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1	# 台灣麻將 — four-player mahjong, on one touchscreen or over the wire
2
3	Sixteen-tile Taiwanese mahjong for four people sitting around a single laptop.
4	All four hands are on screen at once, each rotated to face its own edge and
5	each face down until its player taps it — the piece of card everybody used to
6	lay over their strip, done by the table itself. Every label is Chinese with
7	English underneath; the tiles themselves stay Chinese, because that is what the
8	tiles say.
9
10	開始 is the only button on the lobby (繼續對局 above it when there is a
11	save), and it says nothing else, because the table says the rest — three strips
12	offering 坐下 and a QR in the middle of the felt. It deals
13	you in at the bottom edge with the computer on the other three, on this device,
14	without a word said to any server. Everything people call a mode is that table
15	with different hands changing hands, one at a time, mid-game:
16
17	- somebody sits down at this screen and **taps a hand the computer has been
18	playing** — the tiles turn over and are theirs;
19	- somebody scans the tile lying in the middle of the felt — it gets knocked
20	about by the discards like everything else there — or a particular seat's own
21	QR from its gear, and takes that hand onto their phone;
22	- somebody opens the invite link from three cities away and takes one from
23	their own laptop, with the table turned so their seat is the near edge.
24
25	Each of those swaps one seat and redeals nothing, and each undoes: a hand goes
26	back to the computer with a tap, and one that loses its device gets given back
27	to the computer on its own so the table never stops. See
28	[one table](#one-table), [computer players](#computer-players) and
29	[playing online](#playing-online).
30
31	```
32	npm install
33	npm run dev # then open the browser full-screen (F11)
34	npm test # rules engine, the bots, and 200 randomly-played hands
35	```
36
37	## Screen layout
38
39	```
40	┌──── 對家 (rotated 180°) ────┐
41	上家 (rotated 90°) │ wall, and the discard pool │ 下家 (rotated −90°)
42	└──── 自家 (upright, near you) ┘
43	```
44
45	Seat 0 is the bottom edge, and play runs 0 → 1 (right) → 2 (top) → 3 (left),
46	which is the normal counter-clockwise 東南西北 order.
47
48	Each strip shows, from the player's edge inwards: nameplate (seat wind, 莊
49	marker, 聽 badge, chip count) → concealed hand → action buttons → melds and
50	flowers. Discards are not in the strips: they are thrown into the middle and
51	stay there for the hand, the way they would be on a table. (A phone has no
52	middle to throw into, so the compact layout keeps a discard row per seat — see
53	[on a phone](#on-a-phone).)
54
55	## Playing
56
57	- Your hand is face down at a shared screen, and a tap turns it over. It
58	covers itself again when the hand is dealt and when your turn ends — the two
59	moments the tiles stop being needed, and without them a hand turned over once
60	stays turned over all evening, which is the same as never having covered it.
61	蓋牌 beside 理牌 puts it back sooner. While it is covered the only button the
62	strip has is 看牌: every other one names a tile — 打出五萬, 吃 with these two
63	— and would say through the card what is under it. The 看牌 of whoever the
64	table is waiting on wears a gold ring, since whose go it is was never a
65	secret. Nothing is covered where the screen is playing one hand, which is a
66	screen that belongs to one player — three computers and you, or your own
67	tiles on your own device.
68	- The tile you just drew is held apart from the sorted hand with a gold ring
69	and a 摸 label, instead of being sorted invisibly into it. It merges into the
70	hand once you discard. 補花 replacements and kong replacements are marked the
71	same way.
72	- The wall is drawn in the centre as a square of four staggered sides, laid
73	out like a `#` the way it is built on a real table — every corner covered by
74	one wall carrying past the end of the next. All 144 tiles, at the size of the
75	tiles in your hand, because they are the same tiles. The gold stack is the
76	break point you draw from, and where that is depends on what the dealer threw:
77	stacks shrink to a single tile and then vanish as they are used, so the gap
78	opens wherever the dice opened the wall and grows from there. The 16-tile 底牌
79	tail at the other end is where kong and flower replacements come from, so the
80	square is eaten from both directions at once. See
81	[擲骰](#擲骰--where-the-wall-is-broken).
82	- Discard — drag a tile out of your row and it comes up out of your hand and
83	follows your finger anywhere on the table; let go and it goes in, from where
84	you let go and at the speed you let go at. Dragging along the row is still
85	arranging your hand — which of the two you meant is decided once, from whether
86	the movement is mostly along the row or out of it, and then it sticks. Let go
87	back over your own hand and the tile goes back. Tapping a tile twice, or the
88	打出 button, still works and lobs it in for you.
89	- The discard pool — every tile thrown lands in the middle and stays there
90	until the hand ends, with real weight: it skids, turns, knocks the tiles
91	already there out of its way, and comes to rest against them. Nothing is ever
92	stacked on anything — tiles are solved as rectangles, so two lying at an angle
93	lean on each other rather than overlapping. The tile still to be claimed is
94	the lit one.
95	- Over the wall or across the table — which of the two ways a tile goes in is
96	not a setting, it is whatever the wall allows. At the start of a hand the
97	square is a solid barrier and a discard has to be lobbed over it, so the
98	flick's speed decides how far across the pool it lands. As the wall is eaten
99	away, gaps open in front of one seat and then another, and from then on that
100	seat can slide a tile in instead — flat across the cloth at exactly the speed
101	it was flicked. Which it will be is a ray cast at the stacks actually standing
102	there, so a gap off to one side counts, and a stack worn down to a single tile
103	is low enough to go over. A seat whose wall is still up says 牆未開 on its
104	nameplate, so a lob is never a mystery.
105	- Throw it badly and it ends up in somebody's tiles — the middle stops
106	exactly where their hand starts, so a tile that comes off the pool arrives in
107	their lap, and one that falls short lands out by their seat. Either way their
108	row takes the knock and rocks back, and with 報牌 on they tell you about it —
109	喂，小心點 if you are lucky, 是在哈囉 or 你牌品很差欸 if you are not, and
110	never the same line twice running. How hard it got there only decides how
111	loudly. Never your own edge: you cannot be barged by your own discard.
112	- Arranging — drag any tile in your hand to reorder it; 理牌 sorts it back
113	into suit order. Hands are never auto-sorted after the deal, so an arrangement
114	you set up survives draws, claims and kongs.
115	- Rules — the `?` on your nameplate opens a bilingual rules panel anchored to
116	your own edge of the table and rotated to face you.
117	- Claiming — after a discard, every seat that can claim gets 胡 / 槓 / 碰 /
118	吃 / 過 buttons on their own strip, and they resolve by priority (胡 > 槓/碰 >
119	吃; ties go to the player nearest the discarder in turn order).
120	The table never blocks on a claim. The next player gets a 摸牌 button and
121	may draw whenever they like, which shuts the window on anyone who hasn't
122	called — exactly like shouting 碰 before the next player picks up. A claim
123	already declared still stands, so calling in time always wins the tile. If
124	everyone answers first, play advances on its own without the extra tap.
125	The seat that draws next gets no separate 過 button, because for them the two
126	are the same move: picking up is how you decline. Their button says 摸牌
127	either way; what they would be giving up by pressing it is the 碰 or the 吃
128	sitting next to it on the bar, so it does not have to be spelled out on the
129	tile as well. Wanting to decline but leave the window open for everyone else
130	is just waiting, which is what not pressing anything already does. (On a
131	phone the button still reads 過．摸牌 — a phone's bar is a row with room to
132	write on, and the hand it belongs to is not on the same screen as the table.)
133	- On your turn — 自摸, 暗槓 and 加槓 appear automatically when legal.
134	加槓 offers everyone else a 搶槓 chance.
135	- Where the buttons go — on the same row as your tiles, at the right-hand end
136	of it, where the tile you are about to throw already is. The bar is out of the
137	strip's flow, so a button arriving moves nothing: 打出 appearing when you
138	lift a tile used to shove the melds and flowers above it up the strip. Every
139	button on the bar is given one height for the same reason. A bar with more on
140	it than the room beside the hand stacks up the strip in tile-wide lines, most
141	urgent call at the bottom, rather than running off the end of it. And the room
142	for the first line is in the tile size itself: a strip is sized to hold sixteen
143	tiles, the slot it keeps for the tile it is about to draw, and one button —
144	which is why the tiles down the sides of a short window are the size they are.
145	- What the buttons say — the call is written down the tile the way the
146	character on a tile's face is, one on top of the next in the middle of the
147	face, with the English along the bottom edge. Two characters stacked are the
148	size a tile's own character is; two side by side had to be shrunk to fit
149	across it. A call too long for the height (電腦代打) takes a second column to
150	the left of the first, which is where the next column of vertical Chinese
151	goes. 打出 names no tile: the one it would throw is lifted out of the row
152	beside it wearing a gold ring, so saying 五萬 on the button as well only
153	crowds the face.
154	- Whose go it is — a screen with four people round it is the one place a
155	game can go quiet without anybody noticing: three of them are watching the
156	table and the fourth is looking at their phone. So the table says it loudly.
157	The strip of the seat being waited on lights from its inner edge, their name
158	goes gold at the far end of it, and seven seconds of gold drain along the
159	edge that faces the middle — from both ends towards the centre, because two
160	of the four strips are upside down from wherever you are sitting. **Nothing
161	happens when it reaches zero.** No tile is thrown for you and no seat is
162	skipped; the line the bar leaves behind breathes, and the table goes on
163	waiting. It is a nudge, not a rule. Said on a covered hand too — whose turn
164	it is was never one of the things the card is hiding — and only where the
165	screen is playing more than one hand, since a screen playing one has nobody
166	to tell. A phone at the table gets the same seven seconds
167	across its top, a gold rim edge to edge (red for a claim window), and one
168	short buzz as the game comes round to it.
169	- On the keys — ← and → walk the selection along your hand and space throws
170	the tile that is lifted. How long you hold space is how hard it goes: the
171	tile draws back out of the hand while the key is down and leaves when you let
172	go, so a tap slides it in and a long hold sends it across the square. Escape
173	puts it back. The wall still decides whether it can be slid or has to be
174	lobbed, exactly as with a finger.
175	- When a hand ends — a big arrow drops onto the winner's edge of the table.
176	It lives inside their strip, so it turns with the seat and lands on the right
177	person wherever they are sitting, and 一炮多響 lights up every seat that
178	called. A 流局 has no winner to point at, so it turns the hands over instead:
179	who was 聽牌 and the tiles they were waiting on, the same reveal as at a real
180	table.
181	- The gear — beside the `?` on every nameplate, and it opens that player's
182	own copy of the table's controls: undo, sound, full screen, 設定. Anchored in
183	their strip and turned to face their edge, like the rules panel, so what you
184	open reads the right way up to you and to nobody else. These used to be a bar
185	in the middle of the table, which is the one place that belongs to everybody
186	— the pile lands there and it is upside down to two of the four.
187	- Undo — 復原 in that panel takes back the last action, naming what it will
188	undo (`復原玩家 2 打五萬`). It is in all four panels rather than only the
189	seat that made the mistake, because whoever spots the mis-tap should be able
190	to reach it. Twenty actions deep, cleared when the next hand is dealt.
191	Snapshots live outside the saved state, so an undo does not survive a
192	refresh: what you can take back is what happened while everyone was still
193	watching it happen.
194	- Sound — on by default, muted from the 🔊 button behind any seat's gear, or
195	from settings. A dry clack as a tile goes down, and a distinct
196	two-note chime when a claim window opens, which is how a slow player notices
197	their 碰 is available before the next player draws it shut. Everything is
198	synthesised with a few oscillators (`src/game/sound.ts`) rather than sampled,
199	so there is nothing to load and the cue lands on the same frame as the tile.
200	Browsers refuse to start audio before the page has been clicked, so the first
201	sound anyone hears is the deal — triggered by the button that starts it.
202	- 報牌 (voice) — a second switch under sound calls the game out loud: 碰,
203	吃, 槓, 胡了, 自摸, and the name of every tile as it is discarded — 三條,
204	五萬, 東風. A flower says 補花 and then which one. A new call cuts off one
205	still being spoken; at table pace the newest is the only one that matters.
206	See [the voice pack](#the-voice-pack) for where the audio comes from.
207	- 方位音 (sound by seat) — a third switch, on by default. Every noise comes
208	out of the edge its seat is sitting at: 上家 to your left, 下家 to your right,
209	and 對家 across the table, where it is quieter and has the top taken off it —
210	a metre of air and three people's arms do not carry 12 kHz. So you can tell
211	whose 碰 that was without looking up, which is the whole point of hearing it.
212	Tiles out in the middle are placed properly rather than by edge: the physics
213	knows to the pixel where a tile landed, and that is where the knock comes
214	from. A device holding one hand turns the table so that hand is at the
215	bottom, and the sound turns with it. See [audio, by seat](#audio-by-seat).
216	- Settings — 設定 from the lobby, or from the game-over panel: player names,
217	底 / 台 / starting chips, the house-rule switches below, and sound. Kept in
218	`localStorage` separately from the save, so they carry over to the next game.
219	Stakes are locked once a game is under way — they'd otherwise rewrite chips
220	already won.
221
222	## One table
223
224	There were three buttons on this lobby — 單人對局, 四人同桌, 線上對戰 — and
225	they were never three games. Every party table played its unclaimed seats
226	hotseat-style at the screen already; every hotseat table would have taken a
227	phone if it had had a room to put it in; every online table filled its empty
228	chairs with the same computer players the solo game is made of. They differed
229	in who was holding which hand, and that is not something a lobby should have to
230	know before the tiles are dealt.
231
232	So there is one button, and the question it used to ask is answered
233	continuously instead. A hand is played by one of three things — **the computer,
234	somebody at this screen, or a device of its own** — and any of them becomes any
235	other while the hand is in progress, with nothing redealt and nobody consulted
236	but the person doing it.
237
238	\| \| played by \| becomes a person here \| becomes a phone \|
239	\|---\|---\|---\|---\|
240	\| 電腦 \| the bots in `autoplay.ts` \| tap the strip — 坐下 \| its QR, from its gear \|
241	\| 這裡 \| this screen, face down under a tap \| — \| its QR, from its gear \|
242	\| 手機 \| whoever scanned in \| they leave → the computer \| — \|
243
244	Opening a room is not the same as playing over one, and the difference is
245	what keeps a game against three computers off the wire. 開始 deals and then
246	joins a room in the background, so there is a code for the QR tile to carry
247	from the first tile — but all `publishTable` writes is a seat map. The game
248	itself is published the moment somebody actually walks into the room
249	(`publishGameIfOwed`, off `room.onJoin`) and not one move before it, so an
250	evening played alone costs one handshake and then silence. Nothing waits on any
251	of it: the deal happens first, on this device, and a page that never reaches a
252	server plays a full game.
253
254	The engine is the page's own either way. `NetTable` is a wrapper that goes on
255	around a live `Game`, not a second one, so a room arriving mid-hand changes
256	nothing on screen except that the QR tile appears.
257
258	The table's QR is a tile. It lies in the middle of the felt at the size
259	every other tile is, white face and dark-green ink, and it is a tile all the
260	way down. It
261	is a body in the pool like any other (`TablePool.joinTile`): a discard thrown
262	at it knocks it aside and turns it, it can be picked up and put somewhere less
263	in the way or flicked off across the cloth, the same one light over the table
264	works out its sides from whatever angle it has ended up at, and it throws the
265	same shadow. Nothing about it is a dialog. Its face is painted rather than cut
266	out of the sprite sheet — `qrFace` in `ui/tileArt.ts`, handed to `drawTile` as
267	`image` — which is the only thing that makes it different from a 中. It is put
268	back in the middle when a hand is dealt, because by then the pile it was shoved
269	to the edge of has been swept away.
270
271	No room means no tile. A table that cannot reach a server is a table with one
272	fewer tile on it and nothing else different.
273
274	Each seat's QR is its own, and lives in that seat's gear beside the sound
275	and the undo, carrying `?room=…&seat=N`. Scanning it lands on that chair
276	without anybody having to say which one they are in: the hand leaves the shared
277	screen for good — face down there, not under a card that lifts — and the phone
278	gets it face up with the claim buttons and the throw. It wears the same white
279	tile face as the one on the felt, so a code to scan looks the same wherever it
280	turns up.
281
282	**A hand that loses its device is kept for fifteen seconds and then given to
283	the computer** (`EMPTY_SEAT_GRACE`). A phone locking itself looks exactly like
284	a phone leaving for good and only one of them means it, so the nameplate shows
285	⏳ and the table waits; when the wait is up the computer picks the tiles up and
286	play carries on. Nothing is lost either way — coming back takes the seat
287	straight off the computer again, and so does one tap on it at the table. The
288	same countdown covers the screen closing its lid: the room records which device
289	the table is being played at (`screen` in room state), and hands with neither a
290	device nor a table behind them go the same way.
291
292	The save follows the table. Whichever device is running the game writes
293	`localStorage` (`engine.persist = authority`; every mirror has it off, and no
294	business writing it), so 繼續對局 restores here and the room, if one is wanted
295	again, opens behind it exactly as it did the first time.
296
297	Covering is arithmetic, not a mode. A hand starts face down when this
298	device is playing more than one of them — which is the definition of a screen
299	several people are sitting round. One hand is one person, whether they are
300	playing three computers or holding their own tiles on their own phone, and
301	covering your own tiles from yourself is a tap in the way.
302
303	## Playing online
304
305	Every device that is not the table is on one room relay of our own:
306	`server/rooms.ts`,
307	a couple hundred lines of Node on `ws`. The relay knows nothing about mahjong:
308	rooms with codes, host election by join order, one bag of shared state only the
309	host may write, and events fanned out to everyone else. One client — the
310	host — runs the engine, publishes the whole `GameState` as room state after
311	every move, and plays intents the other devices send as events. The engine was
312	already a pure JSON state machine, so nothing in `src/game/` knows the network
313	exists — the same trick `autoplay.ts` plays, stretched over a wire. The client
314	end of the wire is `src/net/room.ts`; the rest of `src/net/` is the game
315	riding it.
316
317	- A device that holds one hand shows that hand. A phone shows just the
318	hand, face up, with the claim buttons — and the throw: flick a tile up off
319	the top of the phone and it sails in from your edge of the common screen, at
320	the speed and angle you let go of it (`NetThrow`, mapped into table
321	coordinates by `TablePool.throwFromNet`). Anything bigger shows the whole
322	table instead, turned so that seat is the bottom edge, with everyone else's
323	tiles face down. Same room, same seat map; the only thing deciding between
324	them is how much screen there is.
325	- A device that holds no hand yet gets the seat picker, and every seat is
326	offered — including the ones the computer is playing, which is the ordinary
327	way in, and the ones somebody already holds, which is how two people play one
328	hand off two devices. A seat's own QR names its chair and skips the picker.
329	- The device the table was opened on goes on showing the table: the felt,
330	the middle, the wall, the QR tile lying among the discards, and every
331	hand no phone has taken, covered-with-a-tap like a hotseat game. With sound
332	on, the phone in each player's hand is what says their calls and the table
333	goes quiet for that seat — see [audio, by seat](#audio-by-seat).
334
335	Design notes, in the order they bit:
336
337	- Seats are claims on a shared map, `seats: {ids, name}[]` in room state,
338	arbitrated by the host. Your own hand's arrangement never goes over the wire
339	— the state carries a multiset and each device keeps its own order
340	(`src/net/handOrder.ts`), because a round-trip inside a drag gesture is lag
341	you can feel.
342	- The host can change. The relay re-elects — the earliest joiner still
343	connected — when the host leaves; every other client already mirrors the
344	full state, so the new host starts its engine from what it was just watching
345	and the game carries on.
346	- A hidden host must keep hosting. Browsers suspend requestAnimationFrame
347	and throttle timers in background tabs, so nothing in `src/net/` runs on a
348	loop: state writes flush on a microtask, everything inbound arrives over the
349	WebSocket (whose delivery is not throttled), and dead connections are the
350	server's ping loop's problem. A table screen somebody tabbed away from
351	keeps answering.
352	- Identity is a UUID in sessionStorage, chosen by the device and taken at
353	its word by the relay. The seat map is keyed on it, so a reload or a wifi
354	blip walks back into its own seat. No auth — this is a home server for one
355	table of friends.
356	- Fairness is social, not cryptographic. Room state carries the whole
357	game, wall and hands included — a friend with devtools open can cheat.
358	Moving the engine into the relay would fix that; the server is ours now, so
359	only the work stands in the way (TODO).
360
361	### Running it
362
363	```
364	npm run dev # vite, with the relay on /ws of the same origin
365	npm run build && npm run serve # production: dist/ + relay, one process
366	```
367
368	Both commands listen on every interface, and both say where that is:
369
370	```
371	on this network: http://192.168.86.237:5173
372	```
373
374	That is the address the QR tile on the felt carries, so `npm run dev` on a
375	laptop and a phone on the same wifi is the whole setup — nothing to configure,
376	nothing to install, no tunnel needed. (Fedora's default firewall zone already
377	allows inbound 1025–65535/tcp; a stricter one wants the port opening.)
378
379	The relay always lives at `/ws` on the page's own origin. In development
380	`vite.config.ts` attaches it to vite's server, so `npm run dev` is the whole
381	stack; in production `server/index.ts` serves the built `dist/` and the relay
382	from one port (`PORT`, default 8080). Anything further away than the wifi wants
383	TLS in front — a reverse proxy with a certificate — since phones only get
384	camera and fullscreen on https.
385
386	Rooms live in memory. A restart drops them; the next visitor on an old link
387	recreates the room empty, and a host mid-game republishes its state on the
388	next move. Joining a room writes the room into the address bar, so the page
389	URL — the host's included — is the invite link.
390
391	A QR pointing at `localhost` is a QR only the host's own machine can scan, and
392	that is the one machine that does not need it. So the server gives the invite
393	links a face somebody else can reach, in this order:
394
395	1. `PUBLIC_URL`, if it is set.
396	2. Its own rsgrok tunnel (the house ngrok replacement) — spawned the moment the
397	server knows its port, the https URL read off the tunnel-up line, no `:4040`
398	inspection API (another agent may own that port). It carries furthest and it
399	carries https, so it wins wherever it is up.
400	3. This machine's address on the local network. Ranked 192.168 first, then
401	the other private ranges, then anything else that is not loopback — a laptop
402	has a docker bridge and a VPN as well as the wifi, and only one of them is
403	the one the phones are on. Offered only when the server is actually
404	listening on every interface, since bound to loopback it would be a link
405	nothing answers.
406
407	Every QR and invite link wears that origin instead of the page's, so a table
408	opened at `http://localhost:5173` still hands out a code that works. If the
409	tunnel dies, or `rsgrok` is not on the PATH (`RSGROK_BIN` points elsewhere),
410	the wifi address is what is left, and the tunnel is retried on later joins.
411
412	A room link is a path, not a query — `/UV9WTU`, and `/UV9WTU-1` for a
413	particular seat — and it is uppercase. Both are for the QR's sake: `?` and `=`
414	are outside QR's alphanumeric alphabet, so one of them anywhere in the string
415	forces the whole code into byte mode at eight bits a character instead of
416	five and a half. Uppercased and query-free, `HTTP://192.168.86.237:5173/UV9WTU`
417	is a 25-module code where `http://192.168.86.237:5173/?room=UV9WTU` is 29 — and
418	25 is the floor, since the next size down holds 25 characters and the address
419	alone is 27. One segment, not two, because the page is served with relative
420	asset URLs. `?room=` and `?seat=` are still read, so links people already have
421	keep working, and both servers answer any extensionless page request with the
422	game so the path resolves at all.
423
424	Identity is a UUID, and it is not `crypto.randomUUID` — that exists only in
425	a secure context, which `http://192.168.…` is not, so every phone that scanned
426	the tile would have thrown before it reached the room.
427	`crypto.getRandomValues` is not gated the same way and is what actually
428	generates it.
429
430	The tunnel always asks for the same subdomain — `mahjong-table`, or whatever
431	`TUNNEL_NAME` says — so restarts land back on the URL people already have
432	instead of burning a fresh name each run. A name someone else already holds
433	kills that first attempt before it prints a URL; the retry then goes out
434	nameless and takes whatever it is given.
435
436	## On a phone
437
438	The table assumes four people sitting around a screen lying flat, and about
439	770px in both directions before the middle is worth looking at. A phone has
440	neither, so under `(max-height: 620px), (max-width: 820px)` it switches to the
441	compact layout: nothing is rotated, everything reads upright for the one person
442	holding it, the other three seats shrink to cards showing what is public about
443	them, and the depth that frees up goes to your hand, which is allowed to wrap.
444
445	There is no centre square there — the middle collapses to a one-line bar showing
446	what the wall square was telling you anyway — so there is nowhere to throw a tile
447	to. The compact layout therefore keeps a discard row per seat, and discarding
448	is tap-twice or 打出, exactly as it was. The pool and the throw are a full-size
449	feature.
450
451	The breakpoint is written down once, in `COMPACT_QUERY` in `src/ui/compact.ts`,
452	which sets a `compact` class on `<html>` for the CSS to key off.
453
454	## Computer players
455
456	Single player seats you at the bottom and gives seats 1-3 to the computer.
457	Their tiles go face down and their 聽 / 過水 badges come off, since both would
458	give the hand away; everything public — the pool, melds, flowers, chips — stays
459	exactly as it is, and everyone turns their hand over when the hand ends. They
460	throw their tiles in like anyone else, and under the same rule: a computer seat
461	whose wall is open slides them across, and one still walled in lobs them over.
462
463	The engine does not know the bots exist. `AutoPlay` (`src/game/autoplay.ts`)
464	watches the same state the screen does, and when the seat being waited on
465	belongs to the computer it calls the identical method the button would have
466	called — `discard`, `respond`, `declareConcealedKong`. So scoring, sound,
467	saving, 過水 and 包牌 all work without a special case, and a bot cannot make a
468	move a person could not. It never acts for you and never closes your claim
469	window: if the table is waiting on you, it waits.
470
471	How they play (`src/game/bot.ts`) is one idea applied everywhere. A hand is
472	judged at its resting size — the (5 − melds) × 3 + 1 tiles you hold between a
473	discard and your next draw — by its 向聽 first and by its 進張 count second.
474
475	- Discard — try every distinct tile, keep the one that leaves the best
476	resting hand. Ties go to whatever is hardest to build on: a lone honour with
477	most of its copies already gone, before a lone 五萬 that still has neighbours
478	to meet.
479	- 碰 / 吃 — only when the hand that comes out the other side is strictly
480	closer to home. Melding costs concealment and flexibility, so a claim that
481	merely holds the 向聽 steady is declined — which is why the bots pass on
482	pungs that would narrow a two-sided wait to a single tile.
483	- 槓 — judged more kindly: it pays 台 and fetches a replacement, so standing
484	still is good enough.
485	- 胡 — always taken.
486
487	What they watch you do (`src/game/danger.ts`) is the other half. Efficiency
488	alone throws whatever is fastest and pays for it; these bots read the table
489	first, off the face-up table only — discard rows, exposed melds, the 過水 locks
490	the nameplates already show. Two separate questions:
491
492	- How close does each seat look? Turns taken (a hand is usually settled
493	inside ten goes each, long before the wall looks finished, so counting the
494	wall is the wrong clock), melds exposed, and what they have been throwing
495	lately. Nobody discards 五條 out of a hand that still needs shaping — it comes
496	out once the shape is done, so late middle tiles are the tell. A 過水 lock is
497	a confession: to be locked out of a tile you had to have been able to win on
498	it.
499	- How likely is this tile the one they want? An honour can only be caught by
500	a pair or a triplet; a 五萬 sits in the middle of every run through it. A tile
501	they discarded themselves was not their tile when it went down — not proof
502	now, but the best evidence there is. A tile with no copies left unseen cannot
503	be a pair or triplet wait at all. Two melds in one suit means stay out of that
504	suit. And two dragon pungs down means the third dragon is not going anywhere
505	near the table, because 包牌 bills the feeder for the entire hand.
506
507	Whether any of that changes the discard depends on the bot's own hand. At 聽牌
508	it pushes — nothing short of 包牌 is worth breaking a ready hand for. Two or
509	three away with somebody live across the table and it will give up a whole 向聽
510	step to throw something safe, which is what folding is.
511
512	The estimate is checked against ground truth in the tests rather than assumed:
513	over the tiles bots actually considered, the ones the model rated below 0.2 deal
514	in 0% of the time and the ones above 0.8 deal in 10.5%, cleanly monotonic in
515	between. Switching the read on cuts deal-ins by about 13% over a few hundred
516	hands, takes hands from ~30 discards to ~38, and moves the draw rate from
517	almost nothing to about one hand in ten — which is what a table where people
518	stop feeding each other actually looks like.
519
520	What they know is still only what they can see. `unseenFor` counts the four
521	copies of each tile and subtracts the bot's own hand plus every discard and
522	exposed meld on the table. Neither module ever reads an opponent's concealed
523	tiles or looks at the wall.
524
525	There is no difficulty setting, and the reading stops at the discard: claims are
526	still judged purely on speed, and a bot will take a 碰 that walks it into
527	trouble.
528
529	向聽 lives in `src/game/shanten.ts`, apart from `hu.ts`, because the two want
530	different things: the win check has to be exact, and this one has to be fast —
531	it runs a few hundred times for every discard a bot considers. The tests hold
532	them against each other over random hands, since they work in completely
533	different ways and any disagreement is a bug in the fast one.
534
535	Undo behaves differently against the computer: rewinding into the middle of its
536	turn would only hand the move straight back to it, so one press goes back to
537	the last point you had a decision to make, computer replies and all.
538
539	## Saving
540
541	The game state is plain data, so a save is just its JSON in `localStorage`,
542	rewritten after every move. Close the lid, refresh, or run the battery flat and
543	nothing is lost — the lobby offers 繼續對局 Resume above 開始, showing the
544	round, hand number, chip counts and when it was saved. Which seats the computer
545	holds is part of the state, so a save comes back with the same hands in the
546	same places, and everybody who was on a phone scans back in exactly as they did
547	the first time — a room is opened around a resumed table the same way it is
548	opened around a fresh one, when somebody wants one. It is written by whichever
549	device is running the game (`engine.persist = authority`), so the mirrors on
550	everyone else's screens never fight it for the slot. A
551	save is validated before it is offered (four players, 144 tiles accounted for),
552	so a truncated or hand-edited one is ignored rather than loaded into a broken
553	table. `VERSION` in `save.ts` retires old saves if the state shape changes.
554
555	## Rules implemented
556
557	- 144 tiles (four of each suit/honour, eight flowers), 16-tile hands, dealer
558	draws the 17th.
559	- 補花 at the deal and on every drawn flower, replacements from the back of the
560	wall.
561	- 吃 only from 上家; 碰/槓/胡 from anyone. 明槓, 暗槓, 加槓, 搶槓, 槓上開花.
562	- 流局 when 16 tiles remain (`Rules.wallReserve`); the dealer keeps the deal on a
563	draw or on a dealer win (連莊), otherwise the deal passes and the round wind
564	advances every four passes. A full 四圈 game is 16 dealer passes.
565
566	### House rules (switches in `Rules`, all on the settings screen)
567
568	- 過水 `sacredDiscard` (on) — pass on a tile you could have won with and it
569	is dead to you until your own next draw; the seat shows a 過水 badge listing
570	what it is locked out of, so the missing 胡 button is never a mystery. A draw
571	from either end of the wall lifts it. `sacredClearedByClaim` (off) decides
572	whether taking a 吃 / 碰 / 槓 lifts it too — tables genuinely differ.
573	- 一炮多響 `multipleWinners` (off) — one discard pays out to every seat that
574	calls on it, each settled separately against the discarder. With it off the
575	tile goes to the caller nearest the discarder. Either way the table now waits
576	for other seats that can win before settling, so the nearest seat wins the
577	tile rather than the quickest hand — and the 摸牌 button still closes the
578	window on anyone dithering.
579	- 包牌 `liability` (on) — feeding the pung that completes a visible 大三元
580	or 大四喜 makes the feeder answer for the whole hand, in place of all three
581	payers. Only the seat that fed the last of those sets is on the hook, and
582	only if it came off a discard: a hand that assembled them itself, or closed
583	the set with a 暗槓, has nobody to blame.
584
585	### 台 scoring (`src/game/tai.ts`)
586
587	自摸 1 · 門清 1 · 門清自摸 +1 · 全求人 2 · 平胡 2 · 五門齊 2 · 正花 1 each ·
588	花槓 2 · 八仙過海 8 · 圈風 / 門風 1 each · 三元牌 1 each · 小三元 4 · 大三元 8 ·
589	小四喜 8 · 大四喜 16 · 碰碰胡 4 · 混一色 4 · 清一色 8 · 字一色 16 ·
590	三暗刻 2 / 四暗刻 5 / 五暗刻 8 · 獨聽 · 單釣 1 · 搶槓 1 · 槓上開花 1 ·
591	海底撈月 1 · 河底撈魚 1 · 天胡 16 · 地胡 16 · 人胡 8 · 莊家 1 (連N拉N → 2N+1)
592
593	Ambiguous hands are decomposed every legal way and scored at the best reading.
594
595	Payment (`Game.settle`): one unit is `底 + 台 × 台值`
596	(`DEFAULT_RULES` = 底 3, 台 1, 100 chips each).
597	放槍一家付 — the discarder alone pays one unit; on 自摸 all three pay one unit
598	each. 拉莊 is billed to the dealer alone when the dealer is a payer, and added
599	to the whole hand when the dealer wins.
600
601	House rules vary a lot; the tai table and payments are plain data/functions in
602	`tai.ts` and `types.ts` if yours differ.
603
604	## Audio, by seat
605
606	A sound at a mahjong table comes from somewhere. You know whose 碰 that was
607	because it came from your left, and you know a tile has been thrown hard at the
608	far corner without watching it go. Both of those are cheap to keep, and both
609	are gone the moment everything comes out of the middle of one screen.
610
611	Every cue is a seat's. `SoundCue` carries a `seat` alongside the kind and
612	the tile — the seat that threw, called, or won — and leaves it off the things
613	that belong to the table rather than to anybody: the deal, a 流局, an undo. The
614	engine says whose only because a sound has to come from somewhere; what that
615	means in the room is entirely the UI's business, as it always was.
616
617	A seat becomes a place. `App.tsx` turns a seat into a *position round this
618	screen* — 0 the near edge, 1 the right, 2 across, 3 the left — because that is
619	what the ear wants and the seat number is not: a device holding one hand turns
620	the table so that hand is at the bottom, and the sound has to turn with it.
621	`game/sound.ts` gives each position a bus of its own: a pan, a gain, and a
622	lowpass that opens all the way for the near edge and closes to 5 kHz for the
623	far one. Distance is two things at once — quieter, and with the top taken off
624	— because between you and 對家 there is a metre of air, a wall of tiles, and
625	three people's arms, none of which carry treble. Tiles out in the middle skip
626	the edges entirely and are placed continuously, panned by where on the felt
627	they actually landed; the physics knows that to the pixel. Buses are built once
628	per spot and quantised, so a pool full of skidding tiles reuses a handful
629	rather than building one per contact. Old Safari has no `StereoPannerNode`; it
630	plays where it always did.
631
632	**Where there is a table and phones round it, the words come out of the
633	player.** The split the sound should take is the one the room already has: the
634	table makes the noise, because the tiles are on the table, and the phone in
635	somebody's hand says their calls, because the calls are theirs. So the table's
636	screen drops the voice for a seat while keeping the clack, and the phone
637	holding that seat says 碰 and names its own discards and makes no table noise
638	at all.
639
640	Only a phone claims that job, and that is the whole of how the split knows
641	where it applies. A phone is small enough to be in a hand and a hand is in the
642	room; a friend playing from their own laptop three cities away is not, and
643	never takes the words away from anybody's table. It is a proxy rather than a
644	fact — software cannot know who is sitting where — but it is the one property
645	that actually correlates with it, and it fails in the harmless direction:
646	the worst a wrong guess costs is a call said twice in two rooms.
647
648	That only works if the phone really is going to say it, so it is asked rather
649	than assumed. `sound.voiceLive()` is the honest answer — sound on, 報牌 on, the
650	audio hardware awake, the pack decoded — and every device reports it to the
651	host whenever it changes (`EV_VOICE`). The host works out, seat by seat, which
652	hands have a device that will speak for them and publishes that as `voices` in
653	room state; a nameplate wearing 🔊 next to its 📱 is a seat the table has gone
654	quiet for on purpose. Mute the phone, put it to sleep, hand the seat back —
655	the flag drops and the table takes the calls back mid-hand. The device the
656	table is being played at never counts, even when it holds seats: it is the
657	table, and a table that fell silent on the grounds that it was about to speak
658	would say nothing at all.
659
660	A browser will not start audio before the page has been touched, and a phone
661	that arrived by QR may never touch anything that asks for it by name — so the
662	first touch anywhere unlocks it, which is also the moment it can start
663	claiming the job.
664
665	## The voice pack
666
667	A mahjong table only ever says about fifty things — 42 tile names and a handful
668	of calls — so the whole vocabulary is rendered ahead of time into
669	`public/voice/` (~330 kB of mp3) rather than left to whatever speech synthesis
670	the browser happens to have. On Linux that is usually espeak-ng, which is
671	intelligible but sounds like a modem; and on a machine with no Chinese voice at
672	all the feature would silently do nothing. Shipping the audio makes playback
673	instant, identical everywhere, and lets a call be cut off mid-word when the
674	next one lands, all through the same Web Audio graph as the chimes.
675
676	`scripts/voice.mjs` is the authoring step, not part of `npm run build`. It needs
677	[piper](https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) and ffmpeg on PATH:
678
679	```
680	node scripts/voice.mjs # → public/voice/*.mp3 + manifest.json
681	PIPER_MODEL=/path/to/voice.onnx node scripts/voice.mjs # a different voice
682	```
683
684	The wording lives in that script, and some of it is deliberately not the bare
685	tile character: 東 alone is a direction where 東風 is the tile, and the dragons
686	are 紅中 / 發財 / 白板 the way they are actually called — which also gives the
687	phonemiser enough context to get the tone right, since 中 on its own is as
688	likely to come out zhòng.
689
690	The clips here were rendered with piper's `zh_CN-huayan-medium`. If you
691	redistribute this app, check that voice's model card in
692	[piper-voices](https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices) for the terms
693	attached to it, the same way you would the tile art below — or re-render the
694	pack with a voice whose terms suit you, which is a single command.
695
696	## Tile art
697
698	`public/tiles/tiles.svg` is the postmodern tileset from
699	[gnome-mahjongg](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-mahjongg), extracted from
700	the installed binary's GResource — a 43×2 sprite sheet (second row is the
701	highlighted variant, used for a lifted tile). `public/tiles/back.png` is the
702	blank tile from its smooth theme, tinted jade, since a solitaire game has no
703	face-down art of its own.
704
705	How a tile is drawn on the canvas — the outline round it and the shadow under
706	it — lives in `src/ui/tileArt.ts`, and `npm run dev` serves `/tiles.html`, a
707	page of every face at every angle over the felt with a slider on each of those
708	numbers and the finished block ready to paste back. None of it can be judged
709	from the values: it is 246 white against a dark green at 35 pixels across, and
710	the only way to know is to look at it and move something. (`tiles.html` is not
711	one of the build's entry points, so it does not ship.)
712
713	The sheet is not a picture of a tile's face. It is a picture of a whole tile,
714	drawn in an oblique projection, with its own sides painted down the left and
715	along the bottom and its own light coming from the top right — a 16px bevel on a
716	128px cell. That is fine while every tile stands the same way up, and wrong the
717	moment they are scattered: rotating the sprite rotates a pre-rendered solid, so
718	a pool of discards ends up with a different sun on each tile.
719
720	So the art is cropped back to the flat face, and the solid is worked out
721	instead. A tile is a box lying on cloth: take the four corners of the rotated
722	rectangle, offset them by the projection (`depthAngle`, down and to the left,
723	the same direction the art used), and fill the two or three quads whose edges
724	the base falls away from — each shaded from the direction that edge faces *on
725	screen*. Turn the tile and the same physical side comes round to face a
726	different way and its shading changes with it, which is the whole point. No 3D
727	engine, no z-buffer: one projection vector and a dot product per edge.
728
729	Each cell of the sheet is cut out into its own canvas the first time it is
730	wanted. `drawImage` with a source rectangle is allowed to sample past that
731	rectangle when it resamples, and the row under every face is the highlighted
732	variant, whose border is bright blue — so a tile at any angle other than a right
733	one wore a blue fringe along one edge. Square on it never showed, which is why
734	it looked like a rotation bug rather than a spritesheet one.
735
736	A tile used to be drawn as two passes — a slab of ivory offset down the screen
737	with the face on top, so a sliver of the tile's own side showed along the bottom
738	edge. At the size a discard is actually drawn that never read as thickness; it
739	read as a second, paler shape stuck to the bottom of every tile. Shading it
740	better did not help, because the problem was that it was there. What gives a
741	tile its weight now is the shadow and the outline, both of which are true at
742	any size.
743
744	That art is GPL-2.0-or-later. Fine for playing at home; if you ever
745	distribute this app, either honour the GPL or swap the two files for art of your
746	own — `SPRITE_COL` in `tiles.ts` is the only mapping that would need updating.
747
748	Known gaps and house rules that aren't implemented yet are listed in
749	[TODO.md](TODO.md).
750
751	## Layout
752
753	```
754	public/tiles/ sprite sheet + tile back
755	src/game/tiles.ts tile codes, wall, shuffle, sprite mapping
756	src/game/hu.ts hand decomposition, 聽 detection, wait shapes
757	src/game/shanten.ts 向聽 / 進張 counting, for the computer players
758	src/game/bot.ts what a computer player discards and claims (pure)
759	src/game/danger.ts reading the table: who looks ready, which tiles are hot
760	src/game/autoplay.ts when it does it, and how long it appears to think
761	src/game/tai.ts 台 scoring
762	src/game/engine.ts state machine: deal, turns, claim resolution, settlement
763	src/game/ctl.ts TableCtl — the surface the UI drives, local or networked
764	src/game/wall.ts what is left of the square, and what still blocks a throw
765	src/net/room.ts the wire itself: join, reconnect, state, events
766	src/net/session.ts the room: host duties, seats, intents, migration
767	src/net/table.ts TableCtl over the wire: mirror + intents + hand overlay
768	src/net/protocol.ts what crosses the wire, in one place
769	src/net/handOrder.ts your own arrangement, kept on your own device
770	src/ui/Controller.tsx a hand held on a phone, plus the seat picker for any device
771	server/rooms.ts the relay: rooms, host election, state fan-out
772	server/index.ts production: dist/ and the relay from one port
773	src/table/physics.ts the discard pool: rectangles with weight, pure and testable
774	src/table/geometry.ts the table measured — colliders, launch points, throw gate
775	src/table/pool.ts game state ⇄ tiles in the middle, by diffing the discards
776	src/ui/tileArt.ts one tile drawn on canvas — sides, shadow, and the QR face
777	src/ui/ TileView, Hand (drag and throw), Seat, Center, Pool, Help
778	```
779
780	## The tiles in the middle
781
782	The pool is a small rigid-body solver (`src/table/physics.ts`) that knows nothing
783	about mahjong, the DOM, or the clock: fixed 1/120s steps, no randomness of its
784	own, and everything in table pixels. Given the same throws it produces the same
785	pile every time, which is what lets a refresh mid-hand come back to the pile you
786	had rather than a freshly scattered one — positions are derived from the hand
787	number and each tile's place in its thrower's discards, never saved.
788
789	The pile is handled directly. Press on a discard and it comes up out of the
790	pile, carried over the top of the others rather than ploughing through them;
791	let go slowly and it is set down there, flick and it goes off across the felt at
792	the speed it left your fingers — the same throw a tile gets out of a hand, made
793	from the middle of the table instead. Pressing on bare felt does nothing, and
794	the press passes through to whatever was really under it: the tiles are drawn on
795	a canvas with no elements to hit, so the hit test is against the physics and the
796	listener is a capturing one on the table itself.
797
798	A flick is the whole of a throw: the direction and the speed it leaves at are
799	the hand's, and nothing between the fingers and the felt changes either. The one
800	thing the table decides is height — with a standing wall in front of the
801	throw a flat tile would only skid into it, so it is lofted over instead, exactly
802	as far as it was thrown and simply in the air for the first part of the way. A
803	tile that carries past the square and out into the open stays there. (It used to
804	be re-aimed at the middle of the square when the flick's line missed it, which
805	put the tile on a line nobody had thrown and read, fairly, as a bounce off
806	nothing.)
807
808	What stops a tile is other tiles. There is no fence: the standing stacks of the
809	wall, the sets people have laid down and the sixteen each of them is holding are
810	all measured as colliders, so the pile is held in by the ring of tiles round it
811	exactly as it is on a real table, and spills through whatever gaps the wall has
812	been eaten into. The table's own edge is a backstop at the screen edge, there
813	only so a tile that got past all of that isn't lost.
814
815	A tile that only ever slid would look like a puck. What makes a pool of discards
816	look like one is that every tile in it has come to rest at some angle nobody
817	chose, and that is a thing to earn rather than to scatter in. A tile turns
818	because of where it was hit.
819
820	So a contact happens somewhere in particular. The separating axis test says which
821	way to push and by how much; `contactOf` says where, and the arm from there to
822	the tile's middle is what a turn is made of. A tile shouldered square in the back
823	is pushed along and does not turn at all. The same shove, moved along until it is
824	catching one end of the tile, turns it instead, and which way round follows from
825	which end. What touches is a footprint and not a point: a tile lying square to a
826	wall meets it along the whole of one side and is pushed through its own middle
827	however far along the wall it is, and the same tile at forty-five degrees meets
828	it on one corner and swings on round it. Everything a tile can hit is another
829	tile, so the standing stacks, the laid-down sets and the table's own straight
830	edge are all the same contact with the same friction across the face of it.
831
832	Two things keep that honest. The first is that a tile is not free to pivot. It is
833	lying flat on cloth, and the cloth under the whole of its face resists the turn
834	for as long as the contact lasts, so only a tenth of the moment a knock would
835	give a free rectangle actually reaches it (`FELT_HOLD`). Without that, a tile off
836	the corner of a stack comes away spinning like a top. The second is that the felt
837	is one patch of cloth doing one thing: what it spends stopping the slide it has
838	not got left for the turn, so the two share a single friction budget rather than
839	running as two brakes side by side. What that buys is the ending. A tile
840	flicked hard with a little turn on it used to stop turning early and skate on
841	looking dead, and one barely pushed with a lot of turn on it stopped dead and
842	went on spinning where it lay. They now run out together.
843
844	The turn a tile arrives with is the flick's own. `ui/flick.ts` reads a release
845	the same way wherever it was made, out of a hand or off the pile in the middle,
846	and the spin it reports is the angle the stroke swung through between its first
847	half and its second, over the time it took. That is a rate, in rad/s, which is
848	what a wrist actually does: a straight flick turns nothing however hard it is
849	thrown, and the same curve made twice as fast puts twice the turn on the tile.
850
851	It is drawn on a canvas that spans the whole table, not just the centre.
852	That is deliberate: `.slot` and `.seat` both clip their own contents, which is
853	why a tile can't be animated out of a strip as an element. On the canvas there is
854	nothing to clip it, so a tile lifted out of a hand crosses the table in one
855	piece.
856
857	The square is the whole wall: eighteen stacks of two a side, four sides, 144
858	tiles, the way it is built on a table. It used to be rebuilt to what was left
859	after a hand had been dealt — barely half of it — because eighteen full-size
860	stacks a side wants about 560px and no ordinary window has that between the top
861	and bottom strips. That bought a square at the price of it not being the wall:
862	a side ran out of stacks before it reached its corner, so the four of them never
863	met.
864
865	Nothing gives now, and in particular the tile does not. Every tile on the table
866	is one size — `--tile-w` in styles.css, in a hand, in the wall, and lying in the
867	middle — because they are the same tiles, and a tile that changed size between
868	the wall and your hand read as a different, smaller set sitting in the middle.
869	The square is built from that tile and is however big that comes to:
870	`wallSquare()` in `game/wall.ts` takes the tile and hands back the lengths, and
871	`WallRing` measures one rendered cell to find out what CSS made it. The wall
872	being bigger than the room between the strips is a fact about a 144-tile wall,
873	not a thing to solve by shrinking it.
874
875	The four walls are placed by CSS alone: each is pinned to its own edge of the
876	opening with `left`/`top`, runs its whole length from the corner it is built
877	from, and so carries one wall-depth past the far corner and over the end of the
878	next wall along. Every corner of the square is covered by exactly one wall and
879	no two overlap — that is the pinwheel. Nothing is rotated; a square wants no
880	rotation to describe it.
881
882	The overhang is exactly one wall-depth, which is what it takes to close a right
883	angle: two bands of thickness `t` meeting at an interior angle ψ overlap by
884	`t / tan(ψ/2)`, and at ninety degrees that is `t`. So the whole square measures a
885	wall's length plus one depth across, and leaves that length less one depth in
886	the middle — which is the opening, and which is what `.wall-ring` itself is.
887
888	The CSS only places what it is told: `.wall-side` is a row of stacks, laid across
889	on the two flat walls and down on the two upright ones, and `--wall-len` from
890	`WallRing` is the only length it is given. Every place in the wall is rendered
891	whether or not there is still a stack standing on it, because with the break
892	anywhere but a corner a wall is eaten from its middle — a row that closed the
893	gap up would drag the whole tail of the wall along the table behind it.
894
895	Where the four walls stand is found at the table itself rather than on a page
896	of sliders: take hold of a wall in a real game and push it. It goes where the
897	finger goes, and lets go saying where it landed — `[wall] top pushed to 0.5,-4.9
898	— top 0.5,-4.9 · right 0,0 · …` in the console, in tiles, which is the form
899	`WALL_PLACED` in `game/wall.ts` is written in, so what a push finds pastes
900	straight back in. Nothing about the hand moves: the wall is the same wall in the
901	same order and the next draw is still the next draw. There used to be a
902	`/wall.html` for this; the table is the honest place to do it, so that page is
903	gone.
904
905	## 擲骰 — where the wall is broken
906
907	The dealer throws three dice to open a hand, and the total does two jobs. It
908	counts round the seats — the dealer being one, and the count going the way the
909	turn goes — to pick whose wall is opened. Then the same number counts stacks in
910	from the right-hand end of that wall, and the break is behind them: the first
911	tile drawn is the next one along, and the drawing runs away to the left from
912	there, on round the square.
913
914	The square makes that cheap to say. Every wall is laid down from the corner its
915	own player's right hand falls on — that is what the pinwheel is — so the run of
916	72 places already starts at each seat's right, and the break is simply so many
917	places into the side the dice picked. `breakAt()` is those two lines.
918
919	Nothing about the tiles turns on it: the wall was shuffled before it was built,
920	so which stack is drawn first is decided either way. What it moves is where in
921	the middle of the table the gap opens and who has to reach furthest for the next
922	draw — which is the whole of what it does at a table too. The throw is made from
923	the same seeded rng that shuffled, so a seed replays a hand's gap as well as its
924	tiles.
925
926	Where the wall opened is thrown for once and then lived with, which is right at
927	a table and awkward to look at: half the question about the square is what it
928	looks like opened at each of the seventy-two places it can be opened at.
929	`game.reroll(1, 1, 1)` through `game.reroll(6, 6, 6)` from the console walks the
930	break all the way round, and `game.reroll()` throws afresh. It moves the gap and
931	nothing else: the tiles were shuffled before the wall was built, so nobody's
932	hand changes and the draw order is the draw order.
933	Nothing about the square is calculated twice. Its size lives entirely in CSS
934	(`--ws`, `--wd`), so `geometry.ts` measures it instead of restating that
935	arithmetic: `WallRing` already renders every stack as a real element tagged with
936	its index, and the colliders are those elements' bounding rects. That one
937	mapping is what makes the wall a physical object — the thing a thrown tile
938	bounces off, and the thing the throw gate casts its ray at.
939
940	### Seeing the colliders
941
942	Because every boundary is measured off the DOM rather than written down, the
943	only honest way to check a bounce is to draw the boxes in the coordinate space
944	the tiles are drawn in. Add `?colliders` to the address, or call `colliders()`
945	from the console while a hand is running:
946
947	\| drawn \| is \|
948	\| --- \| --- \|
949	\| solid rectangle at the screen edge \| the table itself. Nothing meets this in play — it is only there so a tile that got past everybody's tiles is still on the table afterwards \|
950	\| solid box on every tile \| a collider. Every tile on the table is one: the stacks still standing, the sets people have laid down, and the sixteen each of them is holding. Half stacks aren't drawn because they aren't colliders — a tile goes over them \|
951	\| dashed rectangle \| the wall square's opening — where a throw is aimed. It stops nothing, which is why the pile spills out of it \|
952	\| dotted rectangle, inset \| where the moving tile's own centre may be against the table's edge, which is its half width in from it \|
953	\| box hugging each pool tile \| the rotated rectangle it really collides with \|
954	\| dotted box round the moving tile \| the upright box the straight edges use instead. It comes apart from the rotated one as the tile turns \|
955
956	\| blue rays from a throw \| faint: the flick, as the tile was let go of. Bright: the line it was actually sent along, labelled `slide` or `lob`. These should lie on top of each other — the flick is the throw, and a tile leaving on a line nobody threw reads exactly like a bounce off something invisible \|
957	\| yellow cross \| where contact was actually made, fading over a second or so. One of these sitting in open felt with no box under it is a bounce off something that isn't a collider at all — a different bug from a box in the wrong place \|
958
959	Colliders mode is also a throwing sandbox: a flick throws for real but is not a
960	discard, so the tile stays in your hand, the turn never passes and the computer
961	players hold still. Throw the same tile at the same corner as many times as you
962	like. Sixty stay on the table before the oldest is swept off; `pool.clearLoose()`
963	sweeps them all. Tapping a tile to discard does nothing in this mode — throwing
964	is the thing being tested.
965
966	Add `pause=1` (`?colliders&pause=1`, or `pause()` from the console) to **stop
967	dead on contact**. The physics halts on the fixed step that resolved it and
968	drops the rest of the frame, so what's on screen is where the tile touched
969	rather than where it had got to by the end of the frame. Space carries on, →
970	takes one step, ↑ takes ten; the console says what it stopped on.
971
972	`colliders(false)` turns it off again. It repaints on toggle, so a settled table
973	doesn't have to be poked first. In a dev build `pool` is the live pool: the
974	overlay draws `pool.world.walls`, the physics' own copy rather than a fresh
975	measurement, so if what's drawn ever disagrees with the DOM it is the world that
976	went stale — which `pool.measuredAt` will show, since the stamp carries every
977	hand's shape.
978
979	## What is left of the wall
980
981	Four walls of eighteen full-size stacks want about 560px a side. No ordinary
982	window has that between the top and bottom strips, and the tile is not allowed
983	to shrink to make it fit — a tile in the wall is the same tile you play with, so
984	drawing it smaller was a visible lie.
985
986	What saves it is that nobody ever sees a whole wall: four hands come off the
987	front before the table is on screen, so barely half of it is left by then. So
988	only the stacks still standing are drawn, and they are laid out around a ring
989	cut to the middle rather than to eighteen — `ringLayout` in `game/wall.ts`
990	measures how many stacks a side can take (`WallRing` renders one hidden cell and
991	asks CSS how big it came out) and shares what is left over the four sides in
992	proportion. Every seat keeps a wall in front of it instead of the remainder
993	piling into one corner, and the order runs all the way round, so the break point
994	is still at the head of it and the 底牌 tail still at the end.
995
996	Shuffling the wall along as it is eaten costs nothing to look at, because every
997	stack shows the same green back — and it is what people do to a half-eaten wall
998	anyway.
999
1000	`pool.ts` never listens for events. It diffs the discards against what it is
1001	already drawing, keyed by `seat:index` — and those keys never shift, because
1002	discards are only ever pushed and a claim only ever pops the one on top. So a
1003	key that appeared is a tile to throw in and a key that went is a tile to take
1004	off, which makes undo, 下一局, a claim and resuming a saved game all the same
1005	code path. The engine has no idea any of it exists, and the save format did not
1006	change.