Quick auto-match no longer waits on a separate screen: Enqueue opens a real game seating the caller with an empty opponent seat (new game status 'open') and the player enters it at once. A second human searching the same variant+rule joins that open game; otherwise a background reaper seats a robot after a 90s + random 0-90s wait, pushing a new in-app opponent_joined event that fills the opponent card and re-enables resign and chat in place.
Matchmaking state is now the open games in the database (the in-memory pool, lobby.poll and lobby.cancel are gone), serialised by a per-bucket advisory lock. While a game is open the starter may move on their turn, but resign, chat and nudge are refused; the lobby and opponent card show "searching for opponent".
Schema edited in the baseline (no prod data): 'open' status, nullable game_players.account_id for the empty seat, and a games.open_deadline_at stamp; jet code regenerated.
Add a per-game rule chosen on New Game for Russian variants (default off = the
single-word rule; on = standard Scrabble). Off, only the main word along the play
direction is validated and scored; perpendicular cross-words are ignored,
including in robot move generation. The rule rides every create and enqueue
request and joins the matchmaking key, so games and auto-match stay one uniform
path; "Russian-only" is a UI affordance (English always sends standard and shows
no toggle).
- Engine: consume scrabble-solver v1.1.0's PlayOptions{IgnoreCrossWords}, threaded
through engine.Options.MultipleWordsPerTurn -> playOpts() into validate, score
and generate.
- Backend: thread the flag through game CreateParams/Game + store (games column),
lobby InvitationSettings + invitation row, and the matchmaker queue key (variant
+ rule); persisted, so a rebuilt-from-journal game keeps it. Baseline migration
gains multiple_words_per_turn (DB not versioned); jet regenerated.
- Edge: multiple_words_per_turn added to the EnqueueRequest / CreateInvitationRequest
FlatBuffers tables (Go + TS regenerated) and threaded through the gateway.
- UI: a "Multiple words per turn" toggle on New Game, shown for Russian variants
only (auto-match and friend invite), default off; English silently sends standard.
- Tests: backend engine/matchmaker; UI unit (gating) + Playwright e2e (solver
corner-case + GCG fixtures ship in v1.1.0). Docs + PRERELEASE tracker updated.
- accounts.flagged_high_rate_at baked into the R1 baseline (no prod data; the
contour schema is wiped after merge); jet regenerated — the regen also picks
up the previously missing game_drafts/game_hidden models.
- account.Store: FlagHighRate (set-once), ClearHighRateFlag, the flag in
GetByID/ListUsers and a ListFlaggedHighRate review queue.
- New internal/ratewatch: ingests the gateway rejection reports, keeps a
bounded in-memory episode window for the console and applies the
conservative auto-flag (1000 rejected / 10 min, BACKEND_HIGHRATE_FLAG_*).
- POST /api/v1/internal/ratelimit/report (network-trusted, like
sessions/resolve).
- Admin console: Throttled page (episodes + flagged accounts), a high-rate
badge in the user list, the marker + operator clear action on the user card.
- Tests: ratewatch unit suite, report-route handler test, renderer cases,
integration coverage for the store round-trip and the console flow.
Squash the 12 goose migrations into one 00001_baseline.sql (there is no prod
data; verified schema-identical to the chain via a pg_dump diff + the green
integration suite) and rename the game-variant labels
english/russian_scrabble/erudit -> scrabble_en/scrabble_ru/erudit_ru across the
backend, the FlatBuffers wire values and the UI.
dawg filenames and the Go enum identifiers are unchanged; the i18n display keys
are kept. Adds PRERELEASE.md (the R1-R7 pre-release tracker), linked from
CLAUDE.md. Contour DB wipe and the scrabble-dictionary tidy are follow-ups.
Ilia Denisov