting: (_press, viewer) => [{ id: 'B', text: `Farewell, ${viewer}.` }]
+		};
+		const rooms = new Rooms(talking, new Store(dir));
+		const host = rooms.create('Ann', 3);
+		rooms.addBot(host.room, host.token);
+		const cy = rooms.join(host.room, 'Cy');
+		const room = host.room;
+		rooms.begin(room, host.token);
+		rooms.say(room, host.token, 'Psst.', ['B']);
+		rooms.say(room, cy.token, 'Hello, all.');
+		const annSees = rooms.view(room, 'A').chat;
+		expect(annSees.map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Psst.', 'I hear you.', 'Hello, all.']);
+		expect(annSees.some((l) => 'note' in l)).toBe(false);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'C').chat.map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Hello, all.', 'I hear you.']);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, '').chat.map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Hello, all.']);
+		rooms.submit(room, host.token, { pick: 1 }, 0);
+		rooms.submit(room, cy.token, { pick: 2 }, 0);
+		expect(heard[0]).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Psst.', 'I hear you.', 'Hello, all.', 'I hear you.']);
+		expect(room.chat.filter((l) => l.note === 'secret').map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Round 2.']);
+		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').parting).toEqual([]);
+	});
+
+	it('refuses private talk to a bot when the game gives bots no words', () => {
+		const rooms = new Rooms(game, new Store(dir));
+		const host = rooms.create('Ann', 2);
+		rooms.addBot(host.room, host.token);
+		rooms.begin(host.room, host.token);
+		expect(() => rooms.say(host.room, host.token, 'Psst.', ['B'])).toThrow(/read no private talk/);
+	});
+
+	describe('a table the bots play on alone', () => {
+		/** A count to ten that only the bots play: the host is never owed a move. */
+		type Count = { n: number; over: { winner: null; reason: string } | null };
+		const count: GameSpec<Count, null> = {
+			seatIds: ['A', 'B'],
+			minSeats: 2,
+			botNames: ['Aldric'],
+			currentRules: 1,
+			create: () => ({ n: 0, over: null }),
+			resolve: (s) => ({ n: s.n + 1, over: s.n + 1 >= 10 ? { winner: null, reason: 'Ten.' } : null }),
+			needsInput: (s, seat) => seat === 'B' && !s.over,
+			over: (s) => s.over,
+			turn: (s) => s.n + 1,
+			view: (s) => s,
+			botInput: () => null,
+			cleanInput: () => null,
+			nameOf: (_s, seat) => seat
+		};
+
+		beforeEach(() => vi.useFakeTimers());
+		afterEach(() => vi.useRealTimers());
+
+		it('plays a few rounds at once, then one at a pace to watch, and the rest at once when hurried', () => {
+			const rooms = new Rooms(count, new Store(dir));
+			const host = rooms.create('Ann', 2);
+			rooms.addBot(host.room, host.token);
+			rooms.begin(host.room, host.token);
+			const room = host.room;
+			expect(room.state!.n).toBe(4);
+			expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').playingOn).toBe(true);
+			vi.advanceTimersByTime(2000);
+			expect(room.state!.n).toBe(5);
+			rooms.hurry(room, host.token);
+			vi.runAllTimers();
+			expect(room.state!.n).toBe(10);
+			expect(room.over).toBe(true);
+			expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').playingOn).toBe(false);
+		});
+	});
+});
@@ -5,13 +5,20 @@
 // game beyond the GameSpec it is given.

 import { createHash, randomBytes, timingSafeEqual } from 'node:crypto';
-import { SPECTATOR, type GameSpec, type SeatId, type TableOptions } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
+import { cleanOptions, SPECTATOR, tableSize, type GameSpec, type SeatId, type TableOptions } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
 import type { ChatLine, RoomView } from '../../src/lib/net/view';
 import type { LedgerLine, Store } from './store';

+/** The longest line of talk. A game of long negotiation raises this, and the talk box's maxlength with it. */
 const CHAT_MAX_LENGTH = 300;
-/** Lines of talk kept and sent; the ledger keeps them all. */
+/** Lines of talk kept and sent; the ledger keeps them all. A game that runs for weeks of talk raises this. */
 const CHAT_KEEP = 200;
+/** Bots' rounds played in one go, when nobody else owes a move, before the rest are paced. */
+const PLAYED_AT_ONCE = 4;
+/** Between paced bots' rounds: long enough to watch the table move. */
+const PACE_MS = 2000;
+/** Bots' rounds played between answers to everyone else, once hurried. */
+const HURRIED_STEP = 3;
 export { SPECTATOR };

 export interface Seat {
@@ -48,6 +55,10 @@ export interface Room<State> {
 	state: State | null;
 	/** Inputs received for the round in progress, by seat. */
 	pending: Record<SeatId, unknown>;
+	/** Each seat's ranking of the table's choices, where the table asks for one; secret before the deal and after. */
+	rankings: Record<SeatId, string[]>;
+	/** Each seat's input in the last round it played, kept through rounds it had no part in; each seat is shown only its own. */
+	played: Record<SeatId, unknown>;
 	chat: ChatLine[];
 	/** Rounds played so far; a move names the count it was made against. */
 	resolved: number;
@@ -112,6 +123,10 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 	private transfers = new Map<string, { roomId: string; seatId: SeatId; token: string; expiresAt: number }>();
 	private failedClaims = 0;
 	private failWindowStart = 0;
+	/** Tables whose bots are playing on, paced: the next round's timer. */
+	private pacing = new Map<string, ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>();
+	/** Tables asked to play the rest at once. */
+	private hurried = new Set<string>();

 	constructor(
 		private game: GameSpec<State, Input>,
@@ -120,7 +135,14 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		private keeper: { name: string; zone: string } = { name: 'the keeper', zone: 'UTC' }
 	) {
 		for (const id of store.roomIds()) {
-			const room = this.replay(id, store.read(id));
+			let room: Room<State> | null;
+			try {
+				room = this.replay(id, store.read(id));
+			} catch (e) {
+				// One unreadable ledger (a torn last line) keeps its room closed, not the server down.
+				console.error(`room ${id}: ledger unreadable, left unloaded: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e)}`);
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!room) continue;
 			this.rooms.set(id, room);
 			// A table that stopped with a bot's move owed picks up where it left off.
@@ -175,26 +197,17 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {

 	create(name: string, size: number, rawOptions?: unknown): { room: Room<State>; seat: Seat; token: string } {
 		const { minSeats } = this.game;
-		if (!Number.isInteger(size) || size < minSeats || size > this.maxSeats) {
-			throw new RoomError(`A table seats ${minSeats} to ${this.maxSeats} players.`);
+		const options = cleanOptions(this.game, rawOptions);
+		const most = tableSize(this.game, options);
+		if (!Number.isInteger(size) || size < minSeats || size > most) {
+			throw new RoomError(`A table seats ${minSeats} to ${most} players.`);
 		}
-		return this.open(name, size, this.cleanOptions(rawOptions));
-	}
-
-	/** The host's choices, kept to the options the game declares and the choices it offers; the rest default. */
-	private cleanOptions(raw: unknown): TableOptions {
-		const given = (typeof raw === 'object' && raw !== null ? raw : {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
-		const options: TableOptions = {};
-		for (const o of this.game.options ?? []) {
-			const v = given[o.key];
-			options[o.key] = typeof v === 'string' && o.choices.some((c) => c.value === v) ? v : o.default;
-		}
-		return options;
+		return this.open(name, size, options);
 	}

 	/** A table with nobody seated yet. */
 	private blank(id: string, size: number, createdAt: number, rematchOf: string | null, expected: string[], options: TableOptions, seq = 0): Room<State> {
-		return { id, size, createdAt, seats: [], galleryTalk: false, challenge: null, expected, rematch: null, rematchOf, options, over: false, state: null, pending: {}, chat: [], resolved: 0, seq, updatedAt: createdAt };
+		return { id, size, createdAt, seats: [], galleryTalk: false, challenge: null, expected, rematch: null, rematchOf, options, over: false, state: null, pending: {}, played: {}, rankings: {}, chat: [], resolved: 0, seq, updatedAt: createdAt };
 	}

 	/** Open a table with its first seat taken; a rematch names the table it follows and holds seats for its players. */
@@ -306,23 +319,66 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		if (seat.id !== room.seats[0]?.id) throw new RoomError('Only the player who opened the table may begin.', 403);
 		if (room.state) throw new RoomError('The game has already begun.', 409);
 		if (room.seats.length < this.game.minSeats) throw new RoomError(`The game needs at least ${this.game.minSeats} players.`, 409);
-		this.commit(room, { t: 'start', seed: newSeed(), rules: this.game.currentRules });
+		this.commit(room, { t: 'start', seed: newSeed(), rules: this.game.currentRules, ...(Object.keys(room.rankings).length ? { rankings: { ...room.rankings } } : {}) });
 		// A game whose first move belongs to a bot must not wait for a human who is not owed a move.
 		this.driveBots(room);
+		this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
 	}

-	/** Rounds only bots owe (an opening move, an extra turn) resolve at once; a human's waits for them. */
-	private driveBots(room: Room<State>): void {
+	/**
+	 * Rounds only bots owe (an opening move, an extra turn, a table the
+	 * people are out of) resolve without waiting; a human's waits for them.
+	 * A few are played at once; past that, the bots play on one round at a
+	 * time, so the table can be watched and the server answers everyone else
+	 * between rounds. Hurried, they play in larger steps.
+	 */
+	private driveBots(room: Room<State>, burst = PLAYED_AT_ONCE): void {
+		if (this.pacing.has(room.id)) return;
 		const bots = (state: State) => room.seats.filter((s) => s.bot && this.game.needsInput(state, s.id));
+		let played = 0;
 		while (room.state && !this.game.over(room.state) && this.waitingOn(room).length === 0 && bots(room.state).length > 0) {
+			if (played === burst) return this.playOnLater(room);
 			const inputs: Record<SeatId, unknown> = {};
-			for (const seat of bots(room.state)) inputs[seat.id] = this.game.botInput(room.state, seat.id);
+			for (const seat of bots(room.state)) inputs[seat.id] = this.game.botInput(room.state, seat.id, this.heardBy(room, seat.id));
 			this.commit(room, { t: 'turn', at: Date.now(), inputs });
+			played += 1;
 		}
+		this.hurried.delete(room.id);
 		const outcome = room.state && this.game.over(room.state);
 		if (outcome && !room.over) this.commit(room, { t: 'over', at: Date.now(), winner: outcome.winner, reason: outcome.reason });
 	}

+	/** The bots' next round, after a pause to watch it by, or at once when hurried. */
+	private playOnLater(room: Room<State>): void {
+		const hurried = this.hurried.has(room.id);
+		const next = setTimeout(() => {
+			this.pacing.delete(room.id);
+			// A room forgotten and loaded again drives itself; this one is no longer the table.
+			if (this.rooms.get(room.id) !== room) return;
+			this.driveBots(room, hurried ? HURRIED_STEP : 1);
+			// Played out: the bots have their say once, as after any round, which ends a game with parting words.
+			if (!this.pacing.has(room.id)) this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
+		}, hurried ? 0 : PACE_MS);
+		next.unref();
+		this.pacing.set(room.id, next);
+	}
+
+	/** A seat at a table the bots are playing on asks for the rest at once. */
+	hurry(room: Room<State>, token: string | undefined): void {
+		this.seatOf(room, token);
+		this.hurried.add(room.id);
+		const waiting = this.pacing.get(room.id);
+		if (!waiting) return;
+		clearTimeout(waiting);
+		this.pacing.delete(room.id);
+		this.playOnLater(room);
+	}
+
+	/** Whether the bots are playing on by themselves at this table, one paced round at a time. */
+	playingOn(room: Room<State>): boolean {
+		return this.pacing.has(room.id);
+	}
+
 	/** The host seats a bot in an empty chair. */
 	addBot(room: Room<State>, token: string | undefined): Seat {
 		const host = this.seatOf(room, token);
@@ -360,8 +416,22 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		this.commit(room, { t: 'unseat', id: seat.id });
 	}

+	/** A seat's ranking of the choices the table asks for, best first, before the game begins. */
+	rank(room: Room<State>, token: string | undefined, raw: unknown): void {
+		const seat = this.seatOf(room, token);
+		if (room.state) throw new RoomError('The game has begun; the ranking is closed.', 409);
+		const choices = this.game.rankable?.(room.options);
+		if (!choices) throw new RoomError('This table asks for no ranking.', 409);
+		const ranking = Array.isArray(raw) ? raw.map(String) : [];
+		const values = choices.map((c) => c.value);
+		if (ranking.length !== values.length || new Set(ranking).size !== values.length || !ranking.every((r) => values.includes(r))) throw new RoomError('Rank every choice once.');
+		this.commit(room, { t: 'rank', id: seat.id, ranking });
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Record a seat's move on the ledger, so a restart keeps it; resolve the round once nobody else is awaited.
+	 * A draft (an input the game does not call settled) may be replaced, and a settled move taken back
+	 * as a draft, until the round resolves.
 	 * `resolved` is how many rounds the page had seen played when the move was made: a move that
 	 * arrives after its round was played (a slow connection, a second click, a stale tab) is refused
 	 * rather than taken as the move for the next round.
@@ -373,8 +443,10 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		if (typeof resolved !== 'number') throw new RoomError('This page is out of date. Reload it to see the table as it stands.', 409);
 		if (resolved !== room.resolved) throw new RoomError('That move was made for a turn that has already been played. Your page will catch up.', 409);

-		if (!this.waitingOn(room).includes(seat.id)) throw new RoomError('It is not your move.', 409);
+		if (!this.game.needsInput(room.state, seat.id)) throw new RoomError('It is not your move.', 409);
 		const input = this.game.cleanInput(raw);
+		// A settled move is final; a draft may replace it while the round still waits on others.
+		if (seat.id in room.pending && this.settled(room.pending[seat.id]) && this.settled(input)) throw new RoomError('Your move is already in.', 409);
 		const why = this.game.validate?.(room.state, seat.id, input);
 		if (why) throw new RoomError(why);
 		this.commit(room, { t: 'input', at: Date.now(), id: seat.id, input });
@@ -383,15 +455,58 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {

 	private resolve(room: Room<State>): void {
 		const inputs: Record<SeatId, unknown> = { ...room.pending };
-		for (const seat of room.seats) if (seat.bot && this.game.needsInput(room.state!, seat.id)) inputs[seat.id] = this.game.botInput(room.state!, seat.id);
+		for (const seat of room.seats) if (seat.bot && this.game.needsInput(room.state!, seat.id)) inputs[seat.id] = this.game.botInput(room.state!, seat.id, this.heardBy(room, seat.id));
 		this.commit(room, { t: 'turn', at: Date.now(), inputs });
 		this.driveBots(room);
+		this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
 	}

-	/** Table talk, from a seat to everyone at the table and in the gallery. */
-	say(room: Room<State>, token: string | undefined, raw: unknown): void {
+	/**
+	 * Bots' talk, for a game that gives them words: when a round opens, and to
+	 * a person who has just written to them. Their lines go on the ledger like
+	 * anyone's, so a replay repeats them rather than asking again.
+	 */
+	private botsSpeak(room: Room<State>, trigger: 'phase' | 'spoken', only?: SeatId[]): void {
+		if (!this.game.botPress || !room.state) return;
+		const people = room.seats.filter((s) => !s.bot).map((s) => s.id);
+		for (const seat of room.seats) {
+			if (!seat.bot || (only && !only.includes(seat.id))) continue;
+			for (const line of this.game.botPress(room.state, seat.id, this.heardBy(room, seat.id), people, trigger)) {
+				const to = line.to.filter((id) => people.includes(id));
+				if (!to.length || !line.text.trim()) continue;
+				this.commit(room, { t: 'chat', at: Date.now(), id: seat.id, text: this.cleanTalk(line.text), to, ...(line.note !== undefined ? { note: line.note } : {}) });
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/** The talk a seat has heard: the table's, and private lines to it or from it. */
+	private heardBy(room: Room<State>, seatId: SeatId): ChatLine[] {
+		return room.chat.filter((line) => !line.to || line.id === seatId || line.to.includes(seatId));
+	}
+
+	/** Whether an input is final; a game without drafts makes every input final. */
+	private settled(input: unknown): boolean {
+		return this.game.settled ? this.game.settled(input as Input) : true;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Table talk, from a seat: to everyone at the table and in the gallery,
+	 * or, naming seats, privately to them alone. A private line is never
+	 * shown to anyone else, the gallery included.
+	 */
+	say(room: Room<State>, token: string | undefined, raw: unknown, rawTo?: unknown): void {
 		const seat = this.seatOf(room, token);
-		this.commit(room, { t: 'chat', at: Date.now(), id: seat.id, text: this.cleanTalk(raw) });
+		const to = Array.isArray(rawTo)
+			? [...new Set(rawTo.filter((id): id is SeatId => typeof id === 'string' && id !== seat.id && room.seats.some((s) => s.id === id)))]
+			: [];
+		if (Array.isArray(rawTo) && rawTo.length && !to.length) throw new RoomError('Nobody at this table answers to that.');
+		const botsTo = to.filter((id) => room.seats.find((s) => s.id === id)?.bot);
+		if (botsTo.length && !this.game.botPress) throw new RoomError('The bots at this table read no private talk.');
+		// A person's first word of the game, said to everyone, is heard by the bots too: the game chooses who answers.
+		const first = !to.length && !room.chat.some((l) => l.id === seat.id);
+		this.commit(room, { t: 'chat', at: Date.now(), id: seat.id, text: this.cleanTalk(raw), ...(to.length ? { to } : {}) });
+		if (botsTo.length) this.botsSpeak(room, 'spoken', botsTo);
+		else if (first) this.botsSpeak(room, 'spoken', room.seats.filter((s) => s.bot).map((s) => s.id));
 	}

 	private cleanTalk(raw: unknown): string {
@@ -404,16 +519,17 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		return text;
 	}

-	/** Seats whose input the next resolution needs and has not yet received. */
+	/** Seats whose input the next resolution needs and has not yet received settled; a draft still waits. */
 	waitingOn(room: Room<State>): SeatId[] {
 		if (!room.state || this.game.over(room.state)) return [];
 		return room.seats
-			.filter((s) => !s.bot && this.game.needsInput(room.state!, s.id) && !(s.id in room.pending))
+			.filter((s) => !s.bot && this.game.needsInput(room.state!, s.id) && !(s.id in room.pending && this.settled(room.pending[s.id])))
 			.map((s) => s.id);
 	}

 	/** The view for a seat, or for the gallery when the seat is SPECTATOR. */
 	view(room: Room<State>, seatId: SeatId): RoomView<State> {
+		const seated = seatId !== SPECTATOR;
 		return {
 			roomId: room.id,
 			seq: room.seq,
@@ -426,7 +542,14 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 			resolved: room.resolved,
 			over: room.state ? this.game.over(room.state) : null,
 			state: room.state ? this.game.view(room.state, seatId) : null,
-			chat: room.chat,
+			yourRanking: seated ? (room.rankings[seatId] ?? null) : null,
+			ranked: Object.keys(room.rankings).length,
+			yourInput: seated && seatId in room.pending ? room.pending[seatId] : null,
+			yourLastInput: seated && seatId in room.played ? room.played[seatId] : null,
+			// Private lines only to their sender and the seats they name; a note is a bot's own memory, never sent.
+			chat: this.heardBy(room, seatId).map(({ note: _, ...line }) => line),
+			parting: room.state && seated && this.game.parting && this.game.over(room.state) ? this.game.parting(room.chat, seatId) : [],
+			playingOn: this.playingOn(room),
 			audience: this.gallery.get(room.id) ?? 0,
 			galleryTalk: room.galleryTalk,
 			challenge: room.challenge,
@@ -499,20 +622,33 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 			case 'input':
 				room.pending[line.id] = this.game.cleanInput(line.input);
 				break;
+			case 'rank':
+				room.rankings[line.id] = line.ranking;
+				break;
 			case 'unseat':
 				room.seats = room.seats.filter((s) => s.id !== line.id);
+				delete room.rankings[line.id];
 				break;
 			case 'start':
-				room.state = this.game.create(Object.fromEntries(room.seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, room.options);
+				room.state = this.game.create(Object.fromEntries(room.seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, room.options, line.rankings);
 				break;
 			case 'turn':
 				if (!room.state) return;
 				room.state = this.game.resolve(room.state, line.inputs as Record<SeatId, Input>);
+				room.played = { ...room.played, ...(line.inputs as Record<SeatId, unknown>) };
 				room.pending = {};
 				room.resolved += 1;
 				break;
 			case 'chat':
-				room.chat.push({ id: line.id, text: line.text, at: line.at, ...(line.name ? { name: line.name } : {}) });
+				room.chat.push({
+					id: line.id,
+					text: line.text,
+					at: line.at,
+					...(room.state ? { turn: this.game.turn(room.state) } : {}),
+					...(line.name ? { name: line.name } : {}),
+					...(line.to ? { to: line.to } : {}),
+					...(line.note !== undefined ? { note: line.note } : {})
+				});
 				if (room.chat.length > CHAT_KEEP) room.chat.splice(0, room.chat.length - CHAT_KEEP);
 				break;
 		}
@@ -521,7 +657,7 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 	private replay(id: string, lines: LedgerLine[]): Room<State> | null {
 		const first = lines[0];
 		if (!first || first.t !== 'room') return null;
-		const room = this.blank(id, first.seats, first.createdAt, first.rematchOf ?? null, first.expected ?? [], this.cleanOptions(first.options), lines.length);
+		const room = this.blank(id, first.seats, first.createdAt, first.rematchOf ?? null, first.expected ?? [], cleanOptions(this.game, first.options), lines.length);
 		for (const line of lines) {
 			this.apply(room, line);
 			if (line.t === 'turn' || line.t === 'input') room.updatedAt = line.at;
@@ -15,13 +15,22 @@ export type LedgerLine =
 	| { t: 'input'; at: number; id: SeatId; input: unknown }
 	/** A bot sent away by the host before the game began; its seat id is free again. */
 	| { t: 'unseat'; id: SeatId }
-	/** The seed and the rules revision the game began under; a later fix keeps this revision's path for it. */
-	| { t: 'start'; seed: number; rules: number }
+	/** A seat's ranking of the table's choices, best first, before the game begins; the latest for a seat stands. */
+	| { t: 'rank'; id: SeatId; ranking: string[] }
+	/**
+	 * The seed and the rules revision the game began under (a later fix keeps
+	 * this revision's path for it), and at a table that asks for rankings,
+	 * the seats' rankings as the deal read them.
+	 */
+	| { t: 'start'; seed: number; rules: number; rankings?: Record<SeatId, string[]> }
 	| { t: 'turn'; at: number; inputs: Record<SeatId, unknown> }
 	/** Written after the turn that ends the game, for anything that reads ledgers without the engine. */
 	| { t: 'over'; at: number; winner: SeatId | null; reason: string }
-	/** A line of table talk: from a seat, or, with `name`, from the Peanut Gallery (id SPECTATOR). */
-	| { t: 'chat'; at: number; id: SeatId; text: string; name?: string }
+	/**
+	 * A line of table talk: from a seat, or, with `name`, from the Peanut Gallery (id SPECTATOR).
+	 * `to` names the seats a private line was said to; `note` is a bot's memory of what it said, never shown.
+	 */
+	| { t: 'chat'; at: number; id: SeatId; text: string; name?: string; to?: SeatId[]; note?: unknown }
 	/** The host let the gallery talk, or hushed it. */
 	| { t: 'galleryTalk'; at: number; on: boolean; by: SeatId }
 	/** A seat is held for the keeper of the site, called to the table. */
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { game, type Input, type State } from '../../src/lib/game';
+import type { GameSpec } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
+import { Rooms } from './rooms';
+import { Store } from './store';
+import { Tallies } from './tally';
+
+let dir: string;
+beforeEach(() => {
+	dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'tally-'));
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+	rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+describe('the tally', () => {
+	it("adds a game's own lines from every game begun, finished or not", () => {
+		const counted: GameSpec<State, Input> = { ...game, tallyBegun: () => ({ 'games of High Card begun': 1 }) };
+		const rooms = new Rooms(counted, new Store(dir));
+		for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+			const host = rooms.create('Ann', 2);
+			rooms.addBot(host.room, host.token);
+			rooms.begin(host.room, host.token);
+		}
+		rooms.create('Bo', 2);
+		const t = new Tallies(counted, new Store(dir)).get();
+		expect(t).toMatchObject({ tablesOpened: 3, gamesBegun: 2, gamesFinished: 0 });
+		expect(t.byGame).toEqual({ 'games of High Card begun': 2 });
+	});
+});
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 // The tally: what the ledgers add up to, for the hall's about panel. Read
 // from the files on demand and cached for a minute, so a curious visitor
 // costs nothing and a busy hall costs one scan a minute. The counts are
-// the kit's; a game may add its own lines through GameSpec.tally.
+// the kit's; a game may add its own lines through GameSpec.tally (from a
+// finished game) and GameSpec.tallyBegun (from any game begun).

-import type { GameSpec, SeatId } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
+import { cleanOptions, type GameSpec, type SeatId } from '../../src/lib/game/spec';
 import type { Tally } from '../../src/lib/net/view';
 import type { LedgerLine, Store } from './store';

@@ -30,7 +31,12 @@ export class Tallies<State, Input> {
 		const names = new Set<string>();
 		let firstStart = Infinity;
 		for (const id of this.store.roomIds()) {
-			const lines = this.store.read(id);
+			let lines: LedgerLine[];
+			try {
+				lines = this.store.read(id);
+			} catch {
+				continue; // an unreadable ledger is left out of the count, as its room is left unloaded
+			}
 			if (lines[0]?.t !== 'room') continue;
 			t.tablesOpened += 1;
 			const seats: { id: SeatId; name: string; bot: boolean }[] = [];
@@ -44,13 +50,16 @@ export class Tallies<State, Input> {
 					seats.push(line);
 					if (line.bot) hasBot = true;
 					else names.add(line.name.toLowerCase());
-				} else if (line.t === 'unseat') seats.splice(seats.findIndex((s) => s.id === line.id), 1);
-				else if (line.t === 'start') {
+				} else if (line.t === 'unseat') {
+					const i = seats.findIndex((s) => s.id === line.id);
+					if (i >= 0) seats.splice(i, 1);
+				} else if (line.t === 'start') {
 					t.gamesBegun += 1;
 					if (hasBot) t.gamesWithBot += 1;
 					if (lines[0].createdAt < firstStart) firstStart = lines[0].createdAt;
+					for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(this.game.tallyBegun?.(cleanOptions(this.game, lines[0].options)) ?? {})) t.byGame[k] = (t.byGame[k] ?? 0) + v;
 					try {
-						state = this.game.create(Object.fromEntries(seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, lines[0].options);
+						state = this.game.create(Object.fromEntries(seats.map((s) => [s.id, s.name])), line.seed, line.rules, cleanOptions(this.game, lines[0].options), line.rankings);
 					} catch {
 						state = null;
 					}
@@ -1,148 +0,0 @@
-<script lang="ts" module>
-	import type { Snippet } from 'svelte';
-
-	/** One section of the about panel: a tab and what it shows. */
-	export interface AboutTab {
-		id: string;
-		label: string;
-		body: Snippet;
-	}
-</script>
-
-<script lang="ts">
-	// The about panel: the game's story, its keeping and its company, a tab
-	// at a time rather than one long page. Opened from the hall's "about this
-	// game" link (and #about); closes with its button, a click outside it, or
-	// Escape. The tab last read is the one it reopens on.
-	import { tick } from 'svelte';
-
-	let { open = $bindable(false), tabs, title }: { open?: boolean; tabs: AboutTab[]; title: string } = $props();
-
-	let current = $state('');
-	const shown = $derived(tabs.find((t) => t.id === current) ?? tabs[0]);
-	let tabButtons: HTMLButtonElement[] = $state([]);
-
-	function onKey(e: KeyboardEvent) {
-		if (open && e.key === 'Escape') open = false;
-	}
-
-	/** Arrow keys walk the tabs, as a tab list should; Home and End go to the ends. */
-	async function onTabKey(e: KeyboardEvent, i: number) {
-		const to = e.key === 'ArrowRight' ? i + 1 : e.key === 'ArrowLeft' ? i - 1 : e.key === 'Home' ? 0 : e.key === 'End' ? tabs.length - 1 : null;
-		if (to === null) return;
-		e.preventDefault();
-		const next = (to + tabs.length) % tabs.length;
-		current = tabs[next].id;
-		await tick();
-		tabButtons[next]?.focus();
-	}
-</script>
-
-<svelte:window onkeydown={onKey} />
-
-{#if open}
-	<div class="about-scrim" role="presentation" onclick={(ev) => ev.target === ev.currentTarget && (open = false)}>
-		<div class="panel" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="about-title">
-			<header>
-				<h2 id="about-title">{title}</h2>
-				<button type="button" class="close" aria-label="Close" onclick={() => (open = false)}>×</button>
-			</header>
-			<div class="tabs" role="tablist" aria-label="About this game">
-				{#each tabs as t, i (t.id)}
-					<button
-						type="button"
-						role="tab"
-						id="about-tab-{t.id}"
-						aria-controls="about-panel"
-						aria-selected={shown.id === t.id}
-						tabindex={shown.id === t.id ? 0 : -1}
-						class:on={shown.id === t.id}
-						bind:this={tabButtons[i]}
-						onclick={() => (current = t.id)}
-						onkeydown={(e) => onTabKey(e, i)}>{t.label}</button
-					>
-				{/each}
-			</div>
-			<div class="body" id="about-panel" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="about-tab-{shown.id}" tabindex="0">
-				{@render shown.body()}
-			</div>
-		</div>
-	</div>
-{/if}
-
-<style>
-	/* Its own backdrop: not every game has another dialog to share one with. */
-	.about-scrim {
-		position: fixed;
-		inset: 0;
-		z-index: 20;
-		background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.55);
-		display: grid;
-		place-items: center;
-		padding: 16px;
-	}
-	.panel {
-		width: min(100%, 44rem);
-		max-height: 100%;
-		display: flex;
-		flex-direction: column;
-		background: var(--slate);
-		border: 1px solid var(--rule-strong);
-		border-radius: 6px;
-		padding: 1rem 1.4rem 1.2rem;
-	}
-	header {
-		display: flex;
-		align-items: baseline;
-		justify-content: space-between;
-		gap: 1rem;
-	}
-	h2 {
-		font-size: 1.3rem;
-		margin: 0 0 0.6rem;
-	}
-	.close {
-		background: none;
-		border: none;
-		color: inherit;
-		font-size: 1.5rem;
-		line-height: 1;
-		cursor: pointer;
-		padding: 0.2rem 0.4rem;
-	}
-	.tabs {
-		display: flex;
-		flex-wrap: wrap;
-		gap: 0.2rem 0.4rem;
-		border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-strong);
-		margin-bottom: 0.8rem;
-	}
-	.tabs button {
-		background: none;
-		border: none;
-		border-bottom: 3px solid transparent;
-		color: inherit;
-		opacity: 0.75;
-		font: inherit;
-		padding: 0.35rem 0.5rem 0.4rem;
-		cursor: pointer;
-	}
-	.tabs button.on {
-		opacity: 1;
-		border-bottom-color: currentColor;
-	}
-	.body {
-		overflow: auto;
-		min-height: 12rem;
-	}
-	.body :global(p + p) {
-		margin-top: 0.7rem;
-	}
-	.body :global(h3) {
-		font-size: 1.05rem;
-		margin: 1rem 0 0.4rem;
-	}
-	.body :global(h3:first-child) {
-		margin-top: 0;
-	}
-</style>
@@ -51,8 +51,15 @@
 			<div class="verdict">
 				<h2>{g.over.winner === room.me ? 'You win.' : g.over.winner ? `${g.players[g.over.winner].name} wins.` : 'A draw.'}</h2>
 				<p>{g.over.reason}</p>
+				{#each room.view.parting as last, i (i)}<p><em>{room.nameOf(last.id)}</em> {last.text}</p>{/each}
 				<a class="commit" href="/">Back to the hall</a>
 			</div>
+		{:else if room.view.playingOn}
+			<section class="move">
+				<h2>The bots play on</h2>
+				<p class="muted">Nobody else owes a move, so the bots play a round every few seconds for you to watch.</p>
+				{#if !room.spectating}<button type="button" class="quiet" onclick={() => room.hurry()}>Play the rest at once</button>{/if}
+			</section>
 		{:else if room.spectating}
 			<section class="move">
 				<h2>You watch from the Peanut Gallery</h2>
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	// about panel with the rules, the guide and a way to reach the keeper.
 	import { goto } from '$app/navigation';
 	import { loadFamily, type FamilyGame } from '$lib/family';
-	import About from './About.svelte';
+	import TabbedDialog from './TabbedDialog.svelte';
 	import TallyBoard from './Tally.svelte';
 	import Preferences from './Preferences.svelte';
 	import { prefs, setPref } from '$lib/prefs.svelte';
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 	import type { Report, RoomView, Tally } from '$lib/net/view';
 	import type { State } from '$lib/game';
 	import { game } from '$lib/game';
+	import { tableSize } from '$lib/game/spec';

 	let name = $state(playerName());
 	let code = $state('');
@@ -27,9 +28,6 @@
 	let seats = $state(allSeats());
 	let games = $state<Record<string, RoomView<State> | null>>({});
 	let aboutOpen = $state(false);
-	$effect(() => {
-		if (location.hash === '#about') aboutOpen = true;
-	});
 	/** The ledgers' tally, fetched when the about panel opens. */
 	let tally = $state<Tally | null>(null);
 	$effect(() => {
@@ -77,12 +75,14 @@
 	const ready = $derived(name.trim().length > 0);

 	// Each held seat is looked up once, so the ledger can say whose move it
-	// is. A seat the server refuses outright is doubted; a second refusal in
-	// a row forgets it. Silence (a restart, a stale answer) forgets nothing.
+	// is; until the answer comes, its game is absent and reads "looking". A
+	// seat the server refuses outright is doubted; a second refusal in a row
+	// forgets it. Silence (a restart, a stale answer) forgets nothing.
+	const asked = new Set<string>();
 	$effect(() => {
 		for (const held of seats) {
-			if (held.roomId in games) continue;
-			games[held.roomId] = null;
+			if (asked.has(held.roomId)) continue;
+			asked.add(held.roomId);
 			api.view(held.roomId, held.token)
 				.then((v) => {
 					trustSeat(held.roomId);
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@
 		seats = allSeats();
 	}

+	/** A game counts as finished once its table says so; until then, even while loading, it is in play. */
+	const finished = $derived(seats.filter((h) => !!games[h.roomId]?.over));
+	const active = $derived(seats.filter((h) => !games[h.roomId]?.over));
+
 	function status(held: { roomId: string; seat: string }): string {
 		const g = games[held.roomId];
 		if (g === undefined) return 'looking';
@@ -190,12 +194,12 @@
 	}
 </script>

-<section class="lid">
+<section class="lid" class:returning={active.length > 0}>
 	<div class="lid-head">
 		<h1>__NAME__</h1>
 		<p class="pitch">One line that says what the game is.</p>
 		<p class="tag">Two or three sentences for someone who has never heard of it: what you do on a turn, what makes it fun, and that it is free to play here against the bot or with friends.</p>
-		<p class="links"><a href="/guide">how to play</a> · <a href="/rules">the rules</a> · <a class="about-link" href="#about" onclick={() => (aboutOpen = true)}>about this game — a labor of love</a> · <button type="button" class="link" onclick={() => (prefsOpen = true)}>preferences</button></p>
+		<p class="links"><a href="/guide">how to play</a> · <a href="/rules">the rules</a> · <a class="about-link" href="#about">about this game — a labor of love</a> · <button type="button" class="link" onclick={() => (prefsOpen = true)}>preferences</button></p>
 		<Preferences bind:open={prefsOpen} />
 	</div>

@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@
 		{/if}
 		<button type="button" class="commit primary" disabled={!ready || busy} onclick={() => open(() => Room.createWithBot(name.trim(), options))}>Play now against the bot</button>
 		<div class="ways">
-			<button type="button" class="quiet" disabled={!ready || busy} onclick={() => open(() => Room.create(name.trim(), game.seatIds.length, options))}>Open a table</button>
+			<button type="button" class="quiet" disabled={!ready || busy} onclick={() => open(() => Room.create(name.trim(), tableSize(game, options), options))}>Open a table</button>
 			<form class="joinform" onsubmit={join}>
 				<span class="or">or join one</span>
 				<input type="text" class="code" bind:value={code} maxlength="4" placeholder="CODE" autocapitalize="characters" autocomplete="off" aria-label="room code" />
@@ -243,18 +247,30 @@
 		<p class="caption">A picture of the game goes here.</p>
 	</div>

-	{#if seats.length}
+	{#snippet gameRow(held: (typeof seats)[number])}
+		<div class="ledger-row" class:your-move={yourMove(held)}>
+			<a class="ledger-resume" href={`/join/${held.roomId}`}>
+				<span class="ledger-code">{held.roomId}</span>
+				<span class="ledger-info">{status(held)}{#if unread(held) > 0} · <span class="talk-new">{unread(held)} new {unread(held) === 1 ? 'line' : 'lines'} of talk</span>{/if}</span>
+			</a>
+			<button type="button" class="dismiss" title="forget this game" onclick={() => forget(held.roomId)}>×</button>
+		</div>
+	{/snippet}
+
+	<!-- The games still in play, first thing for someone coming back; finished ones wait further down. -->
+	{#if active.length}
 		<div class="ledger">
 			<div class="ledger-head">your games</div>
-			{#each seats as held (held.roomId)}
-				<div class="ledger-row" class:your-move={yourMove(held)}>
-					<a class="ledger-resume" href={`/join/${held.roomId}`}>
-						<span class="ledger-code">{held.roomId}</span>
-						<span class="ledger-info">{status(held)}{#if unread(held) > 0} · <span class="talk-new">{unread(held)} new {unread(held) === 1 ? 'line' : 'lines'} of talk</span>{/if}</span>
-					</a>
-					<button type="button" class="dismiss" title="forget this game" onclick={() => forget(held.roomId)}>×</button>
-				</div>
-			{/each}
+			{#each active as held (held.roomId)}{@render gameRow(held)}{/each}
+		</div>
+	{/if}
+
+	{#if finished.length || reports.length}
+		<div class="ledger past">
+			{#if finished.length}
+				<div class="ledger-head">finished games</div>
+				{#each finished as held (held.roomId)}{@render gameRow(held)}{/each}
+			{/if}
 			{#if reports.length}
 				<div class="ledger-head reports-head">your reports to the keeper</div>
 				{#each reports as r (r.id)}
@@ -325,7 +341,18 @@
 			<p>A rule read wrong, a bug, a game you would like to tell of: write to <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">eric@ericwagoner.com</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kestrelsnest.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@kestrelsnest.social</a> on Bluesky, or <a href="https://toots.kestrelsnest.social/@eric" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@eric@toots.kestrelsnest.social</a> on Mastodon. The keeper of this hall roosts at <a href="https://kestrelsnest.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kestrelsnest.social</a>.</p>
 		</div>
 	{/snippet}
-	<About bind:open={aboutOpen} title="About __NAME__" tabs={[{ id: 'game', label: 'The game', body: aboutGame }, { id: 'tally', label: 'The tally', body: aboutTally }, { id: 'family', label: 'More games', body: aboutFamily }, { id: 'word', label: 'Send word', body: aboutWord }]} />
+	<TabbedDialog
+		address="about"
+		bind:open={aboutOpen}
+		title="About __NAME__"
+		label="About this game"
+		tabs={[
+			{ id: 'game', label: 'The game', body: aboutGame },
+			{ id: 'tally', label: 'The tally', body: aboutTally },
+			{ id: 'family', label: 'More games', body: aboutFamily },
+			{ id: 'word', label: 'Send word', body: aboutWord }
+		]}
+	/>
 </section>

 <style>
@@ -338,14 +365,21 @@
 		padding: clamp(1.4rem, 3vw, 2.2rem) clamp(1.2rem, 3vw, 2.6rem) 1.8rem;
 		display: grid;
 		grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr);
-		grid-template-areas: 'head' 'play' 'look' 'ledger';
+		grid-template-areas: 'head' 'play' 'look' 'ledger' 'past';
 		gap: 1.2rem 2.2rem;
 	}
+	/* Someone coming back sees their games first. */
+	.lid.returning {
+		grid-template-areas: 'head' 'ledger' 'play' 'look' 'past';
+	}

 	@media (min-width: 901px) {
 		.lid {
 			grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) minmax(0, 1fr);
-			grid-template-areas: 'head head' 'play look' 'ledger ledger';
+			grid-template-areas: 'head head' 'play look' 'ledger ledger' 'past past';
+		}
+		.lid.returning {
+			grid-template-areas: 'head head' 'ledger ledger' 'play look' 'past past';
 		}
 	}

@@ -465,6 +499,10 @@
 		padding-top: 0.5rem;
 	}

+	.ledger.past {
+		grid-area: past;
+	}
+
 	.ledger-head {
 		font-style: italic;
 		color: var(--bone-dim);
@@ -570,7 +608,7 @@
 		min-width: 0;
 	}

-	/* about: the panel's own words; About.svelte is the dialog around them */
+	/* about: the panel's own words; TabbedDialog.svelte is the dialog around them */
 	.about-body {
 		max-width: 44em;
 		color: var(--bone-dim);
@@ -581,17 +619,6 @@
 		margin-top: 0.6rem;
 	}

-	.about-body a {
-		color: var(--frost);
-	}
-
-	.about-body h3 {
-		font-size: 1rem;
-		font-style: italic;
-		margin: 0.9rem 0 0.2rem;
-		color: var(--bone);
-	}
-
 	.about-body .made {
 		font-size: 0.85rem;
 		color: var(--bone-faint);
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <script lang="ts">
+	import { untrack } from 'svelte';
 	import TableTalk from './TableTalk.svelte';
+	import { game } from '$lib/game';
 	import type { Room } from '$lib/net/room.svelte';

 	let { room, link, copied, copyLink }: { room: Room; link: string; copied: boolean; copyLink: () => void } = $props();
@@ -8,6 +10,28 @@
 	const hostName = $derived(v.seats.find((s) => s.id === v.host)?.name ?? 'the host');
 	const keeperSeated = $derived(v.seats.some((s) => s.name.toLowerCase() === v.keeper.toLowerCase()));

+	// A table that asks for rankings: this seat's, best first, kept on the server as it changes.
+	const choices = $derived(game.rankable?.(v.options) ?? null);
+	const people = $derived(v.seats.filter((s) => !s.bot).length);
+	const labelOf = (value: string) => choices?.find((c) => c.value === value)?.label ?? value;
+	let order = $state<string[]>([]);
+	// Follows the server's copy; the local order is read untracked, so a click is not undone before its reply.
+	$effect(() => {
+		if (!choices) return;
+		const values = choices.map((c) => c.value);
+		const mine = v.yourRanking;
+		if (mine && mine.length === values.length) order = [...mine];
+		else if (untrack(() => order.length) !== values.length) order = values;
+	});
+	/** Move the choice at `i` to place `j`, the others closing up behind it. */
+	async function move(i: number, j: number) {
+		if (j < 0 || j >= order.length || j === i) return;
+		const next = [...order];
+		next.splice(j, 0, ...next.splice(i, 1));
+		order = next;
+		await room.rank(next);
+	}
+
 	/** The hour where the keeper lives, in words, so a caller knows whether to wait. */
 	let minute = $state(0);
 	$effect(() => {
@@ -62,6 +86,28 @@
 	{#if v.rematchOf}
 		<p class="muted">A rematch of table {v.rematchOf}: the same company, seats held for those not yet back.</p>
 	{/if}
+	{#if choices && !room.spectating}
+		<section class="ranking" aria-label="Your ranking">
+			<h3>Your ranking</h3>
+			<p class="muted small">
+				Best first. When the game begins, the deal reads everyone's ranking; nobody sees another player's.
+				{#if !v.yourRanking}Until you move one, you have no preference and take what is left.{:else}Your ranking is kept.{/if}
+			</p>
+			<ol>
+				{#each order as value, i (value)}
+					<li>
+						<span class="place">{i + 1}.</span>
+						<span class="choice">{labelOf(value)}</span>
+						<button type="button" class="quiet" aria-label="Move {labelOf(value)} to the top" title="To the top" disabled={i === 0} onclick={() => move(i, 0)}>⤒</button>
+						<button type="button" class="quiet" aria-label="Move {labelOf(value)} up" disabled={i === 0} onclick={() => move(i, i - 1)}>↑</button>
+						<button type="button" class="quiet" aria-label="Move {labelOf(value)} down" disabled={i === order.length - 1} onclick={() => move(i, i + 1)}>↓</button>
+					</li>
+				{/each}
+			</ol>
+			{#if !v.yourRanking}<button type="button" class="quiet" onclick={() => room.rank(order)}>Keep this order</button>{/if}
+			{#if people > 1}<p class="muted small">{v.ranked} of the {people} players {v.ranked === 1 ? 'has' : 'have'} ranked.</p>{/if}
+		</section>
+	{/if}
 	{#if !room.spectating}
 		<div class="ways">
 			{#if room.seatEmpty && room.isHost}
@@ -170,6 +216,45 @@
 		font-size: 0.9rem;
 	}

+	.ranking {
+		max-width: 26rem;
+		margin: 1rem 0;
+	}
+
+	.ranking h3 {
+		margin: 0 0 0.2rem;
+		font-size: 1.05rem;
+	}
+
+	.ranking ol {
+		list-style: none;
+		margin: 0.4rem 0;
+		padding: 0;
+	}
+
+	.ranking li {
+		display: flex;
+		align-items: center;
+		gap: 0.4rem;
+		padding: 0.15rem 0;
+	}
+
+	.ranking .place {
+		width: 1.6rem;
+		color: var(--bone-dim);
+		font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+	}
+
+	.ranking .choice {
+		flex: 1;
+	}
+
+	.ranking .quiet {
+		min-width: 2.6rem;
+		min-height: 2.4rem;
+		padding: 0.2rem 0.5rem;
+	}
+
 	.keeper {
 		margin-top: 0.8rem;
 		max-width: 38em;
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
 		z-index: 20;
 		background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.55);
 		display: grid;
+		/* One row the window's height, so the dialog's max-height: 100% is a real limit and it scrolls within. */
+		grid-template-rows: minmax(0, 1fr);
 		place-items: center;
 		padding: 16px;
 	}
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
 	}
 </script>

+<svelte:window onkeydown={(e) => open && e.key === 'Escape' && close()} />
+
 {#if open}
 	<div class="scrim" role="presentation" onclick={(ev) => ev.target === ev.currentTarget && close()}>
 		<form class="slip" aria-labelledby="report-heading" onsubmit={send}>
@@ -92,6 +94,8 @@
 		z-index: 20;
 		background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.55);
 		display: grid;
+		/* One row the window's height, so the dialog's max-height: 100% is a real limit and it scrolls within. */
+		grid-template-rows: minmax(0, 1fr);
 		place-items: center;
 		padding: 16px;
 	}
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+	// A dialog of tabs: the about panel, how to play, the rules. The address
+	// names it, so a plain link opens it: #rules opens the rules, #guide/notation
+	// how to play at its notation. It closes with its button, a click outside
+	// it, or Escape. The tab last read is the one it reopens on. `open` tells
+	// the page whether it is showing.
+	import { untrack, type Snippet } from 'svelte';
+	import { goto } from '$app/navigation';
+	import { page } from '$app/state';
+	import Tabs, { type Tab } from './Tabs.svelte';
+
+	let {
+		address,
+		title,
+		label = title,
+		tabs,
+		intro,
+		open = $bindable(false)
+	}: { address: string; title: string; label?: string; tabs: Tab[]; intro?: Snippet; open?: boolean } = $props();
+
+	let current = $state('');
+
+	// The dialog is open exactly while the router's address names it. Opening, choosing a tab and
+	// closing all navigate, so the address and the dialog cannot disagree.
+	const [named, tab] = $derived.by(() => {
+		const [name, t] = page.url.hash.slice(1).split('/');
+		return [name === address, t] as const;
+	});
+	$effect(() => {
+		open = named;
+	});
+	$effect(() => {
+		if (named && tabs.some((t) => t.id === tab)) untrack(() => (current = tab));
+	});
+	// The address follows the chosen tab, so what is being read can be linked to.
+	$effect(() => {
+		if (named && current) untrack(() => current !== tab && show(current));
+	});
+
+	const bare = () => `${page.url.pathname}${page.url.search}`;
+	const quietly = { replaceState: true, noScroll: true, keepFocus: true };
+	function show(id: string) {
+		goto(`${bare()}#${address}/${id}`, quietly);
+	}
+	function close() {
+		goto(bare(), quietly);
+	}
+
+	function onKey(e: KeyboardEvent) {
+		if (named && e.key === 'Escape') close();
+	}
+</script>
+
+<svelte:window onkeydown={onKey} />
+
+{#if named}
+	<div class="scrim anchored" role="presentation" onclick={(ev) => ev.target === ev.currentTarget && close()}>
+		<div class="panel" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="{address}-title">
+			<header>
+				<h2 id="{address}-title">{title}</h2>
+				<button type="button" class="close" aria-label="Close" onclick={close}>×</button>
+			</header>
+			<div class="body">
+				{#if intro}<div class="intro">{@render intro()}</div>{/if}
+				<Tabs {tabs} {label} bind:current />
+			</div>
+		</div>
+	</div>
+{/if}
+
+<style>
+	/* Its own backdrop: not every game has another dialog to share one with. */
+	.scrim {
+		position: fixed;
+		inset: 0;
+		z-index: 20;
+		background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.55);
+		display: grid;
+		/* One row the window's height, so the dialog's max-height: 100% is a real limit and it scrolls within. */
+		grid-template-rows: minmax(0, 1fr);
+		place-items: center;
+		padding: 16px;
+	}
+	/* Held near the top, not centered: a tab of another length must not move the tabs under the pointer. */
+	.anchored {
+		place-items: start center;
+		padding-top: max(16px, 6vh);
+	}
+	/* min-width 0 all the way down, so wide content scrolls in place instead of widening the dialog past a phone's screen. */
+	.panel {
+		width: min(100%, 44rem);
+		min-width: 0;
+		max-height: 100%;
+		display: flex;
+		flex-direction: column;
+		background: var(--slate);
+		border: 1px solid var(--rule-strong);
+		border-radius: 6px;
+		padding: 1rem 1.4rem 1.2rem;
+	}
+	header {
+		display: flex;
+		align-items: baseline;
+		justify-content: space-between;
+		gap: 1rem;
+	}
+	h2 {
+		font-size: 1.3rem;
+		margin: 0 0 0.6rem;
+	}
+	.close {
+		background: none;
+		border: none;
+		color: inherit;
+		font-size: 1.5rem;
+		line-height: 1;
+		cursor: pointer;
+		padding: 0.2rem 0.4rem;
+	}
+	.body {
+		overflow: auto;
+		min-height: 12rem;
+		min-width: 0;
+	}
+	.intro {
+		color: var(--bone-dim);
+	}
+	.body :global(a) {
+		color: var(--frost);
+	}
+	.body :global(h3) {
+		font-size: 1rem;
+		font-style: italic;
+		margin: 0.9rem 0 0.2rem;
+		color: var(--bone);
+	}
+	.body :global(h3:first-child) {
+		margin-top: 0;
+	}
+	/* The tab strip stays in view while a long tab scrolls beneath it. */
+	.body :global([role='tablist']) {
+		position: sticky;
+		top: 0;
+		z-index: 1;
+		background: var(--slate);
+	}
+</style>
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
 			<li class="muted">Nobody has said a word.</li>
 		{/if}
 		{#each lines as line, i (line.at + ':' + i)}
-			<li class:you={!line.name && line.id === room.me}><em>{line.name ? `${line.name} (gallery)` : line.id === room.me ? 'You' : room.nameOf(line.id)}</em> {line.text}</li>
+			<li class:you={!line.name && line.id === room.me} class:private={!!line.to}>
+				<em>{line.name ? `${line.name} (gallery)` : line.id === room.me ? 'You' : room.nameOf(line.id)}{#if line.to}<span class="to">, to {line.to.map((id) => (id === room.me ? 'you' : room.nameOf(id))).join(', ')} alone</span>{/if}</em>
+				{line.text}
+			</li>
 		{/each}
 	</ul>
 	{#if room.spectating && room.view.galleryTalk}
@@ -110,6 +113,10 @@
 		color: var(--frost);
 	}

+	li.private {
+		font-style: italic;
+	}
+
 	form {
 		display: flex;
 		gap: 0.4rem;
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<script lang="ts" module>
+	import type { Snippet } from 'svelte';
+
+	/** One tab and what it shows. */
+	export interface Tab {
+		id: string;
+		label: string;
+		body: Snippet;
+	}
+</script>
+
+<script lang="ts">
+	// A strip of tabs over one panel, for a dialog that would otherwise be one
+	// long read. Arrow keys walk the tabs, Home and End go to the ends.
+	import { tick } from 'svelte';
+
+	let { tabs, label, current = $bindable('') }: { tabs: Tab[]; label: string; current?: string } = $props();
+
+	const uid = $props.id();
+	const shown = $derived(tabs.find((t) => t.id === current) ?? tabs[0]);
+	let tabButtons: HTMLButtonElement[] = $state([]);
+
+	async function onKey(e: KeyboardEvent, i: number) {
+		const to = e.key === 'ArrowRight' ? i + 1 : e.key === 'ArrowLeft' ? i - 1 : e.key === 'Home' ? 0 : e.key === 'End' ? tabs.length - 1 : null;
+		if (to === null) return;
+		e.preventDefault();
+		const next = (to + tabs.length) % tabs.length;
+		current = tabs[next].id;
+		await tick();
+		tabButtons[next]?.focus();
+	}
+</script>
+
+<div class="tabs" role="tablist" aria-label={label}>
+	{#each tabs as t, i (t.id)}
+		<button
+			type="button"
+			role="tab"
+			id="{uid}-{t.id}"
+			aria-controls="{uid}-panel"
+			aria-selected={shown.id === t.id}
+			tabindex={shown.id === t.id ? 0 : -1}
+			class:on={shown.id === t.id}
+			bind:this={tabButtons[i]}
+			onclick={() => (current = t.id)}
+			onkeydown={(e) => onKey(e, i)}>{t.label}</button
+		>
+	{/each}
+</div>
+<div class="panel" id="{uid}-panel" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="{uid}-{shown.id}" tabindex="0">
+	{@render shown.body()}
+</div>
+
+<style>
+	/* Small capitals in a row that may wrap, the open tab boxed: a second row reads as more buttons, not a broken line. */
+	.tabs {
+		display: flex;
+		flex-wrap: wrap;
+		gap: 0.3rem;
+		padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
+		border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-strong);
+		margin: 0.6rem 0 0.8rem;
+	}
+	.tabs button {
+		font-family: var(--font-ui);
+		font-size: 0.74rem;
+		letter-spacing: 0.1em;
+		text-transform: uppercase;
+		background: none;
+		border: 1.5px solid transparent;
+		border-radius: 3px;
+		color: var(--bone-dim);
+		padding: 0.3rem 0.6rem;
+		cursor: pointer;
+	}
+	.tabs button:hover {
+		color: var(--bone);
+	}
+	.tabs button.on {
+		border-color: var(--bone);
+		color: var(--bone);
+		background: var(--slate-deep);
+	}
+	.panel :global(p + p) {
+		margin-top: 0.7rem;
+	}
+</style>
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 </script>

 <script lang="ts">
-	// What the ledgers add up to, told as Wiz-War tells it: a few counts that
-	// are the game's own story, large, on cards; then the rest in a column of
-	// figures; then the fine print. Each game chooses its counts and words.
+	// What the ledgers add up to: a few counts that are the game's own story,
+	// large, on cards; then the rest in a column of figures; then the fine
+	// print. Each game chooses its counts and words.
 	let { headline, details, note, title = 'How much love the table is getting' }: { headline: TallyLine[]; details: TallyLine[]; note?: string; title?: string } =
 		$props();

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { cleanOptions, tableSize, type TableOption } from './spec';
+
+const options: TableOption[] = [
+	{ key: 'length', label: 'Length', choices: [{ value: 'short', label: 'Short' }, { value: 'long', label: 'Long' }], default: 'short' }
+];
+
+describe('table options', () => {
+	it('keeps only declared options and offered choices, the rest at their defaults', () => {
+		expect(cleanOptions({ options }, { length: 'long', colour: 'red' })).toEqual({ length: 'long' });
+		expect(cleanOptions({ options }, { length: 'endless' })).toEqual({ length: 'short' });
+		expect(cleanOptions({ options }, null)).toEqual({ length: 'short' });
+	});
+
+	it('seats as many as the options allow, never more than the seats there are', () => {
+		const seatIds = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'];
+		expect(tableSize({ seatIds, options })).toBe(4);
+		const seatsFor = (o: Record<string, string>) => (o.length === 'short' ? 2 : 9);
+		expect(tableSize({ seatIds, options, seatsFor }, { length: 'short' })).toBe(2);
+		expect(tableSize({ seatIds, options, seatsFor }, { length: 'long' })).toBe(4);
+	});
+});
@@ -13,6 +13,29 @@
 /** A seat at the table: a single letter from GameSpec.seatIds. */
 export type SeatId = string;

+/**
+ * A line of table talk as a game reads it: who, what, when, the round it was
+ * said in, to whom (absent: everyone), and a bot's note on its own line.
+ */
+export interface PressLine {
+	id: SeatId;
+	text: string;
+	at: number;
+	/** The seats a private line was said to. */
+	to?: SeatId[];
+	/** The round the line was said in, from one; absent before the game begins. */
+	turn?: number;
+	/** What a bot noted about its own line; kept in the ledger, never shown. */
+	note?: unknown;
+}
+
+/** A bot's line of talk: to the people it names, with a note for its own memory. */
+export interface BotLine {
+	to: SeatId[];
+	text: string;
+	note?: unknown;
+}
+
 /** The viewer with no seat: the Peanut Gallery. Views built for it show only what every seat could see. */
 export const SPECTATOR: SeatId = '';

@@ -48,6 +71,8 @@ export interface Preference {
 export interface GameSpec<State, Input> {
 	/** Seats in table order; the table takes at most this many. */
 	seatIds: SeatId[];
+	/** The most seats a table with these options takes, when an option makes it fewer than `seatIds`. */
+	seatsFor?(options: TableOptions): number;
 	/** What the host may choose when opening a table; empty for a game with one way to play. */
 	options?: TableOption[];
 	/** The game's own settings for the preferences panel. */
@@ -63,17 +88,49 @@ 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. */
 	needsInput(state: State, seat: SeatId): boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Whether a submitted input is final. A game that lets a player save a
+	 * draft and change it answers false until the player says it is done;
+	 * the round waits for every seat's settled input. Absent, every input is final.
+	 */
+	settled?(input: Input): boolean;
 	over(state: State): Outcome | null;
 	/** The round being written, counted from one, for the ledger and the report pin. */
 	turn(state: State): number;
 	/** What one viewer may see. The server sends nothing else. */
 	view(state: State, viewer: SeatId): State;
-	botInput(state: State, seat: SeatId): Input;
+	/**
+	 * A bot's move. `press` is the talk its seat has heard (the table's, and
+	 * private lines to it or from it, notes included), for a game whose bots
+	 * keep what was agreed; a function of the state and the press, which the
+	 * turn line records, so a replay never asks again.
+	 */
+	botInput(state: State, seat: SeatId, press?: PressLine[]): Input;
+	/**
+	 * What a bot says: when a round opens ('phase'), and when a person has
+	 * just written to it, or said a first word to the table ('spoken').
+	 * `press` is what its seat has heard; `people` the seats played by people.
+	 * Each line goes on the ledger, to the people it names and no one else.
+	 * Absent, bots say nothing and a private line to one is refused.
+	 */
+	botPress?(state: State, seat: SeatId, press: PressLine[], people: SeatId[], trigger: 'phase' | 'spoken'): BotLine[];
+	/** The bots' last words to `viewer` once the game is over, read from the whole of the talk. */
+	parting?(press: PressLine[], viewer: SeatId): { id: SeatId; text: string }[];
 	/** Only the shapes the engine understands get through; the engine validates the rest. */
 	cleanInput(raw: unknown): Input;
 	/** Why this seat may not make this move now, or null when it may. The server answers with the reason. */
@@ -82,4 +139,27 @@ export interface GameSpec<State, Input> {
 	nameOf(state: State, seat: SeatId): string;
 	/** The game's own lines for the hall's tally, counted from a finished game: a label and how many it adds. */
 	tally?(state: State): Record<string, number>;
+	/** The game's own lines counted from every game begun, finished or not, by its table's options (games begun on each variant). */
+	tallyBegun?(options: TableOptions): Record<string, number>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A table's options as the game will play them: only the options it
+ * declares, only the choices it offers, the rest at their defaults. The
+ * server, the tally and the ledger replay all read a room line through this,
+ * so each creates the same game from the same ledger.
+ */
+export function cleanOptions(game: Pick<GameSpec<unknown, unknown>, 'options'>, raw: unknown): TableOptions {
+	const given = (typeof raw === 'object' && raw !== null ? raw : {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
+	const options: TableOptions = {};
+	for (const o of game.options ?? []) {
+		const v = given[o.key];
+		options[o.key] = typeof v === 'string' && o.choices.some((c) => c.value === v) ? v : o.default;
+	}
+	return options;
+}
+
+/** The most seats a table with these options takes. */
+export function tableSize(game: Pick<GameSpec<unknown, unknown>, 'options' | 'seatIds' | 'seatsFor'>, raw?: unknown): number {
+	return Math.min(game.seatIds.length, game.seatsFor?.(cleanOptions(game, raw)) ?? game.seatIds.length);
 }
@@ -132,7 +132,9 @@ export function makeApi<State, Input>() {
 		/** The gallery's view: no token, no seat, nothing any player could not see. */
 		watch: (roomId: string) => call<View>('GET', `/api/rooms/${roomId}`),
 		turn: (roomId: string, token: string, input: Input, resolved: number) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/turn`, { token, input, resolved }),
-		say: (roomId: string, token: string, text: string) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/say`, { token, text }),
+		hurry: (roomId: string, token: string) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/hurry`, { token }),
+		rank: (roomId: string, token: string, ranking: string[]) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/rank`, { token, ranking }),
+		say: (roomId: string, token: string, text: string, to?: SeatId[]) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/say`, { token, text, ...(to?.length ? { to } : {}) }),
 		/** A word from the gallery, signed with a name, when the host allows it. */
 		sayFromGallery: (roomId: string, name: string, text: string) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/say`, { name, text }),
 		setGalleryTalk: (roomId: string, token: string, on: boolean) => call<View>('POST', `/api/rooms/${roomId}/gallery`, { token, on }),
@@ -112,9 +112,20 @@ export class Room {
 		return this.act(() => api.unseat(this.roomId, this.token, seat), 'The bot could not be sent away.');
 	}

-	say(text: string): Promise<boolean> {
+	/** Out of the game, with the bots playing on: play the rest at once. */
+	hurry(): Promise<boolean> {
+		return this.act(() => api.hurry(this.roomId, this.token), 'The table did not hear you.');
+	}
+
+	/** This seat's ranking of the table's choices, best first, before the game begins. */
+	rank(ranking: string[]): Promise<boolean> {
+		return this.act(() => api.rank(this.roomId, this.token, ranking), 'Your ranking was not kept.');
+	}
+
+	/** Talk to the whole table, or, naming seats, to them alone. */
+	say(text: string, to?: SeatId[]): Promise<boolean> {
 		if (this.spectating) return Promise.resolve(false);
-		return this.act(() => api.say(this.roomId, this.token, text), 'The table did not hear you.');
+		return this.act(() => api.say(this.roomId, this.token, text, to), 'The table did not hear you.');
 	}

 	/** A word from the gallery, signed; only when the host has let the gallery talk. */
@@ -165,7 +176,9 @@ export class Room {
 	static async createWithBot(name: string, options?: TableOptions): Promise<Room> {
 		const seated = await api.create(name, 2, options);
 		rememberSeat(seated.view.roomId, { seat: seated.seat, token: seated.token });
-		await api.addBot(seated.view.roomId, seated.token);
+		const view = await api.addBot(seated.view.roomId, seated.token);
+		// A table that asks for rankings waits in the lobby for the player's; the rest begin at once.
+		if (game.rankable?.(view.options)) return new Room(view, seated.token);
 		return new Room(await api.begin(seated.view.roomId, seated.token), seated.token);
 	}

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ export interface ChatLine {
 	text: string;
 	at: number;
 	name?: string;
+	/** A private line: the seats it was said to. Absent, the whole table and the gallery heard it. */
+	to?: SeatId[];
+	/** The round the line was said in, counted from one; absent before the game begins. */
+	turn?: number;
+	/** A bot's memory of the line (an offer made, an answer heard). Kept in the ledger; never sent. */
+	note?: unknown;
 }

 export interface RoomView<State> {
@@ -29,7 +35,19 @@ export interface RoomView<State> {
 	turn: number | null;
 	over: Outcome | null;
 	state: State | null;
+	/** This seat's ranking of the table's choices, at a table that asks for one; nobody sees another's. */
+	yourRanking: string[] | null;
+	/** How many seats have ranked, and nothing more about them. */
+	ranked: number;
+	/** This seat's input for the round in progress, as the server holds it (a draft, or a settled move); null for none, and for the gallery. */
+	yourInput: unknown;
+	/** This seat's input in the last round it played, for telling it what became of its own choice; null for none, and for the gallery. */
+	yourLastInput: unknown;
 	chat: ChatLine[];
+	/** The bots' last words to this seat once the game is over, for a game that gives them some. */
+	parting: { id: SeatId; text: string }[];
+	/** The bots are playing on by themselves, a round at a time, with no person owing a move. */
+	playingOn: boolean;
 	/** How many watch from the Peanut Gallery. */
 	audience: number;
 	/** The host lets the gallery talk. */
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ export default defineConfig({
 		}
 	},
 	test: {
-		include: ['src/**/*.test.ts']
+		include: ['src/**/*.test.ts', 'server/src/**/*.test.ts']
 	}
 });
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	294b1d5460	The drift check compares the contract, the room store and view, the tally, and the shared dialogs too Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:27:48 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	59494aa29f	A settled move may be taken back as a draft while the round still waits on others Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:26:32 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	af25b672f1	The README names the optional hooks a game may implement Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:25:49 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	60b3c0e60a	A deploy waits for the game server to answer and fails with its journal if it does not; a report id is checked whole; the backup's notes say what it keeps Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:25:38 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	f78ff3ef8c	The hall puts games in play first for someone coming back, finished ones further down, and reads a game looking up as looking, not unreachable Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:25:07 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	f131f292ae	A dialog in a short window scrolls within it, the tabbed one stays put as its tabs change, and the report slip closes with Escape Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:21:27 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	8ba02006ca	The server's doors hold: a ceiling on a seat's actions, twenty sockets an address, silent sockets closed, slow requests cut off, and rooms kept beside the project wherever it is started Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:20:55 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	d97d709212	A game may count its own lines from every game begun, not only those finished Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:20:03 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	403232087d	Bots that play on alone do it at a pace to watch, a round every two seconds after the first few, and a seat may hurry them to the end Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:19:38 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	99a0b23f59	A game may give its bots words: they speak as a round opens and when spoken to, remember by notes nobody sees, and read the talk when they move Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:18:46 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	8c99126aee	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	2026-09-29 12:17:18 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	eca8c92964	Table talk may be private, to the seats named and never the gallery, and a line says the round it was said in Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:16:08 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	8e35d3a3a6	A seat's view carries its own move in waiting and its move in the last round it played Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:15:05 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	927e49cf79	A game may take drafts: an input it does not call settled can be replaced, and the round waits for settled ones Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:14:33 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	6133a2469a	A table's options and its size are read one way, in spec.ts, by the server, the tally and the replay; a game may seat fewer for some options Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:13:54 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	faa2845e70	A room whose ledger cannot be read is logged and left unloaded, not the server down; the server has tests of its own Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-29 12:13:11 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	2810076677	The template's about panel is a TabbedDialog, opened by its address About.svelte goes; #about opens the panel through the router, so it closes and reopens cleanly and a tab can be linked to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-28 14:49:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	c3fca6c5c7	TabbedDialog and the boxed tab strip, as Dip has them; the tally's comment describes the tally TabbedDialog keeps its own backdrop here, since the template has no shared one; a game that has one may drop it. The template's hall still opens its about panel with About.svelte. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-28 14:47:11 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	6039b6c248	Tabs.svelte: the about panel's strip, shared with long reading pages Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-28 13:52:15 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	c55534dbd6	dev:all stops both sides when the server's port is taken Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-28 13:43:15 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5	cf5af67505	npm run dev:all starts the server and the site together Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG	2026-09-28 12:37:56 -04:00