The Erudit variant's blank is the "звёздочка", so render it with a star.
An empty rack blank (and its drag ghost) shows ✻ centred; a placed blank
keeps its designated letter and carries ✻ where the (absent) point value
sits — on the board and in the Stats best-move tiles. The Scrabble variants
are unchanged. Gated by usesStarBlank() in lib/variants.ts.
Functional: the in-game add-friend handshake aimed at an auto-match opponent who is
secretly a pooled robot now records the request per (game, seat) in a new
robot_friend_requests table -- never against the shared robot account -- mirroring the
robot_blocks pattern. The shared account stays out of friendships, the "requested" state
is pinned to the seat (not leaked across the player's other games), the robot ignores it,
and a background reaper drops the row 7 days after its game finishes. The outgoing-requests
list carries these per-game rows so the seat control stays disabled across reloads. No
withdraw UI, per owner decision.
Cosmetics:
- Lobby: an in-progress game tints the viewer's own score number green when leading or
tied, red when trailing (reusing --ok/--danger); scores now render in seat-number order,
matching the over-the-board scoreboard.
- Stats: the per-variant best move is laid out on two lines -- the variant label, then the
score (right-aligned in its column) and the word tiles (left-aligned) below it.
- Dark theme: the played-tile background is a touch darker so a player-placed tile reads
with more contrast (light theme unchanged).
Docs (ARCHITECTURE, FUNCTIONAL + _ru mirror, backend README, UI_DESIGN) updated in the
same change.
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.
Wire the deferred Stage 7 surfaces end-to-end (UI -> gateway transcode ->
backend REST -> existing domain services): friends (incl. one-time friend
codes), per-user blocks, friend-game invitations, profile editing + email
binding, the statistics screen, and the in-game history + GCG export.
Friends gain two add paths (interview decision, a deliberate plan change):
one-time 6-digit codes (friend_codes table, 12h TTL, single-use, rate-limited
redeem); and play-gated requests (shared game required) where an explicit
decline is permanent, an ignored request lapses after 30 days, and a code
bypasses a decline. Migration 00006 widens friendships_status_chk and adds
friend_codes.
Lobby notification badge is poll + push: a new generic `notify` event drives
it live; the client polls on open/focus. Language stays a single Settings
control that writes through to the durable account's preferred_language. GCG
export is finished-only (game.ErrGameActive) and shares/downloads the .gcg file.
Tests: backend unit + inttest (friend gate/decline/code, ListInvitations,
GetStats, GCG gate), gateway transcode round-trips + notify constructor, UI
vitest (codecs, win-rate, share choice) + Playwright social specs. Docs: PLAN
(Stage 8 done + refinements + TODO-5), ARCHITECTURE, FUNCTIONAL(+ru), UI_DESIGN,
TESTING, module READMEs.
Ilia Denisov
developer