A single tile that only extended a word perpendicular to the client-declared
direction was rejected: the UI always sent dir=H for one-tile plays (the
dirOverride/Controls toggle was orphaned in the Stage 7 game rework), so placing
"А" above "БАК" to form "АБАК" failed the solver's main-word-length check even
though the word is in the dictionary.
Make the backend infer a play's orientation from the placed tiles and the board
(internal/engine.resolveDirection): two or more tiles by the line they share, a
lone tile by the axis it abuts (longer word wins, horizontal on a tie). Direction
becomes an output, not an input: drop dir from the SubmitPlay/Eval wire requests
and add it to EvalResult. Journal replay keeps trusting the stored "H"/"V"
(SubmitPlayDir) so a rebuilt game matches the one committed.
UI: stop computing/sending direction; the preview now shows the words a move
forms with its total score (game.previewWords); the make-move control is disabled
until the play is confirmed legal; the "your turn" label hides while tiles are
pending. Delete the orphaned Controls.svelte.
Regenerate the FlatBuffers bindings (Go + TS) and update the gateway transcode
and the loadtest edge client to the new contract. Bake the decision into
ARCHITECTURE.md (§5/§9.1), FUNCTIONAL.md (+ _ru) and the backend README.
Two owner-reported defects from a live contour game.
A. Frequency: the robot's proactive nudge fired hourly for 12h+ (a 12h idle threshold
then the 1h cooldown, uncapped). Replaced with a lengthening, randomized schedule
(proactiveNudgeGap): the first nudge ~60-90 min into the human's turn, each later gap
growing toward 1-6h (uniform sample in [60min, ceil], ceil ramping 90min->6h over 12h
of idle, measured from the previous nudge), so a long wait gets a handful of
increasingly-spaced reminders instead of a stream.
B. Language: out-of-app push routed by the recipient's GLOBAL service_language
(last-login-wins), so after re-logging via the RU bot an English game's nudges came
from the RU bot. Now a game push (your_turn, game_over, nudge, match_found) carries
the game's own language (engine.Variant.Language) on push.Event, and the gateway
routes by it (falling back to service_language for non-game pushes). The New-Game
variant-gating guarantees the game's bot is one the player has started, so delivery is
never blocked.
Tests: proactiveNudgeGap unit + retimed TestRobotProactiveNudge; TestVariantLanguage;
emit your_turn/game_over language; TestNudgeRoutedByGameLanguage integration. Docs:
ARCHITECTURE (§7 nudge, §10/§13 routing), FUNCTIONAL (+ _ru), PLAN tracker.
Ilia Denisov