When an online game loses the connection the game screen now says so and freezes
instead of silently greying out: a "connection lost" banner appears and the rack,
the move controls, the add-friend/block controls and the chat/dictionary entry all
disable (a started move stays a draft, committed by the player on reconnect). It is
driven off the net-state machine (netState.offline), so it also covers the
Telegram/VK mini-apps, where a lost connection was previously mute in-game.
If the player is already in the dictionary when the drop happens, the word check
falls back to the game's pinned on-device dictionary (exact when that dawg is
cached; "unavailable offline" otherwise) and the network-only complaint + external
look-up hide. Chat, when already open, keeps its existing read-only degrade
(send/nudge disable). New pure helper localWordCheck is unit-tested; the in-game
gating gets an e2e.
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.
Ilia Denisov