feat(ui): move in-game status to the board — highlight, score badge, full-width rack

Remove the under-board status strip and relocate its signals:
- bag count -> a badge on the exchange/pass control + the foot of the move table
- whose-turn / win-lose -> a thin strip above the score plaques
- the tentative-move caption -> the board itself: staged tiles tint green (legal) or
  pink (illegal), the board tiles a formed word runs through go a shade darker, and an
  orange score badge sits on the main word (digit sized like a tile value, clamped on-board)

The word geometry (covered cells + badge anchor) is a new pure client-side helper
(ui/src/lib/formed.ts), independent of the move evaluator, so it works on the local or
network preview path alike; the badge's number still comes from the preview score.

Rack: a seven-column grid filling the tray width in both layouts — square, full-width
tiles — with the confirm control in the fixed 7th slot.

Settings: a touch-only "Zoom the board" toggle (default on, device-local) gates the
tile-placement auto-zoom; taking a hint while zoomed in now zooms out so the highlighted
hint word is never left off-screen.

Docs (FUNCTIONAL +_ru, UI_DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE) and e2e/unit tests updated.

ui/src/game/Board.svelte

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
     focus,
     recenter,
     dropTarget,
+    previewLegal,
+    formed,
+    scoreBadge,
     oncell,
     ontogglezoom,
     onrecall,
@@ -48,6 +51,15 @@
     recenter: number;
     /** The cell a dragged tile is currently aimed at, highlighted as a drop target. */
     dropTarget: { row: number; col: number } | null;
+    /** While composing: true when the staged tiles form a legal play, false when not, null when
+     *  there is no preview (off-turn, nothing staged, or a recall drag) — tints the pending tiles
+     *  green vs a calm pink. */
+    previewLegal: boolean | null;
+    /** "row,col" keys of every committed board cell a formed word runs through, greened a shade
+     *  darker than the player's own staged tiles. */
+    formed: Set<string>;
+    /** The orange move-score badge for the legal play being composed, or null. */
+    scoreBadge: { row: number; col: number; corner: 'tr' | 'bl'; score: number } | null;
     oncell: (row: number, col: number) => void;
     ontogglezoom: (row: number, col: number) => void;
     /** Recall the pending tile at (row, col) — fired on a double-tap of a pending cell. */
@@ -60,6 +72,20 @@
   const z = $derived(zoomed ? Z : 1);
   const premClass: Record<Premium, string> = { '': '', TW: 'tw', DW: 'dw', TL: 'tl', DL: 'dl' };
 
+  // The score badge sits on a corner of its anchor cell, clamped so the whole pill stays on the
+  // board. Its position is a percentage of the (15-cell) board; CSS centres the pill on the point.
+  const BADGE_MARGIN = 2.4;
+  const badgePos = $derived.by(() => {
+    const b = scoreBadge;
+    if (!b) return null;
+    const cell = 100 / 15;
+    let x = b.corner === 'tr' ? (b.col + 1) * cell : b.col * cell;
+    let y = b.corner === 'tr' ? b.row * cell : (b.row + 1) * cell;
+    x = Math.max(BADGE_MARGIN, Math.min(100 - BADGE_MARGIN, x));
+    y = Math.max(BADGE_MARGIN, Math.min(100 - BADGE_MARGIN, y));
+    return { x, y };
+  });
+
   let viewport = $state<HTMLElement>();
 
   // Genuine layout zoom (the board grows; cqw labels stay constant), so native scroll
@@ -315,6 +341,9 @@
             class="cell {premClass[premium[r][c]]}"
             class:filled={!!cell}
             class:pending={!!p && !cell}
+            class:legal={!!p && !cell && previewLegal === true}
+            class:illegal={!!p && !cell && previewLegal === false}
+            class:formed={!!cell && formed.has(key(r, c))}
             class:hl={!!cell && highlight.has(key(r, c)) && !flash}
             class:flash={!!cell && flash && highlight.has(key(r, c))}
             class:dark={premium[r][c] === '' && !cell && !p && (r + c) % 2 === 1}
@@ -342,6 +371,9 @@
           </button>
         {/each}
       {/each}
+      {#if scoreBadge && badgePos}
+        <span class="scorebadge" style="left:{badgePos.x}%; top:{badgePos.y}%">{scoreBadge.score}</span>
+      {/if}
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
@@ -397,6 +429,8 @@
     gap: 0;
     background: var(--board-bg);
     padding: 0;
+    /* Anchor for the absolutely-positioned score badge (its percentages resolve against the board). */
+    position: relative;
   }
   .cell {
     position: relative;
@@ -445,6 +479,19 @@
        board) instead of the touch starting a board pan. */
     touch-action: none;
   }
+  /* While composing, the staged play recolours its tiles: a calm reddish-pink when they form no
+     word, a light green for the player's own tiles once they do; committed board tiles a formed
+     word runs through go a shade darker (see lib/formed + Game.svelte). .formed sits after .filled
+     so it wins on committed cells (equal specificity). */
+  .cell.pending.illegal {
+    background: var(--tile-pending-illegal);
+  }
+  .cell.pending.legal {
+    background: var(--tile-pending-legal);
+  }
+  .cell.formed {
+    background: var(--tile-formed);
+  }
   .cell.droptarget {
     /* The cell a carried tile is aimed at: an accent ring plus a light accent wash, so the
        target reads clearly while dragging without obscuring the bonus label underneath. */
@@ -545,4 +592,25 @@
     font-weight: 700;
     white-space: nowrap;
   }
+  /* The move-score badge for the legal play being composed: an orange pill centred on a corner of
+     the main word's tile (see lib/formed.badgePlacement + Game.svelte), its digit sized like a
+     tile's point value so it scales with the zoom. Decorative — no pointer events — and drawn above
+     the tiles. */
+  .scorebadge {
+    position: absolute;
+    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
+    z-index: 5;
+    pointer-events: none;
+    border-radius: 999px;
+    background: var(--score-badge);
+    color: #fff;
+    font-weight: 700;
+    line-height: 1;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    padding: 2px 5px; /* px fallback for Chrome < 105 (no cqw) */
+    padding: 0.4cqw 0.9cqw;
+    font-size: calc(2.4vmin * var(--z, 1)); /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 — see .letter */
+    font-size: 2.4cqw;
+    box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
+  }
 </style>

ui/src/game/Game.svelte

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
     type Placement,
   } from '../lib/placement';
   import { liveDraftTiles, parseDraft, serializeDraft, validRackOrder } from '../lib/draft';
+  import { badgePlacement, formedGeometry } from '../lib/formed';
 
   let { id }: { id: string } = $props();
 
@@ -483,6 +484,21 @@
   // move's ✅ confirm and its preview caption are hidden so they don't sit over the opening gap;
   // they return the moment the tile is dragged back out over the board.
   const recallOverRack = $derived(draggingPend != null && reorderTo != null);
+  // The composed play's word geometry (client-side, independent of the move evaluator): the cells a
+  // formed word runs through — greened on the board — and the main word that anchors the score
+  // badge. Derived only for a legal preview, and never while dragging a staged tile back over the
+  // rack (recallOverRack), so the highlight and badge clear the instant a recall begins.
+  const EMPTY_FORMED = new Set<string>();
+  const formedGeom = $derived(
+    preview?.legal && !recallOverRack ? formedGeometry(board, placement.pending) : null,
+  );
+  const formedCells = $derived(formedGeom?.cells ?? EMPTY_FORMED);
+  const boardBadge = $derived(
+    formedGeom && preview?.legal ? { ...badgePlacement(formedGeom.main), score: preview.score } : null,
+  );
+  // The pending-tile tint: null (default colour) with no preview or during a recall drag, otherwise
+  // the play's legality — green when legal, a calm pink when not.
+  const previewLegal: boolean | null = $derived(recallOverRack ? null : preview ? preview.legal : null);
 
   let dragPointerId = -1;
   function beginDrag(src: DragSrc, e: PointerEvent) {
@@ -610,7 +626,7 @@
           ? setTimeout(() => {
               // Still holding the tile over this cell: magnify into it. Only the first
               // (zoom-in) hold centres; once zoomed we never move the board on hover.
-              if (drag && isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed) {
+              if (drag && isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed && app.zoomBoard) {
                 focus = c;
                 zoomed = true;
                 haptic('light');
@@ -729,8 +745,8 @@
     if (pendingMap.has(`${row},${col}`)) return;
     focus = { row, col };
     // Auto-zoom is portrait-only: landscape fits the whole board, magnifying it there
-    // only hides the rest of the position.
-    if (isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed) zoomed = true;
+    // only hides the rest of the position. The "Zoom the board" setting can turn it off.
+    if (isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed && app.zoomBoard) zoomed = true;
     if (placement.rack[index] === BLANK) {
       blankPrompt = { rackIndex: index, row, col };
       return;
@@ -1030,23 +1046,11 @@
         // Mark the turn as hinted: the interstitial fires when the player CONFIRMS the move (commit),
         // not now — showing it here would interrupt placing the preview and revert the board on close.
         hintUsedThisTurn = true;
-        // Scroll the (zoomed) board to the hint's placement rather than the top-left:
-        // focus the centre of the laid tiles' bounding box.
-        const p = placement.pending;
-        if (p.length) {
-          const rows = p.map((tt) => tt.row);
-          const cols = p.map((tt) => tt.col);
-          focus = {
-            row: Math.round((Math.min(...rows) + Math.max(...rows)) / 2),
-            col: Math.round((Math.min(...cols) + Math.max(...cols)) / 2),
-          };
-          // Ask the board to scroll to the hint word. A zoomed-out board zooms in (and centres)
-          // on the next line (portrait only); this nonce also recentres a board that is already
-          // zoomed in, where the unchanged zoom state would otherwise leave it parked where the
-          // player was looking.
-          recenter++;
-        }
-        if (isCoarse() && !landscape) zoomed = true;
+        // A hint just landed: if the board was zoomed in, zoom OUT to the whole board so the hint's
+        // word — highlighted green while composing — is guaranteed visible rather than possibly
+        // parked off-screen under the old zoom. A full board needs no scroll-to-word, so the former
+        // focus/recenter step is gone with the zoom-in.
+        if (zoomed) zoomed = false;
         view = { ...view, hintsRemaining: h.hintsRemaining };
         syncWallet(h.walletBalance);
         // The hint is the engine's own top-ranked, fully scored legal move: reuse it as the
@@ -1486,15 +1490,16 @@
     {#if landscape}
       <div class="game-land">
         <div class="leftpane">
+          {@render turnStrip()}
           {@render scoreboardBlock()}
           <div class="history land">{@render historyBody()}</div>
-          {@render statusBlock()}
           {@render rackRow()}
           <TabBar>{@render controlButtons()}</TabBar>
         </div>
         <div class="rightpane">{@render boardBlock()}</div>
       </div>
     {:else}
+      {@render turnStrip()}
       {@render scoreboardBlock()}
       <div class="stage" class:histopen={historyOpen} bind:this={stageEl}>
         {#if historyOpen}
@@ -1502,7 +1507,6 @@
         {/if}
         {@render boardBlock()}
       </div>
-      {@render statusBlock()}
       {@render rackRow()}
     {/if}
   {:else}
@@ -1517,6 +1521,21 @@
 
 <!-- Reusable game-screen pieces, arranged differently by the portrait and landscape branches
      above so the markup and logic stay single-sourced (see the {#if landscape} split). -->
+{#snippet turnStrip()}
+  <!-- A thin line above the score plaques: whose turn it is during play, or the viewer's
+       result once the game ends. A hotseat game shows its result as per-seat medals on the
+       plaques (2-4 local players have no single "you"), so the strip is hidden when it is over. -->
+  {#if view && !(gameOver && view.game.hotseat)}
+    <div class="turnstrip" class:result={gameOver}>
+      {#if gameOver}
+        {resultText()}
+      {:else}
+        {view.game.hotseat ? t('hotseat.turnOf', { name: hotseatName(view.game.toMove) }) : isMyTurn ? t('game.yourTurn') : turnLabel()}
+      {/if}
+    </div>
+  {/if}
+{/snippet}
+
 {#snippet scoreboardBlock()}
   {#if view}
     {@const badge = badgeKind(app.chatUnread[id] ?? false, app.messageUnread[id] ?? false)}
@@ -1603,10 +1622,11 @@
           {/each}
         {/each}
       </div>
+      {#if view.game.endReason === 'aborted'}
+        <p class="horganizer">{t('game.abortedNote')}</p>
+      {/if}
     </div>
-    {#if view.game.endReason === 'aborted'}
-      <p class="horganizer">{t('game.abortedNote')}</p>
-    {/if}
+    <div class="hbagfoot">{view.bagLen === 0 ? t('game.bagEmpty') : t('game.bag', { n: view.bagLen })}</div>
   {/if}
 {/snippet}
 
@@ -1639,6 +1659,9 @@
       {focus}
       {recenter}
       {dropTarget}
+      {previewLegal}
+      formed={formedCells}
+      scoreBadge={boardBadge}
       oncell={onCell}
       ontogglezoom={(r, c) => { focus = { row: r, col: c }; if (!gameOver) zoomed = !zoomed; }}
       onrecall={onRecall}
@@ -1647,25 +1670,6 @@
   </div>
 {/snippet}
 
-{#snippet statusBlock()}
-  {#if view}
-    <div class="status">
-      <span>{view.bagLen === 0 ? t('game.bagEmpty') : t('game.bag', { n: view.bagLen })}</span>
-      {#if gameOver}
-        <!-- A hotseat game shows its result as per-seat medals on the plaques (below), not a
-             viewer-centric "you won/lost" — with 2-4 local players there is no single "you". A vs_ai
-             game keeps the "you won/lost" text (one human). -->
-        {#if !view.game.hotseat}<strong class="over">{resultText()}</strong>{/if}
-      {:else if placement.pending.length === 0}
-        <span class="turn-ind">{view.game.hotseat ? t('hotseat.turnOf', { name: hotseatName(view.game.toMove) }) : isMyTurn ? t('game.yourTurn') : turnLabel()}</span>
-      {/if}
-      <span class="scores">
-        {#if recallOverRack}{:else if preview}{preview.legal ? t('game.previewWords', { words: preview.words.join(', '), n: preview.score }) : t('game.previewIllegal')}{/if}
-      </span>
-    </div>
-  {/if}
-{/snippet}
-
 {#snippet rackRow()}
   <!-- The footer is drawn even when the game is over (rack + controls), but inert:
        a finished game shows the final rack greyed out and the controls disabled. -->
@@ -1680,23 +1684,26 @@
           slots={rackSlots}
           {variant}
           {selected}
-          {landscape}
           shuffling={shuffling && !app.reduceMotion}
           draggingId={reorderDragId}
           dropIndex={reorderTo}
+          confirm={!gameOver && placement.pending.length > 0 && !recallOverRack ? confirmBtn : undefined}
           ondown={onRackDown}
         />
       {/if}
     </div>
-    {#if !gameOver && placement.pending.length > 0 && !recallOverRack}
-      <button class="make" onclick={commit} disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady || !preview?.legal} aria-label={t('game.makeMove')}>✅</button>
-    {/if}
   </div>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet confirmBtn()}
+  <!-- The confirm-move control lives in the rack's fixed 7th slot (see Rack). Shown only while a
+       play is staged; disabled until the preview says it is legal. -->
+  <button class="make" onclick={commit} disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady || !preview?.legal} aria-label={t('game.makeMove')}>✅</button>
+{/snippet}
+
 {#snippet controlButtons()}
   <button class="tab" disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady} onclick={openExchange}>
-    <span class="sq" data-coach="game-turn">🔄</span><span class="lbl">{t('game.draw')}</span>
+    <span class="sq" data-coach="game-turn">🔄{#if view && view.bagLen > 0}<span class="badge">{view.bagLen}</span>{/if}</span><span class="lbl">{t('game.draw')}</span>
   </button>
   {#if view?.game.hotseat}
     <!-- Hotseat: no hints. The freed slot becomes the host (referee) button — always available
@@ -1906,6 +1913,23 @@
     font-weight: 700;
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
   }
+  /* The thin turn/result line above the score plaques (see turnStrip): whose turn it is during
+     play, accented for the viewer's win/lose result once the game ends. */
+  .turnstrip {
+    flex: none;
+    padding: 4px var(--pad);
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 0.85rem;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    color: var(--text);
+    background: var(--bg-elev);
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  }
+  .turnstrip.result {
+    color: var(--accent);
+  }
   .stage {
     position: relative;
     /* The board is the only part that scrolls vertically when the game does not fit;
@@ -1924,16 +1948,12 @@
     position: absolute;
     inset: 0 0 auto 0;
     z-index: 2;
-    /* A fixed-height drawer matching the board's slid offset, so the bottom border
-       and its shadow pin to the board immediately instead of tracking the table as
-       moves accumulate. scrollbar-gutter reserves the scrollbar so the centred word
-       column does not jump left/right when the list overflows. */
+    /* A fixed-height drawer matching the board's slid offset, so the bottom border and its shadow
+       pin to the board immediately instead of tracking the table as moves accumulate. It is a flex
+       column: the header and the pinned bag footer stay put while the grid (.hgridwrap) scrolls. */
     height: 62%;
-    overflow: auto;
-    /* No iOS rubber-band inside the drawer: the moves list does not elastically bounce past its
-       ends (the document is already pinned; this stops the inner scroller's own bounce). */
-    overscroll-behavior: none;
-    scrollbar-gutter: stable;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
     background: var(--surface-2);
     box-shadow: inset 0 -6px 10px -8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
     border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
@@ -1945,8 +1965,26 @@
      The wrapper's horizontal padding matches the scoreboard so the columns line up under the
      plaques. */
   .hgridwrap {
+    flex: 1 1 auto;
+    min-height: 0;
+    overflow: auto;
+    /* No iOS rubber-band inside the scroller: the moves list does not elastically bounce past its
+       ends (the document is already pinned; this stops the inner scroller's own bounce). */
+    overscroll-behavior: none;
+    /* Reserve the scrollbar so the centred word column does not jump left/right on overflow. */
+    scrollbar-gutter: stable;
     padding: 8px var(--pad);
   }
+  /* The bag count pinned bottom-left of the move table, out of the scrolling grid, so it stays put
+     as moves accumulate. The same count also rides the exchange control as a badge (see
+     controlButtons), which is the always-visible indicator when the table is closed. */
+  .hbagfoot {
+    flex: none;
+    padding: 6px var(--pad);
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+    font-size: 0.85rem;
+    border-top: 1px solid var(--border);
+  }
   .hgrid {
     display: grid;
     gap: 1px;
@@ -1991,28 +2029,6 @@
   .boardwrap.slid :global(.viewport) {
     pointer-events: none;
   }
-  .status {
-    display: flex;
-    flex: none;
-    align-items: center;
-    justify-content: space-between;
-    padding: 2px var(--pad) 6px;
-    color: var(--text-muted);
-    font-size: 0.85rem;
-  }
-  .turn-ind {
-    font-weight: 600;
-    color: var(--text);
-  }
-  .over {
-    color: var(--accent);
-  }
-  .scores {
-    font-weight: 600;
-    color: var(--ok);
-    min-width: 64px;
-    text-align: right;
-  }
   /* The single-word-rule label centred in the history header between its two icons. */
   .oneword-label {
     flex: 1;
@@ -2037,36 +2053,22 @@
     flex: 1;
     min-width: 0;
   }
-  /* A borderless icon button (like the tab bar), not a filled accent button — and disabled
-     while the pending word is known to be illegal. It is an overlay, NOT a flex sibling of the
-     rack: the rack keeps the full row width with a fixed tile size (no reflow or tile resize
-     when a tile is staged), and the button is absolutely pinned over the slots a staged tile
-     frees on the right. Its right edge sits at var(--pad) — directly under the right edge of the
-     preview caption above (.status shares that padding). */
+  /* The confirm-move control occupies the rack's fixed 7th column while a play is staged (a
+     borderless icon button, like the tab bar). It is rendered inside the rack grid (see Rack), so it
+     lines up with the tiles and stays the rightmost slot no matter how many tiles remain. */
   .make {
-    position: absolute;
-    right: var(--pad);
-    top: 0;
-    bottom: 6px;
-    width: 56px;
+    grid-column: 7;
+    align-self: stretch;
+    display: grid;
+    place-items: center;
     background: none;
     color: var(--text);
     border: none;
-    display: grid;
-    place-items: center end;
     font-size: 1.8rem;
   }
   .make:disabled {
     opacity: 0.4;
   }
-  /* Landscape: the rack fills a narrow fixed-width panel with exactly seven tile slots, so the 56px
-     button (sized for the roomy portrait rack) is wider than the single slot a staged tile frees and
-     overlaps the now-rightmost tile. Match the button to one landscape tile slot (its width formula),
-     so it sits inside the freed slot with its right edge level with the rack's right edge — the
-     mirror of the first tile's left edge. */
-  .game-land .make {
-    width: calc((100% - 2 * var(--pad) - 6 * 5px) / 7);
-  }
   /* The move-history header: leave (active) / export (finished) on the left, comms on the
      right, icon-only. Sticky so it stays atop the scrolling move list. */
   .hhead {

ui/src/game/Rack.svelte

@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@
   import { valueForLetter } from '../lib/alphabet';
   import type { Variant } from '../lib/model';
   import { usesStarBlank, BLANK_STAR } from '../lib/variants';
+  import type { Snippet } from 'svelte';
 
   let {
     slots,
     variant,
     selected,
-    landscape = false,
     shuffling = false,
     draggingId = null,
     dropIndex = null,
+    confirm,
     ondown,
   }: {
     // Each slot carries a stable id that travels with its tile through a shuffle, so the
@@ -20,14 +21,14 @@
     slots: (RackSlot & { id: number })[];
     variant: Variant;
     selected: number | null;
-    /** Landscape layout: size the tiles to share the (narrow) left-panel width instead of the
-     *  viewport-width measure, so seven tiles never overflow the panel. */
-    landscape?: boolean;
     shuffling?: boolean;
     // While a rack tile is being dragged to reorder it, draggingId is its id (hidden here —
     // the drag ghost stands in) and dropIndex is the slot where a gap opens.
     draggingId?: number | null;
     dropIndex?: number | null;
+    /** The confirm-move control, rendered as the fixed 7th slot of the rack while a play is staged
+     *  (the parent owns the button and its enablement; the rack only positions it). */
+    confirm?: Snippet;
     ondown: (e: PointerEvent, index: number) => void;
   } = $props();
 
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
   }
 </script>
 
-<div class="rack" class:reordering={draggingId != null || dropIndex != null} class:landscape data-rack>
+<div class="rack" class:reordering={draggingId != null || dropIndex != null} data-rack>
   {#each shown as slot, i (slot.id)}
     <button
       class="tile"
@@ -75,21 +76,26 @@
       {/if}
     </button>
   {/each}
+  {@render confirm?.()}
 </div>
 
 <style>
+  /* Seven equal columns filling the whole tray width, so the tiles are square and as large as the
+     row allows — the same in portrait and landscape. The tile glyphs use cqw against the rack width
+     (the query container) so they track the tile size, the way the board sizes its labels on its
+     .scaler. */
   .rack {
-    display: flex;
+    display: grid;
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(7, 1fr);
     gap: 5px;
-    align-items: center;
-    /* Reserve one tile's height so an empty rack (e.g. a finished game) keeps the
-       footer the same size as during play — no layout jump between states. */
+    align-items: start;
+    container-type: inline-size;
+    /* Reserve about one tile's height so an empty rack (e.g. a finished game) keeps the footer the
+       same size as during play — no layout jump between states. */
     min-height: min(12.5vw, 46px);
   }
   .tile {
     position: relative;
-    flex: 0 0 auto;
-    width: min(12.5vw, 46px);
     aspect-ratio: 1;
     background: var(--tile-bg);
     color: var(--tile-text);
@@ -97,7 +103,6 @@
     border-radius: 5px;
     box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 0 var(--tile-edge);
     font-weight: 700;
-    font-size: 1.4rem;
     touch-action: none;
     user-select: none;
     -webkit-user-select: none;
@@ -109,35 +114,6 @@
     outline: 3px solid var(--accent);
     outline-offset: -3px;
   }
-  /* Landscape: the rack sits in a fixed-width left panel, so the tiles share the panel width
-     (capped at the portrait size) and shrink below it when the panel is narrow, instead of the
-     viewport-width measure that would overflow seven tiles in a column. */
-  .rack.landscape {
-    /* Size the tile glyphs relative to the rack (the board sizes its labels the same way, on its
-       .scaler container). The tile is a flex + aspect-ratio item whose OWN container-query size
-       resolves unreliably, so the rack — which has a definite width — is the query container. A
-       fixed-rem letter overflowed the tile once it shrank below 46px in a narrow left panel and
-       dropped into the bottom-left corner. The cqw values track the rack≈7×tile relation. */
-    container-type: inline-size;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .tile {
-    /* Fixed tile size (1/7 of the fixed-width rack, accounting for the six 5px gaps), NOT flex-grow:
-       so placing a tile leaves the remaining ones put instead of growing them to refill the row —
-       matching the portrait rack. The constant rack width also keeps the cqw glyphs above steady as
-       tiles leave. */
-    flex: 0 0 auto;
-    width: calc((100% - 6 * 5px) / 7);
-    max-width: 46px;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .letter {
-    font-size: 6cqw;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .val {
-    font-size: 3.1cqw;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .star {
-    font-size: 7.6cqw;
-  }
   /* While reordering, tiles at/after the drop slot slide right to open a gap there (one
      tile width plus the rack gap), so the drop position is visible. */
   .rack.reordering .tile {
@@ -150,12 +126,15 @@
     position: absolute;
     top: 8%;
     left: 14%;
+    font-size: 6vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 — approximates the portrait rack ≈ viewport width */
+    font-size: 6cqw;
   }
   .val {
     position: absolute;
     right: 4px;
     bottom: 1px;
-    font-size: 0.7rem;
+    font-size: 3.1vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 */
+    font-size: 3.1cqw;
     font-weight: 600;
   }
   /* Erudit's blank ("звёздочка") shows its star horizontally centred on the otherwise empty
@@ -167,6 +146,7 @@
     left: 0;
     right: 0;
     text-align: center;
-    font-size: 1.7rem;
+    font-size: 7.6vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 */
+    font-size: 7.6cqw;
   }
 </style>