feat(offline): local game source (Phase B3.1)

A GatewayClient-shaped facade over the offline engine, so the same game screen can drive
a local vs_ai game with no backend (the wiring into Game.svelte is B3.2).

- source.ts: LocalSource implements the game-loop subset (GameLoopSource) for a local game
  id — gameState/gameHistory via replay, submitPlay/pass/exchange/resign apply the human
  move then run the robot (decide(generateMoves)) synchronously, persisting both and
  delivering the robot's move through a per-game event emitter (no live stream). hint is
  gated to >30 min since the robot's last move; evaluate/checkWord are local. It translates
  the UI's glyph space to the engine's index space with the static letters table.
- ruleset.ts: add the static per-variant letters (glyphs), pinned to the Go alphabet —
  offline is now fully self-contained (no reliance on a warm server alphabet cache).
- engine.ts: submitPlay (infers the direction like the server SubmitPlay), evaluatePlay +
  dictionaryHas for the move preview / word check, and record the main-word coordinate +
  the words on a play (for the history MoveRecord).
- source.test.ts: create -> human pass -> synchronous robot reply via the event, the hint
  gate, decoded history, and a whole game driven to completion.

Pure additive library code; no runtime behavior change (bundle unchanged).

backend/cmd/movegen/main.go

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 
 	"gitea.iliadenisov.ru/developer/scrabble-solver/board"
 	"gitea.iliadenisov.ru/developer/scrabble-solver/rack"
@@ -370,12 +371,13 @@ func russianRack(letters string, blanks int) genRack {
 // parity test can pin that hand-copied table to the Go rulesets (scrabble-solver/rules).
 func emitRulesets() {
 	type rsFix struct {
-		Size     int   `json:"size"`
+		Size     int      `json:"size"`
-		RackSize int   `json:"rackSize"`
+		RackSize int      `json:"rackSize"`
-		Bingo    int   `json:"bingo"`
+		Bingo    int      `json:"bingo"`
-		Blanks   int   `json:"blanks"`
+		Blanks   int      `json:"blanks"`
-		Values   []int `json:"values"`
+		Values   []int    `json:"values"`
-		Counts   []int `json:"counts"`
+		Counts   []int    `json:"counts"`
+		Letters  []string `json:"letters"`
 	}
 	out := map[string]rsFix{}
 	for _, v := range []struct {
@@ -386,7 +388,15 @@ func emitRulesets() {
 		{"scrabble_ru", rules.RussianScrabble()},
 		{"erudit_ru", rules.Erudit()},
 	} {
-		out[v.name] = rsFix{Size: v.rs.Size(), RackSize: v.rs.RackSize, Bingo: v.rs.Bingo, Blanks: v.rs.Blanks, Values: v.rs.Values, Counts: v.rs.Counts}
+		letters := make([]string, v.rs.Size())
+		for i := range letters {
+			ch, err := v.rs.Alphabet.Character(byte(i))
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatalf("movegen: %s letter %d: %v", v.name, i, err)
+			}
+			letters[i] = strings.ToUpper(ch)
+		}
+		out[v.name] = rsFix{Size: v.rs.Size(), RackSize: v.rs.RackSize, Bingo: v.rs.Bingo, Blanks: v.rs.Blanks, Values: v.rs.Values, Counts: v.rs.Counts, Letters: letters}
 	}
 	dir := filepath.Join("ui", "src", "lib", "localgame", "testdata")
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {

ui/src/lib/localgame/engine.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { Bag } from './bag';
 import { RULESETS } from './ruleset';
 import { generateMoves, GenRack, Both } from '../dict/generate';
 import { validatePlay, type Direction, type Placement, type Ruleset, type Move } from '../dict/validate';
+import { playDirection } from '../dict/direction';
 import { premiumGrid, centre, BOARD_SIZE, RACK_SIZE, BINGO, type Premium } from '../premiums';
 import { BLANK_INDEX } from '../alphabet';
 import type { Dawg } from '../dict/dawg';
@@ -35,6 +36,12 @@ export interface LocalMove {
   action: 'play' | 'pass' | 'exchange' | 'resign';
   dir?: Direction;
   tiles?: Placement[];
+  /** ActionPlay only: the main word's first-letter coordinate. */
+  mainRow?: number;
+  mainCol?: number;
+  /** ActionPlay only: the words formed as alphabet-index letter arrays — the main word first, then
+   *  the cross words. Decoded to glyphs when building the history's MoveRecord. */
+  words?: number[][];
   /** ActionExchange only: number of tiles swapped. */
   count?: number;
   /** ActionExchange only: the swapped tiles (alphabet-index bytes, BLANK_INDEX for a blank),
@@ -252,8 +259,31 @@ export class LocalGame {
     return generateMoves(this.dawg, this.board, this.rackOf(this.toMove), this.vrs, Both);
   }
 
+  /** evaluatePlay scores a candidate placement for the current position without committing it,
+   *  returning its legality (dictionary + connectivity), score, the words it forms (as alphabet-index
+   *  arrays, main first) and the inferred direction. Backs the local move preview. */
+  evaluatePlay(tiles: Placement[]): { legal: boolean; score: number; words: number[][]; dir: Direction } {
+    const dir = playDirection(this.board, this.vrs, this.dawg, tiles);
+    const res = validatePlay(this.board, this.vrs, this.dawg, dir, tiles);
+    if (!res.legal || !res.move) return { legal: false, score: 0, words: [], dir };
+    const m = res.move;
+    return { legal: true, score: m.score, words: [m.main.letters, ...m.cross.map((w) => w.letters)], dir };
+  }
+
+  /** dictionaryHas reports whether the word (alphabet-index letters) is in the game's dictionary. */
+  dictionaryHas(word: readonly number[]): boolean {
+    return this.dawg.indexOf(word) >= 0;
+  }
+
   // --- turns -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+  /** submitPlay infers the play's orientation from the placement (like the server's SubmitPlay),
+   *  then plays it — the client submits tiles without a direction and the engine resolves it. */
+  submitPlay(tiles: Placement[]): LocalMove {
+    const dir = playDirection(this.board, this.vrs, this.dawg, tiles);
+    return this.play(dir, tiles);
+  }
+
   /** play validates and applies the current player's placement, scores it, refills the rack and
    *  advances the turn (or ends the game). Throws GameError on an illegal play. */
   play(dir: Direction, tiles: Placement[]): LocalMove {
@@ -277,6 +307,9 @@ export class LocalGame {
       action: 'play',
       dir,
       tiles: tiles.map((t) => ({ ...t })),
+      mainRow: move.main.row,
+      mainCol: move.main.col,
+      words: [move.main.letters, ...move.cross.map((w) => w.letters)],
       score: move.score,
       total: this.scores[player],
     };

ui/src/lib/localgame/ruleset.parity.test.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ interface RulesetFix {
   blanks: number;
   values: number[];
   counts: number[];
+  letters: string[];
 }
 
 const fx = JSON.parse(
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ describe('offline ruleset table parity vs Go rules', () => {
         blanks: rs.blanks,
         values: [...rs.values],
         counts: [...rs.counts],
+        letters: [...rs.letters],
       }).toEqual(fx[variant]);
     });
   }

ui/src/lib/localgame/ruleset.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ export interface VariantRuleset {
   values: readonly number[];
   /** Bag tile count per letter index (how many of each letter the bag holds). */
   counts: readonly number[];
+  /** Display glyph per letter index, upper-cased (matching lib/alphabet.ts). Offline needs these
+   *  to translate the engine's index space to/from the glyphs the game UI shows, with no server. */
+  letters: readonly string[];
 }
 
 /** RULESETS is the static ruleset table, one entry per variant, mirrored from rules.go. */
@@ -34,6 +37,7 @@ export const RULESETS: Record<Variant, VariantRuleset> = {
     //       a  b  c  d   e  f  g  h  i  j  k  l  m  n  o  p   q  r  s  t  u  v  w  x  y   z
     values: [1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 8, 5, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 8, 4, 10],
     counts: [9, 2, 2, 4, 12, 2, 3, 2, 9, 1, 1, 4, 2, 6, 8, 2, 1, 6, 4, 6, 4, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1],
+    letters: [...'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'],
   },
   scrabble_ru: {
     size: 33,
@@ -43,6 +47,7 @@ export const RULESETS: Record<Variant, VariantRuleset> = {
     //       а  б  в  г  д  е  ё  ж  з  и  й  к  л  м  н  о  п  р  с  т  у   ф  х  ц  ч  ш   щ   ъ  ы  ь  э  ю  я
     values: [1, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 5, 5, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 10, 5, 5, 5, 8, 10, 10, 4, 3, 8, 8, 3],
     counts: [8, 2, 4, 2, 4, 8, 1, 1, 2, 5, 1, 4, 4, 3, 5, 10, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2],
+    letters: [...'АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ'],
   },
   erudit_ru: {
     size: 33,
@@ -52,5 +57,6 @@ export const RULESETS: Record<Variant, VariantRuleset> = {
     //       а   б  в  г  д  е  ё  ж  з  и  й  к  л  м  н  о  п  р  с  т  у   ф  х   ц  ч   ш   щ   ъ   ы  ь   э   ю  я
     values: [1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 5, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 10, 5, 10, 5, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 10, 10, 3],
     counts: [10, 3, 5, 3, 5, 9, 0, 2, 2, 8, 4, 6, 4, 5, 8, 10, 6, 6, 6, 5, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3],
+    letters: [...'АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ'],
   },
 };

ui/src/lib/localgame/source.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
+import type { PushEvent } from '../model';
+
+// getDawg is mocked to the committed sample dictionary (the store's IndexedDB is absent under node,
+// so games live in the source's in-memory cache — created once, then driven without reload).
+vi.mock('../dict', () => ({
+  getDawg: async () => {
+    const { Dawg } = await import('../dict/dawg');
+    const { readFileSync } = await import('node:fs');
+    return new Dawg(new Uint8Array(readFileSync(new URL('../dict/testdata/sample_en.dawg', import.meta.url))));
+  },
+}));
+
+import { LocalSource, isLocalGameId } from './source';
+import type { Seat } from './serialize';
+
+const seats: Seat[] = [
+  { kind: 'human', name: 'You' },
+  { kind: 'robot', name: 'Robot' },
+];
+
+async function newSource(id: string, seed: bigint): Promise<LocalSource> {
+  const src = new LocalSource();
+  await src.create({ id, variant: 'scrabble_en', dictVersion: 'sample', seed, multipleWords: true, seats });
+  return src;
+}
+
+describe('LocalSource', () => {
+  it('detects local game ids', () => {
+    expect(isLocalGameId('local:abc')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isLocalGameId('deadbeef')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('creates a vs_ai game with the human to move and a full rack', async () => {
+    const src = await newSource('local:g1', 42n);
+    const st = await src.gameState('local:g1');
+    expect(st.game.vsAi).toBe(true);
+    expect(st.game.status).toBe('active');
+    expect(st.seat).toBe(0);
+    expect(st.rack.length).toBe(7);
+    expect(st.game.seats.map((s) => s.displayName)).toEqual(['You', 'Robot']);
+    expect(st.game.toMove).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('replies to a human pass with a synchronous robot move, delivered via the event', async () => {
+    const src = await newSource('local:g2', 999n);
+    const events: PushEvent[] = [];
+    src.events('local:g2', (e) => events.push(e));
+
+    const res = await src.pass('local:g2');
+    expect(res.move.action).toBe('pass');
+    expect(res.move.player).toBe(0);
+
+    // The robot has already played (synchronously) — the state reflects both moves...
+    const mid = await src.gameState('local:g2');
+    expect(mid.game.moveCount).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    // ...and its move is delivered to subscribers via the per-game event.
+    await Promise.resolve();
+    expect(events.some((e) => e.kind === 'opponent_moved')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('gates the hint until 30 minutes since the robot last moved', async () => {
+    const src = await newSource('local:g3', 7n);
+    await expect(src.hint('local:g3')).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'hint_not_ready' });
+  });
+
+  it('records decoded moves in the history', async () => {
+    const src = await newSource('local:g4', 55n);
+    await src.pass('local:g4');
+    const h = await src.gameHistory('local:g4');
+    expect(h.moves.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    expect(h.moves[0].action).toBe('pass');
+    // the robot's reply, whatever it is, is decoded (a play carries glyph tiles + lower-case words)
+    const play = h.moves.find((m) => m.action === 'play');
+    if (play) {
+      expect(play.tiles.every((t) => typeof t.letter === 'string' && t.letter.length >= 1)).toBe(true);
+      expect(play.words.every((w) => w === w.toLowerCase())).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('drives a whole local game to completion', async () => {
+    const src = await newSource('local:g5', 2024n);
+    src.events('local:g5', () => {});
+    let turns = 0;
+    while ((await src.gameState('local:g5')).game.status === 'active' && turns < 500) {
+      await src.pass('local:g5');
+      await Promise.resolve();
+      turns++;
+    }
+    const st = await src.gameState('local:g5');
+    expect(st.game.status).toBe('finished');
+    expect(turns).toBeLessThan(500);
+    const winners = st.game.seats.filter((s) => s.isWinner);
+    expect(winners.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+  });
+});

ui/src/lib/localgame/source.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,400 @@
+// The local game source: a GatewayClient-shaped facade over the offline engine, so the SAME game
+// screen drives a local vs_ai game with no backend. It implements the game-loop subset of the
+// gateway (GameLoopSource) for a local game id, backed by LocalGame + the IndexedDB store + the
+// real robot (lib/robot/strategy). Unlike the network flow there is no live stream: after the
+// human's move the robot plays synchronously in the same call, its move persisted atomically and
+// delivered to the screen through this source's own per-game event emitter (events()).
+//
+// It translates between the UI's glyph space (PlacedTile.letter, rack strings) and the engine's
+// alphabet-index space using the static letters table (ruleset.ts), so it needs no server alphabet.
+
+import { LocalGame, type LocalMove } from './engine';
+import { serializeGame, replayGame, type LocalGameRecord, type Seat as LocalSeat } from './serialize';
+import { getLocalGame, saveLocalGame } from './store';
+import { RULESETS } from './ruleset';
+import { getDawg } from '../dict';
+import { decide } from '../robot/strategy';
+import { GatewayError, type PlacedTile } from '../client';
+import type {
+  EvalResult,
+  GameView,
+  History,
+  HintResult,
+  MoveRecord,
+  MoveResult,
+  PushEvent,
+  Seat,
+  StateView,
+  Tile,
+  Variant,
+  WordCheckResult,
+} from '../model';
+import type { Move } from '../dict/validate';
+
+/** LOCAL_ID_PREFIX marks a game id as a local (offline) game, so the app dispatches it here. */
+export const LOCAL_ID_PREFIX = 'local:';
+
+/** isLocalGameId reports whether an id belongs to a local game. */
+export function isLocalGameId(id: string): boolean {
+  return id.startsWith(LOCAL_ID_PREFIX);
+}
+
+/** HINT_GATE_MS is the idle time since the robot's last move before an offline hint unlocks. */
+export const HINT_GATE_MS = 30 * 60 * 1000;
+
+/**
+ * GameLoopSource is the subset of GatewayClient the game screen calls to run a game. The real
+ * gateway satisfies it structurally; the local source implements it for offline play.
+ */
+export interface GameLoopSource {
+  gameState(gameId: string, includeAlphabet: boolean): Promise<StateView>;
+  gameHistory(gameId: string): Promise<History>;
+  submitPlay(gameId: string, tiles: PlacedTile[], variant: Variant): Promise<MoveResult>;
+  pass(gameId: string): Promise<MoveResult>;
+  exchange(gameId: string, tiles: string[], variant: Variant): Promise<MoveResult>;
+  resign(gameId: string): Promise<MoveResult>;
+  hint(gameId: string): Promise<HintResult>;
+  evaluate(gameId: string, tiles: PlacedTile[], variant: Variant, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<EvalResult>;
+  checkWord(gameId: string, word: string, variant: Variant): Promise<WordCheckResult>;
+  draftGet(gameId: string): Promise<string>;
+  draftSave(gameId: string, json: string): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+const BLANK_GLYPH = '?';
+
+// letterToIndex builds a glyph -> index map for a variant's alphabet (upper-cased, matching the
+// static letters table and lib/alphabet.ts).
+const indexCache = new Map<Variant, Map<string, number>>();
+function letterToIndex(variant: Variant, glyph: string): number {
+  if (glyph === BLANK_GLYPH) return 255; // BLANK_INDEX
+  let m = indexCache.get(variant);
+  if (!m) {
+    m = new Map();
+    RULESETS[variant].letters.forEach((l, i) => m!.set(l, i));
+    indexCache.set(variant, m);
+  }
+  const i = m.get(glyph.toUpperCase());
+  if (i === undefined) throw new GatewayError('illegal_play', `no index for "${glyph}" in ${variant}`);
+  return i;
+}
+
+// indexToLetter decodes an alphabet index to its display glyph; the blank sentinel maps to "?".
+function indexToLetter(variant: Variant, index: number): string {
+  if (index === 255) return BLANK_GLYPH;
+  return RULESETS[variant].letters[index] ?? '';
+}
+
+// encodePlacements turns submitted glyph tiles into the engine's index-space placements.
+function encodePlacements(variant: Variant, tiles: PlacedTile[]): { row: number; col: number; letter: number; blank: boolean }[] {
+  return tiles.map((t) => ({ row: t.row, col: t.col, letter: letterToIndex(variant, t.letter), blank: t.blank }));
+}
+
+// A live local game held in memory for the session, so calls do not re-replay from the store.
+interface Live {
+  game: LocalGame;
+  record: LocalGameRecord;
+}
+
+/**
+ * LocalSource runs local games. One instance backs every local game the app has open; it caches
+ * the live engine per id and persists after each move.
+ */
+export class LocalSource implements GameLoopSource {
+  private readonly live = new Map<string, Live>();
+  private readonly listeners = new Map<string, Set<(e: PushEvent) => void>>();
+
+  /** create starts a new local vs_ai game, persists it and returns its state. */
+  async create(opts: {
+    id: string;
+    variant: Variant;
+    dictVersion: string;
+    seed: bigint;
+    multipleWords: boolean;
+    seats: LocalSeat[];
+  }): Promise<StateView> {
+    const dawg = await getDawg(opts.variant, opts.dictVersion);
+    if (!dawg) throw new GatewayError('dict_unavailable');
+    const game = new LocalGame({
+      variant: opts.variant,
+      version: opts.dictVersion,
+      seed: opts.seed,
+      players: opts.seats.length,
+      dawg,
+      multipleWords: opts.multipleWords,
+    });
+    const now = nowUnix();
+    const record = serializeGame(game, {
+      id: opts.id,
+      seats: opts.seats.map((s) => ({ kind: s.kind, name: s.name })),
+      createdAtUnix: now,
+      updatedAtUnix: now,
+      robotLastMoveAtUnix: now,
+    });
+    const entry: Live = { game, record };
+    this.live.set(opts.id, entry);
+    await saveLocalGame(record);
+    return this.stateView(entry);
+  }
+
+  async gameState(gameId: string): Promise<StateView> {
+    return this.stateView(await this.load(gameId));
+  }
+
+  async gameHistory(gameId: string): Promise<History> {
+    const { game, record } = await this.load(gameId);
+    return { gameId, moves: game.history.map((m) => this.moveRecord(record.variant, m)) };
+  }
+
+  async submitPlay(gameId: string, tiles: PlacedTile[], variant: Variant): Promise<MoveResult> {
+    return this.humanMove(gameId, (g) => g.submitPlay(encodePlacements(variant, tiles)));
+  }
+
+  async pass(gameId: string): Promise<MoveResult> {
+    return this.humanMove(gameId, (g) => g.pass());
+  }
+
+  async exchange(gameId: string, tiles: string[], variant: Variant): Promise<MoveResult> {
+    const idx = tiles.map((t) => letterToIndex(variant, t));
+    return this.humanMove(gameId, (g) => g.exchange(idx));
+  }
+
+  async resign(gameId: string): Promise<MoveResult> {
+    // A resignation ends a two-player game immediately; no robot reply follows.
+    const entry = await this.load(gameId);
+    const seat = entry.game.currentPlayer;
+    const move = entry.game.resign();
+    await this.persist(entry);
+    return this.moveResult(entry, move, seat);
+  }
+
+  async hint(gameId: string): Promise<HintResult> {
+    const entry = await this.load(gameId);
+    if (nowUnix() * 1000 - entry.record.robotLastMoveAtUnix * 1000 < HINT_GATE_MS) {
+      throw new GatewayError('hint_not_ready');
+    }
+    const top = this.topMove(entry.game);
+    if (!top) throw new GatewayError('no_hint');
+    return { move: this.moveFromGen(entry.record.variant, entry.game.currentPlayer, top), hintsRemaining: 1, walletBalance: 0 };
+  }
+
+  async evaluate(gameId: string, tiles: PlacedTile[], variant: Variant): Promise<EvalResult> {
+    const { game } = await this.load(gameId);
+    const r = game.evaluatePlay(encodePlacements(variant, tiles));
+    return {
+      legal: r.legal,
+      score: r.score,
+      words: r.words.map((w) => w.map((i) => indexToLetter(variant, i)).join('').toLowerCase()),
+      dir: r.legal ? (r.dir === 0 ? 'H' : 'V') : '',
+    };
+  }
+
+  async checkWord(gameId: string, word: string, variant: Variant): Promise<WordCheckResult> {
+    const { game } = await this.load(gameId);
+    const idx = Array.from(word, (ch) => letterToIndex(variant, ch));
+    return { word, legal: game.dictionaryHas(idx) };
+  }
+
+  // Drafts (the in-progress composition) are not persisted for local games — the arrangement is
+  // rebuilt from the rack on reopen. The screen tolerates an empty draft.
+  async draftGet(): Promise<string> {
+    return '';
+  }
+  async draftSave(): Promise<void> {
+    /* no-op offline */
+  }
+
+  /** events subscribes to a local game's push events (the robot's reply, game over). Returns an
+   *  unsubscribe. The network path uses the gateway's global stream instead. */
+  events(gameId: string, onEvent: (e: PushEvent) => void): () => void {
+    let set = this.listeners.get(gameId);
+    if (!set) {
+      set = new Set();
+      this.listeners.set(gameId, set);
+    }
+    set.add(onEvent);
+    return () => set!.delete(onEvent);
+  }
+
+  // --- internals -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  private async load(gameId: string): Promise<Live> {
+    const cached = this.live.get(gameId);
+    if (cached) return cached;
+    const record = await getLocalGame(gameId);
+    if (!record) throw new GatewayError('game_not_found');
+    const dawg = await getDawg(record.variant, record.dictVersion);
+    if (!dawg) throw new GatewayError('dict_unavailable');
+    const entry: Live = { game: replayGame(record, dawg), record };
+    this.live.set(gameId, entry);
+    return entry;
+  }
+
+  // humanMove applies the human's action, persists, returns their MoveResult, then (if the game is
+  // still on and it is the robot's turn) schedules the robot's synchronous reply — already applied
+  // and saved here, but emitted to subscribers on a microtask so the human's move renders first.
+  private async humanMove(gameId: string, act: (g: LocalGame) => LocalMove): Promise<MoveResult> {
+    const entry = await this.load(gameId);
+    const seat = entry.game.currentPlayer;
+    const move = act(entry.game);
+    const robotMoves = this.runRobots(entry);
+    await this.persist(entry);
+    const result = this.moveResult(entry, move, seat);
+    if (robotMoves.length > 0) {
+      queueMicrotask(() => this.emitRobot(entry, robotMoves));
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  // runRobots plays every consecutive robot seat until it is a human's turn or the game ends,
+  // returning the robot moves in order. For a two-player vs_ai game this is a single move.
+  private runRobots(entry: Live): LocalMove[] {
+    const out: LocalMove[] = [];
+    while (!entry.game.isOver && this.isRobotSeat(entry, entry.game.currentPlayer)) {
+      const g = entry.game;
+      const seat = g.currentPlayer;
+      const cands = this.legalMoves(g);
+      const dec = decide(g.seed, g.moveCount, cands, g.scoreOf(seat), this.bestOpponent(g, seat), g.handOf(seat), g.bagLength);
+      if (dec.kind === 'play') out.push(g.play(dec.move.dir, dec.move.tiles));
+      else if (dec.kind === 'exchange' && g.bagLength >= RULESETS[entry.record.variant].rackSize) out.push(g.exchange(dec.exchange));
+      else out.push(g.pass());
+      entry.record.robotLastMoveAtUnix = nowUnix();
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  private emitRobot(entry: Live, moves: LocalMove[]): void {
+    const set = this.listeners.get(entry.record.id);
+    if (!set) return;
+    for (const m of moves) {
+      const game = this.gameView(entry);
+      const ev: PushEvent = { kind: 'opponent_moved', gameId: entry.record.id, move: this.moveRecord(entry.record.variant, m), game, bagLen: entry.game.bagLength };
+      for (const cb of set) cb(ev);
+    }
+    if (entry.game.isOver) {
+      const game = this.gameView(entry);
+      const ev: PushEvent = { kind: 'game_over', gameId: entry.record.id, result: entry.game.endReason, scoreLine: '', game };
+      for (const cb of set) cb(ev);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async persist(entry: Live): Promise<void> {
+    entry.record = serializeGame(entry.game, {
+      id: entry.record.id,
+      seats: entry.record.seats,
+      createdAtUnix: entry.record.createdAtUnix,
+      updatedAtUnix: nowUnix(),
+      robotLastMoveAtUnix: entry.record.robotLastMoveAtUnix,
+    });
+    await saveLocalGame(entry.record);
+  }
+
+  private isRobotSeat(entry: Live, seat: number): boolean {
+    return entry.record.seats[seat]?.kind === 'robot';
+  }
+
+  private humanSeat(entry: Live): number {
+    const i = entry.record.seats.findIndex((s) => s.kind === 'human');
+    return i >= 0 ? i : 0;
+  }
+
+  private bestOpponent(game: LocalGame, seat: number): number {
+    let best = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < game.playerCount; i++) if (i !== seat) best = Math.max(best, game.scoreOf(i));
+    return best;
+  }
+
+  private legalMoves(game: LocalGame): Move[] {
+    // The generator can emit a one-letter play only for a dictionary that has one-letter words;
+    // real dictionaries have none. Filtering to main length >= 2 keeps the robot to legal plays.
+    return game.generateMoves().filter((m) => m.main.letters.length >= 2);
+  }
+
+  private topMove(game: LocalGame): Move | null {
+    const moves = this.legalMoves(game);
+    return moves.length > 0 ? moves[0] : null;
+  }
+
+  // --- shape builders --------------------------------------------------------
+
+  private stateView(entry: Live): StateView {
+    const seat = this.humanSeat(entry);
+    const rack = entry.game.handOf(seat).map((t) => indexToLetter(entry.record.variant, t));
+    return { game: this.gameView(entry), seat, rack, bagLen: entry.game.bagLength, hintsRemaining: 1, walletBalance: 0 };
+  }
+
+  private gameView(entry: Live): GameView {
+    const { game, record } = entry;
+    const seats: Seat[] = record.seats.map((s, i) => ({
+      seat: i,
+      accountId: `${LOCAL_ID_PREFIX}${s.kind}:${i}`,
+      displayName: s.name,
+      score: game.scoreOf(i),
+      hintsUsed: 0,
+      isWinner: game.isOver && i === game.winnerIndex,
+    }));
+    return {
+      id: record.id,
+      variant: record.variant,
+      dictVersion: record.dictVersion,
+      status: game.isOver ? 'finished' : 'active',
+      players: game.playerCount,
+      toMove: game.currentPlayer,
+      turnTimeoutSecs: 0,
+      multipleWordsPerTurn: record.multipleWords,
+      moveCount: game.moveCount,
+      endReason: game.isOver ? game.endReason : '',
+      lastActivityUnix: record.updatedAtUnix,
+      vsAi: true,
+      unreadChat: false,
+      unreadMessages: false,
+      seats,
+    };
+  }
+
+  private moveResult(entry: Live, move: LocalMove, seat: number): MoveResult {
+    return {
+      move: this.moveRecord(entry.record.variant, move),
+      game: this.gameView(entry),
+      rack: entry.game.handOf(seat).map((t) => indexToLetter(entry.record.variant, t)),
+      bagLen: entry.game.bagLength,
+    };
+  }
+
+  private moveRecord(variant: Variant, m: LocalMove): MoveRecord {
+    const tiles: Tile[] = (m.tiles ?? []).map((t) => ({ row: t.row, col: t.col, letter: indexToLetter(variant, t.letter), blank: t.blank }));
+    const words = (m.words ?? []).map((w) => w.map((i) => indexToLetter(variant, i)).join('').toLowerCase());
+    return {
+      player: m.player,
+      action: m.action,
+      dir: m.dir === undefined ? '' : m.dir === 0 ? 'H' : 'V',
+      mainRow: m.mainRow ?? 0,
+      mainCol: m.mainCol ?? 0,
+      tiles,
+      words,
+      count: m.count ?? 0,
+      score: m.score,
+      total: m.total,
+    };
+  }
+
+  private moveFromGen(variant: Variant, player: number, gm: Move): MoveRecord {
+    const tiles: Tile[] = gm.tiles.map((t) => ({ row: t.row, col: t.col, letter: indexToLetter(variant, t.letter), blank: t.blank }));
+    const words = [gm.main, ...gm.cross].map((w) => w.letters.map((i) => indexToLetter(variant, i)).join('').toLowerCase());
+    return {
+      player,
+      action: 'play',
+      dir: gm.dir === 0 ? 'H' : 'V',
+      mainRow: gm.main.row,
+      mainCol: gm.main.col,
+      tiles,
+      words,
+      count: 0,
+      score: gm.score,
+      total: 0,
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+function nowUnix(): number {
+  return Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
+}

ui/src/lib/localgame/testdata/rulesets.json

@@ -73,6 +73,41 @@
       1,
       1,
       3
+    ],
+    "letters": [
+      "А",
+      "Б",
+      "В",
+      "Г",
+      "Д",
+      "Е",
+      "Ё",
+      "Ж",
+      "З",
+      "И",
+      "Й",
+      "К",
+      "Л",
+      "М",
+      "Н",
+      "О",
+      "П",
+      "Р",
+      "С",
+      "Т",
+      "У",
+      "Ф",
+      "Х",
+      "Ц",
+      "Ч",
+      "Ш",
+      "Щ",
+      "Ъ",
+      "Ы",
+      "Ь",
+      "Э",
+      "Ю",
+      "Я"
     ]
   },
   "scrabble_en": {
@@ -135,6 +170,34 @@
       1,
       2,
       1
+    ],
+    "letters": [
+      "A",
+      "B",
+      "C",
+      "D",
+      "E",
+      "F",
+      "G",
+      "H",
+      "I",
+      "J",
+      "K",
+      "L",
+      "M",
+      "N",
+      "O",
+      "P",
+      "Q",
+      "R",
+      "S",
+      "T",
+      "U",
+      "V",
+      "W",
+      "X",
+      "Y",
+      "Z"
     ]
   },
   "scrabble_ru": {
@@ -211,6 +274,41 @@
       1,
       1,
       2
+    ],
+    "letters": [
+      "А",
+      "Б",
+      "В",
+      "Г",
+      "Д",
+      "Е",
+      "Ё",
+      "Ж",
+      "З",
+      "И",
+      "Й",
+      "К",
+      "Л",
+      "М",
+      "Н",
+      "О",
+      "П",
+      "Р",
+      "С",
+      "Т",
+      "У",
+      "Ф",
+      "Х",
+      "Ц",
+      "Ч",
+      "Ш",
+      "Щ",
+      "Ъ",
+      "Ы",
+      "Ь",
+      "Э",
+      "Ю",
+      "Я"
     ]
   }
 }