Rev 20: a wave names its victims before it pushes (LK97)

Kestrel stood against a wall Mad Hywel turned to water, was washed one
square back into stone, and was crushed twice. The sweep walked the
way it pushed: having shoved him onto the next square, its next probe
found him there and shoved him again with the force left. From rev 20
a sweep names every victim along its line first, then pushes each
once; older games replay the double shove. A test washes a wizard one
square into a wall under both readings.

With it, a client fix: a tap on a bare square while holding a card no
longer walks there. Kestrel tapped a slime with LIGHTNING BLAST in hand
and strode into it. The tap now says the card is aimed at a wizard or
creature and leaves the feet alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG

packages/engine/src/game.ts

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ export interface CastParams {
 }
 
 /** The revision new games are dealt under; GameConfig.deckRev pins it per game. */
-export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 19;
+export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 20;
 
 /** Every rulings revision since the baseline, newest last — the entries a
  * game's deckRev freezes it before or after. Shown to players as the house
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ export const RULES_REVISIONS: { rev: number; note: string }[] = [
   { rev: 17, note: "A warp mouth on a pit's rim is a way off it like any square: a bare step beside one square and one mouth is a fork the walker names. In every game the mouth may be named, and is taken when no square offers; only an older game's bare step still lands on the square unasked." },
   { rev: 18, note: "REFLECTION's returning half is an attack on the caster in its own right, with the caster's own counteraction window — an ABSORB or a BLUNT meets it as it would any blow. Before, the half landed the instant the spell resolved." },
   { rev: 19, note: "DUST CLOUD blinds whoever stands in it: no LOS spell may be cast from inside a cloud, nor at anyone standing in one, and VISIONSTONE does not see through it. Spells cast on oneself still work. Before, the cloud blocked only sight lines passing through it." },
+  { rev: 20, note: "A waterwall's wave names its victims before it pushes any of them. Before, a wave walking the way it pushed could catch a wizard it had just shoved and shove them again with the force left — one square into a wall cost two points instead of one." },
 ];
 
 export interface GameConfig {
@@ -2876,6 +2877,48 @@ function waveForce(range: number, dist: number): number {
   return range - dist;
 }
 
+/** One line of a wave's sweep: the squares it reaches, nearest first, with
+ * the force left at each. The victims are named before any is pushed
+ * (rev 20). Before it the sweep, walking the way it pushed, could find a
+ * victim it had just shoved and shove them again with the force left: a
+ * wizard washed one square into a wall was crushed twice. Older games
+ * replay that sweep. */
+function sweepWave(
+  state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], line: { cell: Cell; force: number }[], dir: Side, reason: string,
+): void {
+  const gather = ({ cell, force }: { cell: Cell; force: number }) => ({
+    force,
+    players: state.players.filter((p) => p.alive && cellKey(p.position) === cellKey(cell)),
+    creatures: state.creatures.filter((c) => cellKey(c.position) === cellKey(cell)),
+    slime: state.squareContents[cellKey(cell)]?.kind === "slime" ? cell : null,
+  });
+  const apply = (hit: ReturnType<typeof gather>) => {
+    for (const p of hit.players) washBackN(state, events, p, dir, hit.force);
+    for (const c of hit.creatures) {
+      if (!state.creatures.includes(c)) continue;
+      if (c.kind === "fire-imp") destroyCreature(state, events, c, reason);
+      else washBackCreature(state, events, c, dir, hit.force);
+    }
+    if (hit.slime) {
+      delete state.squareContents[cellKey(hit.slime)];
+      delete state.slimeTraps[cellKey(hit.slime)];
+      events.push({ type: "slimeWashed", cell: hit.slime });
+    }
+  };
+  if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 20) line.map(gather).forEach(apply);
+  else for (const step of line) apply(gather(step));
+}
+
+function waveLine(start: Cell, dir: Side, range: number): { cell: Cell; force: number }[] {
+  const line: { cell: Cell; force: number }[] = [];
+  let probe = start;
+  for (let dist = 0; dist < range; dist++) {
+    line.push({ cell: probe, force: waveForce(range, dist) });
+    probe = neighbor(probe, dir);
+  }
+  return line;
+}
+
 /** A collapsing waterwall wave from an edge: wash players back `range`. */
 function waveFromEdge(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], cell: Cell, side: Side, range: number, reason = "rushing water"): void {
   // A warp mouth's "far side" is the opposite rim: the collapse washes both
@@ -2890,51 +2933,12 @@ function waveFromEdge(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], cell: Cell, side: S
         { start: cell, dir: opposite(side) },
         { start: neighbor(cell, side), dir: side },
       ];
-  for (const { start, dir } of pushes) {
-    let probe = start;
-    for (let dist = 0; dist < range; dist++) {
-      const force = waveForce(range, dist);
-      for (const p of state.players) {
-        if (p.alive && cellKey(p.position) === cellKey(probe)) washBackN(state, events, p, dir, force);
-      }
-      for (const c of [...state.creatures]) {
-        if (cellKey(c.position) !== cellKey(probe)) continue;
-        if (c.kind === "fire-imp") {
-          destroyCreature(state, events, c, reason);
-        } else {
-          washBackCreature(state, events, c, dir, force);
-        }
-      }
-      if (state.squareContents[cellKey(probe)]?.kind === "slime") {
-        delete state.squareContents[cellKey(probe)];
-        delete state.slimeTraps[cellKey(probe)];
-        events.push({ type: "slimeWashed", cell: probe });
-      }
-      probe = neighbor(probe, dir);
-    }
-  }
+  for (const { start, dir } of pushes) sweepWave(state, events, waveLine(start, dir, range), dir, reason);
 }
 
 /** A wave bursting outward from a cell in all four directions. */
 function waveFromCell(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], center: Cell, range: number): void {
-  for (const dir of SIDES) {
-    let probe = center;
-    for (let dist = 0; dist < range; dist++) {
-      probe = neighbor(probe, dir);
-      const force = waveForce(range, dist);
-      for (const p of state.players) {
-        if (p.alive && cellKey(p.position) === cellKey(probe)) washBackN(state, events, p, dir, force);
-      }
-      for (const c of [...state.creatures]) {
-        if (cellKey(c.position) !== cellKey(probe)) continue;
-        if (c.kind === "fire-imp") {
-          destroyCreature(state, events, c, "rushing water");
-        } else {
-          washBackCreature(state, events, c, dir, force);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
+  for (const dir of SIDES) sweepWave(state, events, waveLine(neighbor(center, dir), dir, range), dir, "rushing water");
 }
 
 /** A monster summon: ATTACK-typed, uses your attack, appears in your LOS. */

packages/engine/test/expansion-terrain.test.ts

@@ -636,3 +636,42 @@ describe("a pit on the board's rim (M4Q7)", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+describe("a wave names its victims before it pushes (LK97)", () => {
+  /** A wall between two squares, a wizard on its near side with one open
+   * square behind them and a wall beyond it, and a caster's square beside. */
+  function site(state: GameState) {
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    for (const k of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
+      const [x, y] = k.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      const a = { x, y };
+      if (state.squareContents[k] || view.homes.some((h) => cellKey(h) === k)) continue;
+      if ((view.edges[edgeKey(a, "S")] ?? "open") !== "wall" || !view.cells[cellKey(neighbor(a, "S"))]) continue;
+      const back = stepTarget(view, a, "N");
+      if (back.kind !== "step" || state.squareContents[cellKey(back.to)] || view.homes.some((h) => cellKey(h) === cellKey(back.to))) continue;
+      if (stepTarget(view, back.to, "N").kind !== "blocked") continue;
+      const beside = stepTarget(view, a, "E");
+      if (beside.kind !== "step" || state.squareContents[cellKey(beside.to)]) continue;
+      return { a, back: back.to, beside: beside.to };
+    }
+    throw new Error("no such wall on this board");
+  }
+  for (const [deckRev, crush] of [[20, 1], [19, 2]] as const) {
+    it(`washed one square into a wall: rev ${deckRev} costs ${crush}`, () => {
+      let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["alice", "bob"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"], deckRev });
+      const caster = activePlayer(state);
+      const victim = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== caster.id)!;
+      const s = site(state);
+      caster.position = { ...s.beside };
+      victim.position = { ...s.a };
+      const card = giveCard(state, caster.id, "stone-to-water");
+      const r = applyCommand(state, caster.id, { type: "cast", instanceId: card.instanceId, target: { kind: "edge", cell: s.a, side: "S" } });
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+      if (!r.ok) return;
+      const v = r.state.players.find((p) => p.id === victim.id)!;
+      expect(cellKey(v.position)).toBe(cellKey(s.back));
+      expect(v.life).toBe(15 - crush);
+      expect(r.events.filter((e) => e.type === "washedBack" && e.player === victim.id).length).toBe(crush === 1 ? 1 : 2);
+    });
+  }
+});

packages/web/src/App.svelte

@@ -912,6 +912,13 @@
       return;
     }
     const me = view.players.find((p) => p.id === view.you)!;
+    // A card in hand is aimed, not walked with: a tap on a bare square
+    // while holding one is a miss, never a stride into whatever is there.
+    if (selectedCard) {
+      net.error = `${cardDef(selectedCard.cardId).name} is aimed by tapping a wizard or creature — put the card down to walk`;
+      setTimeout(() => { if (net.error?.startsWith(cardDef(selectedCard!.cardId).name)) net.error = null; }, 5000);
+      return;
+    }
     // A cell click is a move if the cell is one legal step away (the server
     // also lets doors/walls pass when unlocked/misted — try the direction).
     for (const side of SIDES) {