Online vs_ai hints were broken: #207 made the vs_ai hint button always-enabled and
wallet-free (assuming all vs_ai = the offline idle-gate), but the backend still served
online vs_ai from the allowance/wallet, so over-clicking hit ErrNoHintsLeft -> a generic
error toast. Now online vs_ai uses the SAME idle-gate model as offline.
Backend: Hint() for a vs_ai game skips the allowance/wallet and increments no hints_used
(owner: vs_ai counts toward no hint statistic), and is idle-gated from the SERVER clock --
it returns ErrHintLocked (code hint_locked) until the robot's last move + 30 min, else
serves the top move. GameState/StateView expose hint_unlock_left_seconds (server-computed
seconds remaining; 0 for a human game / first move / not-your-turn). Pure helper
hintUnlockLeftSeconds unit-tested.
Wire: StateView gains hint_unlock_left_seconds (FlatBuffers, additive); pkg/wire + gateway
transcode carry it (round-trip test).
Client: the gate counts down from a MONOTONIC clock (performance.now()) anchored to the
source's seconds-left when it lands (on load from the view; to the full window when the
robot moves), so a client clock change cannot skew it and a relaunch re-reads a fresh
value. The vs_ai hint button (online + offline) shows the lock + toast; doHint handles the
hint_locked backstop by re-syncing. Replaces #207's absolute hintUnlockAtMs on the
wire/model/delta (the offline record keeps the absolute for persistence; the view exposes
seconds-left).
Docs FUNCTIONAL(+_ru)/ARCHITECTURE updated. Verified: go build/vet + game/server/transcode
tests (+ new hintUnlockLeftSeconds); ui check 0 / unit 490 / e2e 198 (one pre-existing
webkit offline flake) / app entry 114.2/115.
The statistics screen gains real depth, plus a hint-count bug fix found along the way.
- Best move per variant: the screen shows the actual best-move word (drawn as game
tiles; a wildcard shows its letter but no value), broken down by game variant, empty
variants omitted. New account_best_move table, written at game finish.
- Moves & hint share: two new lifetime tiles — the player's play count and the share of
plays that used a hint — from summed account_stats counters (moves, hints_used).
Honest-AI games are excluded, like the rest of the stats.
- Hint-count fix: the in-game hint badge no longer goes stale across games. The global
wallet now rides the wire apart from the per-game allowance (wallet_balance on
StateView/HintResult/StatsView), so the client reads the live wallet rather than a
per-game snapshot; game_players.hints_used now counts every hint (allowance + wallet),
its true per-game total.
- Account merge: sums the new moves/hints_used counters and merges the per-variant best
moves (higher score kept), which it previously dropped.
- Admin: the user card shows Moves and Hints used.
- UI polish: tab/label wording, game-over text, and e2e selectors hardened against label
changes.
All wire additions are trailing (backward-compatible). Docs (ARCHITECTURE, FUNCTIONAL +ru,
UISN_DESIGN) updated in step.
Live play now exchanges per-variant alphabet indices instead of concrete
letters (rack out; submit-play, evaluate, exchange, word-check in). The client
caches each variant's (index, letter, value) table behind
StateRequest.include_alphabet and renders the rack and blank chooser from it,
dropping the hardcoded value/alphabet tables. History, the durable journal and
GCG stay decoded concrete characters (ARCHITECTURE §9.1, unchanged).
- pkg/fbs: new AlphabetEntry + PlayTile; StateView.rack -> [ubyte] + alphabet;
StateRequest.include_alphabet; SubmitPlay/Eval tiles -> [PlayTile];
Exchange tiles + CheckWord word -> [ubyte] (committed Go + TS regenerated).
- engine: AlphabetTable + a cached per-variant codec (LetterForIndex/EncodeRack/
DecodeTiles/DecodeWord) + BlankIndex sentinel; Go parity test.
- backend server edge maps index<->letter (new thin game.Service.GameVariant);
game.Service domain methods, engine.Game and the robot keep one letter-based
play path. The gateway forwards indices verbatim (no alphabet table).
- ui: lib/alphabet.ts in-memory cache; codec encodes/decodes indices; premiums.ts
is geometry-only; the mock seeds a fixture table; the UI normalises display to
upper case (codec + cache), leaving placement/board/checkword unchanged.
Parity moved to the Go engine.AlphabetTable test; premiums.ts loses its value
tables. Discharges TODO-4.
Ilia Denisov
developer