Merge pull request 'release: v1.16.0 — offer live pricing, bot health telemetry, edge blocklist' (#247) from development into master

Refuse a client whose IP is in a curated CIDR feed with 403 in the same
abuseGuard, before the fail2ban ban. Prod-only (keys by real client IP), off by
default.

- ratelimit.Blocklist: a sorted-range IPv4 matcher (binary search) with an
  allowlist checked first; ParseDROP reads the feed; ApplyRefresh keeps the
  last-good feed on a transient fetch failure and drops it fail-open once stale
  (better to under-block than block a legitimate client on a frozen feed). A
  separate static CIDR set, not the per-IP fail2ban store.
- gateway: a refresher goroutine re-fetches every few hours (bounded fetch + size
  cap); config GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_{ENABLED,URL,ALLOW,REFRESH,MAX_STALENESS}.
  IPv6 is not matched (a v6 client is still covered by fail2ban / the honeypot).
- observability: gateway_blocklist_blocked_total + entries/age gauges; a Grafana
  alert warns before the feed is dropped; service-overview panels.
- deploy: compose env + write-prod-env.sh + prod-deploy/rollback wiring (opt-in
  via PROD_ vars).
- docs (ARCHITECTURE, deploy/README); unit tests (match, allowlist, IPv6 skip,
  parser, fault-tolerance) + a 403 abuse-guard integration test.

.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -510,15 +510,20 @@ jobs:
       - name: Probe the /offer/ public offer page is served
         run: |
           set -u
-          # /offer/ is a static page baked into the landing image (rendered from
+          # /offer/ is rendered by the render sidecar: it splices the live catalog price list
-          # ui/legal/offer_ru.md). If the landing Caddyfile stops routing it, the request
+          # (fetched from the backend's internal endpoint) into the committed ui/legal/offer_ru.md.
-          # silently falls through to the landing shell (also 200) — so assert offer-specific
+          # If the @offer caddy route is missing, the request falls to the landing shell (also 200),
-          # content, never just the status.
+          # and if the backend fetch fails the sidecar returns 502 — so assert offer-specific content
+          # (the seller INN, §11) AND that the pricing marker was substituted (proves the fetch +
+          # splice ran), never just the status. Data-independent: an empty catalog still substitutes
+          # the marker with nothing, so "pricing_template" must be absent either way.
           out="$(docker run --rm --network edge alpine:3.20 wget -q -O - http://scrabble/offer/ 2>&1 || true)"
-          if echo "$out" | grep -q "290210610742"; then
+          if echo "$out" | grep -q "290210610742" && ! echo "$out" | grep -q "pricing_template"; then
-            echo "ok: /offer/ serves the public offer page"
+            echo "ok: /offer/ serves the rendered offer with the price list spliced in"
           else
-            echo "FAIL: /offer/ did not serve the offer page (fell through to the landing shell?)"
+            echo "FAIL: /offer/ did not serve the rendered offer (route fell through, or the price splice failed)"
+            docker logs --tail 50 scrabble-renderer || true
+            docker logs --tail 50 scrabble-backend || true
             docker logs --tail 50 scrabble-landing || true
             exit 1
           fi

.gitea/workflows/prod-deploy.yaml

@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ jobs:
       GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PROD_GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD }}
       TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PROD_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN }}
       GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET: ${{ secrets.GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET }}
+      # Robokassa direct-rail (backend BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_*): the prod shop login + the pass phrases
+      # that sign the launch request / verify the Result callback, and the test-mode flag — a var so
+      # go-live is a flag flip, not a secret redeploy ("1" runs test payments against the test
+      # passwords; empty/"0" is live). An empty login leaves the direct rail disabled.
+      ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN }}
+      ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1 }}
+      ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2 }}
+      ROBOKASSA_TEST: ${{ vars.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_TEST }}
       # VK ID web login: the "Web" app id (the gateway reuses it as GATEWAY_VK_ID_APP_ID at
       # runtime) + the app's protected key. Both shared across contours. The redirect URL is
       # derived from PUBLIC_BASE_URL in deploy/write-prod-env.sh.
@@ -107,6 +115,11 @@ jobs:
       # Planted honeytoken bearer: presenting it earns a 24h IP ban + a high-severity alarm.
       # Per-contour secret; empty = trap off. Rendered by deploy/write-prod-env.sh.
       GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN: ${{ secrets.PROD_GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN }}
+      # Community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP): opt-in. Set _ENABLED=true + _URL (the feed) once
+      # verified; _ALLOW is a comma-separated never-block set (own infra). Empty ⇒ off.
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED }}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL }}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW }}
       # Signs the finished-game export download URLs (backend BACKEND_EXPORT_SIGN_KEY).
       EXPORT_SIGN_KEY: ${{ secrets.PROD_EXPORT_SIGN_KEY }}
       # Transactional email via the shared Selectel relay (confirm-codes): one account for

.gitea/workflows/prod-rollback.yaml

@@ -61,9 +61,19 @@ jobs:
       # the SAME env.sh (email / VK login / Grafana alerts survive a rollback). TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL
       # and GRAFANA_ROOT_URL are derived from PUBLIC_BASE_URL in deploy/write-prod-env.sh.
       GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET: ${{ secrets.GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET }}
+      # Robokassa direct-rail: the rollback re-renders the same runtime env (write-prod-env.sh), so
+      # it must carry the same credentials or the direct rail goes dark after a rollback.
+      ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN }}
+      ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1 }}
+      ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2: ${{ secrets.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2 }}
+      ROBOKASSA_TEST: ${{ vars.PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_TEST }}
       VITE_VK_APP_ID: ${{ vars.VITE_VK_APP_ID }}
       GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET }}
       GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN: ${{ secrets.PROD_GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN }}
+      # Community IP blocklist — rendered on rollback too so a rollback keeps the same edge policy.
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED }}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL }}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW: ${{ vars.PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW }}
       EXPORT_SIGN_KEY: ${{ secrets.PROD_EXPORT_SIGN_KEY }}
       SMTP_RELAY_USER: ${{ secrets.SMTP_RELAY_USER }}
       SMTP_RELAY_PASS: ${{ secrets.SMTP_RELAY_PASS }}

PLAN.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ status — without re-deriving decisions.
 | E5 | Payment intake | 2 | DONE |
 | E6 | Ads | 2 | DONE |
 | E7 | Admin, reports & catalog | 2 | DONE |
-| E8 | Guest limits | — | WIP |
+| E8 | Guest limits | — | DONE |
 | E9 | Tournament fee | future | TODO |
 
 **Release 1** = full mechanics with no real money, exercised via `admin_grant` (E0→E1→E2→E3).
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ become bootstrap-only.
 
 ## E8 — Guest limits
 
-**Status:** WIP · **standalone** (game-behaviour change) · depends on: none · mechanics: PAYMENTS §6.
+**Status:** DONE · **standalone** (game-behaviour change) · depends on: none · mechanics: PAYMENTS §6.
 
 **Goal.** A registration funnel: cap what a guest can do, enforced **server-side** (today UI-only),
 with configurable per-tier × per-kind limits so the pressure tunes without a release.
@@ -833,12 +833,19 @@ payments mixed in.
   `game.Service.AtGameLimit`; the **`internal/gamelimits` config + hot cache** (loaded at boot,
   invalidated on edit); the admin **kind column** in both game lists (`/_gm/games` + the user card)
   and a **config editor** (`/_gm/limits`) for the six limits.
-- **PR2 — wire + client:** `Profile.game_limits` (the caller's tier) + `GameView.kind` (FBS +
+- ~~**PR2 — wire + client** — DONE.~~ `Profile.game_limits` (the caller's tier) + `GameView.kind` (FBS
-  transcode + codec); the client per-kind active count from the lobby; the **lock badge** on a capped
+  + gateway transcode + client codec, committed regen); the client counts active games per kind from
-  new-game start button, with two messages by tier — a **guest** login-funnel modal ("Войдите или
+  the lobby cache (`gamelimits.ts`) and locks a capped new-game start — an **outline 🔒** button that
-  создайте учётную запись…", Отмена / Вход→profile) and, for a **durable** account at its cap, a plain
+  opens `GameLimitModal` instead of a game, native (Telegram `showPopup`) or the in-app `Modal`
-  notice ("Вы достигли лимита одновременных игр, сначала завершите текущие", ОК; **native** popup in
+  elsewhere, with two messages by tier: a **guest** sign-in funnel ("Войдите или создайте учётную
-  Telegram — no gesture-gated API follows it); the profile re-fetch after a guest→durable upgrade.
+  запись…", Отмена / Вход→`/settings`) and, for a **durable** account at its cap, a plain notice
+  ("Вы достигли лимита одновременных игр, сначала завершите текущие", ОК). The lock lifts via the
+  existing profile re-fetch after a guest→durable upgrade.
+  - **Decision (owner-agreed): the lobby's old `at_game_limit` New-Game tab-disable + notice is
+    removed.** The `at_game_limit` flag (now the random-kind cap) conflicted with the per-kind lock —
+    it hid the New-Game screen where the lock lives, and wrongly blocked starting an unfulfilled kind.
+    The tab is always enabled; the per-kind lock on the start button is the only gate. The wire field
+    `GameList.at_game_limit` stays (unused by the client) for a later cleanup.
 
 **Tests.**
 
@@ -846,8 +853,10 @@ payments mixed in.
   (domain + HTTP 403); guest blocked from a 2nd vs_ai / 2nd random (+ `at_game_limit`); durable on the
   higher tier; the durable friends cap + config cache reflecting an admin edit; accept stays exempt.
 - unit (PR1, done): the per-tier/kind limit resolution (`Cap`, `LimitsFor`).
-- UI (PR2): the lock + the two modals on a capped button (mock); the profile re-fetch lifts the lock
+- unit + UI (PR2, done): the client lock logic (`gamelimits.ts` — count/cap/lock), the codec kind +
-  after register.
+  game_limits roundtrip, the gateway transcode game_limits encode, the popup builders, and a mock e2e
+  (`gamelimit.spec.ts`) — a capped start shows 🔒, opens the modal without navigating, and the lock
+  clears when the profile refetch lifts the cap.
 
 **Done-criteria.** A guest is server-capped (default 1 vs_ai + 1 random, configurable) and cannot
 friend/invite; a durable account is capped at 10 per kind (configurable); the client shows the lock +

backend/cmd/backend/main.go

@@ -283,6 +283,13 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 	}
 	logger.Info("payments domain ready")
 
+	// Warm the public-offer price list cache so /offer/ serves the current catalog from the first
+	// request; it is reprojected lazily thereafter on any catalog edit. Non-fatal — a transient
+	// failure here only defers the projection to the first read.
+	if _, err := paymentsSvc.OfferPricing(ctx); err != nil {
+		logger.Warn("offer pricing warm failed; will project on first request", zap.Error(err))
+	}
+
 	// Wire the payments surface into the domains that consume it: the online-game hint wallet
 	// and the account-merge wallet fold. Done after the reachability check so a broken payments
 	// schema fails boot before anything depends on it.

backend/internal/adminconsole/templates/pages/game_detail.gohtml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 <li><b>Dictionary</b> {{.DictVersion}}</li>
 <li><b>Status</b> {{.Status}}{{if .EndReason}} ({{.EndReason}}){{end}}</li>
 <li><b>AI game</b> {{if .VsAI}}🤖 yes{{else}}no{{end}}</li>
+<li><b>Word rule</b> {{if .MultipleWordsPerTurn}}multiple words per turn{{else}}single word per turn{{end}}</li>
 <li><b>Players</b> {{.Players}}</li>
 <li><b>To move</b> seat {{.ToMove}}</li>
 <li><b>Moves</b> {{.MoveCount}}</li>

backend/internal/adminconsole/views.go

@@ -348,8 +348,12 @@ type GameDetailView struct {
 	UpdatedAt   string
 	FinishedAt  string
 	// VsAI marks an honest-AI game (shown as a 🤖 flag in the summary).
-	VsAI  bool
+	VsAI bool
-	Seats []SeatRow
+	// MultipleWordsPerTurn is the game's cross-word rule: true = standard Scrabble (every cross-word
+	// is validated and scored), false = the single-word rule (only the main word along the play
+	// direction counts). Shown in the summary so an operator can tell the rule at a glance.
+	MultipleWordsPerTurn bool
+	Seats                []SeatRow
 	// HasRobot is true when any seat is a robot, gating the robot-target caption;
 	// RobotTargetPct is the configured global play-to-win rate, in percent.
 	HasRobot       bool

backend/internal/game/eventwire.go

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ func gameSummary(g Game, names []string) notify.GameSummary {
 		TurnTimeoutSecs:      int(g.TurnTimeout.Seconds()),
 		MultipleWordsPerTurn: g.MultipleWordsPerTurn,
 		VsAI:                 g.VsAI,
+		Kind:                 int(g.Kind),
 		MoveCount:            g.MoveCount,
 		EndReason:            g.EndReason,
 		Seats:                seats,

backend/internal/inttest/payments_catalog_test.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package inttest
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
@@ -111,3 +112,44 @@ func TestPaymentsCatalogExcludesDeactivated(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("deactivated product must not appear in the storefront")
 	}
 }
+
+// TestOfferPricingReflectsCatalogEdits verifies the public-offer price list (§4.4) is projected from
+// the live catalog and its cache is invalidated on a catalog mutation: a newly created pack appears
+// with its per-rail prices, and archiving it through the service drops it from the next read.
+func TestOfferPricingReflectsCatalogEdits(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := newPaymentsService()
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	title := "OfferTest " + uuid.NewString()
+	id, err := svc.CreateProduct(ctx, payments.ProductInput{
+		Title: title,
+		Atoms: []payments.AtomLine{{Atom: "chips", Quantity: 50}},
+		Prices: []payments.PriceLine{
+			{Method: "direct", Currency: payments.CurrencyRUB, Amount: 20000},
+			{Method: "vk", Currency: payments.CurrencyVote, Amount: 30},
+			{Method: "telegram", Currency: payments.CurrencyStar, Amount: 100},
+		},
+	}, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("create pack: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	md, err := svc.OfferPricing(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("offer pricing: %v", err)
+	}
+	if row := "| " + title + " | 200.00 | 30 | 100 |"; !strings.Contains(md, row) {
+		t.Fatalf("offer pricing missing the new pack row %q\n%s", row, md)
+	}
+
+	// Archiving through the service marks the cache stale; the next read must reproject without it.
+	if err := svc.SetProductActive(ctx, id, false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("archive: %v", err)
+	}
+	md, err = svc.OfferPricing(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("offer pricing after archive: %v", err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(md, title) {
+		t.Errorf("archived pack must drop from the offer pricing:\n%s", md)
+	}
+}

backend/internal/notify/encode.go

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ func toWireGame(g GameSummary) wire.GameView {
 		TurnTimeoutSecs:      g.TurnTimeoutSecs,
 		MultipleWordsPerTurn: g.MultipleWordsPerTurn,
 		VsAI:                 g.VsAI,
+		Kind:                 g.Kind,
 		MoveCount:            g.MoveCount,
 		EndReason:            g.EndReason,
 		Seats:                seats,

backend/internal/notify/notify_test.go

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ func TestGameOverPayloadRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
 func TestOpponentMovedPayloadRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
 	uid, gid := uuid.New(), uuid.New()
 	move := engine.MoveRecord{Player: 1, Action: engine.ActionPlay, Words: []string{"STOOL"}, Score: 24, Total: 130}
-	summary := notify.GameSummary{ID: gid.String(), MoveCount: 9, ToMove: 0, Seats: []notify.SeatStanding{{Seat: 1, Score: 130}}}
+	summary := notify.GameSummary{ID: gid.String(), MoveCount: 9, ToMove: 0, Kind: 2, Seats: []notify.SeatStanding{{Seat: 1, Score: 130}}}
 	in := notify.OpponentMoved(uid, gid, move, summary, 42)
 	if in.Kind != notify.KindOpponentMoved {
 		t.Fatalf("kind = %q", in.Kind)
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func TestOpponentMovedPayloadRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
 	if m == nil || m.Player() != 1 || string(m.Action()) != "play" || m.Total() != 130 {
 		t.Fatalf("move wrong: %+v", m)
 	}
-	if g := ev.Game(nil); g == nil || g.MoveCount() != 9 || g.ToMove() != 0 {
+	if g := ev.Game(nil); g == nil || g.MoveCount() != 9 || g.ToMove() != 0 || g.Kind() != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("game summary wrong: %+v", ev.Game(nil))
 	}
 }

backend/internal/notify/payload.go

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ type GameSummary struct {
 	EndReason        string
 	Seats            []SeatStanding
 	LastActivityUnix int64
+	// Kind is the game's origin for the active-game limits (0 unknown, 1 vs_ai, 2 random, 3 friends);
+	// it rides live events so a lobby patch keeps the per-kind count correct.
+	Kind int
 }
 
 // AlphabetLetter is one variant alphabet entry (a display-only row) embedded in an

backend/internal/payments/catalog_admin.go

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package payments
 
 import (
+	"cmp"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
@@ -147,13 +150,76 @@ func (s *Service) AdminCatalog(ctx context.Context) ([]AdminProduct, error) {
 	return s.store.adminCatalog(ctx)
 }
 
+// SortAdminCatalog orders an admin catalog list in place the same way the public offer lists products
+// ([projectOfferPricing]): chip packs first, ascending by rouble price; then chip-priced values,
+// grouped (hints only, no-ads only, no-ads + hints, tournament) and ascending by chip price within a
+// group. It is stable, so equal-keyed products keep their incoming order, and it keys archived
+// products the same as active ones (the admin list shows both).
+func SortAdminCatalog(products []AdminProduct) {
+	slices.SortStableFunc(products, func(a, b AdminProduct) int {
+		if pa, pb := adminIsPack(a), adminIsPack(b); pa != pb {
+			if pa {
+				return -1 // packs (sales) before values (chip exchange)
+			}
+			return 1
+		} else if pa {
+			return cmp.Compare(adminPriceAmount(a, string(SourceDirect), CurrencyRUB), adminPriceAmount(b, string(SourceDirect), CurrencyRUB))
+		}
+		if d := cmp.Compare(adminValueGroup(a), adminValueGroup(b)); d != 0 {
+			return d
+		}
+		return cmp.Compare(adminPriceAmount(a, "", CurrencyChip), adminPriceAmount(b, "", CurrencyChip))
+	})
+}
+
+// adminIsPack reports whether the product is a chip pack (it carries the chips atom).
+func adminIsPack(p AdminProduct) bool {
+	for _, a := range p.Atoms {
+		if a.Atom == atomChips {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// adminValueGroup ranks a chip-priced value into the shared listing groups (see [valueGroup]).
+func adminValueGroup(p AdminProduct) int {
+	hasHints, hasNoAds, hasTournament := false, false, false
+	for _, a := range p.Atoms {
+		switch a.Atom {
+		case "hints":
+			hasHints = true
+		case "noads_days":
+			hasNoAds = true
+		case "tournament":
+			hasTournament = true
+		}
+	}
+	return valueGroup(hasHints, hasNoAds, hasTournament)
+}
+
+// adminPriceAmount returns the minor-unit amount of the product's price for the method and currency,
+// or math.MaxInt64 when it carries no such price (so a misconfigured product sorts last, not first).
+func adminPriceAmount(p AdminProduct, method string, cur Currency) int64 {
+	for _, pr := range p.Prices {
+		if pr.Method == method && pr.Currency == cur {
+			return pr.Amount
+		}
+	}
+	return math.MaxInt64
+}
+
 // CreateProduct validates and inserts a new product with its atoms and prices, returning its id. A
 // product created active must satisfy the sellable shape.
 func (s *Service) CreateProduct(ctx context.Context, in ProductInput, active bool) (uuid.UUID, error) {
 	if err := validateProduct(in, active); err != nil {
 		return uuid.Nil, err
 	}
-	return s.store.createProduct(ctx, in, active, s.clock())
+	id, err := s.store.createProduct(ctx, in, active, s.clock())
+	if err == nil {
+		s.markOfferStale()
+	}
+	return id, err
 }
 
 // UpdateProduct validates and replaces a product's title, atoms and prices. An active product must
@@ -166,7 +232,11 @@ func (s *Service) UpdateProduct(ctx context.Context, id uuid.UUID, in ProductInp
 	if err := validateProduct(in, active); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	return s.store.updateProduct(ctx, id, in, s.clock())
+	if err := s.store.updateProduct(ctx, id, in, s.clock()); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	s.markOfferStale()
+	return nil
 }
 
 // SetProductActive archives (active=false) or unarchives a product. Unarchiving revalidates the
@@ -181,11 +251,19 @@ func (s *Service) SetProductActive(ctx context.Context, id uuid.UUID, active boo
 			return err
 		}
 	}
-	return s.store.setProductActive(ctx, id, active, s.clock())
+	if err := s.store.setProductActive(ctx, id, active, s.clock()); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	s.markOfferStale()
+	return nil
 }
 
 // DeleteProduct hard-deletes a product only when it has never been transacted (no order or ledger
 // row references it); otherwise it returns ErrProductTransacted and the caller archives instead.
 func (s *Service) DeleteProduct(ctx context.Context, id uuid.UUID) error {
-	return s.store.deleteProduct(ctx, id)
+	if err := s.store.deleteProduct(ctx, id); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	s.markOfferStale()
+	return nil
 }

backend/internal/payments/catalog_test.go

@@ -134,3 +134,47 @@ func TestProjectCatalog_Empty(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("empty catalog projected %d products, want 0", len(got.Products))
 	}
 }
+
+// TestSortAdminCatalog checks the admin list is ordered like the public offer: chip packs first,
+// ascending by rouble price; then values, grouped (hints only -> no-ads only -> no-ads + hints) and
+// ascending by chip price within a group. Stable and applied to active + archived alike.
+func TestSortAdminCatalog(t *testing.T) {
+	pack := func(title string, rub int64) AdminProduct {
+		return AdminProduct{
+			Title:  title,
+			Atoms:  []AtomLine{{Atom: atomChips, Quantity: 1}},
+			Prices: []PriceLine{{Method: string(SourceDirect), Currency: CurrencyRUB, Amount: rub}},
+		}
+	}
+	value := func(title string, chips int64, atoms ...string) AdminProduct {
+		p := AdminProduct{Title: title, Prices: []PriceLine{{Currency: CurrencyChip, Amount: chips}}}
+		for _, a := range atoms {
+			p.Atoms = append(p.Atoms, AtomLine{Atom: a, Quantity: 1})
+		}
+		return p
+	}
+	products := []AdminProduct{
+		pack("packDear", 30000),
+		value("bundle", 500, "hints", "noads_days"),
+		pack("packCheap", 10000),
+		value("adsOnly", 150, "noads_days"),
+		value("hintsBig", 200, "hints"),
+		value("hintsSmall", 50, "hints"),
+	}
+	SortAdminCatalog(products)
+	want := []string{"packCheap", "packDear", "hintsSmall", "hintsBig", "adsOnly", "bundle"}
+	for i, p := range products {
+		if p.Title != want[i] {
+			t.Fatalf("order[%d] = %q, want %q (full: %v)", i, p.Title, want[i], titles(products))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// titles extracts the product titles for a failure message.
+func titles(products []AdminProduct) []string {
+	out := make([]string, len(products))
+	for i, p := range products {
+		out[i] = p.Title
+	}
+	return out
+}

backend/internal/payments/offer.go

@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+package payments
+
+import (
+	"cmp"
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// pricingMarker is the token the owner-edited offer markdown (ui/legal/offer_ru.md, §4.4) carries
+// where the price list belongs. The render sidecar replaces it with the markdown [Service.OfferPricing]
+// returns before rendering the /offer/ page; the backend only produces the tables, never the marker.
+const pricingMarker = "<#pricing_template#>"
+
+// OfferPricing returns the public-offer price list (§4.4) as two markdown tables projected from the
+// active catalog: first the chip packs (funding chips with money, priced per rail — roubles / VK
+// votes / Telegram Stars), then the chip-priced values (what a player exchanges chips for). The
+// result is cached in memory and reprojected only after a catalog mutation (see [Service.markOfferStale]),
+// so a steady-state read issues no query — only the first read after an edit reprojects. The render
+// sidecar fetches it and splices it into the offer markdown at the pricing marker.
+func (s *Service) OfferPricing(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
+	s.offerMu.Lock()
+	defer s.offerMu.Unlock()
+	if s.offerFresh {
+		return s.offerMD, nil
+	}
+	md, err := s.buildOfferPricing(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	s.offerMD = md
+	s.offerFresh = true
+	return md, nil
+}
+
+// markOfferStale marks the cached offer price list for reprojection on the next [Service.OfferPricing]
+// read. Every catalog mutation calls it; it takes no I/O, so it never fails the mutation that triggers it.
+func (s *Service) markOfferStale() {
+	s.offerMu.Lock()
+	s.offerFresh = false
+	s.offerMu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// buildOfferPricing loads the active catalog and projects it into the offer tables.
+func (s *Service) buildOfferPricing(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
+	entries, err := s.store.loadCatalog(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return projectOfferPricing(entries), nil
+}
+
+// projectOfferPricing renders the active catalog into the two offer tables. A chip pack (it carries
+// the chips atom) lists its per-rail money price; a value (no chips atom) lists its uniform chip
+// price. Packs are ordered by ascending rouble price; values are grouped by what they grant (hints
+// only, then no-ads only, then no-ads + hints, then tournament — see [offerValueGroup]) and, within
+// each group, ordered by ascending chip price. Price columns are right-aligned. An empty section is
+// omitted. Amounts are rendered through [Money] so no floating point ever reaches the page (roubles
+// show kopecks as "200.00", whole-unit rails as integers); a missing rail price shows an em dash.
+func projectOfferPricing(entries []catalogEntry) string {
+	var packs, values []catalogEntry
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		if isPackEntry(e) {
+			packs = append(packs, e)
+		} else {
+			values = append(values, e)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Packs: ascending by the rouble price (the offer's base currency); a pack with no rouble price
+	// sorts last. Values: by group, then ascending chip price. Stable, so the catalog order breaks ties.
+	slices.SortStableFunc(packs, func(a, b catalogEntry) int {
+		return cmp.Compare(offerSortAmount(a, string(SourceDirect), CurrencyRUB), offerSortAmount(b, string(SourceDirect), CurrencyRUB))
+	})
+	slices.SortStableFunc(values, func(a, b catalogEntry) int {
+		if d := cmp.Compare(offerValueGroup(a), offerValueGroup(b)); d != 0 {
+			return d
+		}
+		return cmp.Compare(offerSortAmount(a, "", CurrencyChip), offerSortAmount(b, "", CurrencyChip))
+	})
+
+	var b strings.Builder
+	if len(packs) > 0 {
+		b.WriteString("Приобретение внутриигровой валюты «Фишка»:\n\n")
+		b.WriteString("| Наименование | Рубли | Голоса в VK | Stars в Telegram |\n")
+		b.WriteString("| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |\n")
+		for _, e := range packs {
+			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "| %s | %s | %s | %s |\n",
+				offerCell(e.title),
+				offerPrice(e, string(SourceDirect), CurrencyRUB),
+				offerPrice(e, string(SourceVK), CurrencyVote),
+				offerPrice(e, string(SourceTelegram), CurrencyStar),
+			)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(values) > 0 {
+		if len(packs) > 0 {
+			b.WriteString("\n")
+		}
+		b.WriteString("Использование внутриигровой валюты «Фишка»:\n\n")
+		b.WriteString("| Наименование | «Фишки» |\n")
+		b.WriteString("| --- | ---: |\n")
+		for _, e := range values {
+			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "| %s | %s |\n", offerCell(e.title), offerPrice(e, "", CurrencyChip))
+		}
+	}
+	return strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n")
+}
+
+// offerValueGroup ranks a chip-priced value into the usage groups (see [valueGroup]).
+func offerValueGroup(e catalogEntry) int {
+	hasHints, hasNoAds, hasTournament := false, false, false
+	for _, a := range e.atoms {
+		switch a.atomType {
+		case "hints":
+			hasHints = true
+		case "noads_days":
+			hasNoAds = true
+		case "tournament":
+			hasTournament = true
+		}
+	}
+	return valueGroup(hasHints, hasNoAds, hasTournament)
+}
+
+// valueGroup ranks a chip-priced value into the listing groups shared by the public offer and the
+// admin catalog, in listing order: hints only (0), no-ads only (1), no-ads + hints (2), then anything
+// carrying the tournament atom (3). Tournament products are not sellable yet (validateProduct forbids
+// an active one), so group 3 is empty today; the rank reserves their place for when the tournament
+// economy lands. A value with no recognised benefit atom sorts after the known groups (defensive —
+// the catalog shape forbids it).
+func valueGroup(hasHints, hasNoAds, hasTournament bool) int {
+	switch {
+	case hasTournament:
+		return 3
+	case hasHints && hasNoAds:
+		return 2
+	case hasNoAds:
+		return 1
+	case hasHints:
+		return 0
+	default:
+		return 4
+	}
+}
+
+// offerSortAmount returns the entry's price in the given method and currency for ordering, or
+// math.MaxInt64 when it carries no such price, so a misconfigured row sorts last rather than leading.
+func offerSortAmount(e catalogEntry, method string, cur Currency) int64 {
+	if amt, ok := offerAmount(e, method, cur); ok {
+		return amt
+	}
+	return math.MaxInt64
+}
+
+// isPackEntry reports whether the catalog entry is a chip pack — it carries the chips atom (funds
+// chips with money) rather than being a chip-priced value.
+func isPackEntry(e catalogEntry) bool {
+	for _, a := range e.atoms {
+		if a.atomType == atomChips {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// offerPrice formats the entry's price for the given payment method and currency as a major-unit
+// string, or an em dash when the entry carries no such price.
+func offerPrice(e catalogEntry, method string, cur Currency) string {
+	amt, ok := offerAmount(e, method, cur)
+	if !ok {
+		return "—"
+	}
+	m, err := MoneyFromMinor(amt, cur)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "—"
+	}
+	return m.Major()
+}
+
+// offerAmount returns the raw minor-unit amount of the entry's price for the payment method and
+// currency, and whether such a price exists.
+func offerAmount(e catalogEntry, method string, cur Currency) (int64, bool) {
+	for _, pr := range e.prices {
+		if pr.method == method && pr.currency == cur {
+			return pr.amount, true
+		}
+	}
+	return 0, false
+}
+
+// offerCellReplacer neutralises every metacharacter of an admin-entered title so it renders as
+// literal text in the public offer. The title is operator input (the /_gm catalog editor) that flows
+// into a markdown table cell and then through marked into the /offer/ HTML, which is deliberately not
+// sanitised — so escaping here is the trust boundary. It covers HTML (no tag or entity reaches the
+// page), the markdown table pipe and the row newline, and the link brackets (a title must never
+// become a "javascript:" link). marked passes the entities through unchanged, so the reader sees the
+// exact title. NewReplacer scans once and never re-scans its own output, so "&" → "&amp;" does not
+// double-escape the entities the other rules emit.
+var offerCellReplacer = strings.NewReplacer(
+	"&", "&amp;",
+	"<", "&lt;",
+	">", "&gt;",
+	`"`, "&quot;",
+	"'", "&#39;",
+	"|", `\|`,
+	"[", `\[`,
+	"]", `\]`,
+	"\n", " ",
+)
+
+// offerCell escapes an admin-entered title for safe, literal rendering in a markdown table cell of
+// the public offer (see [offerCellReplacer]).
+func offerCell(s string) string {
+	return offerCellReplacer.Replace(s)
+}

backend/internal/payments/offer_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+package payments
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+)
+
+// TestProjectOfferPricing checks the happy path: a chip pack priced on every rail and a chip-priced
+// value render into the two tables, pack table first, money formatted through Money.
+func TestProjectOfferPricing(t *testing.T) {
+	entries := []catalogEntry{
+		{
+			id:    uuid.New(),
+			title: "50 «Фишек»",
+			atoms: []atomQty{{atomType: atomChips, quantity: 50}},
+			prices: []priceRow{
+				{method: string(SourceDirect), currency: CurrencyRUB, amount: 20000},
+				{method: string(SourceVK), currency: CurrencyVote, amount: 30},
+				{method: string(SourceTelegram), currency: CurrencyStar, amount: 100},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			id:     uuid.New(),
+			title:  "200 подсказок",
+			atoms:  []atomQty{{atomType: "hints", quantity: 200}},
+			prices: []priceRow{{method: "", currency: CurrencyChip, amount: 50}},
+		},
+	}
+	md := projectOfferPricing(entries)
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		"| Наименование | Рубли | Голоса в VK | Stars в Telegram |",
+		"| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |", // price columns right-aligned
+		"| 50 «Фишек» | 200.00 | 30 | 100 |",
+		"| Наименование | «Фишки» |",
+		"| --- | ---: |",
+		"| 200 подсказок | 50 |",
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(md, want) {
+			t.Errorf("projection missing %q\n---\n%s", want, md)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Index(md, "Приобретение") > strings.Index(md, "Использование") {
+		t.Errorf("the pack table must precede the values table:\n%s", md)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProjectOfferPricingOrdering checks packs sort by ascending rouble price, and values sort by
+// group (hints only → no-ads only → no-ads + hints) then ascending chip price within a group.
+func TestProjectOfferPricingOrdering(t *testing.T) {
+	pack := func(title string, rub int64) catalogEntry {
+		return catalogEntry{
+			id:     uuid.New(),
+			title:  title,
+			atoms:  []atomQty{{atomType: atomChips, quantity: 1}},
+			prices: []priceRow{{method: string(SourceDirect), currency: CurrencyRUB, amount: rub}},
+		}
+	}
+	value := func(title string, chips int64, atoms ...string) catalogEntry {
+		e := catalogEntry{id: uuid.New(), title: title, prices: []priceRow{{method: "", currency: CurrencyChip, amount: chips}}}
+		for _, a := range atoms {
+			e.atoms = append(e.atoms, atomQty{atomType: a, quantity: 1})
+		}
+		return e
+	}
+	// Deliberately out of order on input.
+	entries := []catalogEntry{
+		pack("packDear", 30000),
+		pack("packCheap", 10000),
+		value("bundle", 500, "hints", "noads_days"),
+		value("adsOnly", 150, "noads_days"),
+		value("hintsBig", 200, "hints"),
+		value("hintsSmall", 50, "hints"),
+	}
+	md := projectOfferPricing(entries)
+	order := []string{"packCheap", "packDear", "hintsSmall", "hintsBig", "adsOnly", "bundle"}
+	last := -1
+	for _, title := range order {
+		i := strings.Index(md, "| "+title+" |")
+		if i < 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("row %q missing:\n%s", title, md)
+		}
+		if i < last {
+			t.Errorf("row %q out of order (want sequence %v):\n%s", title, order, md)
+		}
+		last = i
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProjectOfferPricingMissingRailAndEscaping checks a pack missing a rail shows an em dash and a
+// title carrying a pipe is escaped so the table layout survives.
+func TestProjectOfferPricingMissingRailAndEscaping(t *testing.T) {
+	entries := []catalogEntry{{
+		id:    uuid.New(),
+		title: "Bonus | pack",
+		atoms: []atomQty{{atomType: atomChips, quantity: 10}},
+		// A roubles price only — no VK, no Telegram.
+		prices: []priceRow{{method: string(SourceDirect), currency: CurrencyRUB, amount: 9900}},
+	}}
+	md := projectOfferPricing(entries)
+	if want := `| Bonus \| pack | 99.00 | — | — |`; !strings.Contains(md, want) {
+		t.Errorf("want row %q in:\n%s", want, md)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProjectOfferPricingEscapesHTMLAndLinks checks an admin title carrying HTML or a markdown link
+// is neutralised so it cannot inject markup into the public offer: the tag becomes entities and the
+// link brackets are escaped (so no "javascript:" anchor forms). The raw metacharacters must not
+// survive into the projected markdown.
+func TestProjectOfferPricingEscapesHTMLAndLinks(t *testing.T) {
+	entries := []catalogEntry{{
+		id:     uuid.New(),
+		title:  `<script>alert(1)</script> [x](javascript:alert(2)) & "q"`,
+		atoms:  []atomQty{{atomType: "hints", quantity: 1}},
+		prices: []priceRow{{method: "", currency: CurrencyChip, amount: 5}},
+	}}
+	md := projectOfferPricing(entries)
+	for _, bad := range []string{"<script>", "</script>", "[x]", `& "q"`} {
+		if strings.Contains(md, bad) {
+			t.Errorf("unescaped %q survived into the projection:\n%s", bad, md)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"&lt;script&gt;", `\[x\]`, "&amp;", "&quot;q&quot;"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(md, want) {
+			t.Errorf("want escaped %q in:\n%s", want, md)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProjectOfferPricingEmpty checks an empty catalog projects to the empty string (no stray table
+// headers), so the offer's pricing marker is replaced with nothing.
+func TestProjectOfferPricingEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := projectOfferPricing(nil); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("empty catalog must project to empty string, got %q", got)
+	}
+}

backend/internal/payments/service.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
@@ -19,6 +20,13 @@ import (
 type Service struct {
 	store *Store
 	clock func() time.Time
+
+	// offerMu guards the cached public-offer price list (§4.4). offerMD holds the projected
+	// markdown tables and offerFresh whether they are current; a catalog mutation clears offerFresh
+	// (markOfferStale) and the next OfferPricing read reprojects, so a served render issues no query.
+	offerMu    sync.Mutex
+	offerMD    string
+	offerFresh bool
 }
 
 // NewService constructs a Service over store with a wall-clock time source.

backend/internal/server/banner.go

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ func (s *Server) profileResponse(ctx context.Context, acc account.Account) profi
 	}
 	r.Banner = s.bannerFor(ctx, acc, cxt, present)
 	r.Ads = s.adsFor(ctx, acc, cxt, present)
+	r.GameLimits = s.gameLimitsDTOFor(acc.IsGuest)
 	s.fillLinkedIdentities(ctx, &r, acc.ID)
 	r.DictVersions = s.currentDictVersions()
 	return r

backend/internal/server/dto.go

@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ type profileResponse struct {
 	// Filled outside the pure projection (it reads the dictionary registry), so it is empty
 	// for callers that build the DTO without a Server. See Server.profileResponse.
 	DictVersions []dictVersion `json:"dict_versions,omitempty"`
+	// GameLimits carries the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited); the client
+	// counts its active games per kind from the lobby and locks a capped New-Game start. Filled
+	// outside the pure projection (it reads the limits config). See Server.profileResponse.
+	GameLimits *gameLimitsDTO `json:"game_limits,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// gameLimitsDTO is the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited), for the client's
+// per-kind New-Game lock. profileResponse.GameLimits carries it.
+type gameLimitsDTO struct {
+	VsAI    int `json:"vs_ai"`
+	Random  int `json:"random"`
+	Friends int `json:"friends"`
 }
 
 // dictVersion pairs a game variant's stable label (engine.Variant.String) with its current
@@ -134,7 +146,11 @@ type gameDTO struct {
 	MultipleWordsPerTurn bool   `json:"multiple_words_per_turn"`
 	// VsAI marks an honest-AI game: the opponent is shown as 🤖 and chat/nudge/add-friend
 	// are suppressed in the client.
-	VsAI      bool   `json:"vs_ai"`
+	VsAI bool `json:"vs_ai"`
+	// Kind is the game's origin for the active-game limits (game.Kind): 0 unknown (a pre-existing
+	// game), 1 vs_ai, 2 random, 3 friends. The lobby counts active games per kind to lock a capped
+	// New-Game start.
+	Kind      int    `json:"kind"`
 	MoveCount int    `json:"move_count"`
 	EndReason string `json:"end_reason"`
 	// LastActivityUnix is the lobby sort key: the current turn's start for an active
@@ -277,6 +293,7 @@ func gameDTOFromGame(g game.Game) gameDTO {
 		TurnTimeoutSecs:      int(g.TurnTimeout.Seconds()),
 		MultipleWordsPerTurn: g.MultipleWordsPerTurn,
 		VsAI:                 g.VsAI,
+		Kind:                 int(g.Kind),
 		MoveCount:            g.MoveCount,
 		EndReason:            g.EndReason,
 		LastActivityUnix:     last.Unix(),

backend/internal/server/handlers.go

@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ func (s *Server) registerRoutes() {
 		u.POST("/wallet/buy", s.handleWalletBuy)
 		// A rewarded-video credit (VK ads): client-attested + a config daily cap.
 		u.POST("/wallet/reward", s.handleWalletReward)
+		// The public-offer price list (§4.4) as markdown, for the render sidecar that serves the
+		// /offer/ page. Internal (off the edge allow-list); called by the renderer, not the gateway.
+		s.internal.GET("/offer/pricing", s.handleOfferPricing)
 	}
 	if s.payments != nil {
 		// The money order endpoint dispatches by rail (direct → Robokassa, vk → VK); an

backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_catalog.go

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ func (s *Server) consoleCatalog(c *gin.Context) {
 		s.consoleError(c, err)
 		return
 	}
+	// Order the list like the public offer: sales (chip packs) first, then the chip-exchange values,
+	// grouped and price-sorted the same way, so the console mirrors what a buyer sees.
+	payments.SortAdminCatalog(products)
 	var view adminconsole.CatalogView
 	for _, p := range products {
 		view.Products = append(view.Products, catalogRow(p))

backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_console.go

@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ func (s *Server) consoleGameDetail(c *gin.Context) {
 		Status: g.Status, Players: g.Players, ToMove: g.ToMove, EndReason: g.EndReason,
 		MoveCount: g.MoveCount, CreatedAt: fmtTime(g.CreatedAt), UpdatedAt: fmtTime(g.UpdatedAt),
 		FinishedAt: fmtTimePtr(g.FinishedAt), VsAI: g.VsAI,
+		MultipleWordsPerTurn: g.MultipleWordsPerTurn,
 	}
 	// Resolve seats and detect robot seats; capture the human opponent's timezone, which
 	// anchors the robot's sleep window for the next-move ETA.

backend/internal/server/handlers_admin_limits.go

@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ import (
 	"scrabble/backend/internal/gamelimits"
 )
 
+// gameLimitsDTOFor resolves the caller's tier active-game caps into the profile DTO, so the client
+// can lock a capped New-Game start per kind. It returns nil when the limits config is not wired.
+func (s *Server) gameLimitsDTOFor(isGuest bool) *gameLimitsDTO {
+	if s.gamelimits == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	l := s.gamelimits.LimitsFor(isGuest)
+	return &gameLimitsDTO{VsAI: l.VsAI, Random: l.Random, Friends: l.Friends}
+}
+
 // consoleLimits renders the per-tier, per-kind active-game limit form (backend.config), read from
 // the in-memory cache.
 func (s *Server) consoleLimits(c *gin.Context) {

backend/internal/server/handlers_wallet.go

@@ -112,6 +112,22 @@ func (s *Server) handleWalletCatalog(c *gin.Context) {
 	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, catalogDTOFrom(view))
 }
 
+// handleOfferPricing serves the public-offer price list (§4.4) as markdown — the two catalog tables
+// projected from the active products. The render sidecar fetches it and splices it into the offer
+// markdown before rendering the /offer/ page. Internal, non-public: the /api/v1/internal group is
+// off the edge allow-list, and the value is served from the payments cache (no per-request query in
+// the steady state). Called by the renderer, not the gateway.
+func (s *Server) handleOfferPricing(c *gin.Context) {
+	md, err := s.payments.OfferPricing(c.Request.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		s.log.Error("offer pricing projection failed", zap.Error(err))
+		c.String(http.StatusInternalServerError, "offer pricing unavailable")
+		return
+	}
+	c.Header("Content-Type", "text/markdown; charset=utf-8")
+	c.String(http.StatusOK, md)
+}
+
 // handleWallet returns the caller's wallet — the segments and benefits visible in the current
 // trusted execution context, plus the rewarded-video payout available here (0 outside VK or when
 // unconfigured), which gates the client's "watch for chips" button.

deploy/.env.example

@@ -125,6 +125,17 @@ GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET=
 # come from VITE_VK_APP_ID / VITE_VK_ID_REDIRECT_URL above. All three empty disables link.vk.*.
 GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET=
 
+# --- Payments: Robokassa (direct RUB rail) ----------------------------------
+# The shop's merchant login + the two pass phrases (Password1 signs the launch request,
+# Password2 signs/verifies the Result callback). An empty login leaves the direct rail off.
+# ROBOKASSA_TEST=1 runs test payments against the shop's TEST pass phrases (no real money);
+# empty/0 is live. Mapped in compose to BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_*; Gitea TEST_/PROD_ secrets, with
+# PROD_BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_TEST a variable so go-live is a flag flip, not a secret redeploy.
+ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN=
+ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1=
+ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2=
+ROBOKASSA_TEST=
+
 # --- Gateway anti-abuse ------------------------------------------------------
 # Planted honeytoken bearer value: any request presenting it is flagged — a 24h IP ban
 # where the IP ban is on (prod), logs + a ban metric otherwise (test). Plant the value

deploy/README.md

@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ compose binds from this directory.
 | `GM_BASICAUTH_HASH` | secret | bcrypt hash gating `/_gm` (admin console + Grafana). Generate with `docker run --rm caddy:2-alpine caddy hash-password --plaintext '<pw>'`. |
 | `TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL` | derived | The Mini App URL the bot hands out in deep links / buttons. The deploy derives `PUBLIC_BASE_URL + /telegram/`; set it directly only for a local run (compose still `:?`-requires it). |
 | `EXPORT_SIGN_KEY` | secret | HMAC key signing the public finished-game export download URLs (`/dl/*`). Generate with `openssl rand -base64 32`. |
+| `BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN` | secret | Robokassa shop login for the direct RUB rail. Empty leaves the rail off. |
+| `BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1` / `…_PASSWORD2` | secret | Robokassa pass phrases: Password1 signs the launch request, Password2 signs/verifies the Result callback. Use the shop's **test** pair while `…_ROBOKASSA_TEST=1`, the **live** pair for real money. (Password3 — Robokassa's JWT-invoice API — is unused.) |
+| `BACKEND_ROBOKASSA_TEST` | **variable** | `1` runs test payments against the test pass phrases (no real money); empty/`0` is live. A variable, not a secret, so go-live is a flag flip + redeploy, not a secret rotation. |
 
 **Plus the bot token** — `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` (secret), shared by the validator (HMAC
 secret) and the bot (Bot API). It defaults to empty in compose, but both **fail at
@@ -112,6 +115,9 @@ without it Docker's resolver handles `otelcol`, `gateway` and `api.telegram.org`
 | `GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET` | secret (shared) | _(empty)_ | The VK Mini App's protected key (`client_secret`): the gateway verifies the launch-parameter signature in-process under it (offline HMAC, no VK API call). Empty disables the VK auth path (`auth.vk`). One VK Mini App for all contours. |
 | `GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET` | secret (shared) | _(empty)_ | The VK ID "Web" app's protected key (`client_secret`) for the gateway's server-side confidential code exchange. A SEPARATE VK app from `GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET` (the Mini App). One VK ID "Web" app for all contours. |
 | `GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN` | secret | _(empty)_ | Planted honeytoken bearer value: presenting it earns a 24h IP ban + a high-severity alarm where the IP ban is on (prod), or logs + a `gateway_abuse_banned_total{reason="honeytoken"}` metric (test, ban off). Plant the value somewhere an attacker would find it; empty disables the trap. Per-contour `TEST_`/`PROD_GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN`. |
+| `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED` | variable | `false` | Enable the community IP blocklist at the edge (prod-only, same real-client-IP reason as the ban). Requires `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL`. Opt-in via `PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED` after verifying the feed. |
+| `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL` | variable | _(empty)_ | The curated CIDR feed to fetch (Spamhaus DROP). Required when enabled; refreshed every few hours and dropped fail-open once stale (48h). `PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL`. |
+| `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW` | variable | _(empty)_ | Comma-separated never-block set (CIDRs / bare IPs — own infra, monitoring) the feed can never block. `PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW`. |
 | `VITE_GATEWAY_URL` | variable | _(empty)_ | UI build-arg: gateway origin; empty = same-origin (the usual single-origin deploy). |
 | `SMTP_RELAY_HOST` | variable (shared) | _(empty)_ | Selectel SMTP relay host for confirm-code email. Empty leaves the backend on the log mailer (email disabled) — the contour still boots. One relay for every contour (limit 100 msgs / 5 min). |
 | `SMTP_RELAY_PORT` | variable (shared) | `465` | Relay port. No client certificate is needed (the server cert is validated against the system roots). |
@@ -252,8 +258,10 @@ shipping or redeploying this stack does **not** start archiving — the artifact
 armed, which is why an un-armed prod deploy can never pile WAL onto the disk. The base-backup
 timer is provisioned by the Ansible `main` role behind `pitr_enabled` (also default off). Two
 Grafana alerts watch health: `WAL archiving failing` (`pg_stat_archiver_failed_count` rising)
-and `WAL archiving stalled` (`pg_stat_archiver_last_archive_age` over 30 min) — both
+and `WAL archiving stalled` (last archive over 30 min old **while `pg_wal_size_bytes` is growing**
-absent/NaN-safe, so they stay quiet until archiving is armed.
+— the pg_wal-growth guard keeps an idle database, which archives nothing because it writes nothing,
+from false-triggering during quiet hours) — both absent/NaN-safe, so they stay quiet until
+archiving is armed.
 
 **Assessment (owner-reviewed; the gate before the first real money).** Measured on prod
 `pg_stat_wal`: WAL is generated at **~0.77 MB/day** and the database is **~9.6 MB**. At

deploy/ansible/roles/common/tasks/main.yml

@@ -213,6 +213,20 @@
   loop:
     - ""
     - config
-    - certs
     - dumps
     - images
+
+# The certs dir holds the reverse-mTLS bot-link keypair, bind-mounted into the gateway (and
+# backend) which run as the distroless nonroot UID 65532 — not the deploy user. The dir must be
+# traversable by "other" (0755) or the nonroot process cannot open the 0644 keypair and crash-loops
+# at startup ("mtls: load server keypair: ... permission denied") — a latent failure that only bites
+# on a container restart (e.g. a host reboot), not while a long-running container holds the keypair
+# in memory. The keys themselves are 0644 by design (see the gateway compose); the host is
+# single-tenant and SSH-access-controlled, so a traversable certs dir adds no meaningful exposure.
+- name: Create the scrabble certs directory (traversable by the nonroot gateway UID)
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ scrabble_base_dir }}/certs"
+    state: directory
+    owner: "{{ deploy_user }}"
+    group: "{{ deploy_user }}"
+    mode: "0755"

deploy/caddy/Caddyfile

@@ -107,6 +107,15 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	# The public offer page is rendered by the render sidecar: it splices the live catalog price
+	# list (backend, internal) into the committed ui/legal/offer_ru.md and returns the HTML. Only
+	# /offer/ is exposed here — the sidecar's /render stays off this allow-list, internal-only. Kept
+	# disjoint from the landing/app paths so the catch-all below never shadows it.
+	@offer path /offer /offer/*
+	handle @offer {
+		reverse_proxy renderer:8090
+	}
+
 	# Everything else — the public landing at / and any stray path — is static.
 	handle {
 		reverse_proxy landing:80

deploy/docker-compose.bot.yml

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 #   docker compose -f docker-compose.bot.yml up -d
 #
 # The bot egresses to the Bot API directly (no VPN sidecar) and dials the main host's
-# published bot-link :9443 over mTLS. It exports no telemetry — otelcol lives on the
+# published bot-link :9443 over mTLS. It exports no OTLP telemetry — otelcol lives on the
-# main host and is unreachable from here — so observe it via `docker logs` on this host.
+# main host and is unreachable from here — but it reports its Bot API health up the bot-link,
+# which the gateway turns into metrics + alerts on the main host (docs/ARCHITECTURE.md); `docker
+# logs` on this host is the local detail view.
 # Values come from the prod-deploy workflow (PROD_ secrets/variables); BOT_IMAGE is the
 # pushed registry tag and BOTLINK_GATEWAY_ADDR is the main host's <ip>:9443.
 name: scrabble-bot
@@ -50,7 +52,8 @@ services:
       TELEGRAM_BOTLINK_TLS_CA: /certs/ca.crt
       TELEGRAM_LOG_LEVEL: ${LOG_LEVEL:-info}
       TELEGRAM_SERVICE_NAME: scrabble-telegram-bot
-      # No telemetry export: otelcol is on the main host, unreachable from here.
+      # No OTLP export: otelcol is on the main host, unreachable from here. Bot API health rides the
+      # bot-link instead (the gateway exposes it as metrics); see docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
       TELEGRAM_OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER: none
       TELEGRAM_OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER: none
       GOMAXPROCS: "1"

deploy/docker-compose.yml

@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ services:
     logging: *default-logging
     environment:
       RENDERER_PORT: "8090"
+      # The offer page (GET /offer/) fetches the live catalog price list from the backend's internal
+      # endpoint and splices it into the committed offer markdown. Backend down ⇒ /offer/ returns 502.
+      RENDERER_BACKEND_URL: http://backend:8080
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "node", "-e", "fetch('http://127.0.0.1:8090/healthz').then((r)=>process.exit(r.ok?0:1)).catch(()=>process.exit(1))"]
       interval: 10s
@@ -251,6 +254,12 @@ services:
       # secret; empty (unset secret) leaves the trap off.
       GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED: ${GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED:-false}
       GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN: ${GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN:-}
+      # Community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP): prod-only, off unless the real client IP is visible
+      # (the shared-NAT test contour would self-block). Enabled + fed the feed URL + allowlist by the
+      # prod deploy (write-prod-env.sh); the refresh/staleness windows use the built-in defaults.
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED: ${GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED:-false}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL: ${GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL:-}
+      GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW: ${GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW:-}
       GATEWAY_LOG_LEVEL: ${LOG_LEVEL:-info}
       GATEWAY_SERVICE_NAME: scrabble-gateway
       GATEWAY_OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER: otlp

deploy/grafana/dashboards/bot.json

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{
+  "uid": "scrabble-bot",
+  "title": "Scrabble — Telegram bot",
+  "tags": ["scrabble"],
+  "timezone": "",
+  "schemaVersion": 39,
+  "version": 1,
+  "refresh": "30s",
+  "time": { "from": "now-6h", "to": "now" },
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Bot connected",
+      "description": "botlink_connected_bots: bots currently holding the gateway bot-link (1 = healthy).",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 5, "w": 6, "x": 0, "y": 0 },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "max(botlink_connected_bots)" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Last Bot API OK (age)",
+      "description": "Seconds since the bot's most recent successful Bot API call. Grows unbounded if the bot wedges.",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 5, "w": 6, "x": 6, "y": 0 },
+      "fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "s" }, "overrides": [] },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "time() - max(bot_tg_last_ok_unix)" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Bot API errors/s by kind",
+      "description": "bot_tg_errors_total by kind: connect (getUpdates), api (other sends), rate_limited (429). 429 should stay ~0.",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 0 },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "sum by (kind) (rate(bot_tg_errors_total[5m]))", "legendFormat": "{{kind}}" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Bot-link commands/s by result",
+      "description": "botlink_commands_total by result: delivered / not_delivered / dropped / error. Sustained not_delivered or error means gateway sends are failing to reach Telegram.",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 5 },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "sum by (result) (rate(botlink_commands_total[5m]))", "legendFormat": "{{result}}" }]
+    }
+  ]
+}

deploy/grafana/dashboards/service-overview.json

@@ -53,6 +53,31 @@
       "fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "bytes" }, "overrides": [] },
       "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
       "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "sum(go_memory_used) by (service_name)", "legendFormat": "{{service_name}}" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Blocklist entries",
+      "description": "CIDR ranges in the active community IP blocklist feed (0 when disabled or not yet fetched).",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 5, "w": 6, "x": 0, "y": 13 },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "max(gateway_blocklist_entries)" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Blocklist feed age",
+      "description": "Seconds since the community IP blocklist feed was last successfully fetched. Grows if the fetch is failing; the feed is dropped fail-open once stale.",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 5, "w": 6, "x": 6, "y": 13 },
+      "fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "s" }, "overrides": [] },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "max(gateway_blocklist_age_seconds)" }]
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Blocklist blocks/s",
+      "description": "Requests refused at the edge by the community IP blocklist (gateway_blocklist_blocked_total).",
+      "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 13 },
+      "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
+      "targets": [{ "refId": "A", "expr": "sum(rate(gateway_blocklist_blocked_total[5m]))" }]
     }
   ]
 }

deploy/grafana/provisioning/alerting/rules.yaml

@@ -108,6 +108,32 @@ groups:
         labels: { severity: critical }
         annotations: { summary: 'Edge TLS cert has under 20 days left — Caddy ACME renewal may have failed.' }
 
+      # The community IP blocklist feed has not refreshed in over a day (the gateway re-fetches every
+      # few hours). Absent/NaN-safe: the age gauge appears only once a feed has loaded, so a disabled
+      # or never-fetched blocklist stays quiet. The feed itself is dropped (fail-open) at its
+      # max-staleness window; this warns well before that so the operator can fix the fetch.
+      - uid: blocklist_stale
+        title: IP blocklist feed not refreshing
+        condition: C
+        for: 15m
+        noDataState: OK
+        execErrState: OK
+        data:
+          - refId: A
+            relativeTimeRange: { from: 300, to: 0 }
+            datasourceUid: prometheus
+            model: { refId: A, expr: gateway_blocklist_age_seconds, instant: true }
+          - refId: C
+            datasourceUid: __expr__
+            model:
+              refId: C
+              type: threshold
+              expression: A
+              conditions:
+                - evaluator: { type: gt, params: [86400] }
+        labels: { severity: warning }
+        annotations: { summary: 'The community IP blocklist feed has not refreshed in over 24h — the fetch is failing; it will be dropped (fail-open) once stale. Check the gateway blocklist refresher logs and the feed URL.' }
+
   - orgId: 1
     name: scrabble-host
     folder: Alerts
@@ -245,8 +271,14 @@ groups:
               conditions:
                 - evaluator: { type: gt, params: [0] }
         labels: { severity: critical }
-        annotations: { summary: 'pgBackRest archive_command is failing — PITR is degrading and pg_wal can fill the disk. Run `docker exec scrabble-postgres pgbackrest --stanza=scrabble check`.' }
+        annotations: { summary: 'pgBackRest archive_command is failing — PITR is degrading and pg_wal can fill the disk. Run `docker exec scrabble-postgres pgbackrest --stanza=scrabble --pg1-user=scrabble check`.' }
 
+      # Fires only when the last archive is >30 min old AND pg_wal is actually growing (WAL is being
+      # produced but not archived). A genuinely idle database archives nothing — Postgres does not
+      # force-switch an empty segment on archive_timeout — so `last_archive_age` alone false-triggers
+      # during quiet hours; the pg_wal-growth guard removes that. `and on()` bridges the differing
+      # label sets (last_archive_age has a server label, the pg_wal gauge does not); delta() (not
+      # increase) suits the pg_wal_size_bytes gauge. Real archive failures are caught by pg_archive_failing.
       - uid: pg_archive_stalled
         title: WAL archiving stalled
         condition: C
@@ -255,11 +287,11 @@ groups:
         execErrState: OK
         data:
           - refId: A
-            relativeTimeRange: { from: 300, to: 0 }
+            relativeTimeRange: { from: 2100, to: 0 }
             datasourceUid: prometheus
             model:
               refId: A
-              expr: pg_stat_archiver_last_archive_age
+              expr: (pg_stat_archiver_last_archive_age > 1800) and on() (delta(pg_wal_size_bytes[35m]) > 16777216)
               instant: true
           - refId: C
             datasourceUid: __expr__
@@ -270,4 +302,92 @@ groups:
               conditions:
                 - evaluator: { type: gt, params: [1800] }
         labels: { severity: critical }
-        annotations: { summary: 'No WAL segment archived for over 30 minutes (archive_timeout is 5m) — archiving is stalled; the PITR recovery point is frozen and pg_wal may grow.' }
+        annotations: { summary: 'No WAL archived for over 30 minutes while pg_wal keeps growing — archiving is genuinely stalled; the PITR recovery point is frozen and pg_wal will fill the disk. Run `docker exec scrabble-postgres pgbackrest --stanza=scrabble --pg1-user=scrabble check`.' }
+
+  # Remote Telegram bot health. The bot runs on its own host and exports no telemetry of its own; the
+  # gateway observes it through the bot-link (botlink_connected_bots) and the health it reports over
+  # that stream (bot_tg_*). All absent/NaN-safe: before a bot ever connects the metrics are absent, so
+  # noDataState OK keeps them quiet on a fresh contour. The alert email does NOT go through the bot, so
+  # a bot-down alert is deliverable.
+  - orgId: 1
+    name: scrabble-bot
+    folder: Alerts
+    interval: 1m
+    rules:
+      - uid: bot_disconnected
+        title: Telegram bot disconnected
+        condition: C
+        for: 5m
+        noDataState: OK
+        execErrState: OK
+        data:
+          - refId: A
+            relativeTimeRange: { from: 300, to: 0 }
+            datasourceUid: prometheus
+            model: { refId: A, expr: botlink_connected_bots, instant: true }
+          - refId: C
+            datasourceUid: __expr__
+            model:
+              refId: C
+              type: threshold
+              expression: A
+              conditions:
+                - evaluator: { type: lt, params: [1] }
+        labels: { severity: critical }
+        annotations: { summary: 'No Telegram bot is connected to the gateway bot-link — out-of-app push and admin sends are down. Check the bot host.' }
+
+      # Positive liveness: a bot is connected but its last successful Bot API call is over 5 minutes
+      # old — the getUpdates long-poll returns every ~minute even when idle, so a stale stamp means the
+      # bot is wedged (no errors, no traffic). Guarded by "and connected" so a mere disconnect (owned by
+      # bot_disconnected) does not double-fire.
+      - uid: bot_tg_stale
+        title: Telegram bot not reaching the Bot API
+        condition: C
+        for: 5m
+        noDataState: OK
+        execErrState: OK
+        data:
+          - refId: A
+            relativeTimeRange: { from: 600, to: 0 }
+            datasourceUid: prometheus
+            model:
+              refId: A
+              expr: (time() - bot_tg_last_ok_unix) and on() (botlink_connected_bots >= 1)
+              instant: true
+          - refId: C
+            datasourceUid: __expr__
+            model:
+              refId: C
+              type: threshold
+              expression: A
+              conditions:
+                - evaluator: { type: gt, params: [300] }
+        labels: { severity: critical }
+        annotations: { summary: 'A connected Telegram bot has not reached the Bot API in over 5 minutes — the update poll is wedged. Check the bot host and Telegram reachability.' }
+
+      # 429s should be ~never once the bot honours Retry-After; any sustained rate-limiting is a symptom
+      # (a send loop, a misbehaving path) worth investigating.
+      - uid: bot_tg_rate_limited
+        title: Telegram bot rate-limited (429)
+        condition: C
+        for: 5m
+        noDataState: OK
+        execErrState: OK
+        data:
+          - refId: A
+            relativeTimeRange: { from: 900, to: 0 }
+            datasourceUid: prometheus
+            model:
+              refId: A
+              expr: increase(bot_tg_errors_total{kind="rate_limited"}[15m])
+              instant: true
+          - refId: C
+            datasourceUid: __expr__
+            model:
+              refId: C
+              type: threshold
+              expression: A
+              conditions:
+                - evaluator: { type: gt, params: [0] }
+        labels: { severity: warning }
+        annotations: { summary: 'The Telegram bot is being rate-limited (HTTP 429). It should honour Retry-After, so sustained 429s point to a send loop or a hot path.' }

deploy/landing/Caddyfile

@@ -18,18 +18,9 @@
 	@shell not path /assets/*
 	header @shell Cache-Control "no-cache"
 
-	# The static public offer page, rendered from ui/legal/offer_ru.md at build
+	# The public offer page (/offer/) is no longer served here: the contour caddy routes it to the
-	# time into dist/offer/index.html (vite emit-offer plugin). Served with its own
+	# render sidecar, which splices the live catalog price list into ui/legal/offer_ru.md. This
-	# index so /offer/ resolves to /srv/offer/index.html rather than falling to the
+	# container never sees /offer/, so it carries no offer assets (the vite emit-offer plugin is gone).
-	# landing shell below (whose index is landing.html). A bare /offer redirects in.
-	handle /offer {
-		redir * /offer/ permanent
-	}
-	handle /offer/* {
-		file_server {
-			index index.html
-		}
-	}
 
 	# An unknown path falls back to the landing shell (the gateway's old "/"
 	# behaviour); "/" itself resolves through the index below.

deploy/write-prod-env.sh

@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ export APP_VERSION='$APP_VERSION'
 export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN='$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN'
 export TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL='$TELEGRAM_MINIAPP_URL'
 export GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET='$GATEWAY_VK_APP_SECRET'
+export ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN='$ROBOKASSA_MERCHANT_LOGIN'
+export ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1='$ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD1'
+export ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2='$ROBOKASSA_PASSWORD2'
+export ROBOKASSA_TEST='$ROBOKASSA_TEST'
 export VITE_VK_APP_ID='$VITE_VK_APP_ID'
 export VITE_VK_ID_REDIRECT_URL='$VITE_VK_ID_REDIRECT_URL'
 export GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET='$GATEWAY_VK_ID_CLIENT_SECRET'
@@ -73,6 +77,11 @@ export GF_SMTP_ENABLED='$GF_SMTP_ENABLED'
 export PUBLIC_BASE_URL='$PUBLIC_BASE_URL'
 export GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN='$GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN'
 export GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED='true'
+# Community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP): opt-in — the operator enables it and sets the feed URL +
+# allowlist via PROD_GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_* vars once the feed is verified. Unset ⇒ off (safe).
+export GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED='${GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED:-false}'
+export GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL='$GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL'
+export GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW='$GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW'
 # Continuous WAL archiving (pgBackRest -> S3) for point-in-time recovery. The artifact
 # ships disarmed: PGBACKREST_ARCHIVE_MODE defaults off, so archiving stays inert until the
 # operator sets the S3 repository values + secrets, creates the stanza and flips the switch

docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -435,7 +435,11 @@ Key points:
   through a **session-gated `GET /dict/{variant}/{version}`** edge route
   (immutable; cached in IndexedDB best-effort) and reused across sessions; any
   miss, storage eviction or a bad-connection breaker falls back to the network
-  `evaluate`. The warm-up overlay is `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`.
+  `evaluate`. The warm-up overlay is `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`. The **on-board rendering** of a staged
+  play — the legality tint, the cells a formed word covers, and where the score badge anchors — is a
+  separate **pure geometry helper** (`ui/src/lib/formed.ts`) derived from the board and the staged
+  tiles, so it works regardless of which eval path produced the preview (the badge's number still
+  comes from the preview's score): legality and score stay with the eval, geometry with the board.
 
 ## 6. Game rules
 
@@ -666,11 +670,14 @@ in either direction (the enqueue excludes the caller's `BlockedWith` set);
   refuses a **guest** outright with **403** (guests cannot use friends — the same guest gate
   covers friend requests and friend-code redemption). **Accepting** an invitation
   (`POST /invitations/:id/accept`) is never gated, so friend games are capped only at
-  initiation. The lobby learns the random-kind state from a boolean **`at_game_limit`** on
+  initiation. The client counts its lobby games per kind against the per-tier caps it reads on
-  the `games.list` response — already re-fetched on entry and every game event; the client
+  the profile (`Profile.game_limits`, carrying `GameView.kind`), and locks a capped kind's
-  additionally counts the listed games per kind against the per-tier caps it reads in the
+  New-Game start — a 🔒 outline button that opens a prompt instead of a game: a sign-in funnel
-  profile, locking a kind's New-Game entry (a login funnel for a guest, an already-at-limit
+  for a guest, a "finish a current game first" notice for a durable account (native inside
-  note for a durable account) when that kind is full.
+  Telegram, an in-app modal elsewhere), lifting when the profile is re-fetched after a
+  guest→durable upgrade. The `games.list` `at_game_limit` boolean (now the random-kind cap) is
+  still carried but no longer drives the UI — the per-kind start lock superseded the old
+  New-Game-tab disable.
 - **Friends**: two add paths over one `friendships` table. A **one-time
   code** the to-be-added player issues (a `friend_codes` row: 6-digit numeric,
   SHA-256-hashed, **12 h** TTL, one live code per issuer, single-use, redeem
@@ -902,6 +909,22 @@ finished journal on each GET. The only degraded platform is a legacy Telegram cl
 predating `downloadFile`, where the GCG falls back to the old clipboard copy and the
 image option is not offered.
 
+The same sidecar also serves the **public offer page** at `/offer/` — the one edge-exposed
+route on it (caddy routes `/offer/` here; its `/render` stays internal). It reuses the shared
+`ui/src/lib/offer.ts` renderer (again one renderer, no drift) over the owner-edited
+`ui/legal/offer_ru.md`, baked into the image, splicing in the **live price list** (§4.4): it
+fetches the two catalog tables as markdown from the backend's internal
+`/api/v1/internal/offer/pricing` at the `<#pricing_template#>` marker, then renders the page. The
+backend projects the tables from the active catalog through `payments.Money` (no float reaches the
+page) and caches them in memory — built at boot, reprojected on any catalog edit — so a served
+render issues no query in the steady state and the page always reflects the current catalog without
+a redeploy. A backend outage degrades `/offer/` to a 502 rather than a stale price list. Packs are
+ordered by ascending rouble price; values are grouped by what they grant — hints only, then no-ads
+only, then no-ads + hints, then (reserved, empty today) products carrying the **tournament** atom,
+which becomes a fourth group once the tournament economy makes them sellable — and ordered by
+ascending chip price within each group. Product titles are admin input, so the projection escapes
+them (HTML entities + markdown metacharacters) before they reach the un-sanitised renderer.
+
 The alphabet-on-the-wire transport does **not** touch this invariant: the live edge
 exchanges alphabet indices, but the persisted journal (and everything derived from it —
 replay, history, GCG) keeps the decoded concrete letters described above, so an archived
@@ -992,6 +1015,20 @@ answering `/start` with a URL button into the **main** bot's Mini App (`?startap
 button would sign initData with the promo token); it is self-contained — no bot-link, no gateway.
 Session-revocation events and cursor-based stream resume stay deferred (single-instance MVP).
 
+Because the bot **exports no telemetry of its own** (the OTel collector is on the main host,
+unreachable from the bot host), it reports its **Bot API health** up the same stream: a periodic
+`Health` message (`platform/telegram/internal/health`) carries delta counts of connect failures (the
+getUpdates long-poll), other API errors and 429s, plus the wall-clock second of its last successful
+Bot API call. The bot observes these **centrally by wrapping the Bot API HTTP client** — one place,
+no per-call-site instrumentation — and there also honours a 429's `Retry-After` (bounded) so it backs
+off rather than hammering (a 429 should therefore stay ~0). The gateway folds each report into its
+own metrics (`bot_tg_errors_total{kind}`, the `bot_tg_last_ok_unix` liveness gauge). The remote bot
+is thus monitored from the main host's Grafana with three layered signals: the **connection gauge**
+(`botlink_connected_bots`) catches a link/host/process outage, the **liveness gauge** catches a
+silently wedged bot (its stamp stays fresh even when idle, since getUpdates returns every poll), and
+**`botlink_commands_total{result}`** catches gateway sends failing to reach Telegram. Alerts route to
+the operator email, which does not depend on the bot.
+
 A separate **advertising-banner** channel feeds the client's one-line strip (UI_DESIGN.md),
 server-driven by `internal/ads`. An operator manages **campaigns** (each one placement order) in
 the admin console (`/_gm/banners`): a campaign has a show **weight** (integer percent 1..100), an
@@ -1050,7 +1087,9 @@ link — misses the event; while an add-email confirmation is pending the client
   `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_*` environment) exports to a collector. The Postgres pool is
   instrumented with otelsql and `otelgrpc` traces the backend↔gateway push stream
   and the gateway↔validator and bot-link calls; the gateway also exports
-  `botlink_connected_bots` and `botlink_commands_total` (by result) for the bot-link. The OTLP **Collector** (OTLP/gRPC → Prometheus
+  `botlink_connected_bots` and `botlink_commands_total` (by result) for the bot-link, plus the remote
+  bot's own Bot API health it relays over the stream — `bot_tg_errors_total` (by kind) and the
+  `bot_tg_last_ok_unix` liveness gauge (see the bot-link section). The OTLP **Collector** (OTLP/gRPC → Prometheus
   metrics + Tempo traces), **Prometheus** (15d), **Tempo** (72h) and **Grafana**
   (provisioned datasources + dashboards, behind the caddy `/_gm/grafana` Basic-Auth)
   are stood up with the deploy (`deploy/`); the default exporter stays
@@ -1167,6 +1206,18 @@ link — misses the event; while an add-email confirmation is pending the client
   (`POST /api/v1/internal/bans/sync`, network-trusted like the rejection report) and applies
   the operator unbans the response returns, so a manual unban takes effect within the sync
   interval.
+- **Community IP blocklist (prod-only):** with `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED` set, the gateway also
+  refuses a client whose IP is in a curated CIDR feed (Spamhaus DROP, `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL`) with
+  **403** in the same `abuseGuard`, before the fail2ban list. A background refresher re-fetches the
+  feed every few hours (bounded fetch + size cap) into a sorted-range matcher (`ratelimit.Blocklist`,
+  binary search, IPv4 only — an IPv6 client is never blocked here). It is **fault-tolerant and
+  fail-open**: a failed fetch keeps the last-good feed, and once the feed is older than
+  `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_MAX_STALENESS` it is **dropped** rather than block a legitimate client on a
+  frozen list; a `GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW` allowlist (own infra, monitoring) is never blocked. Off by
+  default and prod-only for the same real-client-IP reason as the ban. It is a **separate** static
+  CIDR set, not the per-IP fail2ban store (a bulk CIDR feed cannot expand into per-IP entries).
+  Observability: `gateway_blocklist_blocked_total`, the `gateway_blocklist_entries` size gauge and the
+  `gateway_blocklist_age_seconds` staleness gauge (a Grafana alert warns before the feed is dropped).
 - Unauthenticated `GET /healthz` (liveness) and `GET /readyz` (readiness — the
   database answers a bounded ping and the session cache is warmed).
 - The backend serves a **second listener** — a gRPC server
@@ -1342,9 +1393,10 @@ in-process (the distroless image has no `/etc/mime.types`). Hash-named `/assets/
 in-compose **caddy** is the contour's edge: it owns a single `/_gm` Basic-Auth and
 routes `/_gm/grafana/*` to **Grafana** (anonymous-admin, so the one shared login gates
 it with no per-user Grafana accounts) and the rest of `/_gm/*` to the backend-rendered
-**admin console**; `/app/`, `/telegram/`, `/vk/` and the Connect path go to the gateway; the
+**admin console**; `/app/`, `/telegram/`, `/vk/` and the Connect path go to the gateway; `/offer/`
-catch-all — notably the landing at `/`, plus the static public offer at `/offer/`
+(the public offer, rendered by the `renderer` sidecar with the live catalog price list spliced in)
-(rendered from `ui/legal/offer_ru.md` at build time) — goes to the landing container. The
+goes to the render sidecar; and the catch-all — notably the landing at `/` — goes to the landing
+container. The
 **Telegram validator** runs as a separate container with **no public ingress**,
 answering only internal gRPC (HMAC, no Telegram egress). The **Telegram bot** holds
 no inbound port either: it dials the gateway's **bot-link** (mTLS) and egresses to

docs/FUNCTIONAL.md

@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ render with arbitrary languages, so detection would make the indexed content
 nondeterministic); a saved 🌐 choice still wins. The page carries a static Russian SEO head
 (title/description, the Open Graph card Telegram/VK link previews use, a canonical link
 pinned to the production origin, JSON-LD, the favicon set and `robots.txt`), while the SPA
-shell is `noindex` — the landing is the only indexable page.
+shell is `noindex` — the landing is the only indexable page. The footer links to the **public
+offer** (`/offer/`) and, beside it, **feedback** — the Telegram bot the offer names as the seller's
+contact. The offer page (the legal document a purchase accepts) is rendered on demand from
+`ui/legal/offer_ru.md` with its **price list** (§4.4) generated from the live product catalog, so
+the published prices always match what is currently on sale — no redeploy to update them.
 
 On the plain web the client is an **installable PWA**: a logged-out player sees an install
 call-to-action under the login form (and at the bottom of Settings) that installs the app to the
@@ -190,24 +194,31 @@ Mini App, the link only opens the app and the recipient enters the copied code b
 settings and the game starts once every invitee has accepted — any decline cancels it, and an unanswered invitation
 expires after seven days.
 
-**Simultaneous-game cap.** A player may hold at most **10 active quick games** at once —
+**Active-game caps (per kind).** A player's simultaneous unfinished games are capped **per kind** —
-counting both in-progress and still-searching auto-match/AI games, but **not** friend games
+against the AI, in a random match, and by friend invitation — with separate limits for a **guest**
-created by invitation. At the cap the **New Game** button is disabled (greyed) and a plain,
+and a signed-in (durable) account, tuned by the operator without a release. A **guest** may hold **1**
-low-emphasis line under the lists reads *"You've reached the simultaneous games limit."*; both
+game against the AI and **1** random match at once and cannot start friend games at all; a signed-in
-clear automatically once an active game finishes and the count drops below ten. The cap blocks
+account holds up to **10** of each kind. Only in-progress and still-searching games count; a finished
-**starting** any game (a quick game or a friend invitation, which share the New Game entry), but
+game frees its slot, and games already in progress are never interrupted. On the **New Game** screen a
-**accepting an incoming invitation is never blocked** — so friend games are capped from the other
+start whose kind is at its cap shows a **🔒** and, when tapped, opens a short prompt instead of a game:
-end (you cannot initiate one while at the cap) while you can always join a game you are invited to.
+a **guest** is invited to sign in or create an account (to play several games at once), a signed-in
+player is told to finish a current game first. **Accepting an incoming invitation is never blocked** —
+friend games are capped only when you start one. The server enforces every cap regardless of the
+client, and refuses a guest's friend request, friend code or invitation outright.
 
 ### Playing a game
 Place tiles, pass, exchange, or resign. Pass and exchange share one control —
-choosing no tiles passes the turn, choosing tiles exchanges them. Tiles are laid
+choosing no tiles passes the turn, choosing tiles exchanges them. The tiles left in the
+bag are shown as a count on that control and at the foot of the move table. Tiles are laid
 without choosing a direction — the game infers the play's orientation, so a single
 tile that extends
 an existing word (down a column or across a row) is accepted. A play is validated
-against the game's dictionary at submit time and scored; an unlimited preview
+against the game's dictionary at submit time and scored; an unlimited preview shows
-reports the word(s) a tentative move would form and its score, or that it is not
+**on the board itself** whether the tentative move is legal — the staged tiles turn a light
-legal, and the move is offered for submission only once it is confirmed legal. The preview is
+green once they form a word, a shade darker on the board tiles the word runs through (in a
+one-word-per-turn game only the main word), or a calm pink when they form none — and an
+**orange badge** on the main word carries the move's
+score. The confirm control is offered only once the move is legal. The preview is
 computed **on-device** for an instant response once the game's dictionary has loaded — a
 brief warm-up shows on the first open otherwise — and falls back to the server whenever the
 local dictionary is unavailable. The dictionary check tool is
@@ -369,7 +380,9 @@ an email or Telegram and merging accounts are covered under "Accounts, linking &
 merge". Inside the Telegram Mini App, Telegram's own ⋮ menu also offers a **Settings**
 entry that opens this screen, and your display preferences (theme, board-label style and
 reduce-motion — not the interface language, which follows your account) sync across your
-Telegram devices.
+Telegram devices. On a touch device the settings also offer a **Zoom the board** toggle (on by
+default): with it off, dropping a tile no longer auto-magnifies the board toward it. It is a
+per-device preference and is hidden on desktop, where the board already fits and never auto-zooms.
 
 **Preferences (which variants you can be matched into).** A profile setting picks the game
 variants — Erudite, Russian Scrabble and English Scrabble, shown **Erudite-first** — you allow
@@ -525,21 +538,29 @@ shown defensively (text escaped, attachments downloaded rather than rendered).
 ### Wallet
 
 Durable players have a **Wallet** — a tab in the Settings hub, between Friends and About; guests have
-none. It shows their **chips** (the in-game currency, split by where they were funded — VK, Telegram
+none. A compact **balance** leads the screen: the running context's own **chips** (the in-game
-or the web), their **active benefits** (ads off until a date or forever, and the available hint
+currency) first, then any linked other-platform chips behind that platform's logo — VK, Telegram or
-count), and a **store**. What is visible and spendable depends on **where the app runs**, by the
+the web, split by where they were funded. What is visible and spendable depends on **where the app
-store-compliance rules in [`PAYMENTS.md`](PAYMENTS.md): inside a store only that store's chips are
+runs**, by the store-compliance rules in [`PAYMENTS.md`](PAYMENTS.md): inside a store only that
-usable; on the open web all attached chips are, drawn web → VK → Telegram; on VK-iOS the balance is
+store's chips are usable; on the open web all attached chips are, drawn web → VK → Telegram; on
-shown but frozen for spending.
+VK-iOS the balance is shown but frozen for spending.
+
+Below the balance an **Active** line lists what the player currently holds — the remaining hint count
+and, if bought, the ad-free end date (or "forever"); it is hidden when nothing is active. The
+**store** then splits, by a two-way toggle, into **Buy chips** and **Spend chips**:
+
+- **Buy chips** — the **chip packs** bought with real money, priced in the running context's currency
+  (VK Votes, Telegram Stars, or roubles on the web), plus, at the top, a **watch-an-ad-for-chips**
+  option where it is offered. Paying opens the provider's payment page (accepting the public offer).
+- **Spend chips** — the **values** bought with chips (extra hints, days without ads) at a fixed chip
+  price. Their action reads **Exchange**, and a value the balance cannot cover is disabled. Tapping
+  Exchange asks the player to **confirm** (the spend is instant, with no provider window to stand in
+  for a confirmation); that same dialog also carries the store-compliance **warning** when a web
+  spend would draw VK/Telegram chips — the benefit then works only on the web and in the app.
 
-The **store** lists **values** bought with chips (extra hints, days without ads) at a fixed chip
-price shown in every context, and **chip packs** bought with real money, priced in the running
-context's currency (VK Votes, Telegram Stars, or roubles on the web). Buying a value applies its
-benefit at once. Before a web purchase that would draw VK/Telegram chips, the app **warns** that the
-benefit will then work only on the web and in the app — a store rule — and asks the player to confirm.
 On the **Google Play** build the money purchases are hidden behind a note pointing to the RuStore
 build (Google's in-app-currency rule); spending already-earned chips still works. The wallet keeps
-**no purchase history** — only the current balances, benefits and store.
+**no purchase history** — only the current balances, active benefits and store.
 
 ### Advertising banner
 

docs/FUNCTIONAL_ru.md

@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ top-1 подсказку, безлимитную проверку слова с
 главнее. Страница несёт статическую русскую SEO-«шапку» (title/description, карточка
 Open Graph, которую используют превью ссылок в Telegram/VK, канонический адрес
 продакшен-домена, JSON-LD, набор favicon и `robots.txt`), а оболочка SPA помечена
-`noindex` — индексируется только посадочная страница.
+`noindex` — индексируется только посадочная страница. В подвале — ссылки на **публичную
+оферту** (`/offer/`) и рядом на **обратную связь** (тот самый Telegram-бот, который оферта
+указывает как контакт Продавца). Страница оферты (юридический документ, который принимается при
+покупке) рендерится по запросу из `ui/legal/offer_ru.md`, а её **перечень стоимости** (§4.4)
+формируется из живого каталога товаров, поэтому опубликованные цены всегда совпадают с тем, что
+сейчас в продаже — без передеплоя.
 
 В обычном вебе клиент — **устанавливаемое PWA**: незалогиненный игрок видит призыв к установке
 под формой входа (и внизу «Настроек»), который в один тап ставит приложение на рабочий стол
@@ -197,25 +202,32 @@ e-mail) либо ввод фразы. Активные игры форфейтя
 выбирает настройки, и партия стартует, когда приняли все приглашённые — любой отказ отменяет приглашение, а без
 ответа приглашение протухает через семь дней.
 
-**Лимит одновременных партий.** Игрок может держать одновременно не более **10 активных
+**Лимит одновременных партий (по видам).** Число одновременных незавершённых партий игрока
-быстрых партий** — считаются и идущие, и ещё ищущие соперника авто-подбор/AI-партии, но **не**
+ограничено **по видам** — против AI, в случайном подборе и по приглашению друзей — с раздельными
-игры с друзьями, созданные приглашением. На лимите кнопка **«Новая игра»** становится неактивной
+лимитами для **гостя** и для вошедшего (постоянного) аккаунта; оператор настраивает их без релиза.
-(серой), а под списками появляется ненавязчивая строка *«Вы достигли лимита одновременных
+**Гость** может держать **1** партию против AI и **1** случайную одновременно и вовсе не может
-партий»*; и кнопка, и надпись снимаются автоматически, как только активная партия завершается и
+создавать игры с друзьями; вошедший аккаунт — до **10** каждого вида. Считаются только идущие и ещё
-счётчик опускается ниже десяти. Лимит запрещает **создавать** любую партию (быструю или
+ищущие соперника партии; завершённая освобождает слот, а уже идущие партии никогда не прерываются.
-приглашение в игру с друзьями — у них общий вход «Новая игра»), но **принимать входящее
+На экране **«Новая игра»** старт того вида, что достиг лимита, показывает **🔒** и по нажатию
-приглашение никогда не запрещено** — так игры с друзьями ограничиваются «с другого конца» (на
+открывает короткое сообщение вместо партии: **гостю** предлагают войти или создать учётную запись
-лимите их нельзя инициировать), а присоединиться к партии по приглашению можно всегда.
+(чтобы играть несколько партий сразу), вошедшему — сначала завершить текущую. **Принимать входящее
+приглашение никогда не запрещено** — игры с друзьями ограничиваются только при создании. Сервер
+применяет все лимиты независимо от клиента и напрямую отклоняет заявку в друзья, код друга или
+приглашение от гостя.
 
 ### Игровой процесс
 Выкладывание фишек, пас, обмен или сдача. Пас и обмен — один элемент управления:
-без выбранных фишек — пас, с выбранными — обмен. Фишки кладутся без выбора
+без выбранных фишек — пас, с выбранными — обмен. Число оставшихся в мешке фишек
+показано счётчиком на этом элементе и внизу таблицы ходов. Фишки кладутся без выбора
 направления — игра сама определяет ориентацию хода, поэтому одна фишка, продолжающая
 уже лежащее
 слово (по столбцу или по строке), принимается. Ход проверяется по словарю партии при
-сдаче и считается; безлимитный предпросмотр показывает слово (или слова), которое
+сдаче и считается; безлимитный предпросмотр показывает **прямо на доске**, допустим ли
-образует предполагаемый ход, и его очки — либо что ход недопустим, — и ход можно
+предполагаемый ход: выложенные фишки становятся светло-зелёными, когда образуют слово
-отправить только после подтверждения, что он допустим. Предпросмотр считается **на устройстве**
+(и чуть темнее — фишки доски, через которые проходит слово; в партии «одно слово за ход»
+подсвечивается только основное слово), или спокойно-розовыми, когда слова нет, — а
+**оранжевый бейдж** на основном слове несёт очки хода. Кнопка
+подтверждения появляется только когда ход допустим. Предпросмотр считается **на устройстве**
 и отвечает мгновенно, как только словарь партии загружен — иначе при первом открытии показывается
 короткий прогрев, — и уходит на сервер, если локальный словарь недоступен. Инструмент проверки слова безлимитный и
 предлагает пожаловаться на любой результат; для найденного слова он также даёт ссылку на
@@ -378,7 +390,10 @@ UTC; при создании аккаунта она подставляется
 Mini App пункт **Settings** в системном меню «⋮» Telegram также открывает этот экран, а
 ваши настройки отображения (тема, стиль подписей клеток и reduce-motion — кроме языка
 интерфейса, который следует за аккаунтом) синхронизируются между вашими устройствами в
-Telegram.
+Telegram. На сенсорном устройстве в настройках также есть переключатель **«Приближать
+доску»** (по умолчанию включён): если выключить, при кидании фишки доска больше не
+приближается к ней автоматически. Это настройка на устройство, и она скрыта на десктопе,
+где доска и так помещается целиком и авто-зума нет.
 
 **Предпочтения (в какие варианты тебя можно подбирать).** Настройка профиля задаёт варианты
 игры — Эрудит, русский Scrabble и английский Scrabble, показанные **сначала Эрудит**, — в
@@ -538,21 +553,30 @@ high-rate флага. С карточки пользователя операт
 ### Кошелёк
 
 У постоянных (не гостевых) игроков есть **Кошелёк** — вкладка в разделе настроек, между «Друзьями» и
-«О программе»; у гостей его нет. Он показывает **фишки** (внутриигровую валюту, разделённую по тому,
+«О программе»; у гостей его нет. Экран открывает компактный **баланс**: сначала собственные **фишки**
-где она была пополнена — VK, Telegram или веб), **активные блага** (реклама выключена до даты или
+(внутриигровая валюта) текущего контекста, затем привязанные фишки других платформ за их логотипом —
-навсегда, и число доступных подсказок) и **магазин**. Что видно и что можно потратить, зависит от
+VK, Telegram или веб, разделённые по тому, где они были пополнены. Что видно и что можно потратить,
-того, **где запущено приложение**, по правилам соответствия магазинам из [`PAYMENTS.md`](PAYMENTS.md):
+зависит от того, **где запущено приложение**, по правилам соответствия магазинам из
-внутри магазина доступны только его фишки; в открытом вебе — все привязанные, списываются в порядке
+[`PAYMENTS.md`](PAYMENTS.md): внутри магазина доступны только его фишки; в открытом вебе — все
-веб → VK → Telegram; на VK-iOS баланс показан, но трата заморожена.
+привязанные, списываются в порядке веб → VK → Telegram; на VK-iOS баланс показан, но трата заморожена.
 
-**Магазин** перечисляет **ценности**, покупаемые за фишки (дополнительные подсказки, дни без рекламы),
+Под балансом строка **«Активные»** перечисляет, что у игрока есть сейчас — остаток подсказок и, если
-по фиксированной цене в фишках, одинаковой во всех контекстах, и **наборы фишек**, покупаемые за
+куплено, дату окончания «без рекламы» (или «навсегда»); она скрыта, когда активного ничего нет. Далее
-настоящие деньги, в валюте текущего контекста (голоса VK, звёзды Telegram или рубли в вебе). Покупка
+**магазин** двухпозиционным переключателем делится на **«Купить фишки»** и **«Потратить фишки»**:
-ценности сразу применяет её благо. Перед покупкой в вебе, которая списала бы фишки VK/Telegram,
+
-приложение **предупреждает**, что благо будет работать только в вебе и в приложении — это правило
+- **Купить фишки** — **наборы фишек** за настоящие деньги, в валюте текущего контекста (голоса VK,
-магазинов — и просит подтверждения. В сборке для **Google Play** покупки за деньги скрыты за подсказкой
+  звёзды Telegram или рубли в вебе), а сверху — вариант **«ролик за фишки»**, где он предлагается.
-установить сборку из RuStore (правило Google о внутриигровой валюте); трата уже заработанных фишек
+  Оплата открывает страницу провайдера (с принятием публичной оферты).
-по-прежнему работает. Кошелёк **не хранит историю покупок** — только текущие балансы, блага и магазин.
+- **Потратить фишки** — **ценности** за фишки (дополнительные подсказки, дни без рекламы) по
+  фиксированной цене в фишках. Их действие называется **«Обмен»**, а ценность, на которую не хватает
+  баланса, недоступна. Тап по «Обмену» просит **подтверждения** (трата мгновенна, окна провайдера,
+  которое сошло бы за подтверждение, нет); это же окно несёт и **предупреждение** соответствия
+  магазинам, когда трата в вебе списала бы фишки VK/Telegram — благо тогда работает только в вебе и в
+  приложении.
+
+В сборке для **Google Play** покупки за деньги скрыты за подсказкой установить сборку из RuStore
+(правило Google о внутриигровой валюте); трата уже заработанных фишек по-прежнему работает. Кошелёк
+**не хранит историю покупок** — только текущие балансы, активные блага и магазин.
 
 ### Рекламный баннер
 

docs/UI_DESIGN.md

@@ -179,16 +179,16 @@ e2e and the screenshots.
   back near the edges. It **recentres only on a zoom-in** — placing a 2nd+ tile or
   hovering a dragged tile never jumps the board. On touch the first tile placement auto-zooms
   in centred on the target, and **holding a dragged tile over a cell ~1 s** auto-zooms there
-  the first time. A **swipe down on the zoom-out board** opens the history, but only when the
+  the first time — both gated by the **Zoom the board** setting (on by default; the toggle is
+  shown only on a touch device). A **swipe down on the zoom-out board** opens the history, but only when the
   board is scrolled to its top so it never fights the stage's own vertical scroll (the conflict
   that once retired this gesture) — and it is suppressed on the zoomed board, where the
   one-finger drag pans (and on desktop / the landscape iframe, where a mouse cannot drag-scroll the
   viewport natively, a **drag-to-pan** handler moves the zoomed board instead — active only while
   zoomed, off pending tiles, past a small threshold, swallowing the trailing click). History also
   opens on a **tap of the score bar** and closes on a tap or
-  an **upward swipe** of the then-inert board (below). A **hint** auto-zooms centred on the
+  an **upward swipe** of the then-inert board (below). Taking a **hint** while zoomed in **zooms
-  hint's placement, not
+  out** to the whole board, so the hint's word — highlighted (below) — is never left off-screen.
-  the top-left.
 - **Placing & recall** (`Game.svelte`): a rack tile is placed by tap-then-tap or by
   dragging it onto a cell; while a dragged tile is carried over the board, the aimed-at empty
   cell is **highlighted as a drop target** (an accent ring). A pending tile is taken back by a
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ e2e and the screenshots.
   are pinned to the card's edges.
   Unread chat is also badged on the score bar itself, so it shows with the history closed.
 - **Vertical fit & keyboard**: when the game does not fit the viewport, only the
-  board area scrolls vertically (`Screen` `column` mode; the score bar, status, rack and tab
+  board area scrolls vertically (`Screen` `column` mode; the turn strip, score bar, rack and tab
   bar stay fixed), while zoom keeps its own scroll. The check-word dialog opens in
   `Modal` keyboard-overlay mode — the small sheet is top-anchored and the soft keyboard
   overlays the empty area below, so the layout doesn't resize/jank; other modals stay
@@ -235,23 +235,32 @@ e2e and the screenshots.
   (`min(100cqw, 100cqh)`, height-driven in `Board.svelte`'s `.scaler.land`) inside a
   `container-type: size` pane, shrinking by width when the column is narrow — the board has the
   **lowest priority**, so the left panel is never squeezed. The **left panel** stacks, top to
-  bottom: the score plaques, the **always-open** history (docked and scrolling with its header
+  bottom: the **turn/result strip**, the score plaques, the **always-open** history (docked and
-  sticky — no slide-down drawer, no score-bar toggle), the status line (bag · turn · score
+  scrolling with its header sticky and the **bag count** pinned at its foot — no slide-down drawer,
-  preview), the rack (+ the ✅ make control) and, pinned at the bottom, the controls tab bar. Board
+  no score-bar toggle), the rack (with the ✅ confirm control in its fixed 7th slot) and, pinned at
+  the bottom, the controls tab bar. Board
   **zoom works as in portrait** (double-tap / pinch / placement auto-zoom), but the viewport is the
   full pane: zoom-out shows the height-fitted square centred, and zoom-in magnifies the board past
   the pane and pans within it, occupying the full width up to the left panel (the focus-centred
   scroll is set directly, without the portrait width-progress tween). Only the history open/close
   swipes are dropped (it is always open) and the nav bar does not grow (`growNav` off). The
   portrait layout is byte-for-byte unchanged; both layouts render from the same snippets, so the
-  behaviour and markup stay single-sourced. The rack tiles size to the (fixed-width) panel rather
+  behaviour and markup stay single-sourced. The rack is a **seven-column grid** filling the tray
-  than the viewport width so seven tiles never overflow the column.
+  width in both layouts, so the tiles are square and as large as the row allows (the confirm ✅ takes
-- **Highlights**: pending tiles use a slightly darker tile background (no outline). The
+  the fixed 7th slot while a play is staged).
+- **Highlights**: while composing a play the staged tiles are **tinted by legality** — a light
+  green once they form a word (a shade darker on the committed board tiles the word runs through —
+  in a **single-word game** only the main word lights up, since the engine ignores cross words),
+  a calm pink when they form none — and an **orange score badge** sits on a corner of the main
+  word's tile, its digit sized like a tile's point value (so it scales with the zoom) and clamped
+  to stay on the board. Off-turn or with no preview the staged tiles keep the plain pending fill.
+  The colours are theme tokens in `app.css` (`--tile-pending-legal` / `-illegal`, `--tile-formed`,
+  `--score-badge`); the geometry — which cells a word covers and where the badge anchors — is a
+  pure client-side helper (`lib/formed.ts`), independent of the move evaluator. The
   last completed word keeps the normal tile background; instead its letters — not the point
   values — are drawn in the recent-move colour, in both themes. It is static while it is the
   opponent's turn (our word), and a 1 s flash (the letter pulses between its normal colour
-  and the recent-move colour) when it is our turn (their word). While placing, only the
+  and the recent-move colour) when it is our turn (their word).
-  pending tiles are highlighted.
 - **Bonus-square labels** — a Settings choice (`boardlabels.ts`): `beginner` shows a
   split `3×` / `word` (localized слово/буква), `classic` a single `3W` / `3С`, `none`
   nothing. Default **beginner**.
@@ -267,18 +276,22 @@ e2e and the screenshots.
   otherwise it reverts. Used by the **Hint** tab (the icon morphs to ✅, no label — replacing
   the old press-and-hold popover) and the in-game **add-friend 🤝** and **block ✖️** card
   controls. The **Drop game** action keeps its `Modal` confirmation (a destructive, less-frequent action).
-- **MakeMove / Reset**: when ≥1 tile is pending the rack collapses its used slots
+- **Confirm / Reset**: while ≥1 tile is pending a **borderless ✅ icon button** (styled like a
-  and shifts left, a **borderless ✅ icon button** (styled like a tab, not a filled accent
+  tab, not a filled accent button) takes the rack's **fixed 7th slot** and commits the move — no
-  button) beside the rack commits the move — no popover, and disabled while the pending word
+  popover, and disabled while the pending word is known illegal; the 🔀 Shuffle tab is replaced by
-  is known illegal; the 🔀 Shuffle tab is replaced by a **↩️ Reset** tab.
+  a **↩️ Reset** tab.
-- **Game tab bar**: 🔄 Exchange/Pass (opens a dialog — pick tiles to **Exchange N**, or pick
+- **Game tab bar**: 🔄 Exchange/Pass (a **bag-count badge** on its icon while the bag is non-empty;
+  opens a dialog — pick tiles to **Exchange N**, or pick
   none to **Pass without exchanging**; pass is always available on your turn, exchange only
   while the bag still holds a full rack, below which the tiles disable and only the pass
   remains), 🛟 Hint (with a remaining-count badge, disabled at zero); 🔀 Shuffle (no label,
   no confirm), which
   **animates** — tiles hop along a low parabola to their new slots (duration scaled by the
-  distance, the longest ≤ 0.3 s; off under reduce-motion) with a short haptic shake. The
+  distance, the longest ≤ 0.3 s; off under reduce-motion) with a short haptic shake. A **thin strip
-  under-board slot shows the **Scores: N** preview. The screen **title** is the variant's
+  above the score plaques** reads, while composing a legal play, the formed word(s) and the move
+  score ("WORD+WORD = N"); otherwise whose turn it is, or the viewer's result once the game ends. The
+  move score also rides the board badge (above), never an under-board caption.
+  The screen **title** is the variant's
   display name (Scrabble / Скрэббл / Erudite / Эрудит), not a constant "Scrabble".
 
 ## Advertising banner (`components/AdBanner.svelte` in `components/Header.svelte`, `lib/banner.ts` + `lib/bannerEngine.ts`)
@@ -347,12 +360,15 @@ its entrance (`components/Toast.svelte`, re-keyed on a per-message sequence). An
 lives ~2 s, drifting up by about the tab-bar height as it fades (a plain fade, no travel, under
 reduce-motion); an **error** toast dwells longer (~4 s). Either dismisses instantly on tap.
 
-**Simultaneous-game cap.** When the player is at the active-quick-game cap (`games.list`
+**Active-game caps.** A player's simultaneous unfinished games are capped per kind (vs AI / random /
-`at_game_limit`), the lobby's **New Game** tab is **disabled** (greyed via the shared
+friends) against the caller's per-tier limits (`Profile.game_limits`), counted client-side from the
-`.tab:disabled` opacity) and a plain, low-emphasis line — muted, centred, no accent — sits
+lobby games. The lobby's **New Game** tab is **always enabled** — the lock lives on the per-kind
-under the lists with the localized "limit reached" notice. Both follow the flag carried in the
+start, not the tab. On the **New Game** screen a start whose kind is at its cap renders as an
-cached lobby snapshot, so they render in their last-known state on entry (the button stays
+**outline** button with a **🔒** (not the filled accent CTA), so it reads as gated rather than ready;
-enabled on the first, uncached load) and flip in place when an event refreshes the lobby.
+tapped, it opens a short prompt instead of a game — inside Telegram a **native popup**, elsewhere the
+in-app **Modal**. A **guest** sees a sign-in funnel (Cancel / Sign in → the account screen); a
+signed-in account at its cap sees a plain "finish a current game first" notice (OK). The lock lifts in
+place when the profile is re-fetched after a guest→durable upgrade.
 
 ## Social, account & history surfaces
 

gateway/cmd/gateway/blocklist.go

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"go.uber.org/zap"
+
+	"scrabble/gateway/internal/config"
+	"scrabble/gateway/internal/ratelimit"
+)
+
+const (
+	// blocklistFetchTimeout bounds one feed fetch.
+	blocklistFetchTimeout = 30 * time.Second
+	// maxBlocklistBytes caps the fetched feed (Spamhaus DROP is well under 1 MiB; the cap stops a
+	// hostile or misconfigured URL from streaming unbounded data into memory).
+	maxBlocklistBytes = 8 << 20
+)
+
+// parseAllowlist parses the never-block entries (CIDRs or bare IPs, a bare IP read as a /32) into
+// networks. A malformed entry is a fatal config error — the operator must fix it, not silently lose
+// a protected range.
+func parseAllowlist(entries []string) ([]*net.IPNet, error) {
+	out := make([]*net.IPNet, 0, len(entries))
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		s := strings.TrimSpace(e)
+		if s == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(s, "/") {
+			s += "/32"
+		}
+		_, n, err := net.ParseCIDR(s)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("gateway: GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW: %q: %w", e, err)
+		}
+		out = append(out, n)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// runBlocklistRefresher keeps the community IP blocklist feed current: it fetches immediately, then
+// every cfg.Refresh, and applies each outcome through ratelimit.ApplyRefresh (keep-last-good on a
+// transient failure; drop the feed once it goes stale, fail-open). It returns when ctx is cancelled.
+func runBlocklistRefresher(ctx context.Context, bl *ratelimit.Blocklist, cfg config.BlocklistConfig, log *zap.Logger) {
+	client := &http.Client{Timeout: blocklistFetchTimeout}
+	for {
+		cidrs, err := fetchBlocklist(ctx, client, cfg.URL)
+		switch ratelimit.ApplyRefresh(bl, cidrs, err, time.Now(), cfg.MaxStaleness) {
+		case ratelimit.RefreshUpdated:
+			log.Info("blocklist refreshed", zap.String("url", cfg.URL), zap.Int("entries", bl.Len()))
+		case ratelimit.RefreshKept:
+			log.Warn("blocklist refresh failed; keeping the last-good feed", zap.Error(err))
+		case ratelimit.RefreshDropped:
+			log.Warn("blocklist refresh failed and the feed is stale; dropped it (fail-open)", zap.Error(err))
+		}
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-time.After(cfg.Refresh):
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// fetchBlocklist GETs the feed and parses it, bounded by the fetch timeout and the size cap.
+func fetchBlocklist(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, url string) ([]*net.IPNet, error) {
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = resp.Body.Close() }()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("gateway: blocklist fetch %s: status %d", url, resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+	return ratelimit.ParseDROP(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, maxBlocklistBytes))
+}

gateway/cmd/gateway/main.go

@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 		Window:    cfg.Abuse.BanWindow,
 		Duration:  cfg.Abuse.BanDuration,
 	})
+	allow, err := parseAllowlist(cfg.Blocklist.Allow)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	blocklist := ratelimit.NewBlocklist(cfg.Blocklist.Enabled, allow)
 	hub := push.NewHub(0)
 
 	var validator transcode.TelegramValidator
@@ -222,6 +227,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 		Limiter:      limiter,
 		Tracker:      tracker,
 		Banlist:      banlist,
+		Blocklist:    blocklist,
 		Honeytoken:   cfg.Abuse.Honeytoken,
 		VKAppSecret:  cfg.VKAppSecret,
 		Hub:          hub,
@@ -243,6 +249,10 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 	if cfg.Abuse.BanEnabled {
 		go runBanSync(ctx, banlist, backend, logger)
 	}
+	// When the edge blocklist is enabled (prod), keep the community feed refreshed.
+	if cfg.Blocklist.Enabled {
+		go runBlocklistRefresher(ctx, blocklist, cfg.Blocklist, logger)
+	}
 
 	public := &http.Server{Addr: cfg.HTTPAddr, Handler: edge.HTTPHandler(), ReadHeaderTimeout: readHeaderTimeout}
 	servers := []*namedServer{{name: "public", srv: public}}

gateway/internal/backendclient/api.go

@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ type ProfileResp struct {
 	// DictVersions is the current dictionary version per game variant, forwarded verbatim
 	// into the Profile payload so an offline-capable client preloads the matching dawg.
 	DictVersions []DictVersion `json:"dict_versions,omitempty"`
+	// GameLimits is the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited), forwarded verbatim
+	// into the Profile payload for the client's per-kind New-Game lock.
+	GameLimits *GameLimitsResp `json:"game_limits,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// GameLimitsResp is the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited) in the profile.
+type GameLimitsResp struct {
+	VsAI    int `json:"vs_ai"`
+	Random  int `json:"random"`
+	Friends int `json:"friends"`
 }
 
 // AdsResp is the post-move interstitial config in the profile: the client-mirrored cooldowns
@@ -170,6 +180,7 @@ type GameResp struct {
 	Seats                []SeatResp `json:"seats"`
 	UnreadChat           bool       `json:"unread_chat"`
 	UnreadMessages       bool       `json:"unread_messages"`
+	Kind                 int        `json:"kind"`
 }
 
 // MoveResultResp is the outcome of a committed move. Rack carries the actor's refilled rack as

gateway/internal/botlink/hub.go

@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ type Hub struct {
 
 	connected metric.Int64UpDownCounter
 	commands  metric.Int64Counter
+	// tgErrors counts the remote bot's Bot API failures it reports over the stream, by kind
+	// (connect / api / rate_limited). lastOK holds the wall-clock second of the bot's most recent
+	// successful Bot API call, read by the bot_tg_last_ok_unix observable gauge for a staleness alert.
+	tgErrors metric.Int64Counter
+	lastOK   atomic.Int64
 }
 
 // link is one connected bot's outbound queue and identity.
@@ -103,6 +108,19 @@ func NewHub(log *zap.Logger, meter metric.Meter, resolve EligibilityResolver) *H
 			metric.WithDescription("Number of Telegram bots currently connected to the gateway bot-link."))
 		h.commands, _ = meter.Int64Counter("botlink_commands_total",
 			metric.WithDescription("Bot-link send commands by result (delivered, not_delivered, dropped, error)."))
+		h.tgErrors, _ = meter.Int64Counter("bot_tg_errors_total",
+			metric.WithDescription("Telegram Bot API failures the remote bot reports over the bot-link, by kind (connect, api, rate_limited)."))
+		// The bot's last successful Bot API second, reported over the stream. An observable gauge
+		// reads the atomic on each collection; it observes nothing until a bot has reported, so a
+		// never-connected gateway shows no data (the connected-bots alert covers that case).
+		_, _ = meter.Int64ObservableGauge("bot_tg_last_ok_unix",
+			metric.WithDescription("Unix second of the remote bot's most recent successful Bot API call (0/absent until reported)."),
+			metric.WithInt64Callback(func(_ context.Context, o metric.Int64Observer) error {
+				if v := h.lastOK.Load(); v > 0 {
+					o.Observe(v)
+				}
+				return nil
+			}))
 	}
 	return h
 }
@@ -149,6 +167,36 @@ func (h *Hub) Link(stream grpc.BidiStreamingServer[botlinkv1.FromBot, botlinkv1.
 		if ack := msg.GetAck(); ack != nil {
 			h.resolve(ack)
 		}
+		if hb := msg.GetHealth(); hb != nil {
+			h.recordHealth(hb)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// recordHealth folds one bot Health report into the gateway's cumulative Bot API metrics: the three
+// delta counters are added under their kind label, and the last-ok stamp (an absolute wall-clock
+// second) advances the liveness gauge (monotonically — a stale reordered report cannot rewind it).
+func (h *Hub) recordHealth(hb *botlinkv1.Health) {
+	if h.tgErrors != nil {
+		ctx := context.Background()
+		if v := hb.GetConnectFailures(); v > 0 {
+			h.tgErrors.Add(ctx, int64(v), metric.WithAttributes(attribute.String("kind", "connect")))
+		}
+		if v := hb.GetApiErrors(); v > 0 {
+			h.tgErrors.Add(ctx, int64(v), metric.WithAttributes(attribute.String("kind", "api")))
+		}
+		if v := hb.GetRateLimited(); v > 0 {
+			h.tgErrors.Add(ctx, int64(v), metric.WithAttributes(attribute.String("kind", "rate_limited")))
+		}
+	}
+	for {
+		cur := h.lastOK.Load()
+		if hb.GetLastOkUnix() <= cur {
+			break
+		}
+		if h.lastOK.CompareAndSwap(cur, hb.GetLastOkUnix()) {
+			break
+		}
 	}
 }
 

gateway/internal/botlink/hub_test.go

@@ -233,3 +233,21 @@ func TestRelayServerNoBot(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error with no bot connected")
 	}
 }
+
+// TestRecordHealthLastOKMonotonic checks a bot Health report advances the last-ok liveness stamp but
+// a stale or reordered report (an earlier second) never rewinds it.
+func TestRecordHealthLastOKMonotonic(t *testing.T) {
+	hub := NewHub(nil, nil, nil)
+	hub.recordHealth(&botlinkv1.Health{LastOkUnix: 100})
+	if got := hub.lastOK.Load(); got != 100 {
+		t.Fatalf("lastOK = %d, want 100", got)
+	}
+	hub.recordHealth(&botlinkv1.Health{LastOkUnix: 90}) // reordered/stale — must not rewind
+	if got := hub.lastOK.Load(); got != 100 {
+		t.Errorf("lastOK rewound to %d, want 100", got)
+	}
+	hub.recordHealth(&botlinkv1.Health{LastOkUnix: 150})
+	if got := hub.lastOK.Load(); got != 150 {
+		t.Errorf("lastOK = %d, want 150", got)
+	}
+}

gateway/internal/config/config.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	pkgtel "scrabble/pkg/telemetry"
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	RateLimit RateLimitConfig
 	// Abuse configures the temporary IP ban and the honeytoken (prod-only).
 	Abuse AbuseConfig
+	// Blocklist configures the community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP) enforced at the edge (prod-only).
+	Blocklist BlocklistConfig
 	// Telemetry configures the OpenTelemetry providers (shared bootstrap).
 	Telemetry pkgtel.Config
 }
@@ -166,6 +169,42 @@ func DefaultAbuse() AbuseConfig {
 	}
 }
 
+// BlocklistConfig configures the community IP blocklist (a curated CIDR feed such as Spamhaus DROP)
+// enforced at the edge alongside the fail2ban ban. Disabled by default and prod-only, for the same
+// reason as the ban: it is only safe where the real client IP is visible (not behind the shared-NAT
+// test contour). Only IPv4 is matched.
+type BlocklistConfig struct {
+	// Enabled turns edge blocklisting on. Off by default (prod-only).
+	Enabled bool
+	// URL is the CIDR feed to fetch (e.g. the Spamhaus DROP list). Required when Enabled; the
+	// operator sets it explicitly so no feed URL is assumed.
+	URL string
+	// Refresh is how often the feed is re-fetched.
+	Refresh time.Duration
+	// MaxStaleness is how long a stale feed (no successful refresh) is tolerated before it is dropped
+	// (fail-open — a legitimate client is never blocked on a frozen feed).
+	MaxStaleness time.Duration
+	// Allow is the never-block set: CIDRs or bare IPs (own infrastructure, monitoring, known-good) that
+	// the feed can never block. Parsed at startup.
+	Allow []string
+}
+
+// Blocklist defaults; the feed URL has no default (the operator sets it).
+const (
+	defaultBlocklistRefresh      = 6 * time.Hour
+	defaultBlocklistMaxStaleness = 48 * time.Hour
+)
+
+// DefaultBlocklist returns the built-in blocklist settings: disabled (prod-only), no feed URL, and
+// the agreed refresh / staleness windows.
+func DefaultBlocklist() BlocklistConfig {
+	return BlocklistConfig{
+		Enabled:      false,
+		Refresh:      defaultBlocklistRefresh,
+		MaxStaleness: defaultBlocklistMaxStaleness,
+	}
+}
+
 // VKIDConfig holds the VK ID web-login credentials for the confidential
 // authorization-code exchange. AppID is the VK "Web" app's client id; ClientSecret is
 // its protected key; RedirectURI must exactly match the trusted redirect URL registered
@@ -203,6 +242,7 @@ func Load() (Config, error) {
 		SessionCacheMax: defaultSessionCacheMax,
 		RateLimit:       DefaultRateLimit(),
 		Abuse:           DefaultAbuse(),
+		Blocklist:       DefaultBlocklist(),
 		BotLink: BotLinkConfig{
 			Addr:      os.Getenv("GATEWAY_BOTLINK_ADDR"),
 			RelayAddr: os.Getenv("GATEWAY_BOTLINK_RELAY_ADDR"),
@@ -244,6 +284,17 @@ func Load() (Config, error) {
 	if c.Abuse.BanDuration, err = envDuration("GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_DURATION", c.Abuse.BanDuration); err != nil {
 		return Config{}, err
 	}
+	if c.Blocklist.Enabled, err = envBool("GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED", c.Blocklist.Enabled); err != nil {
+		return Config{}, err
+	}
+	c.Blocklist.URL = os.Getenv("GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL")
+	if c.Blocklist.Refresh, err = envDuration("GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_REFRESH", c.Blocklist.Refresh); err != nil {
+		return Config{}, err
+	}
+	if c.Blocklist.MaxStaleness, err = envDuration("GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_MAX_STALENESS", c.Blocklist.MaxStaleness); err != nil {
+		return Config{}, err
+	}
+	c.Blocklist.Allow = splitList(os.Getenv("GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ALLOW"))
 	if c.BotLink.SendTimeout, err = envDuration("GATEWAY_BOTLINK_SEND_TIMEOUT", defaultBotLinkSendTimeout); err != nil {
 		return Config{}, err
 	}
@@ -284,6 +335,9 @@ func (c Config) validate() error {
 	if c.Abuse.BanEnabled && (c.Abuse.BanThreshold <= 0 || c.Abuse.BanWindow <= 0 || c.Abuse.BanDuration <= 0) {
 		return fmt.Errorf("config: GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_THRESHOLD/_WINDOW/_DURATION must be positive when GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED")
 	}
+	if c.Blocklist.Enabled && (c.Blocklist.URL == "" || c.Blocklist.Refresh <= 0 || c.Blocklist.MaxStaleness <= 0) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("config: GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_URL must be set and _REFRESH/_MAX_STALENESS positive when GATEWAY_BLOCKLIST_ENABLED")
+	}
 	if c.BotLink.Addr != "" {
 		if c.BotLink.CertFile == "" || c.BotLink.KeyFile == "" || c.BotLink.CAFile == "" {
 			return fmt.Errorf("config: GATEWAY_BOTLINK_ADDR requires GATEWAY_BOTLINK_TLS_CERT, _KEY and _CA")
@@ -304,6 +358,21 @@ func envOr(key, fallback string) string {
 	return fallback
 }
 
+// splitList splits a comma-separated environment value into trimmed, non-empty items.
+func splitList(v string) []string {
+	if v == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	parts := strings.Split(v, ",")
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(parts))
+	for _, p := range parts {
+		if p = strings.TrimSpace(p); p != "" {
+			out = append(out, p)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // envBool parses the environment variable named key as a bool, returning fallback
 // when it is unset and an error when it is set but malformed.
 func envBool(key string, fallback bool) (bool, error) {

gateway/internal/connectsrv/abuse_test.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package connectsrv_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"testing"
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ const honeypotHeader = "X-Scrabble-Honeypot"
 
 // guardedEdge wires an edge with an explicit banlist and honeytoken over a fake
 // backend, returning the front URL, a Connect client and a cleanup func.
-func guardedEdge(t *testing.T, bl *ratelimit.Banlist, honeytoken string, limits config.RateLimitConfig, backendHandler http.HandlerFunc) (string, edgev1connect.GatewayClient, func()) {
+func guardedEdge(t *testing.T, bl *ratelimit.Banlist, block *ratelimit.Blocklist, honeytoken string, limits config.RateLimitConfig, backendHandler http.HandlerFunc) (string, edgev1connect.GatewayClient, func()) {
 	t.Helper()
 	backendSrv := httptest.NewServer(backendHandler)
 	backend, err := backendclient.New(backendSrv.URL, "localhost:9090", 2*time.Second)
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ func guardedEdge(t *testing.T, bl *ratelimit.Banlist, honeytoken string, limits
 		Sessions:   session.NewCache(backend, time.Minute, 100),
 		Limiter:    ratelimit.New(),
 		Banlist:    bl,
+		Blocklist:  block,
 		Honeytoken: honeytoken,
 		Hub:        push.NewHub(0),
 		RateLimit:  limits,
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ func enabledBanlist(threshold int) *ratelimit.Banlist {
 func TestAbuseGuardBlocksBannedIP(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := enabledBanlist(100)
 	bl.BanNow("127.0.0.1", ratelimit.ReasonTripwire)
-	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {})
+	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {})
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	resp, err := noRedirect().Get(url + "/")
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ func TestAbuseGuardBlocksBannedIP(t *testing.T) {
 // and bans the client IP, so the next request is blocked.
 func TestHoneypotHeaderTrips(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := enabledBanlist(100)
-	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		t.Error("backend must not be called for a honeypot hit")
 	})
 	defer cleanup()
@@ -118,7 +120,7 @@ func TestHoneypotHeaderTrips(t *testing.T) {
 // banlist still 404s the decoy (detection/logging) but bans nothing.
 func TestHoneypotDetectsWithoutBanWhenDisabled(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := ratelimit.NewBanlist(ratelimit.BanConfig{}) // disabled
-	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {})
+	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {})
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	req, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, url+"/.env", nil)
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@ func TestPublicRejectionStrikesBan(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := enabledBanlist(1)
 	limits := config.DefaultRateLimit()
 	limits.PublicPerMinute, limits.PublicBurst = 1, 1
-	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "", limits, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "", limits, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"token":"tok","user_id":"u-1","is_guest":true,"display_name":"Guest"}`))
 	})
 	defer cleanup()
@@ -173,7 +175,7 @@ func TestUserRejectionDoesNotBan(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := enabledBanlist(1)
 	limits := config.DefaultRateLimit()
 	limits.UserPerMinute, limits.UserBurst = 1, 1
-	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "", limits, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "", limits, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		switch r.URL.Path {
 		case "/api/v1/internal/sessions/resolve":
 			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"user_id":"u-1","is_guest":false}`))
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ func TestUserRejectionDoesNotBan(t *testing.T) {
 // caller and returns the ordinary invalid-session error without a backend call.
 func TestHoneytokenBansAndRejects(t *testing.T) {
 	bl := enabledBanlist(100)
-	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, "s3cr3t-trap", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	_, client, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, bl, nil, "s3cr3t-trap", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		t.Error("backend must not be called for the honeytoken")
 	})
 	defer cleanup()
@@ -217,3 +219,25 @@ func TestHoneytokenBansAndRejects(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("the honeytoken must ban the caller")
 	}
 }
+
+// TestAbuseGuardBlocksBlocklistedIP verifies a client IP in the community blocklist feed is refused
+// with 403 at the HTTP layer, before any handler runs.
+func TestAbuseGuardBlocksBlocklistedIP(t *testing.T) {
+	block := ratelimit.NewBlocklist(true, nil)
+	_, feed, err := net.ParseCIDR("127.0.0.0/8")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	block.SetCIDRs([]*net.IPNet{feed}, time.Now())
+	url, _, cleanup := guardedEdge(t, nil, block, "", config.DefaultRateLimit(), func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {})
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	resp, err := noRedirect().Get(url + "/")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("get: %v", err)
+	}
+	_ = resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusForbidden {
+		t.Fatalf("blocklisted GET / = %d, want 403", resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+}

gateway/internal/connectsrv/metrics.go

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/noop"
+
+	"scrabble/gateway/internal/ratelimit"
 )
 
 // meterName scopes the gateway edge's OpenTelemetry instruments.
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ type serverMetrics struct {
 	edge        metric.Float64Histogram
 	rateLimited metric.Int64Counter
 	banned      metric.Int64Counter
+	blocklisted metric.Int64Counter
 	active      *activeUsers
 	// Client-reported local move-preview adoption (see localEvalMetricsHandler).
 	localColdStart metric.Int64Counter
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ type serverMetrics struct {
 // falling back to a no-op histogram on the (rare) construction error. The
 // active_users gauge is registered as an observable callback over the in-memory
 // tracker.
-func newServerMetrics(meter metric.Meter) *serverMetrics {
+func newServerMetrics(meter metric.Meter, bl *ratelimit.Blocklist) *serverMetrics {
 	if meter == nil {
 		meter = noop.NewMeterProvider().Meter(meterName)
 	}
@@ -68,6 +71,8 @@ func newServerMetrics(meter metric.Meter) *serverMetrics {
 	}
 	m := &serverMetrics{
 		edge: h, rateLimited: c, banned: b, active: newActiveUsers(),
+		blocklisted: counterOf(meter, "gateway_blocklist_blocked_total",
+			"Requests refused at the edge by the community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP)."),
 		localColdStart: counterOf(meter, "local_eval_cold_start_total", "App cold starts reported by clients — the denominator for local-move-preview adoption."),
 		localDictLoad:  counterOf(meter, "local_eval_dict_load_total", "Client dictionary loads for the local move preview, by result (fetched, cache_hit or miss)."),
 		localPreview:   counterOf(meter, "local_eval_preview_total", "Client move previews, by path (local on-device, or network fallback)."),
@@ -90,6 +95,25 @@ func newServerMetrics(meter metric.Meter) *serverMetrics {
 			return nil
 		}, gauge)
 	}
+
+	// Community blocklist status: the feed size and how stale it is, for the dashboard and the
+	// "feed not refreshing" alert. Age is observed only once a feed has loaded, so a disabled or
+	// never-fetched blocklist reports no age (and entries 0).
+	if bl != nil {
+		entries, e1 := meter.Int64ObservableGauge("gateway_blocklist_entries",
+			metric.WithDescription("CIDR ranges in the active community IP blocklist feed."))
+		age, e2 := meter.Float64ObservableGauge("gateway_blocklist_age_seconds",
+			metric.WithDescription("Seconds since the community IP blocklist feed was last successfully fetched (absent until the first fetch)."))
+		if e1 == nil && e2 == nil {
+			_, _ = meter.RegisterCallback(func(_ context.Context, o metric.Observer) error {
+				o.ObserveInt64(entries, int64(bl.Len()))
+				if last := bl.LastFetch(); !last.IsZero() {
+					o.ObserveFloat64(age, time.Since(last).Seconds())
+				}
+				return nil
+			}, entries, age)
+		}
+	}
 	return m
 }
 
@@ -118,6 +142,11 @@ func (m *serverMetrics) recordBan(ctx context.Context, reason string) {
 	m.banned.Add(ctx, 1, metric.WithAttributes(attribute.String("reason", reason)))
 }
 
+// recordBlocklistBlock counts one request refused by the community IP blocklist.
+func (m *serverMetrics) recordBlocklistBlock(ctx context.Context) {
+	m.blocklisted.Add(ctx, 1)
+}
+
 // recordUnsupportedEngine counts one client turned away by the unsupported-engine boot screen,
 // labelled by reason and Chromium major. The caller passes both already reduced to bounded label
 // sets (see normalizeUnsupported) so a spoofed beacon cannot explode the metric cardinality.

gateway/internal/connectsrv/metrics_test.go

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ func TestEdgeMetric(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	reader := sdkmetric.NewManualReader()
 	meter := sdkmetric.NewMeterProvider(sdkmetric.WithReader(reader)).Meter("test")
-	m := newServerMetrics(meter)
+	m := newServerMetrics(meter, nil)
 
 	m.recordEdge(ctx, "game.submit_play", "ok", time.Now().Add(-time.Millisecond))
 	m.recordEdge(ctx, "game.submit_play", "ok", time.Now().Add(-time.Millisecond))
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func TestRateLimitedMetric(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	reader := sdkmetric.NewManualReader()
 	meter := sdkmetric.NewMeterProvider(sdkmetric.WithReader(reader)).Meter("test")
-	m := newServerMetrics(meter)
+	m := newServerMetrics(meter, nil)
 
 	m.recordRateLimited(ctx, "user")
 	m.recordRateLimited(ctx, "user")
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func TestBannedMetric(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	reader := sdkmetric.NewManualReader()
 	meter := sdkmetric.NewMeterProvider(sdkmetric.WithReader(reader)).Meter("test")
-	m := newServerMetrics(meter)
+	m := newServerMetrics(meter, nil)
 
 	m.recordBan(ctx, "tripwire")
 	m.recordBan(ctx, "tripwire")
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func TestUnsupportedEngineMetric(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	reader := sdkmetric.NewManualReader()
 	meter := sdkmetric.NewMeterProvider(sdkmetric.WithReader(reader)).Meter("test")
-	m := newServerMetrics(meter)
+	m := newServerMetrics(meter, nil)
 
 	m.recordUnsupportedEngine(ctx, "no_bigint", "66")
 	m.recordUnsupportedEngine(ctx, "no_bigint", "66")

gateway/internal/connectsrv/server.go

@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ type Server struct {
 	limiter     *ratelimit.Limiter
 	tracker     *ratelimit.Tracker
 	banlist     *ratelimit.Banlist
+	blocklist   *ratelimit.Blocklist
 	honeytoken  string
 	vkAppSecret string
 	hub         *push.Hub
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ type Deps struct {
 	// Banlist enforces temporary IP bans on the hot path; nil selects a disabled
 	// (inert) banlist.
 	Banlist *ratelimit.Banlist
+	// Blocklist enforces the community IP blocklist on the hot path; nil selects a
+	// disabled (inert) blocklist.
+	Blocklist *ratelimit.Blocklist
 	// Honeytoken, when non-empty, is the planted bearer value whose presentation
 	// bans the caller and raises a high-severity alarm.
 	Honeytoken string
@@ -148,6 +152,10 @@ func NewServer(d Deps) *Server {
 	if banlist == nil {
 		banlist = ratelimit.NewBanlist(ratelimit.BanConfig{})
 	}
+	blocklist := d.Blocklist
+	if blocklist == nil {
+		blocklist = ratelimit.NewBlocklist(false, nil)
+	}
 	rl := d.RateLimit
 	if rl == (config.RateLimitConfig{}) {
 		rl = config.DefaultRateLimit()
@@ -160,12 +168,13 @@ func NewServer(d Deps) *Server {
 		limiter:      limiter,
 		tracker:      tracker,
 		banlist:      banlist,
+		blocklist:    blocklist,
 		honeytoken:   d.Honeytoken,
 		hub:          d.Hub,
 		heartbeat:    d.Heartbeat,
 		log:          log,
 		adminProxy:   d.AdminProxy,
-		metrics:      newServerMetrics(d.Meter),
+		metrics:      newServerMetrics(d.Meter, blocklist),
 		maxBodyBytes: maxBody,
 		publicPolicy: ratelimit.PerMinute(rl.PublicPerMinute, rl.PublicBurst),
 		userPolicy:   ratelimit.PerMinute(rl.UserPerMinute, rl.UserBurst),
@@ -255,6 +264,13 @@ func (s *Server) abuseGuard(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
 			http.Error(w, "banned", http.StatusTooManyRequests)
 			return
 		}
+		// The community IP blocklist (Spamhaus DROP): a known-bad source is refused before any work.
+		// Counted, not logged per request (a blocked scanner hammers). Inert on a disabled blocklist.
+		if s.blocklist.Blocked(ip) {
+			s.metrics.recordBlocklistBlock(r.Context())
+			http.Error(w, "forbidden", http.StatusForbidden)
+			return
+		}
 		if r.Header.Get(honeypotHeader) != "" {
 			s.log.Warn("honeypot tripwire",
 				zap.String("path", r.URL.Path),

gateway/internal/ratelimit/blocklist.go

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+package ratelimit
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// ipRange is an inclusive IPv4 range [lo, hi] as uint32 — the form the blocklist matches against.
+type ipRange struct{ lo, hi uint32 }
+
+// Blocklist is a static IPv4 CIDR blocklist (a curated community feed such as Spamhaus DROP) enforced
+// on the hot path alongside the fail2ban [Banlist]. It is refreshed periodically ([ApplyRefresh]); an
+// allowlist (never blocked) protects known-good infrastructure and is checked first. Only IPv4 is
+// matched — an IPv6 client is never blocked here (the fail2ban list and the honeypot still cover it).
+// Disabled by default (prod-only, like the ban): while disabled, Blocked is always false.
+type Blocklist struct {
+	enabled bool
+	allow   []ipRange // sorted, non-overlapping; from config, immutable after construction
+
+	mu        sync.RWMutex
+	ranges    []ipRange // sorted, non-overlapping; the current feed
+	fetchedAt time.Time // last successful SetCIDRs; zero = never loaded
+}
+
+// NewBlocklist builds a Blocklist. enabled gates the whole mechanism; allow is the never-block set
+// (CIDRs / bare IPs already parsed) — a client in it is never blocked even if the feed lists it.
+func NewBlocklist(enabled bool, allow []*net.IPNet) *Blocklist {
+	return &Blocklist{enabled: enabled, allow: toRanges(allow)}
+}
+
+// Blocked reports whether ip (a textual address) is in the current feed and not allowlisted. It is
+// false on a disabled or empty blocklist, and false for any non-IPv4 address.
+func (b *Blocklist) Blocked(ip string) bool {
+	if !b.enabled {
+		return false
+	}
+	v, ok := ipv4ToUint32(ip)
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	b.mu.RLock()
+	defer b.mu.RUnlock()
+	if len(b.ranges) == 0 || rangesContain(b.allow, v) {
+		return false
+	}
+	return rangesContain(b.ranges, v)
+}
+
+// SetCIDRs swaps in a freshly fetched feed, recording the fetch time. Non-IPv4 CIDRs are ignored.
+func (b *Blocklist) SetCIDRs(cidrs []*net.IPNet, at time.Time) {
+	r := toRanges(cidrs)
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	b.ranges = r
+	b.fetchedAt = at
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// Clear drops the current feed (fail-open) but keeps the last-fetch time, so a staleness gauge keeps
+// climbing. Blocked then returns false until a fresh feed loads.
+func (b *Blocklist) Clear() {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	b.ranges = nil
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// Len returns the number of ranges currently enforced.
+func (b *Blocklist) Len() int {
+	b.mu.RLock()
+	defer b.mu.RUnlock()
+	return len(b.ranges)
+}
+
+// LastFetch returns the time of the last successful feed load (zero if never).
+func (b *Blocklist) LastFetch() time.Time {
+	b.mu.RLock()
+	defer b.mu.RUnlock()
+	return b.fetchedAt
+}
+
+// RefreshOutcome is the result of one refresh attempt, for the caller's logging and metrics.
+type RefreshOutcome int
+
+const (
+	// RefreshUpdated: a new feed was fetched and applied.
+	RefreshUpdated RefreshOutcome = iota
+	// RefreshKept: the fetch failed but the last-good feed is still fresh, so it was kept.
+	RefreshKept
+	// RefreshDropped: the fetch failed and the feed went stale, so it was dropped (fail-open).
+	RefreshDropped
+)
+
+// ApplyRefresh updates bl from one fetch outcome: on success it applies the new feed; on failure it
+// keeps the last-good feed unless it is older than maxStaleness, in which case it drops it (fail-open
+// — better to under-block than to block a legitimate client on a frozen feed). now is the wall clock.
+func ApplyRefresh(bl *Blocklist, cidrs []*net.IPNet, fetchErr error, now time.Time, maxStaleness time.Duration) RefreshOutcome {
+	if fetchErr == nil {
+		bl.SetCIDRs(cidrs, now)
+		return RefreshUpdated
+	}
+	last := bl.LastFetch()
+	if last.IsZero() || now.Sub(last) > maxStaleness {
+		bl.Clear()
+		return RefreshDropped
+	}
+	return RefreshKept
+}
+
+// ParseDROP parses a Spamhaus DROP-style feed: one CIDR per line with an optional "; comment" tail,
+// plus blank and comment lines. It returns the IPv4 networks; a bare IP is read as a /32, and
+// non-IPv4 or malformed entries are skipped so one bad line never fails the whole feed.
+func ParseDROP(r io.Reader) ([]*net.IPNet, error) {
+	var out []*net.IPNet
+	sc := bufio.NewScanner(r)
+	sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 0, 64*1024), 1<<20)
+	for sc.Scan() {
+		line := sc.Text()
+		if i := strings.IndexByte(line, ';'); i >= 0 {
+			line = line[:i]
+		}
+		line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if line == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(line, "/") {
+			line += "/32"
+		}
+		_, ipnet, err := net.ParseCIDR(line)
+		if err != nil || ipnet.IP.To4() == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, ipnet)
+	}
+	if err := sc.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ratelimit: read blocklist: %w", err)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// toRanges converts IPv4 CIDRs to sorted, uint32 inclusive ranges (the match form); non-IPv4 CIDRs
+// are dropped. Sorting by lo lets [rangesContain] binary-search.
+func toRanges(cidrs []*net.IPNet) []ipRange {
+	out := make([]ipRange, 0, len(cidrs))
+	for _, n := range cidrs {
+		if n == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		ip4 := n.IP.To4()
+		if ip4 == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		ones, bits := n.Mask.Size()
+		if bits != 32 {
+			continue
+		}
+		lo := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(ip4)
+		hi := lo | (uint32(0xffffffff) >> uint(ones))
+		out = append(out, ipRange{lo: lo, hi: hi})
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].lo < out[j].lo })
+	return out
+}
+
+// rangesContain reports whether v falls in any range of the sorted, non-overlapping slice, via a
+// binary search for the last range whose lo is at most v.
+func rangesContain(ranges []ipRange, v uint32) bool {
+	i := sort.Search(len(ranges), func(i int) bool { return ranges[i].lo > v })
+	return i > 0 && ranges[i-1].hi >= v
+}
+
+// ipv4ToUint32 parses a textual address to a big-endian uint32, reporting whether it was IPv4.
+func ipv4ToUint32(s string) (uint32, bool) {
+	ip := net.ParseIP(s)
+	if ip == nil {
+		return 0, false
+	}
+	ip4 := ip.To4()
+	if ip4 == nil {
+		return 0, false
+	}
+	return binary.BigEndian.Uint32(ip4), true
+}

gateway/internal/ratelimit/blocklist_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+package ratelimit
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"net"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// cidrs parses CIDR strings into networks for a test fixture.
+func cidrs(t *testing.T, ss ...string) []*net.IPNet {
+	t.Helper()
+	out := make([]*net.IPNet, 0, len(ss))
+	for _, s := range ss {
+		_, n, err := net.ParseCIDR(s)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("bad cidr %q: %v", s, err)
+		}
+		out = append(out, n)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestBlocklistBlocked(t *testing.T) {
+	bl := NewBlocklist(true, cidrs(t, "10.20.30.0/24")) // allowlist
+	bl.SetCIDRs(cidrs(t, "1.2.3.0/24", "203.0.113.5/32", "198.51.100.0/28", "10.20.30.0/24"), time.Now())
+	cases := map[string]bool{
+		"1.2.3.0":       true,  // range start
+		"1.2.3.255":     true,  // range end
+		"1.2.4.0":       false, // just past the /24
+		"203.0.113.5":   true,  // /32 exact
+		"203.0.113.6":   false,
+		"198.51.100.15": true,  // within /28
+		"198.51.100.16": false, // past the /28
+		"9.9.9.9":       false, // not listed
+		"10.20.30.99":   false, // listed BUT allowlisted — never blocked
+		"::1":           false, // IPv6 — never matched here
+		"not-an-ip":     false,
+	}
+	for ip, want := range cases {
+		if got := bl.Blocked(ip); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("Blocked(%q) = %v, want %v", ip, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBlocklistDisabledOrEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	off := NewBlocklist(false, nil)
+	off.SetCIDRs(cidrs(t, "1.2.3.0/24"), time.Now())
+	if off.Blocked("1.2.3.4") {
+		t.Error("a disabled blocklist must not block")
+	}
+	empty := NewBlocklist(true, nil)
+	if empty.Blocked("1.2.3.4") {
+		t.Error("an empty (never-loaded) blocklist must not block")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseDROP(t *testing.T) {
+	in := "; Spamhaus DROP\n" +
+		"1.2.3.0/24 ; SBL1\n" +
+		"  198.51.100.0/28 ; SBL2\n" +
+		"\n" +
+		"203.0.113.5 ; a bare IP -> /32\n" +
+		"2001:db8::/32 ; IPv6 skipped\n" +
+		"garbage line\n"
+	nets, err := ParseDROP(strings.NewReader(in))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(nets) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d networks, want 3: %v", len(nets), nets)
+	}
+	bl := NewBlocklist(true, nil)
+	bl.SetCIDRs(nets, time.Now())
+	for ip, want := range map[string]bool{"1.2.3.9": true, "198.51.100.1": true, "203.0.113.5": true, "203.0.113.6": false, "2001:db8::1": false} {
+		if got := bl.Blocked(ip); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("Blocked(%s) = %v, want %v", ip, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyRefresh(t *testing.T) {
+	bl := NewBlocklist(true, nil)
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	if o := ApplyRefresh(bl, cidrs(t, "1.2.3.0/24"), nil, now, time.Hour); o != RefreshUpdated {
+		t.Fatalf("success: want RefreshUpdated, got %v", o)
+	}
+	if !bl.Blocked("1.2.3.4") {
+		t.Fatal("a successful refresh must apply the feed")
+	}
+	if o := ApplyRefresh(bl, nil, errors.New("net"), now.Add(30*time.Minute), time.Hour); o != RefreshKept {
+		t.Fatalf("fresh failure: want RefreshKept, got %v", o)
+	}
+	if !bl.Blocked("1.2.3.4") {
+		t.Error("a kept feed must still block")
+	}
+	if o := ApplyRefresh(bl, nil, errors.New("net"), now.Add(2*time.Hour), time.Hour); o != RefreshDropped {
+		t.Fatalf("stale failure: want RefreshDropped, got %v", o)
+	}
+	if bl.Blocked("1.2.3.4") {
+		t.Error("a stale feed must be dropped (fail-open)")
+	}
+}

gateway/internal/transcode/encode.go

@@ -194,6 +194,15 @@ func encodeProfile(p backendclient.ProfileResp) []byte {
 		fb.AdsInfoAddSuppressed(b, p.Ads.Suppressed)
 		ads = fb.AdsInfoEnd(b)
 	}
+	// The active-game limits table (scalars only), built before Profile is opened.
+	var gameLimits flatbuffers.UOffsetT
+	if p.GameLimits != nil {
+		fb.GameLimitsStart(b)
+		fb.GameLimitsAddVsAi(b, int32(p.GameLimits.VsAI))
+		fb.GameLimitsAddRandom(b, int32(p.GameLimits.Random))
+		fb.GameLimitsAddFriends(b, int32(p.GameLimits.Friends))
+		gameLimits = fb.GameLimitsEnd(b)
+	}
 	fb.ProfileStart(b)
 	fb.ProfileAddUserId(b, uid)
 	fb.ProfileAddDisplayName(b, name)
@@ -219,6 +228,9 @@ func encodeProfile(p backendclient.ProfileResp) []byte {
 	if p.Ads != nil {
 		fb.ProfileAddAds(b, ads)
 	}
+	if p.GameLimits != nil {
+		fb.ProfileAddGameLimits(b, gameLimits)
+	}
 	b.Finish(fb.ProfileEnd(b))
 	return b.FinishedBytes()
 }
@@ -624,6 +636,7 @@ func toWireGame(g backendclient.GameResp) wire.GameView {
 		LastActivityUnix:     g.LastActivityUnix,
 		UnreadChat:           g.UnreadChat,
 		UnreadMessages:       g.UnreadMessages,
+		Kind:                 g.Kind,
 	}
 }
 

gateway/internal/transcode/transcode_gamelimits_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package transcode_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+
+	"scrabble/gateway/internal/transcode"
+	fb "scrabble/pkg/fbs/scrabblefb"
+)
+
+// TestProfileGetEncodesGameLimits verifies the gateway forwards the backend's per-kind active-game
+// caps into the Profile payload — the caps the client's New-Game lock reads. The encode is not
+// exercised by the mock e2e (it bypasses the codec), so a dropped field would only surface here.
+func TestProfileGetEncodesGameLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	backend, cleanup := fakeBackend(t, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if r.Method != http.MethodGet || r.URL.Path != "/api/v1/user/profile" {
+			t.Errorf("unexpected %s %q", r.Method, r.URL.Path)
+		}
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"user_id":"u-1","display_name":"Kaya","preferred_language":"en",` +
+			`"game_limits":{"vs_ai":1,"random":1,"friends":0}}`))
+	})
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	reg := transcode.NewRegistry(backend, nil)
+	op, ok := reg.Lookup(transcode.MsgProfileGet)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("profile.get not registered")
+	}
+	payload, err := op.Handler(context.Background(), transcode.Request{UserID: "u-1"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("handler: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	gl := fb.GetRootAsProfile(payload, 0).GameLimits(nil)
+	if gl == nil {
+		t.Fatal("profile carries no game_limits block")
+	}
+	if gl.VsAi() != 1 || gl.Random() != 1 || gl.Friends() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("game limits = %d/%d/%d, want 1/1/0", gl.VsAi(), gl.Random(), gl.Friends())
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProfileGetNoGameLimits verifies a profile without a game_limits block encodes none (the
+// backend omits it only when the limits config is unwired; normally the block is present).
+func TestProfileGetNoGameLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	backend, cleanup := fakeBackend(t, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"user_id":"u-1","display_name":"Kaya","preferred_language":"en"}`))
+	})
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	reg := transcode.NewRegistry(backend, nil)
+	op, _ := reg.Lookup(transcode.MsgProfileGet)
+	payload, err := op.Handler(context.Background(), transcode.Request{UserID: "u-1"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("handler: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p := fb.GetRootAsProfile(payload, 0); p.GameLimits(nil) != nil {
+		t.Error("profile without a game_limits block unexpectedly carries one")
+	}
+}

pkg/fbs/scrabble.fbs

@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ table GameView {
   // message (not just a nudge). With unread_chat it colours the badge — both set is the regular
   // badge, unread_chat alone is the softer nudge-only badge.
   unread_messages:bool;
+  // kind is the game's origin for the active-game limits: 0 unknown (a pre-existing game, never
+  // gated), 1 vs_ai, 2 random, 3 friends. The lobby counts active games per kind against the
+  // caller's per-kind limits (Profile.game_limits) to lock a capped New-Game start (added
+  // trailing — backward-compatible).
+  kind:int;
 }
 
 // MoveRecord is one decoded move (a committed play, or a hint preview).
@@ -267,6 +272,10 @@ table Profile {
   // ads carries the post-move interstitial config (cooldowns + suppressed) for the client-mirrored
   // gate (added trailing — backward-compatible).
   ads:AdsInfo;
+  // game_limits carries the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited); the client
+  // counts its active games per kind from the lobby and locks a capped New-Game start (added
+  // trailing — backward-compatible).
+  game_limits:GameLimits;
 }
 
 // AdsInfo is the post-move interstitial config: the client-mirrored cooldowns (seconds) and whether
@@ -278,6 +287,15 @@ table AdsInfo {
   suppressed:bool;
 }
 
+// GameLimits is the caller's tier active-game caps per kind (-1 = unlimited), resolved to the
+// guest or durable tier server-side. It rides Profile.game_limits for the client's per-kind
+// New-Game lock.
+table GameLimits {
+  vs_ai:int;
+  random:int;
+  friends:int;
+}
+
 // BlockStatus reports the caller's current manual block. The UI fetches it after any operation
 // returns the "account_blocked" result code, then replaces every screen with the terminal blocked
 // screen and stops all push/poll. permanent is false for a temporary block; until is an RFC3339

pkg/fbs/scrabblefb/GameLimits.go

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// Code generated by the FlatBuffers compiler. DO NOT EDIT.
+
+package scrabblefb
+
+import (
+	flatbuffers "github.com/google/flatbuffers/go"
+)
+
+type GameLimits struct {
+	_tab flatbuffers.Table
+}
+
+func GetRootAsGameLimits(buf []byte, offset flatbuffers.UOffsetT) *GameLimits {
+	n := flatbuffers.GetUOffsetT(buf[offset:])
+	x := &GameLimits{}
+	x.Init(buf, n+offset)
+	return x
+}
+
+func FinishGameLimitsBuffer(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, offset flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
+	builder.Finish(offset)
+}
+
+func GetSizePrefixedRootAsGameLimits(buf []byte, offset flatbuffers.UOffsetT) *GameLimits {
+	n := flatbuffers.GetUOffsetT(buf[offset+flatbuffers.SizeUint32:])
+	x := &GameLimits{}
+	x.Init(buf, n+offset+flatbuffers.SizeUint32)
+	return x
+}
+
+func FinishSizePrefixedGameLimitsBuffer(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, offset flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
+	builder.FinishSizePrefixed(offset)
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) Init(buf []byte, i flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
+	rcv._tab.Bytes = buf
+	rcv._tab.Pos = i
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) Table() flatbuffers.Table {
+	return rcv._tab
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) VsAi() int32 {
+	o := flatbuffers.UOffsetT(rcv._tab.Offset(4))
+	if o != 0 {
+		return rcv._tab.GetInt32(o + rcv._tab.Pos)
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) MutateVsAi(n int32) bool {
+	return rcv._tab.MutateInt32Slot(4, n)
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) Random() int32 {
+	o := flatbuffers.UOffsetT(rcv._tab.Offset(6))
+	if o != 0 {
+		return rcv._tab.GetInt32(o + rcv._tab.Pos)
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) MutateRandom(n int32) bool {
+	return rcv._tab.MutateInt32Slot(6, n)
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) Friends() int32 {
+	o := flatbuffers.UOffsetT(rcv._tab.Offset(8))
+	if o != 0 {
+		return rcv._tab.GetInt32(o + rcv._tab.Pos)
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameLimits) MutateFriends(n int32) bool {
+	return rcv._tab.MutateInt32Slot(8, n)
+}
+
+func GameLimitsStart(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) {
+	builder.StartObject(3)
+}
+func GameLimitsAddVsAi(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, vsAi int32) {
+	builder.PrependInt32Slot(0, vsAi, 0)
+}
+func GameLimitsAddRandom(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, random int32) {
+	builder.PrependInt32Slot(1, random, 0)
+}
+func GameLimitsAddFriends(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, friends int32) {
+	builder.PrependInt32Slot(2, friends, 0)
+}
+func GameLimitsEnd(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) flatbuffers.UOffsetT {
+	return builder.EndObject()
+}

pkg/fbs/scrabblefb/GameView.go

@@ -209,8 +209,20 @@ func (rcv *GameView) MutateUnreadMessages(n bool) bool {
 	return rcv._tab.MutateBoolSlot(32, n)
 }
 
+func (rcv *GameView) Kind() int32 {
+	o := flatbuffers.UOffsetT(rcv._tab.Offset(34))
+	if o != 0 {
+		return rcv._tab.GetInt32(o + rcv._tab.Pos)
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (rcv *GameView) MutateKind(n int32) bool {
+	return rcv._tab.MutateInt32Slot(34, n)
+}
+
 func GameViewStart(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) {
-	builder.StartObject(15)
+	builder.StartObject(16)
 }
 func GameViewAddId(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, id flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
 	builder.PrependUOffsetTSlot(0, flatbuffers.UOffsetT(id), 0)
@@ -260,6 +272,9 @@ func GameViewAddUnreadChat(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, unreadChat bool) {
 func GameViewAddUnreadMessages(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, unreadMessages bool) {
 	builder.PrependBoolSlot(14, unreadMessages, false)
 }
+func GameViewAddKind(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, kind int32) {
+	builder.PrependInt32Slot(15, kind, 0)
+}
 func GameViewEnd(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) flatbuffers.UOffsetT {
 	return builder.EndObject()
 }

pkg/fbs/scrabblefb/Profile.go

@@ -244,8 +244,21 @@ func (rcv *Profile) Ads(obj *AdsInfo) *AdsInfo {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (rcv *Profile) GameLimits(obj *GameLimits) *GameLimits {
+	o := flatbuffers.UOffsetT(rcv._tab.Offset(40))
+	if o != 0 {
+		x := rcv._tab.Indirect(o + rcv._tab.Pos)
+		if obj == nil {
+			obj = new(GameLimits)
+		}
+		obj.Init(rcv._tab.Bytes, x)
+		return obj
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func ProfileStart(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) {
-	builder.StartObject(18)
+	builder.StartObject(19)
 }
 func ProfileAddUserId(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, userId flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
 	builder.PrependUOffsetTSlot(0, flatbuffers.UOffsetT(userId), 0)
@@ -307,6 +320,9 @@ func ProfileStartDictVersionsVector(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, numElems int)
 func ProfileAddAds(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, ads flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
 	builder.PrependUOffsetTSlot(17, flatbuffers.UOffsetT(ads), 0)
 }
+func ProfileAddGameLimits(builder *flatbuffers.Builder, gameLimits flatbuffers.UOffsetT) {
+	builder.PrependUOffsetTSlot(18, flatbuffers.UOffsetT(gameLimits), 0)
+}
 func ProfileEnd(builder *flatbuffers.Builder) flatbuffers.UOffsetT {
 	return builder.EndObject()
 }

pkg/proto/botlink/v1/botlink.pb.go

@@ -30,13 +30,14 @@ const (
 )
 
 // FromBot is a message the bot sends to the gateway: the opening Hello, then one
-// Ack per Command.
+// Ack per Command and a periodic Health report.
 type FromBot struct {
 	state protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
 	// Types that are valid to be assigned to Msg:
 	//
 	//	*FromBot_Hello
 	//	*FromBot_Ack
+	//	*FromBot_Health
 	Msg           isFromBot_Msg `protobuf_oneof:"msg"`
 	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
@@ -97,6 +98,15 @@ func (x *FromBot) GetAck() *Ack {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (x *FromBot) GetHealth() *Health {
+	if x != nil {
+		if x, ok := x.Msg.(*FromBot_Health); ok {
+			return x.Health
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 type isFromBot_Msg interface {
 	isFromBot_Msg()
 }
@@ -109,10 +119,92 @@ type FromBot_Ack struct {
 	Ack *Ack `protobuf:"bytes,2,opt,name=ack,proto3,oneof"`
 }
 
+type FromBot_Health struct {
+	Health *Health `protobuf:"bytes,3,opt,name=health,proto3,oneof"`
+}
+
 func (*FromBot_Hello) isFromBot_Msg() {}
 
 func (*FromBot_Ack) isFromBot_Msg() {}
 
+func (*FromBot_Health) isFromBot_Msg() {}
+
+// Health is a periodic report the bot pushes up the stream so the gateway can expose the remote
+// bot's Bot-API health as its own metrics — the bot exports no telemetry of its own (otelcol lives
+// on the main host, unreachable from the bot), so the bot-link is its only channel out. The three
+// counters are DELTAS since the previous Health: the gateway adds them to cumulative counters, so a
+// report lost across a reconnect only undercounts, never corrupts. last_ok_unix is the wall-clock
+// second of the bot's most recent successful Bot API response (any call, including the getUpdates
+// long-poll that returns every poll cycle even when idle) — an absolute liveness stamp the gateway
+// surfaces as a gauge, so a silently stalled bot (no errors, no traffic) is still caught.
+type Health struct {
+	state           protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
+	ConnectFailures uint64                 `protobuf:"varint,1,opt,name=connect_failures,json=connectFailures,proto3" json:"connect_failures,omitempty"` // getUpdates long-poll failures (transport / 5xx) since the last report
+	ApiErrors       uint64                 `protobuf:"varint,2,opt,name=api_errors,json=apiErrors,proto3" json:"api_errors,omitempty"`                   // other Bot API failures (transport / 5xx) since the last report
+	RateLimited     uint64                 `protobuf:"varint,3,opt,name=rate_limited,json=rateLimited,proto3" json:"rate_limited,omitempty"`             // Bot API 429 responses since the last report (should stay ~0)
+	LastOkUnix      int64                  `protobuf:"varint,4,opt,name=last_ok_unix,json=lastOkUnix,proto3" json:"last_ok_unix,omitempty"`              // unix seconds of the last successful Bot API response (0 = none yet)
+	unknownFields   protoimpl.UnknownFields
+	sizeCache       protoimpl.SizeCache
+}
+
+func (x *Health) Reset() {
+	*x = Health{}
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[1]
+	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
+	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
+}
+
+func (x *Health) String() string {
+	return protoimpl.X.MessageStringOf(x)
+}
+
+func (*Health) ProtoMessage() {}
+
+func (x *Health) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[1]
+	if x != nil {
+		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
+		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
+			ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
+		}
+		return ms
+	}
+	return mi.MessageOf(x)
+}
+
+// Deprecated: Use Health.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
+func (*Health) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{1}
+}
+
+func (x *Health) GetConnectFailures() uint64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.ConnectFailures
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *Health) GetApiErrors() uint64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.ApiErrors
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *Health) GetRateLimited() uint64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.RateLimited
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *Health) GetLastOkUnix() int64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.LastOkUnix
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 // ToBot is a message the gateway sends to the bot. Only Command is carried today.
 type ToBot struct {
 	state         protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
@@ -123,7 +215,7 @@ type ToBot struct {
 
 func (x *ToBot) Reset() {
 	*x = ToBot{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[1]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[2]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -135,7 +227,7 @@ func (x *ToBot) String() string {
 func (*ToBot) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ToBot) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[1]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[2]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -148,7 +240,7 @@ func (x *ToBot) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ToBot.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ToBot) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{1}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{2}
 }
 
 func (x *ToBot) GetCommand() *Command {
@@ -171,7 +263,7 @@ type Hello struct {
 
 func (x *Hello) Reset() {
 	*x = Hello{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[2]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[3]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -183,7 +275,7 @@ func (x *Hello) String() string {
 func (*Hello) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *Hello) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[2]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[3]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -196,7 +288,7 @@ func (x *Hello) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use Hello.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*Hello) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{2}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{3}
 }
 
 func (x *Hello) GetInstanceId() string {
@@ -233,7 +325,7 @@ type Command struct {
 
 func (x *Command) Reset() {
 	*x = Command{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[3]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[4]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -245,7 +337,7 @@ func (x *Command) String() string {
 func (*Command) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *Command) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[3]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[4]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -258,7 +350,7 @@ func (x *Command) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use Command.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*Command) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{3}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{4}
 }
 
 func (x *Command) GetCommandId() string {
@@ -372,7 +464,7 @@ type Ack struct {
 
 func (x *Ack) Reset() {
 	*x = Ack{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[4]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[5]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -384,7 +476,7 @@ func (x *Ack) String() string {
 func (*Ack) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *Ack) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[4]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[5]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -397,7 +489,7 @@ func (x *Ack) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use Ack.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*Ack) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{4}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{5}
 }
 
 func (x *Ack) GetCommandId() string {
@@ -445,7 +537,7 @@ type ChatGateCommand struct {
 
 func (x *ChatGateCommand) Reset() {
 	*x = ChatGateCommand{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[5]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[6]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -457,7 +549,7 @@ func (x *ChatGateCommand) String() string {
 func (*ChatGateCommand) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ChatGateCommand) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[5]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[6]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -470,7 +562,7 @@ func (x *ChatGateCommand) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ChatGateCommand.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ChatGateCommand) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{5}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{6}
 }
 
 func (x *ChatGateCommand) GetExternalId() string {
@@ -498,7 +590,7 @@ type ChatEligibilityRequest struct {
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityRequest) Reset() {
 	*x = ChatEligibilityRequest{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[6]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[7]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -510,7 +602,7 @@ func (x *ChatEligibilityRequest) String() string {
 func (*ChatEligibilityRequest) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[6]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[7]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -523,7 +615,7 @@ func (x *ChatEligibilityRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ChatEligibilityRequest.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ChatEligibilityRequest) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{6}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{7}
 }
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityRequest) GetExternalId() string {
@@ -546,7 +638,7 @@ type ChatEligibilityResponse struct {
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityResponse) Reset() {
 	*x = ChatEligibilityResponse{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[7]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[8]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -558,7 +650,7 @@ func (x *ChatEligibilityResponse) String() string {
 func (*ChatEligibilityResponse) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[7]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[8]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -571,7 +663,7 @@ func (x *ChatEligibilityResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ChatEligibilityResponse.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ChatEligibilityResponse) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{7}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{8}
 }
 
 func (x *ChatEligibilityResponse) GetRegistered() bool {
@@ -605,7 +697,7 @@ type CreateInvoiceCommand struct {
 
 func (x *CreateInvoiceCommand) Reset() {
 	*x = CreateInvoiceCommand{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[8]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[9]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -617,7 +709,7 @@ func (x *CreateInvoiceCommand) String() string {
 func (*CreateInvoiceCommand) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *CreateInvoiceCommand) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[8]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[9]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -630,7 +722,7 @@ func (x *CreateInvoiceCommand) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use CreateInvoiceCommand.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*CreateInvoiceCommand) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{8}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{9}
 }
 
 func (x *CreateInvoiceCommand) GetTitle() string {
@@ -674,7 +766,7 @@ type PreCheckoutRequest struct {
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutRequest) Reset() {
 	*x = PreCheckoutRequest{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[9]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[10]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -686,7 +778,7 @@ func (x *PreCheckoutRequest) String() string {
 func (*PreCheckoutRequest) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[9]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[10]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -699,7 +791,7 @@ func (x *PreCheckoutRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use PreCheckoutRequest.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*PreCheckoutRequest) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{9}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{10}
 }
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutRequest) GetOrderId() string {
@@ -735,7 +827,7 @@ type PreCheckoutResponse struct {
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutResponse) Reset() {
 	*x = PreCheckoutResponse{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[10]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[11]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -747,7 +839,7 @@ func (x *PreCheckoutResponse) String() string {
 func (*PreCheckoutResponse) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[10]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[11]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -760,7 +852,7 @@ func (x *PreCheckoutResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use PreCheckoutResponse.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*PreCheckoutResponse) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{10}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{11}
 }
 
 func (x *PreCheckoutResponse) GetOk() bool {
@@ -792,7 +884,7 @@ type ForwardPaymentRequest struct {
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentRequest) Reset() {
 	*x = ForwardPaymentRequest{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[11]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[12]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -804,7 +896,7 @@ func (x *ForwardPaymentRequest) String() string {
 func (*ForwardPaymentRequest) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[11]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[12]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -817,7 +909,7 @@ func (x *ForwardPaymentRequest) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ForwardPaymentRequest.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ForwardPaymentRequest) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{11}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{12}
 }
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentRequest) GetOrderId() string {
@@ -861,7 +953,7 @@ type ForwardPaymentResponse struct {
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentResponse) Reset() {
 	*x = ForwardPaymentResponse{}
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[12]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[13]
 	ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 	ms.StoreMessageInfo(mi)
 }
@@ -873,7 +965,7 @@ func (x *ForwardPaymentResponse) String() string {
 func (*ForwardPaymentResponse) ProtoMessage() {}
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
-	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[12]
+	mi := &file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[13]
 	if x != nil {
 		ms := protoimpl.X.MessageStateOf(protoimpl.Pointer(x))
 		if ms.LoadMessageInfo() == nil {
@@ -886,7 +978,7 @@ func (x *ForwardPaymentResponse) ProtoReflect() protoreflect.Message {
 
 // Deprecated: Use ForwardPaymentResponse.ProtoReflect.Descriptor instead.
 func (*ForwardPaymentResponse) Descriptor() ([]byte, []int) {
-	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{12}
+	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP(), []int{13}
 }
 
 func (x *ForwardPaymentResponse) GetCredited() bool {
@@ -900,11 +992,19 @@ var File_botlink_v1_botlink_proto protoreflect.FileDescriptor
 
 const file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"\n" +
-	"\x18botlink/v1/botlink.proto\x12\x13scrabble.botlink.v1\x1a\x1atelegram/v1/telegram.proto\"r\n" +
+	"\x18botlink/v1/botlink.proto\x12\x13scrabble.botlink.v1\x1a\x1atelegram/v1/telegram.proto\"\xa9\x01\n" +
 	"\aFromBot\x122\n" +
 	"\x05hello\x18\x01 \x01(\v2\x1a.scrabble.botlink.v1.HelloH\x00R\x05hello\x12,\n" +
-	"\x03ack\x18\x02 \x01(\v2\x18.scrabble.botlink.v1.AckH\x00R\x03ackB\x05\n" +
+	"\x03ack\x18\x02 \x01(\v2\x18.scrabble.botlink.v1.AckH\x00R\x03ack\x125\n" +
-	"\x03msg\"?\n" +
+	"\x06health\x18\x03 \x01(\v2\x1b.scrabble.botlink.v1.HealthH\x00R\x06healthB\x05\n" +
+	"\x03msg\"\x97\x01\n" +
+	"\x06Health\x12)\n" +
+	"\x10connect_failures\x18\x01 \x01(\x04R\x0fconnectFailures\x12\x1d\n" +
+	"\n" +
+	"api_errors\x18\x02 \x01(\x04R\tapiErrors\x12!\n" +
+	"\frate_limited\x18\x03 \x01(\x04R\vrateLimited\x12 \n" +
+	"\flast_ok_unix\x18\x04 \x01(\x03R\n" +
+	"lastOkUnix\"?\n" +
 	"\x05ToBot\x126\n" +
 	"\acommand\x18\x01 \x01(\v2\x1c.scrabble.botlink.v1.CommandR\acommand\"K\n" +
 	"\x05Hello\x12\x1f\n" +
@@ -976,47 +1076,49 @@ func file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescGZIP() []byte {
 	return file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDescData
 }
 
-var file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes = make([]protoimpl.MessageInfo, 13)
+var file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes = make([]protoimpl.MessageInfo, 14)
 var file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_goTypes = []any{
 	(*FromBot)(nil),                     // 0: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot
-	(*ToBot)(nil),                       // 1: scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot
+	(*Health)(nil),                      // 1: scrabble.botlink.v1.Health
-	(*Hello)(nil),                       // 2: scrabble.botlink.v1.Hello
+	(*ToBot)(nil),                       // 2: scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot
-	(*Command)(nil),                     // 3: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command
+	(*Hello)(nil),                       // 3: scrabble.botlink.v1.Hello
-	(*Ack)(nil),                         // 4: scrabble.botlink.v1.Ack
+	(*Command)(nil),                     // 4: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command
-	(*ChatGateCommand)(nil),             // 5: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatGateCommand
+	(*Ack)(nil),                         // 5: scrabble.botlink.v1.Ack
-	(*ChatEligibilityRequest)(nil),      // 6: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityRequest
+	(*ChatGateCommand)(nil),             // 6: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatGateCommand
-	(*ChatEligibilityResponse)(nil),     // 7: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityResponse
+	(*ChatEligibilityRequest)(nil),      // 7: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityRequest
-	(*CreateInvoiceCommand)(nil),        // 8: scrabble.botlink.v1.CreateInvoiceCommand
+	(*ChatEligibilityResponse)(nil),     // 8: scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityResponse
-	(*PreCheckoutRequest)(nil),          // 9: scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutRequest
+	(*CreateInvoiceCommand)(nil),        // 9: scrabble.botlink.v1.CreateInvoiceCommand
-	(*PreCheckoutResponse)(nil),         // 10: scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutResponse
+	(*PreCheckoutRequest)(nil),          // 10: scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutRequest
-	(*ForwardPaymentRequest)(nil),       // 11: scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentRequest
+	(*PreCheckoutResponse)(nil),         // 11: scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutResponse
-	(*ForwardPaymentResponse)(nil),      // 12: scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentResponse
+	(*ForwardPaymentRequest)(nil),       // 12: scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentRequest
-	(*v1.NotifyRequest)(nil),            // 13: scrabble.telegram.v1.NotifyRequest
+	(*ForwardPaymentResponse)(nil),      // 13: scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentResponse
-	(*v1.SendToUserRequest)(nil),        // 14: scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToUserRequest
+	(*v1.NotifyRequest)(nil),            // 14: scrabble.telegram.v1.NotifyRequest
-	(*v1.SendToGameChannelRequest)(nil), // 15: scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToGameChannelRequest
+	(*v1.SendToUserRequest)(nil),        // 15: scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToUserRequest
+	(*v1.SendToGameChannelRequest)(nil), // 16: scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToGameChannelRequest
 }
 var file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_depIdxs = []int32{
-	2,  // 0: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot.hello:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Hello
+	3,  // 0: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot.hello:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Hello
-	4,  // 1: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot.ack:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Ack
+	5,  // 1: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot.ack:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Ack
-	3,  // 2: scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot.command:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Command
+	1,  // 2: scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot.health:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Health
-	13, // 3: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.notify:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.NotifyRequest
+	4,  // 3: scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot.command:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.Command
-	14, // 4: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.send_to_user:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToUserRequest
+	14, // 4: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.notify:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.NotifyRequest
-	15, // 5: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.send_to_channel:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToGameChannelRequest
+	15, // 5: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.send_to_user:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToUserRequest
-	5,  // 6: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.chat_gate:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatGateCommand
+	16, // 6: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.send_to_channel:type_name -> scrabble.telegram.v1.SendToGameChannelRequest
-	8,  // 7: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.create_invoice:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.CreateInvoiceCommand
+	6,  // 7: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.chat_gate:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatGateCommand
-	0,  // 8: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.Link:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot
+	9,  // 8: scrabble.botlink.v1.Command.create_invoice:type_name -> scrabble.botlink.v1.CreateInvoiceCommand
-	6,  // 9: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ResolveChatEligibility:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityRequest
+	0,  // 9: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.Link:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.FromBot
-	9,  // 10: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ValidatePreCheckout:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutRequest
+	7,  // 10: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ResolveChatEligibility:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityRequest
-	11, // 11: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ForwardPayment:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentRequest
+	10, // 11: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ValidatePreCheckout:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutRequest
-	1,  // 12: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.Link:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot
+	12, // 12: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ForwardPayment:input_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentRequest
-	7,  // 13: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ResolveChatEligibility:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityResponse
+	2,  // 13: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.Link:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ToBot
-	10, // 14: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ValidatePreCheckout:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutResponse
+	8,  // 14: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ResolveChatEligibility:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ChatEligibilityResponse
-	12, // 15: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ForwardPayment:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentResponse
+	11, // 15: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ValidatePreCheckout:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.PreCheckoutResponse
-	12, // [12:16] is the sub-list for method output_type
+	13, // 16: scrabble.botlink.v1.BotLink.ForwardPayment:output_type -> scrabble.botlink.v1.ForwardPaymentResponse
-	8,  // [8:12] is the sub-list for method input_type
+	13, // [13:17] is the sub-list for method output_type
-	8,  // [8:8] is the sub-list for extension type_name
+	9,  // [9:13] is the sub-list for method input_type
-	8,  // [8:8] is the sub-list for extension extendee
+	9,  // [9:9] is the sub-list for extension type_name
-	0,  // [0:8] is the sub-list for field type_name
+	9,  // [9:9] is the sub-list for extension extendee
+	0,  // [0:9] is the sub-list for field type_name
 }
 
 func init() { file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_init() }
@@ -1027,8 +1129,9 @@ func file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_init() {
 	file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[0].OneofWrappers = []any{
 		(*FromBot_Hello)(nil),
 		(*FromBot_Ack)(nil),
+		(*FromBot_Health)(nil),
 	}
-	file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[3].OneofWrappers = []any{
+	file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_msgTypes[4].OneofWrappers = []any{
 		(*Command_Notify)(nil),
 		(*Command_SendToUser)(nil),
 		(*Command_SendToChannel)(nil),
@@ -1041,7 +1144,7 @@ func file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_init() {
 			GoPackagePath: reflect.TypeOf(x{}).PkgPath(),
 			RawDescriptor: unsafe.Slice(unsafe.StringData(file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDesc), len(file_botlink_v1_botlink_proto_rawDesc)),
 			NumEnums:      0,
-			NumMessages:   13,
+			NumMessages:   14,
 			NumExtensions: 0,
 			NumServices:   1,
 		},

pkg/proto/botlink/v1/botlink.proto

@@ -48,14 +48,30 @@ service BotLink {
 }
 
 // FromBot is a message the bot sends to the gateway: the opening Hello, then one
-// Ack per Command.
+// Ack per Command and a periodic Health report.
 message FromBot {
   oneof msg {
     Hello hello = 1;
     Ack ack = 2;
+    Health health = 3;
   }
 }
 
+// Health is a periodic report the bot pushes up the stream so the gateway can expose the remote
+// bot's Bot-API health as its own metrics — the bot exports no telemetry of its own (otelcol lives
+// on the main host, unreachable from the bot), so the bot-link is its only channel out. The three
+// counters are DELTAS since the previous Health: the gateway adds them to cumulative counters, so a
+// report lost across a reconnect only undercounts, never corrupts. last_ok_unix is the wall-clock
+// second of the bot's most recent successful Bot API response (any call, including the getUpdates
+// long-poll that returns every poll cycle even when idle) — an absolute liveness stamp the gateway
+// surfaces as a gauge, so a silently stalled bot (no errors, no traffic) is still caught.
+message Health {
+  uint64 connect_failures = 1;  // getUpdates long-poll failures (transport / 5xx) since the last report
+  uint64 api_errors = 2;        // other Bot API failures (transport / 5xx) since the last report
+  uint64 rate_limited = 3;      // Bot API 429 responses since the last report (should stay ~0)
+  int64 last_ok_unix = 4;       // unix seconds of the last successful Bot API response (0 = none yet)
+}
+
 // ToBot is a message the gateway sends to the bot. Only Command is carried today.
 message ToBot {
   Command command = 1;

pkg/wire/build.go

@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ type GameView struct {
 	// UnreadMessages is a per-viewer flag: at least one unread entry is a real message (not just
 	// a nudge), so the badge can be coloured apart from the nudge-only case.
 	UnreadMessages bool
+	// Kind is the game's origin for the active-game limits: 0 unknown (a pre-existing game), 1 vs_ai,
+	// 2 random, 3 friends. The lobby counts active games per kind to lock a capped New-Game start.
+	Kind int
 }
 
 // TileRecord is one tile in a decoded MoveRecord (the concrete letter, "?" for a blank
@@ -169,6 +172,7 @@ func BuildGameView(b *flatbuffers.Builder, g GameView) flatbuffers.UOffsetT {
 	fb.GameViewAddVsAi(b, g.VsAI)
 	fb.GameViewAddUnreadChat(b, g.UnreadChat)
 	fb.GameViewAddUnreadMessages(b, g.UnreadMessages)
+	fb.GameViewAddKind(b, int32(g.Kind))
 	return fb.GameViewEnd(b)
 }
 

platform/telegram/cmd/bot/main.go

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/bot"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/botlink"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/config"
+	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/health"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/outbox"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/promobot"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/support"
@@ -31,6 +32,10 @@ import (
 // telemetryShutdownTimeout bounds the OpenTelemetry flush during process exit.
 const telemetryShutdownTimeout = 5 * time.Second
 
+// healthReportInterval is how often the bot flushes its accumulated Bot API health to the gateway
+// over the bot-link. It bounds how stale a metric can be, not how often the bot talks to Telegram.
+const healthReportInterval = 30 * time.Second
+
 func main() {
 	cfg, err := config.LoadBot()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -81,6 +86,12 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.BotConfig, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// The bot exports no telemetry of its own (otelcol is on the main host, unreachable from here),
+	// so its Bot API health is observed centrally and reported to the gateway over the bot-link,
+	// which turns the reports into metrics. Shared between the bot (which feeds it) and the bot-link
+	// client (which flushes it).
+	healthReporter := health.NewReporter()
+
 	b, err := bot.New(bot.Config{
 		Token:             cfg.Token,
 		APIBaseURL:        cfg.APIBaseURL,
@@ -92,6 +103,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.BotConfig, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 		SupportChatID:     cfg.SupportChatID,
 		SupportStore:      supportStore,
 		AcceptPayments:    cfg.StarsOutboxDir != "",
+		Health:            healthReporter,
 	}, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -120,6 +132,8 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, cfg config.BotConfig, logger *zap.Logger) error {
 		OwnsUpdates:    cfg.OwnsUpdates,
 		Creds:          credentials.NewTLS(tlsCfg),
 		ReconnectDelay: cfg.BotLink.ReconnectDelay,
+		Health:         healthReporter,
+		HealthInterval: healthReportInterval,
 	}, exec, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err

platform/telegram/internal/bot/bot.go

@@ -7,19 +7,26 @@ package bot
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	tgbot "github.com/go-telegram/bot"
 	"github.com/go-telegram/bot/models"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
 
+	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/health"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/outbox"
 	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/support"
 )
 
+// botPollTimeout is the getUpdates long-poll timeout. It matches the go-telegram/bot default; we set
+// it explicitly only because wiring the health observer (WithHTTPClient) also sets the poll timeout.
+const botPollTimeout = time.Minute
+
 // Config configures the bot wrapper.
 type Config struct {
 	// Token is the Bot API token.
@@ -54,6 +61,9 @@ type Config struct {
 	// pre_checkout_query updates and handles pre_checkout / successful_payment. The runtime
 	// dependencies (the validator, forwarder and outbox) are wired with SetPaymentHandlers.
 	AcceptPayments bool
+	// Health, when set, observes every Bot API request for health metrics (reported to the gateway
+	// over the bot-link) and honours a 429's Retry-After. Nil disables the observation.
+	Health *health.Reporter
 }
 
 // EligibilityResolver answers whether the Telegram user identified by externalID
@@ -159,6 +169,12 @@ func New(cfg Config, log *zap.Logger) (*Bot, error) {
 	if cfg.APIBaseURL != "" {
 		opts = append(opts, tgbot.WithServerURL(cfg.APIBaseURL))
 	}
+	if cfg.Health != nil {
+		// Observe every Bot API request centrally for health metrics and the 429 back-off. The
+		// client timeout leaves slack over the long-poll hold (botPollTimeout - 1s server-side).
+		base := &http.Client{Timeout: botPollTimeout + 10*time.Second}
+		opts = append(opts, tgbot.WithHTTPClient(botPollTimeout, cfg.Health.Wrap(base)))
+	}
 	api, err := tgbot.New(cfg.Token, opts...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err

platform/telegram/internal/botlink/client.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/keepalive"
 
 	botlinkv1 "scrabble/pkg/proto/botlink/v1"
+	"scrabble/platform/telegram/internal/health"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -34,6 +35,11 @@ type ClientConfig struct {
 	Creds credentials.TransportCredentials
 	// ReconnectDelay is the pause before re-dialing after the stream ends.
 	ReconnectDelay time.Duration
+	// Health, when set with a positive HealthInterval, is flushed to the gateway as a botlink Health
+	// message every HealthInterval while the stream is open. Nil disables health reporting.
+	Health *health.Reporter
+	// HealthInterval is the cadence of the Health flush; 0 disables it.
+	HealthInterval time.Duration
 }
 
 // Client maintains the long-lived bot-link to the gateway, executing the commands
@@ -140,22 +146,59 @@ func (c *Client) serve(ctx context.Context, client botlinkv1.BotLinkClient) erro
 	}
 	c.log.Info("bot-link connected", zap.String("gateway", c.cfg.GatewayAddr), zap.Bool("owns_updates", c.cfg.OwnsUpdates))
 
+	// One goroutine owns stream.Recv, feeding commands to the loop below; the loop owns every
+	// stream.Send (the Acks and the periodic Health) — a gRPC stream forbids concurrent Send.
+	rctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	defer cancel()
+	cmds := make(chan *botlinkv1.Command)
+	recvErr := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			msg, err := stream.Recv()
+			if err != nil {
+				recvErr <- err
+				return
+			}
+			if cmd := msg.GetCommand(); cmd != nil {
+				select {
+				case cmds <- cmd:
+				case <-rctx.Done():
+					return
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	var healthTick <-chan time.Time
+	if c.cfg.Health != nil && c.cfg.HealthInterval > 0 {
+		t := time.NewTicker(c.cfg.HealthInterval)
+		defer t.Stop()
+		healthTick = t.C
+	}
+
 	for {
-		msg, err := stream.Recv()
+		select {
-		if err != nil {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
-			return err
+			return ctx.Err()
-		}
+		case err := <-recvErr:
-		cmd := msg.GetCommand()
-		if cmd == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		delivered, result, herr := c.exec.Handle(ctx, cmd)
-		ack := &botlinkv1.Ack{CommandId: cmd.GetCommandId(), Delivered: delivered, Result: result}
-		if herr != nil {
-			ack.Error = herr.Error()
-		}
-		if err := stream.Send(&botlinkv1.FromBot{Msg: &botlinkv1.FromBot_Ack{Ack: ack}}); err != nil {
 			return err
+		case cmd := <-cmds:
+			delivered, result, herr := c.exec.Handle(ctx, cmd)
+			ack := &botlinkv1.Ack{CommandId: cmd.GetCommandId(), Delivered: delivered, Result: result}
+			if herr != nil {
+				ack.Error = herr.Error()
+			}
+			if err := stream.Send(&botlinkv1.FromBot{Msg: &botlinkv1.FromBot_Ack{Ack: ack}}); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		case <-healthTick:
+			// Snapshot without resetting; only commit (clear the deltas) after a successful send, so a
+			// failed flush loses nothing and the counts ride the next connection.
+			hb := c.cfg.Health.Snapshot()
+			if err := stream.Send(&botlinkv1.FromBot{Msg: &botlinkv1.FromBot_Health{Health: hb}}); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			c.cfg.Health.Commit(hb)
 		}
 	}
 }

platform/telegram/internal/health/health.go

@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+// Package health tracks the Telegram bot's Bot API health and reports it to the gateway over the
+// bot-link. The bot exports no telemetry of its own — otelcol lives on the main host, unreachable
+// from the bot host — so the gateway turns these reports into its own metrics (see
+// gateway/internal/botlink). Health is observed CENTRALLY by wrapping the Bot API HTTP client
+// ([Reporter.Wrap]); every request is classified there with no per-call-site instrumentation.
+package health
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"time"
+
+	botlinkv1 "scrabble/pkg/proto/botlink/v1"
+)
+
+// maxBackoff caps how long a single 429 makes the bot wait, so a hostile or buggy Retry-After can
+// never wedge the bot.
+const maxBackoff = 30 * time.Second
+
+// Reporter accumulates the bot's Bot API health between reports: three delta counters and the last
+// successful-response stamp. It is safe for concurrent use. The bot-link client periodically
+// [Reporter.Snapshot]s it, sends the snapshot as a botlink Health, and [Reporter.Commit]s it on a
+// successful send.
+type Reporter struct {
+	connectFailures atomic.Int64
+	apiErrors       atomic.Int64
+	rateLimited     atomic.Int64
+	lastOKUnix      atomic.Int64
+}
+
+// NewReporter returns an empty Reporter.
+func NewReporter() *Reporter { return &Reporter{} }
+
+// Snapshot reads the current delta counters and the last-ok stamp into a Health message WITHOUT
+// resetting them. The counters are cleared only by [Reporter.Commit] after a successful send, so a
+// failed send loses nothing.
+func (r *Reporter) Snapshot() *botlinkv1.Health {
+	return &botlinkv1.Health{
+		ConnectFailures: uint64(max(r.connectFailures.Load(), 0)),
+		ApiErrors:       uint64(max(r.apiErrors.Load(), 0)),
+		RateLimited:     uint64(max(r.rateLimited.Load(), 0)),
+		LastOkUnix:      r.lastOKUnix.Load(),
+	}
+}
+
+// Commit subtracts a just-sent snapshot's delta counters, so counts accrued between the snapshot and
+// the send survive into the next report. last_ok is a stamp, not a delta, so it is left as is.
+func (r *Reporter) Commit(sent *botlinkv1.Health) {
+	r.connectFailures.Add(-int64(sent.GetConnectFailures()))
+	r.apiErrors.Add(-int64(sent.GetApiErrors()))
+	r.rateLimited.Add(-int64(sent.GetRateLimited()))
+}
+
+// Wrap returns an http.Client-shaped observer over base for tgbot.WithHTTPClient: it stamps liveness
+// on every successful response, counts transport and 5xx failures (split getUpdates vs other) and
+// 429s, and honours a 429's Retry-After (bounded by maxBackoff) so the bot backs off instead of
+// hammering. A 4xx other than 429 (a user blocked the bot, a malformed request) is a normal
+// per-request outcome, not a health signal, and is not counted.
+func (r *Reporter) Wrap(base Doer) Doer { return &observer{base: base, r: r} }
+
+// Doer is the minimal HTTP surface the Bot API client needs; both *http.Client and [observer]
+// satisfy it, and it matches the go-telegram/bot HttpClient interface.
+type Doer interface {
+	Do(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
+}
+
+// observer is the Bot API HTTP client wrapper (see [Reporter.Wrap]).
+type observer struct {
+	base Doer
+	r    *Reporter
+}
+
+// Do performs the request and records its health outcome.
+func (o *observer) Do(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	resp, err := o.base.Do(req)
+	poll := strings.HasSuffix(req.URL.Path, "/getUpdates")
+	if err != nil {
+		// A cancelled context is a shutdown, not a Bot API failure.
+		if req.Context().Err() == nil {
+			o.fail(poll)
+		}
+		return resp, err
+	}
+	switch {
+	case resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests:
+		o.r.rateLimited.Add(1)
+		o.backoff(req.Context(), resp)
+	case resp.StatusCode >= 200 && resp.StatusCode < 300:
+		o.r.lastOKUnix.Store(time.Now().Unix())
+	case resp.StatusCode >= 500:
+		o.fail(poll)
+	}
+	return resp, err
+}
+
+// fail records a connect failure on the getUpdates long-poll or an api error otherwise.
+func (o *observer) fail(poll bool) {
+	if poll {
+		o.r.connectFailures.Add(1)
+	} else {
+		o.r.apiErrors.Add(1)
+	}
+}
+
+// backoff waits out a 429's Retry-After (bounded, cancellable). It buffers the response body first so
+// the wait holds no connection open and the Bot API library can still parse the 429 afterwards.
+func (o *observer) backoff(ctx context.Context, resp *http.Response) {
+	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	resp.Body = io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(body))
+	d := retryAfter(resp.Header.Get("Retry-After"), body)
+	if d <= 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	if d > maxBackoff {
+		d = maxBackoff
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+	case <-time.After(d):
+	}
+}
+
+// retryAfter resolves the 429 back-off from the Retry-After header, falling back to the Bot API
+// body's parameters.retry_after (both are seconds). It returns 0 when neither gives a positive value.
+func retryAfter(header string, body []byte) time.Duration {
+	if secs, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(header)); err == nil && secs > 0 {
+		return time.Duration(secs) * time.Second
+	}
+	var payload struct {
+		Parameters struct {
+			RetryAfter int `json:"retry_after"`
+		} `json:"parameters"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &payload); err == nil && payload.Parameters.RetryAfter > 0 {
+		return time.Duration(payload.Parameters.RetryAfter) * time.Second
+	}
+	return 0
+}

platform/telegram/internal/health/health_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+package health
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// fakeDoer returns a canned response and error for every request.
+type fakeDoer struct {
+	resp *http.Response
+	err  error
+}
+
+func (f *fakeDoer) Do(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error) { return f.resp, f.err }
+
+// mkResp builds a response with a status, optional Retry-After header and body.
+func mkResp(status int, retryAfter, body string) *http.Response {
+	h := http.Header{}
+	if retryAfter != "" {
+		h.Set("Retry-After", retryAfter)
+	}
+	return &http.Response{StatusCode: status, Header: h, Body: io.NopCloser(strings.NewReader(body))}
+}
+
+// run sends one request for the Bot API method through a fresh observer and returns the reporter's
+// resulting snapshot. The 429 cases carry no Retry-After, so the back-off returns before any wait.
+func run(method string, resp *http.Response, err error) *Reporter {
+	r := NewReporter()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "https://api.telegram.org/bot123/"+method, nil)
+	_, _ = r.Wrap(&fakeDoer{resp: resp, err: err}).Do(req)
+	return r
+}
+
+func TestObserverClassifies(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name          string
+		method        string
+		resp          *http.Response
+		err           error
+		wantConnect   uint64
+		wantAPI       uint64
+		wantRate      uint64
+		wantLastOKSet bool
+	}{
+		{"poll ok stamps liveness", "getUpdates", mkResp(200, "", `{"ok":true}`), nil, 0, 0, 0, true},
+		{"send ok stamps liveness", "sendMessage", mkResp(200, "", `{"ok":true}`), nil, 0, 0, 0, true},
+		{"poll 5xx is a connect failure", "getUpdates", mkResp(502, "", ""), nil, 1, 0, 0, false},
+		{"send 5xx is an api error", "sendMessage", mkResp(500, "", ""), nil, 0, 1, 0, false},
+		{"429 is rate limited, not an error", "sendMessage", mkResp(429, "", `{"ok":false}`), nil, 0, 0, 1, false},
+		{"4xx other than 429 is not counted", "sendMessage", mkResp(403, "", ""), nil, 0, 0, 0, false},
+		{"poll transport error is a connect failure", "getUpdates", nil, errors.New("dial"), 1, 0, 0, false},
+		{"send transport error is an api error", "sendMessage", nil, errors.New("dial"), 0, 1, 0, false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			s := run(tc.method, tc.resp, tc.err).Snapshot()
+			if s.GetConnectFailures() != tc.wantConnect || s.GetApiErrors() != tc.wantAPI || s.GetRateLimited() != tc.wantRate {
+				t.Errorf("counters = connect %d api %d rate %d, want %d/%d/%d",
+					s.GetConnectFailures(), s.GetApiErrors(), s.GetRateLimited(), tc.wantConnect, tc.wantAPI, tc.wantRate)
+			}
+			if (s.GetLastOkUnix() > 0) != tc.wantLastOKSet {
+				t.Errorf("last_ok set = %v, want %v", s.GetLastOkUnix() > 0, tc.wantLastOKSet)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestObserverIgnoresShutdownTransportError checks a transport error under a cancelled context (a
+// shutdown) is not counted as a Bot API failure.
+func TestObserverIgnoresShutdownTransportError(t *testing.T) {
+	r := NewReporter()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "https://api.telegram.org/bot123/getUpdates", nil)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(req.Context())
+	cancel()
+	_, _ = r.Wrap(&fakeDoer{err: errors.New("dial")}).Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
+	if s := r.Snapshot(); s.GetConnectFailures() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("shutdown transport error must not count, got connect=%d", s.GetConnectFailures())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRetryAfter(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		header string
+		body   string
+		want   time.Duration
+	}{
+		{"5", "", 5 * time.Second},
+		{"", `{"parameters":{"retry_after":7}}`, 7 * time.Second},
+		{"3", `{"parameters":{"retry_after":9}}`, 3 * time.Second}, // header wins
+		{"", `{"ok":false}`, 0},
+		{"0", "", 0},
+		{"", "not json", 0},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := retryAfter(tc.header, []byte(tc.body)); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("retryAfter(%q, %q) = %v, want %v", tc.header, tc.body, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSnapshotCommit checks Commit clears only the sent deltas, so counts accrued between the
+// snapshot and the send survive into the next report.
+func TestSnapshotCommit(t *testing.T) {
+	r := NewReporter()
+	r.apiErrors.Add(3)
+	snap := r.Snapshot()
+	if snap.GetApiErrors() != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("snapshot api_errors = %d, want 3", snap.GetApiErrors())
+	}
+	r.apiErrors.Add(2) // accrues after the snapshot
+	r.Commit(snap)
+	if got := r.Snapshot().GetApiErrors(); got != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("after commit api_errors = %d, want 2 (the post-snapshot accrual)", got)
+	}
+}

renderer/Dockerfile

@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ ENV APP_VERSION=${VERSION}
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY --from=build /src/renderer/node_modules ./node_modules
 COPY --from=build /src/renderer/dist ./dist
-COPY renderer/src/server.mjs renderer/src/render.mjs ./src/
+COPY renderer/src/server.mjs renderer/src/render.mjs renderer/src/offer.mjs ./src/
+# The public-offer prose (GET /offer/): the owner-edited markdown, read once at boot. The dynamic
+# price list is fetched from the backend at request time and spliced in.
+COPY ui/legal/offer_ru.md ./legal/offer_ru.md
 USER node
 EXPOSE 8090
 CMD ["node", "src/server.mjs"]

renderer/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# renderer — the finished-game image-render sidecar
+# renderer — the render sidecar (finished-game image + public offer page)
 
-An internal-only Node service that rasterizes the finished-game export PNG. It runs the
+An internal Node service that runs shared `ui/src/lib` renderers server-side — bundled verbatim at
-**same** `ui/src/lib/gameimage.ts` the web project unit-tests — bundled verbatim at image
+image build time (`src/entry.ts` → esbuild → `dist/gameimage.mjs`) so there is one renderer and no
-build time (`src/entry.ts` → esbuild → `dist/gameimage.mjs`) — on
+drift from the browser. It serves two surfaces: the finished-game export **PNG** (on
-[skia-canvas](https://github.com/samizdatco/skia-canvas), so the server render is
+[skia-canvas](https://github.com/samizdatco/skia-canvas), pixel-identical to the design the owner
-pixel-identical to the design the owner signed off in the browser.
+signed off) and the public **offer page**.
 
 ## Interface
 
@@ -12,20 +12,30 @@ pixel-identical to the design the owner signed off in the browser.
   `image/png`. `game`/`moves` are the ui-model shapes (`GameView` / `MoveRecord[]`);
   `alphabet` is the per-variant `(index, letter, value)` table tile values are drawn
   from; `labels` localizes the non-play moves (pass/exchange/resign/timeout);
-  `hostname` + `dateLocale` feed the footer.
+  `hostname` + `dateLocale` feed the footer. Internal-only.
+- `GET /offer/` — the public offer page as `text/html`: the owner-edited `ui/legal/offer_ru.md`
+  (baked into the image, read at boot) with the live catalog **price list** (§4.4) fetched as
+  markdown from the backend's internal `/api/v1/internal/offer/pricing` (`RENDERER_BACKEND_URL`)
+  and spliced in at the `<#pricing_template#>` marker, then rendered by the shared
+  `ui/src/lib/offer.ts`. `GET /offer` → 301 `/offer/`. **The only edge-exposed route** — caddy
+  routes `/offer/` here; a backend outage yields a 502, never a stale price list.
 - `GET /healthz` — liveness (the compose healthcheck the backend's `depends_on` gates on).
 
-The service draws and nothing else: authentication, the participant check and the signed
+The service renders and nothing else: for the PNG, authentication, the participant check and the
-public download URL all live in the backend (`backend/internal/server/export.go`); the
+signed public download URL all live in the backend (`backend/internal/server/export.go`), the path
-network path is client → gateway `/dl/*` → backend → this sidecar.
+being client → gateway `/dl/*` → backend → this sidecar; for the offer, the catalog projection and
+its cache live in the backend (`backend/internal/payments/offer.go`) and no user input reaches the
+page.
 
 ## Development
 
 ```sh
 pnpm install          # skia-canvas + esbuild MUST stay approved in pnpm-workspace.yaml
                       # (allowBuilds) or the native binary is silently never fetched
-pnpm test             # bundles, then node --test against testdata/request.json
+pnpm test             # bundles, then node --test (PNG smoke + offer splice)
-node src/server.mjs   # local run on :8090 (RENDERER_PORT overrides)
+# local run on :8090 (RENDERER_PORT overrides). For /offer/, point at the offer source and a
+# reachable backend (else the boot read / the price fetch fail):
+RENDERER_OFFER_MD=../ui/legal/offer_ru.md RENDERER_BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:8080 node src/server.mjs
 ```
 
 The runtime image (`renderer/Dockerfile`, `node:22-slim`) bakes in Liberation Sans (the

renderer/build.mjs

@@ -9,5 +9,9 @@ await build({
   format: 'esm',
   platform: 'node',
   outfile: 'dist/gameimage.mjs',
+  // The shared ui/src/lib modules are copied without their node_modules, so a bare npm import they
+  // make (offer.ts → 'marked', the offer renderer's markdown parser) is not resolvable from the ui
+  // tree. NODE_PATH-style fallback to the renderer's own node_modules, where marked is a dependency.
+  nodePaths: ['node_modules'],
   logLevel: 'info',
 });

renderer/package.json

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "test": "pnpm run bundle && node --test test/*.test.mjs"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "marked": "^18.0.5",
     "skia-canvas": "^3.0.6"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

renderer/pnpm-lock.yaml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ importers:
 
   .:
     dependencies:
+      marked:
+        specifier: ^18.0.5
+        version: 18.0.6
       skia-canvas:
         specifier: ^3.0.6
         version: 3.0.8
@@ -209,6 +212,11 @@ packages:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-vK9P5/iUfdl95AI+JVyUuIcVtd4ofvtrOr3HNtM2yxC9bnMbEdp3x01OhQNnjb8IJYi38VlTE3mBXwcfvywuSw==}
     engines: {node: '>= 14'}
 
+  marked@18.0.6:
+    resolution: {integrity: sha512-MrV5puXBfuiy6wl6DLaq3BtIJQAJToAd5zt/ZKhRfGRAuFPALE7/4Y7jnxRQoEgK/pBgurGqLyAuRgZ2xOjr6w==}
+    engines: {node: '>= 20'}
+    hasBin: true
+
   ms@2.1.3:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-6FlzubTLZG3J2a/NVCAleEhjzq5oxgHyaCU9yYXvcLsvoVaHJq/s5xXI6/XXP6tz7R9xAOtHnSO/tXtF3WRTlA==}
 
@@ -347,6 +355,8 @@ snapshots:
     transitivePeerDependencies:
       - supports-color
 
+  marked@18.0.6: {}
+
   ms@2.1.3: {}
 
   parenthesis@3.1.8: {}

renderer/src/entry.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-// The esbuild bundle entry: re-exports the SHARED game-image renderer from ui/src/lib —
+// The esbuild bundle entry: re-exports the SHARED ui/src/lib modules — the exact modules the
-// the exact module the browser build unit-tests — plus the alphabet cache seeder the
+// browser build unit-tests — so the sidecar runs them on the server. Bundled by `pnpm run bundle`
-// server fills from the backend-supplied per-variant table. Bundled by `pnpm run bundle`
+// into dist/gameimage.mjs (type erasure only; the ui project type-checks the source):
-// into dist/gameimage.mjs (type erasure only; the ui project type-checks the source).
+//   - drawGameImage + setAlphabet: the finished-game PNG export (POST /render).
+//   - renderOfferHtml: the public-offer page (GET /offer/) — the same renderer the landing build
+//     used to invoke, now server-side so the live catalog price list can be spliced in.
 export { drawGameImage, type RenderOptions } from '../../ui/src/lib/gameimage';
 export { setAlphabet } from '../../ui/src/lib/alphabet';
+export { renderOfferHtml } from '../../ui/src/lib/offer';

renderer/src/offer.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// The public-offer page renderer: splices the live catalog price list into the owner-edited offer
+// markdown and renders it with the SAME renderOfferHtml the landing build used to invoke (bundled
+// from ui/src/lib/offer). Kept out of server.mjs so the substitution is unit-testable without HTTP.
+import { renderOfferHtml } from '../dist/gameimage.mjs';
+
+// pricingMarker is the token ui/legal/offer_ru.md carries at §4.4 where the price list belongs. It
+// mirrors the backend marker (backend/internal/payments/offer.go) and is replaced with the fetched
+// tables before rendering.
+export const pricingMarker = '<#pricing_template#>';
+
+// renderOffer returns the standalone /offer/ HTML: the offer markdown with the pricing marker
+// replaced by pricingTables (the two markdown tables the backend projects from the active catalog),
+// rendered to a self-contained document. The replacement is literal (a function replacer) so a "$"
+// in a product title is never read as a replacement pattern; a missing marker leaves the text as is.
+export function renderOffer(offerMarkdown, pricingTables) {
+  return renderOfferHtml(offerMarkdown.replace(pricingMarker, () => pricingTables));
+}

renderer/src/server.mjs

@@ -1,20 +1,43 @@
-// The render sidecar: a minimal internal HTTP service the backend calls to rasterize the
+// The render sidecar: a minimal internal HTTP service on skia-canvas and the shared ui/src/lib
-// finished-game export image. It runs the same drawGameImage the browser build ships
+// renderers (bundled from ui/src/lib at image build time). It serves two surfaces:
-// (bundled from ui/src/lib at image build time) on skia-canvas, with system fonts from
-// the image (Liberation Sans + Noto Color Emoji via fontconfig).
 //
 //   POST /render  {game, moves, alphabet, labels, dateLocale, hostname, scale?} → image/png
+//   GET  /offer/  → text/html  (the public offer page: ui/legal/offer_ru.md with the live catalog
+//                   price list spliced in — the only edge-exposed route; caddy routes /offer/ here)
+//   GET  /offer   → 301 /offer/
 //   GET  /healthz → 200
 //
-// The service is internal-only (docker network `internal`); authentication, participant
+// /render is internal-only (the backend calls it; authentication, participant checks and the signed
-// checks and the signed public URL all live in the backend — this process only draws.
+// public URL live in the backend). /offer/ is reachable from the edge but read-only and unprivileged
+// — it fetches the price list from the backend's internal endpoint and renders the committed offer
+// markdown; no user input reaches it.
 import { createServer } from 'node:http';
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { renderRequest } from './render.mjs';
+import { renderOffer } from './offer.mjs';
 
 const PORT = Number(process.env.RENDERER_PORT || 8090);
 // A render request is a finished game's journal — generously capped.
 const MAX_BODY = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
 
+// The offer prose is baked into the image (renderer/Dockerfile) and read once at boot; only the
+// price list is dynamic (fetched per request). The backend endpoint is internal (off the edge
+// allow-list) and serves the tables from its in-memory cache. RENDERER_OFFER_MD overrides the baked
+// path for a local run (point it at ../ui/legal/offer_ru.md).
+const OFFER_MD = readFileSync(process.env.RENDERER_OFFER_MD || new URL('../legal/offer_ru.md', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
+const OFFER_PRICING_URL =
+  (process.env.RENDERER_BACKEND_URL || 'http://backend:8080') + '/api/v1/internal/offer/pricing';
+
+// fetchOfferPricing returns the two catalog price tables as markdown from the backend, or throws a
+// 502 (upstream error) / 504 (timeout) so the offer never renders with a broken price list.
+async function fetchOfferPricing() {
+  const resp = await fetch(OFFER_PRICING_URL, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) });
+  if (!resp.ok) {
+    throw Object.assign(new Error(`offer pricing upstream ${resp.status}`), { status: 502 });
+  }
+  return resp.text();
+}
+
 function readBody(req) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     const chunks = [];
@@ -35,11 +58,23 @@ function readBody(req) {
 
 const server = createServer(async (req, res) => {
   try {
-    if (req.method === 'GET' && req.url === '/healthz') {
+    const path = (req.url || '').split('?')[0];
+    if (req.method === 'GET' && path === '/healthz') {
       res.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/plain' }).end('ok');
       return;
     }
-    if (req.method === 'POST' && req.url === '/render') {
+    if (req.method === 'GET' && path === '/offer') {
+      res.writeHead(301, { location: '/offer/' }).end();
+      return;
+    }
+    if (req.method === 'GET' && path === '/offer/') {
+      const html = renderOffer(OFFER_MD, await fetchOfferPricing());
+      res
+        .writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache' })
+        .end(html);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (req.method === 'POST' && path === '/render') {
       const png = await renderRequest(JSON.parse(await readBody(req)));
       res.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'image/png', 'content-length': png.length }).end(png);
       return;

renderer/test/offer.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Unit test for the public-offer page assembly: renderOffer splices the backend's price-list
+// markdown into the offer at the pricing marker and renders it with the shared renderOfferHtml
+// (bundled from ui/src/lib/offer). The prose rendering itself is unit-tested in ui/ (offer.test.ts);
+// here we assert the substitution and that the tables reach the rendered HTML.
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { renderOffer, pricingMarker } from '../src/offer.mjs';
+
+const tables =
+  '| Наименование | Рубли | Голоса в VK | Stars в Telegram |\n' +
+  '| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n' +
+  '| 50 «Фишек» | 200.00 | 30 | 100 |';
+
+test('splices the price list into the offer and renders the tables to HTML', () => {
+  const md = `# Публичная оферта\n\n**4.4.** Стоимость Товаров:\n\n${pricingMarker}\n`;
+  const html = renderOffer(md, tables);
+  // The marker is gone and the projected table reached the document as a real HTML table.
+  assert.ok(!html.includes(pricingMarker), 'pricing marker must be substituted');
+  assert.ok(html.includes('<table>'), 'the price list must render as an HTML table');
+  assert.ok(html.includes('<td>200.00</td>'), 'a rouble price cell must be present');
+  assert.ok(html.includes('50 «Фишек»'), 'the product title must be present');
+  // The offer chrome from the shared renderer is intact.
+  assert.ok(html.includes('<!doctype html>'));
+});
+
+test('a "$" in a title is substituted literally, not as a replacement pattern', () => {
+  const html = renderOffer(`x ${pricingMarker} y`, '| $5 pack | 1 |');
+  assert.ok(html.includes('$5 pack'), 'a "$" in the tables must survive substitution');
+});

ui/e2e/game.spec.ts

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ test('dropping the game ends it and shows the result', async ({ page }) => {
   await page.locator('.scoreboard').click(); // open the history
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Drop game' }).click(); // 🏁 in the history header
   await page.locator('button.danger').click(); // confirm in the modal
-  await expect(page.locator('.status .over')).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.turnstrip.result')).toBeVisible();
 });
 
 test('resigning reveals the full board: closes the history and zooms out', async ({ page }) => {
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ test('resigning reveals the full board: closes the history and zooms out', async
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Drop game' }).click(); // 🏁
   await page.locator('button.danger').click(); // confirm
 
-  await expect(page.locator('.status .over')).toBeVisible(); // the game ended
+  await expect(page.locator('.turnstrip.result')).toBeVisible(); // the game ended
   await expect(page.locator('.history')).toHaveCount(0); // history auto-closed (portrait)
   await expect(page.locator('.viewport.zoomed')).toHaveCount(0); // board zoomed out
 });

ui/e2e/gamelimit.spec.ts

@@ -1,31 +1,40 @@
 import { expect, test } from './fixtures';
 
-// The simultaneous quick-game cap. When the backend reports the player is at the limit
+// The active-game limit lock on the New Game screen. When a start's kind is at the caller's per-kind
-// (games.list at_game_limit), the lobby disables the "New Game" tab and shows a plain,
+// cap (Profile.game_limits), the start button shows a 🔒 and opens a funnel modal instead of a game;
-// low-emphasis notice under the lists; when it clears, the button re-enables and the
+// when the cap lifts (the profile refetch a guest→durable upgrade would trigger), the lock clears and
-// notice goes. Driven by the mock transport's __mock.setGameLimit seam (no backend), which
+// the button starts a game again. Driven by the mock's __mock.setGameLimits seam (no backend). The
-// also nudges the lobby to re-fetch (the lobby refreshes on any live event).
+// native Telegram popup path is verified on the contour; here the cross-platform in-app modal shows
+// (the mock profile is a durable account, so it is the "finish a current game first" notice).
 
-test('lobby: New Game disables and a notice shows at the simultaneous-game limit', async ({ page }) => {
+type Limits = { vsAi: number; random: number; friends: number };
+function setLimits(l: Limits) {
+  (window as unknown as { __mock: { setGameLimits(l: Limits): void } }).__mock.setGameLimits(l);
+}
+
+test('new game: a start locks at its per-kind cap and the funnel modal opens', async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto('/');
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: /guest/i }).click();
 
-  // Below the limit: the New Game tab is enabled and no notice is shown.
+  // The New Game button always opens the screen now — the per-kind lock lives on the start button.
-  const newGame = page.getByRole('button', { name: /🎲/ });
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /🎲/ }).click();
-  await expect(newGame).toBeEnabled();
-  await expect(page.getByText(/reached the simultaneous games limit/i)).toHaveCount(0);
 
-  // Reach the limit: the button greys out (disabled) and the notice appears under the lists.
+  const start = page.getByRole('button', { name: /start game/i });
-  await page.evaluate(() =>
+  await expect(start).not.toContainText('🔒');
-    (window as unknown as { __mock: { setGameLimit(v: boolean): void } }).__mock.setGameLimit(true),
-  );
-  await expect(newGame).toBeDisabled();
-  await expect(page.getByText(/reached the simultaneous games limit/i)).toBeVisible();
 
-  // Drop back below the limit (a game finished): the button re-enables and the notice clears.
+  // Cap every kind: the AI start (the default opponent) locks.
-  await page.evaluate(() =>
+  await page.evaluate(setLimits, { vsAi: 0, random: 0, friends: 0 });
-    (window as unknown as { __mock: { setGameLimit(v: boolean): void } }).__mock.setGameLimit(false),
+  await expect(start).toContainText('🔒');
-  );
+
-  await expect(newGame).toBeEnabled();
+  // Tapping the locked start opens the modal instead of a game, and does not navigate away.
-  await expect(page.getByText(/reached the simultaneous games limit/i)).toHaveCount(0);
+  await start.click();
+  const notice = page.getByText(/reached the limit/i);
+  await expect(notice).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/new$/);
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^ok$/i }).click();
+  await expect(notice).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  // Lift the cap (the same profile-refetch path a registration takes): the lock clears.
+  await page.evaluate(setLimits, { vsAi: 10, random: 10, friends: 10 });
+  await expect(start).not.toContainText('🔒');
 });

ui/e2e/ingame-ux.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { expect, test } from './fixtures';
+
+// The in-game composition UX after the under-board status strip was removed:
+//  - whose turn (or the final result) shows in a thin strip above the score plaques;
+//  - the tiles left in the bag ride the exchange control as a badge and repeat at the foot of the
+//    move table;
+//  - staging a play tints its tiles on the board and shows the orange move-score badge, and the
+//    confirm control sits in the rack's fixed 7th slot.
+// Mock transport only: the mock has no dictionary (Game.svelte skips the local evaluator under the
+// mock mode) and its network evaluator accepts any placement, so a staged tile always reads as legal.
+
+test('in-game UX: turn strip, bag badge + table footer, staged-play highlight and score badge', async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto('/');
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /guest/i }).click();
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /🎲/ }).click();
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Random player' }).click();
+  await page.locator('.variant').first().click();
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /Start game/i }).click();
+  // Attach the opponent deterministically, then it is the player's turn.
+  await page.evaluate(() => (window as unknown as { __mock: { joinOpponent(): void } }).__mock.joinOpponent());
+  await expect(page.getByText('Robo')).toBeVisible();
+
+  // The old under-board status line is gone; a thin turn strip sits above the plaques instead.
+  await expect(page.locator('.turnstrip')).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.status')).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  // The bag count rides the exchange control (the first tab) as a badge, and repeats at the foot of
+  // the move table, out of the scrolling grid.
+  await expect(page.locator('.tab').first().locator('.badge')).toBeVisible();
+  await page.locator('.scoreboard').click(); // open the history drawer
+  await expect(page.locator('.hbagfoot')).toContainText(/bag/i);
+  await page.locator('.scoreboard').click(); // close it again
+
+  // Stage a play: the pending tile reads as legal (green), the orange move-score badge shows on the
+  // board, and the confirm control takes the rack's 7th slot.
+  await page.locator('.rack .tile').first().click();
+  await page.locator('[data-cell]:not(.filled)').nth(112).click(); // centre (row 7, col 7)
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-cell].pending.legal')).toHaveCount(1);
+  await expect(page.locator('.scorebadge')).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.make')).toBeVisible();
+});

ui/e2e/landing.spec.ts

@@ -59,13 +59,18 @@ test('the landing shows a web-version entry linking /app/, with a caption', asyn
   await expect(page.getByText('Веб-версия')).toBeVisible();
 });
 
-// The footer carries a public-offer link to the static /offer/ page (rendered from
+// The footer carries the public-offer link (/offer/ — the legal document a purchase accepts,
-// ui/legal/offer_ru.md at build; the legal document a purchase accepts).
+// rendered by the render sidecar) and, beside it, the feedback link to the Telegram bot the offer
-test('the landing footer links to the public offer at /offer/', async ({ page }) => {
+// lists as the seller's contact.
+test('the landing footer links to the public offer and the feedback bot', async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto('/landing.html');
   await expect(page.getByText(/Играй в «Эрудита»/)).toBeVisible(); // Russian by default
 
   const offer = page.getByRole('link', { name: 'Публичная оферта' });
   await expect(offer).toBeVisible();
   expect(await offer.getAttribute('href')).toBe('/offer/');
+
+  const feedback = page.getByRole('link', { name: 'Обратная связь' });
+  await expect(feedback).toBeVisible();
+  expect(await feedback.getAttribute('href')).toBe('https://t.me/Erudit_GameBot');
 });

ui/e2e/quickmatch.spec.ts

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ test('AI game: after it ends, no GCG export and no comms entry', async ({ page }
   await page.locator('.scoreboard').click();
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Drop game' }).click();
   await page.locator('button.danger').click();
-  await expect(page.locator('.status .over')).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.turnstrip.result')).toBeVisible();
 
   // Reopen the history (resigning auto-closed it): the finished AI game offers no GCG export and
   // no comms entry at all.

ui/e2e/smoke.spec.ts

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ test('guest reaches a board and previews a placement', async ({ page }) => {
   await rackTile.click();
   await page.locator('[data-cell]:not(.filled)').nth(30).click();
   await expect(page.locator('[data-cell].pending')).toHaveCount(1);
-  // The score preview appears where the hints count used to be.
+  // The move-score badge appears on the board for the staged play.
-  await expect(page.locator('.scores')).toContainText(/\d/);
+  await expect(page.locator('.scorebadge')).toContainText(/\d/);
 
   // The contextual MakeMove control (✅) appears once a tile is pending.
   await expect(page.locator('.make')).toBeVisible();

ui/e2e/wallet.spec.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import { expect, test, type Page } from './fixtures';
 
 // The Wallet section against the mock transport (no backend). The mock seeds a web/native (direct)
-// account holding a direct + vk chip segment and a small catalog (two chip-priced values and one
+// account holding a direct (120) + vk (400) chip segment and a small catalog (two chip-priced values
-// rouble-priced chip pack — see lib/mock/client.ts), so the storefront, the store-compliance
+// and one rouble-priced chip pack — see lib/mock/client.ts), so the compact balance, the split
-// warning and the Google Play stub are all exercisable without a backend.
+// storefront, the exchange-confirm dialog (with its store-compliance warning) and the Google Play
+// stub are all exercisable without a backend.
 
 async function loginLobby(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   await page.goto('/');
@@ -22,24 +23,33 @@ async function openWallet(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   await expect(page.getByTestId('wallet')).toBeVisible();
 }
 
-test('wallet: balances, benefits and the storefront render for a durable account', async ({ page }) => {
+test('wallet: balance, active benefits and the split storefront render for a durable account', async ({ page }) => {
   await loginLobby(page);
   await openWallet(page);
 
-  // Balances: the seeded direct ("Web") and vk segments.
+  // The compact balance leads with the context's own (direct/"Web") chips, then the linked vk
-  await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Balance' })).toBeVisible();
+  // segment behind its logo.
-  await expect(page.getByText('Web', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  const balance = page.getByTestId('balance');
-  await expect(page.getByText('VK', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(balance).toContainText('120');
+  await expect(balance).toContainText('400');
+  await expect(balance.locator('.plogo')).toHaveCount(1); // the one linked (vk) platform
 
-  // Benefits + the storefront: two values priced in chips, one pack priced in roubles.
+  // The active benefits (the seeded 5 hints) sit above the store.
-  await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Benefits' })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Active' })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId('active')).toContainText('Hints: 5');
   await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Store' })).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.getByTestId('product')).toHaveCount(3);
+
-  const pack = page.locator('[data-kind="pack"]');
+  // Default tab — Buy chips: one rouble-priced pack + the public offer, and no values.
-  await expect(pack).toContainText('₽');
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="pack"]')).toHaveCount(1);
-  // The pack purchase is wired to money intake: an enabled Buy action, with the public-offer link.
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="pack"]')).toContainText('₽');
-  await expect(pack.getByTestId('buy-pack')).toBeEnabled();
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="pack"]').getByTestId('buy-pack')).toBeEnabled();
   await expect(page.getByTestId('offer')).toContainText('Public offer');
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="value"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  // Spend chips tab: the two chip-priced values, exchanged (not bought) with the "Exchange" button.
+  await page.getByTestId('tab-spend').click();
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="value"]')).toHaveCount(2);
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="value"]').first().getByTestId('buy')).toHaveText('Exchange');
 });
 
 test('wallet: buying a chip pack opens the provider payment page', async ({ page }) => {
@@ -87,32 +97,39 @@ test('wallet: the Google Play build hides the money purchases behind the RuStore
   await expect(page.getByText('Your turn')).toBeVisible();
   await openWallet(page);
 
-  // The chip pack is gone; the stub points at the RuStore build. Spending earned chips still works.
+  // Buy chips: the chip pack is gone; the stub points at the RuStore build.
   await expect(page.getByTestId('gp-stub')).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="pack"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+  // Spending earned chips still works — the values live in the Spend tab.
+  await page.getByTestId('tab-spend').click();
   await expect(page.locator('[data-kind="value"]').first().getByTestId('buy')).toBeVisible();
 });
 
-test('wallet: a web spend that would draw store chips warns first, then completes', async ({ page }) => {
+test('wallet: a web spend that would draw store chips confirms with a warning, then completes', async ({ page }) => {
   await loginLobby(page);
   await openWallet(page);
+  await page.getByTestId('tab-spend').click();
 
-  // The 300-chip value drains direct (120) then reaches into vk (180) → a store segment → warn.
+  // The 300-chip value drains direct (120) then reaches into vk (180) → a store segment → the confirm
+  // dialog carries the cross-platform warning.
   await page.locator('[data-pid="val-noads-30"]').getByTestId('buy').click();
   await expect(page.getByTestId('warn')).toBeVisible();
-  await page.getByTestId('warn-confirm').click();
+  await page.getByTestId('spend-confirm').click();
-  await expect(page.getByTestId('warn')).toBeHidden();
+  // The spend applied: the no-ads benefit now shows an end date in the Active section.
-  // The spend applied: the no-ads benefit now shows an end date.
   await expect(page.getByTestId('wallet')).toContainText('No ads until');
 });
 
-test('wallet: a spend the direct segment covers alone does not warn', async ({ page }) => {
+test('wallet: a spend the direct segment covers alone confirms without a warning', async ({ page }) => {
   await loginLobby(page);
   await openWallet(page);
+  await page.getByTestId('tab-spend').click();
 
-  // The 100-chip value is covered by the direct segment (120) alone → no store draw, no warning.
+  // The 100-chip value is covered by the direct segment (120) alone → the confirm dialog shows, but
+  // with no cross-platform warning.
   await page.locator('[data-pid="val-hints-50"]').getByTestId('buy').click();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId('spend-body')).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.getByTestId('warn')).toBeHidden();
+  await page.getByTestId('spend-confirm').click();
   // The hints benefit rose from 5 to 55.
-  await expect(page.getByTestId('wallet')).toContainText('Hints 55');
+  await expect(page.getByTestId('wallet')).toContainText('Hints: 55');
 });

ui/e2e/zoom.spec.ts

@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ test.describe('touch placement', () => {
   });
 });
 
-// A hint taken while the board is ALREADY zoomed in must still scroll to the played word — the
+// A hint taken while the board is ALREADY zoomed in now zooms OUT to the whole board, so the played
-// zoom state does not change, so without an explicit recenter the board stays parked where the
+// word — highlighted while composing — is guaranteed visible rather than parked off-screen under the
-// player was looking (the reported rough edge). The mock hint plays at the centre star (7,7), so
+// old zoom (the owner changed this from the former recentre-on-the-word behaviour, so the word can
-// zooming into the top-left corner first and then hinting must pan the board toward the centre.
+// never be lost off-screen). The mock hint plays at the centre star (7,7).
-test('a hint recentres an already-zoomed board on the played word', async ({ page }) => {
+test('a hint zooms out an already-zoomed board so the played word is visible', async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto('/');
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: /guest/i }).click();
   await page.getByRole('button', { name: /Ann/ }).click();
@@ -91,19 +91,17 @@ test('a hint recentres an already-zoomed board on the played word', async ({ pag
       el.click();
       el.click();
     });
-  const viewport = page.locator('.viewport.zoomed');
+  await expect(page.locator('.viewport.zoomed')).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(viewport).toBeVisible();
-  await page.waitForTimeout(400); // let the zoom-in settle near the top-left corner
-  const before = await viewport.evaluate((el) => ({ left: el.scrollLeft, top: el.scrollTop }));
 
   // Take a hint (the control confirms on a second tap), which plays at the centre.
   const hint = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Hint' });
   await hint.click();
   await hint.click();
-  await page.waitForTimeout(300); // the board pans to the hint word
 
-  const after = await viewport.evaluate((el) => ({ left: el.scrollLeft, top: el.scrollTop }));
+  // The board zoomed out — no zoomed viewport — with the hint's play staged (the confirm control
-  // The board panned from the top-left toward the centre word: both offsets grew.
+  // shows). The mock hint plays on the centre star, which the seeded game already occupies, so the
-  expect(after.left).toBeGreaterThan(before.left + 20);
+  // staged tile hides under the committed one; the confirm control is the reliable "a play is
-  expect(after.top).toBeGreaterThan(before.top + 20);
+  // staged" signal.
+  await expect(page.locator('.viewport.zoomed')).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(page.locator('.make')).toBeVisible();
 });

ui/legal/offer_ru.md

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 **Сайт Продавца в сети «Интернет»** — совокупность программ для электронных вычислительных машин и иной информации, содержащейся в информационной системе, доступ к которой обеспечивается посредством сети «Интернет» по доменному имени и сетевому адресу: `erudit-game.ru`.
 
+**Приложение Продавца** - предоставляемое Продавцом для загрузки из сети «Интернет», добровольно загружаемое Покупателем и исполняемое на электронной вычислительной машине (устройстве) Покупателя программное обеспечение, предоставляющее игровые или иные функции и позволяющее Покупателю взимодействовать с Продавцом путём осуществления сделок купли-продажи внутригровых ценностей. Приложение может распространяться в форматах, но не ограничиваясь, такими как: веб-приложение на Сайте Продавца, мини-приложение в экосистеме VK, мини-приложение в экосистеме Telegram, Android-приложение в экосистеме Google Play, Android-приложение в экосистеме RuStore, iOS-приложение в экосистеме Apple App Store и дугих форматах распространения.
+
 **Стороны Договора (Стороны)** — Продавец и Покупатель.
 
 **Товар** — товаром по договору купли-продажи могут быть любые вещи с соблюдением правил, предусмотренных статьей 129 Гражданского кодекса РФ.
@@ -28,13 +30,13 @@
 
 **2.1.** По настоящему Договору Продавец обязуется передать вещь (Товар) в собственность Покупателя, а Покупатель обязуется принять Товар и уплатить за него определенную денежную сумму.
 
-**2.2.** Наименование, количество, а также ассортимент Товара, его стоимость, порядок доставки и иные условия определяются на основании сведений Продавца при оформлении заявки Покупателем, либо устанавливаются на сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» `erudit-game.ru`.
+**2.2.** Наименование, количество, а также ассортимент Товара, его стоимость, порядок доставки и иные условия определяются на основании сведений Продавца при оформлении заявки Покупателем, либо устанавливаются на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет», либо в Приложении Продавца.
 
 **2.3.** Акцепт настоящей Оферты выражается в совершении конклюдентных действий, в частности:
 
-- действиях, связанных с регистрацией учетной записи на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» при наличии необходимости регистрации учетной записи;
+- действиях, связанных с регистрацией учетной записи на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» либо в Приложении Продавца при наличии необходимости регистрации учетной записи;
 - путем составления и заполнения заявки на оформление заказа Товара;
-- путем сообщения требуемых для заключения Договора сведений по телефону, электронной почте, указанными на сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет», в том числе, при обратном звонке Продавца по заявке Покупателя;
+- путем сообщения требуемых для заключения Договора сведений по телефону, электронной почте, указанными на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» либо в Приложении Продавца, в том числе, при обратном звонке Продавца по заявке Покупателя;
 - оплаты Товара Покупателем.
 
 Данный перечень не является исчерпывающим, могут быть и другие действия, которые ясно выражают намерение лица принять предложение контрагента.
@@ -76,10 +78,16 @@
 
 ## 4. Цена и порядок расчетов
 
-**4.1.** Стоимость, а также порядок оплаты Товара определяется на основании сведений Продавца при оформлении заявки Покупателем, либо устанавливаются на сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет»: `erudit-game.ru`.
+**4.1.** Стоимость, а также порядок оплаты Товара определяется на основании сведений Продавца при оформлении заявки Покупателем, либо устанавливаются на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» а так же в Приложении Продавца.
 
 **4.2.** Все расчеты по Договору производятся в безналичном порядке.
 
+**4.3.** Порядок расчётов. Приобретаемым Товаром является внутриигровая валюта «Фишка» — условная учётная единица, используемая исключительно в пределах Сайта Продавца либо в Приложения Продавца. «Фишки» предоставляют Покупателю возможность получения внутриигровых благ и дополнительных функций, включая, но не ограничиваясь: отказ от показа рекламы, приобретение подсказок в игре и иные внутриигровые возможности. «Фишка» не является электронным средством платежа либо денежным средством, не подлежит обмену на денежные средства и не может быть использована за пределами Сайта Продавца либо Приложения Продавца. «Фишки» зачисляются на внутриигровой счёт Покупателя единовременно после поступления оплаты; дальнейшее их использование для получения внутриигровых благ осуществляется Покупателем самостоятельно в рамках используемого Сайта Продавца либо Приложения Продавца.
+
+**4.4.** Стоимость Товаров:
+
+<#pricing_template#>
+
 ## 5. Обмен и возврат Товара
 
 **5.1.** Покупатель вправе осуществить возврат (обмен) Продавцу Товара, приобретенный дистанционным способом, за исключением перечня товаров, не подлежащих обмену и возврату согласно действующему законодательству Российской Федерации. Условия, сроки и порядок возврата Товара надлежащего и ненадлежащего качества установлены в соответствии с Гражданским кодексом РФ, Закона РФ от 07.02.1992 N 2300-1 «О защите прав потребителей», Правил, утвержденных Постановлением Правительства РФ от 31.12.2020 N 2463.
@@ -120,7 +128,7 @@
 
 **9.3.** Договор вступает в силу с момента Акцепта условий настоящей Оферты Покупателем и действует до полного исполнения Сторонами обязательств по Договору.
 
-**9.4.** Изменения, внесенные Продавцом в Договор и опубликованные на сайте в форме актуализированной Оферты, считаются принятыми Покупателем в полном объеме.
+**9.4.** Изменения, внесенные Продавцом в Договор и опубликованные на Сайте Продавца в форме актуализированной Оферты, считаются принятыми Покупателем в полном объеме при оплате Товаров.
 
 ## 10. Дополнительные условия
 
@@ -138,8 +146,10 @@
 
 **10.5.** Бездействие одной из Сторон в случае нарушения условий настоящей Оферты не лишает права заинтересованной Стороны осуществлять защиту своих интересов позднее, а также не означает отказа от своих прав в случае совершения одной из Сторон подобных либо сходных нарушений в будущем.
 
-**10.6.** Если на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» есть ссылки на другие веб-сайты и материалы третьих лиц, такие ссылки размещены исключительно в целях информирования, и Продавец не имеет контроля в отношении содержания таких сайтов или материалов. Продавец не несет ответственность за любые убытки или ущерб, которые могут возникнуть в результате использования таких ссылок.
+**10.6.** Если на Сайте Продавца в сети «Интернет» либо в Приложении Продавца есть ссылки на другие веб-сайты и материалы третьих лиц, такие ссылки размещены исключительно в целях информирования, и Продавец не имеет контроля в отношении содержания таких сайтов или материалов. Продавец не несет ответственность за любые убытки или ущерб, которые могут возникнуть в результате использования таких ссылок.
 
 ## 11. Реквизиты Продавца
 
 Денисов Илья Аркадьевич, ИНН 290210610742.
+
+Обратная связь в Telegram: [@Erudit_GameBot](https://t.me/Erudit_GameBot).

ui/scripts/bundle-size.mjs

@@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ const DIST = 'dist';
 // storefront logic and the catalog codec load with the always-mounted settings hub (its i18n lands
 // in the shared chunk) — and to 125 for the payment intake rails: the wallet order flow, the
 // Telegram Stars openInvoice / VK order-box launch and the per-button in-flight state ride the same
+// always-loaded Wallet screen, then to 126 for the in-game board-feedback UX — the staged-play
+// highlight geometry (lib/formed.ts), the on-board score badge and the bag / turn-strip / board-zoom
+// wiring live in the always-loaded Game / Board / Rack screens, then to 127 for the wallet storefront
+// redesign — its buy/spend toggle, compact balance and exchange-confirm dialog ride the same
 // always-loaded Wallet screen. The heavy parts — the dict loader, the move generator and the preload
 // orchestration — still stay in lazy chunks. Scoped CSS lands in the CSS chunk, not this JS budget.
-const BUDGET = { app: 125, shared: 31, landing: 5 };
+const BUDGET = { app: 127, shared: 31, landing: 5 };
 
 // gzipped returns the gzipped byte size of a built asset, or 0 when the reference is not a
 // local file (e.g. the Telegram SDK loaded from a CDN) or is missing.

ui/src/Landing.svelte

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
       locale: lc,
       reduceMotion: prefs.reduceMotion ?? false,
       boardLabels: prefs.boardLabels ?? 'beginner',
+      zoomBoard: prefs.zoomBoard ?? true,
     });
     prefs = { ...prefs, locale: lc };
   }
@@ -124,7 +125,13 @@
   </section>
 
   <footer class="ft">
-    <a class="offer" href="/offer/">{t('landing.offer')}</a>
+    <span class="legal">
+      <a class="offer" href="/offer/">{t('landing.offer')}</a>
+      <span class="sep" aria-hidden="true">|</span>
+      <!-- The feedback bot: the same Telegram contact the offer lists (section 11 «Реквизиты»);
+           external, opens in a new tab. -->
+      <a class="offer" href="https://t.me/Erudit_GameBot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{t('landing.feedback')}</a>
+    </span>
     <span>{t('about.version', { v: __APP_VERSION__ })}</span>
   </footer>
 </main>
@@ -286,6 +293,14 @@
     color: var(--text-muted);
     font-size: 0.8rem;
   }
+  .ft .legal {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 8px;
+  }
+  .ft .sep {
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+  }
   .ft .offer {
     color: inherit;
   }

ui/src/app.css

@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@
   --tile-edge: #d8c190;
   --tile-text: #2a2113;
   --tile-pending: #f2cf73;
+  /* In-composition highlight of the staged play (see game/Board.svelte): a calm reddish-pink
+     when the tiles form no word, a light green for the player's own tiles once they do, a
+     deeper green for the board tiles a formed word runs through, and the orange move-score
+     badge. Tuned per theme; refined on the contour. */
+  --tile-pending-illegal: #f2c7bf;
+  --tile-pending-legal: #c9e7bd;
+  --tile-formed: #a5cf93;
+  --score-badge: #e5811d;
   /* Last-word highlight letter — a lighter burgundy than the dark theme on purpose: against
      the lighter tile the perceived contrast needs it, so the two are tuned per theme. */
   --tile-recent: #9c5849;
@@ -84,6 +92,10 @@
     --tile-edge: #b6a473;
     --tile-text: #20190d;
     --tile-pending: #d8b75e;
+    --tile-pending-illegal: #d8a99f;
+    --tile-pending-legal: #a9cf94;
+    --tile-formed: #83b571;
+    --score-badge: #e88f31;
     --tile-recent: #8c4a3c;
     --prem-tw: #9c3f34; /* 3x word: a touch darker red */
     --prem-dw: #a8636b; /* 2x word: softer, pinker */
@@ -115,6 +127,10 @@
   --tile-edge: #b6a473;
   --tile-text: #20190d;
   --tile-pending: #f0d98f;
+  --tile-pending-illegal: #d8a99f;
+  --tile-pending-legal: #a9cf94;
+  --tile-formed: #83b571;
+  --score-badge: #e88f31;
   /* Last-word highlight letter — a warm burgundy whose red hue stays distinct from both the
      near-black glyph and the warm tile. The light theme uses a lighter burgundy (tuned per
      theme; perceived contrast depends on the surrounding board). */

ui/src/components/GameLimitModal.svelte

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+  import { t } from '../lib/i18n/index.svelte';
+  import { insideTelegram, telegramDialogsAvailable, telegramShowPopup } from '../lib/telegram';
+  import { LOGIN_BUTTON_ID, gameLimitGuestPopup, gameLimitDurablePopup } from '../lib/nativedialogs';
+  import Modal from './Modal.svelte';
+
+  // The New-Game screen raises this when the player taps a start whose kind is at its cap. guest
+  // picks the message: a sign-in funnel (a guest plays more by registering) vs a durable account's
+  // plain "finish a current game first" notice. onclose dismisses; onlogin routes a guest to sign-in.
+  let { open, guest, onclose, onlogin }: { open: boolean; guest: boolean; onclose: () => void; onlogin: () => void } = $props();
+
+  const title = $derived(guest ? t('new.limitGuestTitle') : t('new.limitDurableTitle'));
+  const body = $derived(guest ? t('new.limitGuestBody') : t('new.limitDurableBody'));
+
+  // Native path: inside the Mini App with native dialogs, present Telegram's own popup instead of
+  // the in-app modal (evaluated at fire time — the SDK loads after mount). A guest popup's login
+  // button routes to sign-in; any other dismissal closes. The message here is a plain notice with
+  // no gesture-gated follow-up, so a native popup is safe (unlike share/clipboard flows).
+  let shown = false;
+  $effect(() => {
+    if (open && !shown && insideTelegram() && telegramDialogsAvailable()) {
+      shown = true;
+      const params = guest
+        ? gameLimitGuestPopup(title, body, t('common.cancel'), t('new.limitLogin'))
+        : gameLimitDurablePopup(title, body, t('common.ok'));
+      void telegramShowPopup(params).then((id) => (guest && id === LOGIN_BUTTON_ID ? onlogin() : onclose()));
+    } else if (!open) {
+      shown = false;
+    }
+  });
+</script>
+
+{#if open && !(insideTelegram() && telegramDialogsAvailable())}
+  <Modal {title} onclose={onclose}>
+    <p class="msg">{body}</p>
+    <div class="actions">
+      {#if guest}
+        <button class="cancel" onclick={onclose}>{t('common.cancel')}</button>
+        <button class="primary" onclick={onlogin}>{t('new.limitLogin')}</button>
+      {:else}
+        <button class="primary" onclick={onclose}>{t('common.ok')}</button>
+      {/if}
+    </div>
+  </Modal>
+{/if}
+
+<style>
+  .msg {
+    margin: 0 0 16px;
+    line-height: 1.5;
+  }
+  .actions {
+    display: flex;
+    gap: 8px;
+  }
+  .actions button {
+    flex: 1;
+    padding: 10px 12px;
+    border-radius: var(--radius-sm);
+    border: 1px solid var(--accent);
+  }
+  .cancel {
+    background: transparent;
+    color: var(--accent);
+  }
+  .primary {
+    background: var(--accent);
+    color: var(--accent-text);
+  }
+</style>

ui/src/components/Modal.svelte

@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@
 
   let {
     title = '',
+    titleAside = '',
     onclose,
     overlayKeyboard = false,
     bottomSheet = false,
     children,
   }: {
     title?: string;
+    /** Optional secondary text pinned to the right of the title row, in a lighter (non-bold)
+     *  muted style — e.g. the bag count beside the "Exchange or pass" title. */
+    titleAside?: string;
     onclose?: () => void;
     overlayKeyboard?: boolean;
     bottomSheet?: boolean;
@@ -65,7 +69,12 @@
     style:--kb={bottomSheet ? `${kb}px` : null}
     onclick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
   >
-    {#if title}<h2>{title}</h2>{/if}
+    {#if title}
+      <div class="titlerow">
+        <h2>{title}</h2>
+        {#if titleAside}<span class="aside">{titleAside}</span>{/if}
+      </div>
+    {/if}
     {@render children?.()}
   </div>
 </div>
@@ -121,8 +130,21 @@
     max-height: 86dvh;
     overflow: auto;
   }
+  .titlerow {
+    display: flex;
+    justify-content: space-between;
+    align-items: baseline;
+    gap: 8px;
+  }
   h2 {
     margin: 0 0 10px;
     font-size: 1.05rem;
   }
+  /* Secondary title-row text (e.g. the bag count): lighter and muted so the title still leads. */
+  .aside {
+    font-weight: 400;
+    font-size: 0.9rem;
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+    white-space: nowrap;
+  }
 </style>

ui/src/components/TabBar.svelte

@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@
     color: var(--accent-text);
     border-radius: 999px;
     min-width: 15px;
-    padding: 0 3px;
+    /* Enough horizontal room that a two/three-digit count (e.g. the bag count) does not touch the
+       pill's rounded ends. */
+    padding: 0 5px;
     line-height: 1.4;
     text-align: center;
   }

ui/src/game/Board.svelte

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
     focus,
     recenter,
     dropTarget,
+    previewLegal,
+    formed,
+    scoreBadge,
     oncell,
     ontogglezoom,
     onrecall,
@@ -48,6 +51,15 @@
     recenter: number;
     /** The cell a dragged tile is currently aimed at, highlighted as a drop target. */
     dropTarget: { row: number; col: number } | null;
+    /** While composing: true when the staged tiles form a legal play, false when not, null when
+     *  there is no preview (off-turn, nothing staged, or a recall drag) — tints the pending tiles
+     *  green vs a calm pink. */
+    previewLegal: boolean | null;
+    /** "row,col" keys of every committed board cell a formed word runs through, greened a shade
+     *  darker than the player's own staged tiles. */
+    formed: Set<string>;
+    /** The orange move-score badge for the legal play being composed, or null. */
+    scoreBadge: { row: number; col: number; corner: 'tr' | 'bl'; score: number } | null;
     oncell: (row: number, col: number) => void;
     ontogglezoom: (row: number, col: number) => void;
     /** Recall the pending tile at (row, col) — fired on a double-tap of a pending cell. */
@@ -60,6 +72,20 @@
   const z = $derived(zoomed ? Z : 1);
   const premClass: Record<Premium, string> = { '': '', TW: 'tw', DW: 'dw', TL: 'tl', DL: 'dl' };
 
+  // The score badge sits on a corner of its anchor cell, clamped so the whole pill stays on the
+  // board. Its position is a percentage of the (15-cell) board; CSS centres the pill on the point.
+  const BADGE_MARGIN = 2.4;
+  const badgePos = $derived.by(() => {
+    const b = scoreBadge;
+    if (!b) return null;
+    const cell = 100 / 15;
+    let x = b.corner === 'tr' ? (b.col + 1) * cell : b.col * cell;
+    let y = b.corner === 'tr' ? b.row * cell : (b.row + 1) * cell;
+    x = Math.max(BADGE_MARGIN, Math.min(100 - BADGE_MARGIN, x));
+    y = Math.max(BADGE_MARGIN, Math.min(100 - BADGE_MARGIN, y));
+    return { x, y };
+  });
+
   let viewport = $state<HTMLElement>();
 
   // Genuine layout zoom (the board grows; cqw labels stay constant), so native scroll
@@ -315,6 +341,9 @@
             class="cell {premClass[premium[r][c]]}"
             class:filled={!!cell}
             class:pending={!!p && !cell}
+            class:legal={!!p && !cell && previewLegal === true}
+            class:illegal={!!p && !cell && previewLegal === false}
+            class:formed={!!cell && formed.has(key(r, c))}
             class:hl={!!cell && highlight.has(key(r, c)) && !flash}
             class:flash={!!cell && flash && highlight.has(key(r, c))}
             class:dark={premium[r][c] === '' && !cell && !p && (r + c) % 2 === 1}
@@ -342,6 +371,9 @@
           </button>
         {/each}
       {/each}
+      {#if scoreBadge && badgePos}
+        <span class="scorebadge" style="left:{badgePos.x}%; top:{badgePos.y}%">{scoreBadge.score}</span>
+      {/if}
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
@@ -397,6 +429,8 @@
     gap: 0;
     background: var(--board-bg);
     padding: 0;
+    /* Anchor for the absolutely-positioned score badge (its percentages resolve against the board). */
+    position: relative;
   }
   .cell {
     position: relative;
@@ -445,6 +479,19 @@
        board) instead of the touch starting a board pan. */
     touch-action: none;
   }
+  /* While composing, the staged play recolours its tiles: a calm reddish-pink when they form no
+     word, a light green for the player's own tiles once they do; committed board tiles a formed
+     word runs through go a shade darker (see lib/formed + Game.svelte). .formed sits after .filled
+     so it wins on committed cells (equal specificity). */
+  .cell.pending.illegal {
+    background: var(--tile-pending-illegal);
+  }
+  .cell.pending.legal {
+    background: var(--tile-pending-legal);
+  }
+  .cell.formed {
+    background: var(--tile-formed);
+  }
   .cell.droptarget {
     /* The cell a carried tile is aimed at: an accent ring plus a light accent wash, so the
        target reads clearly while dragging without obscuring the bonus label underneath. */
@@ -545,4 +592,25 @@
     font-weight: 700;
     white-space: nowrap;
   }
+  /* The move-score badge for the legal play being composed: an orange pill centred on a corner of
+     the main word's tile (see lib/formed.badgePlacement + Game.svelte), its digit sized like a
+     tile's point value so it scales with the zoom. Decorative — no pointer events — and drawn above
+     the tiles. */
+  .scorebadge {
+    position: absolute;
+    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
+    z-index: 5;
+    pointer-events: none;
+    border-radius: 999px;
+    background: var(--score-badge);
+    color: #fff;
+    font-weight: 700;
+    line-height: 1;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    padding: 2px 5px; /* px fallback for Chrome < 105 (no cqw) */
+    padding: 0.4cqw 0.9cqw;
+    font-size: calc(2.4vmin * var(--z, 1)); /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 — see .letter */
+    font-size: 2.4cqw;
+    box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
+  }
 </style>

ui/src/game/Game.svelte

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
     type Placement,
   } from '../lib/placement';
   import { liveDraftTiles, parseDraft, serializeDraft, validRackOrder } from '../lib/draft';
+  import { badgePlacement, formedGeometry } from '../lib/formed';
 
   let { id }: { id: string } = $props();
 
@@ -483,6 +484,23 @@
   // move's ✅ confirm and its preview caption are hidden so they don't sit over the opening gap;
   // they return the moment the tile is dragged back out over the board.
   const recallOverRack = $derived(draggingPend != null && reorderTo != null);
+  // The composed play's word geometry (client-side, independent of the move evaluator): the cells a
+  // formed word runs through — greened on the board — and the main word that anchors the score
+  // badge. Derived only for a legal preview, and never while dragging a staged tile back over the
+  // rack (recallOverRack), so the highlight and badge clear the instant a recall begins.
+  const EMPTY_FORMED = new Set<string>();
+  const formedGeom = $derived(
+    preview?.legal && !recallOverRack
+      ? formedGeometry(board, placement.pending, !!view?.game.multipleWordsPerTurn)
+      : null,
+  );
+  const formedCells = $derived(formedGeom?.cells ?? EMPTY_FORMED);
+  const boardBadge = $derived(
+    formedGeom && preview?.legal ? { ...badgePlacement(formedGeom.main), score: preview.score } : null,
+  );
+  // The pending-tile tint: null (default colour) with no preview or during a recall drag, otherwise
+  // the play's legality — green when legal, a calm pink when not.
+  const previewLegal: boolean | null = $derived(recallOverRack ? null : preview ? preview.legal : null);
 
   let dragPointerId = -1;
   function beginDrag(src: DragSrc, e: PointerEvent) {
@@ -610,7 +628,7 @@
           ? setTimeout(() => {
               // Still holding the tile over this cell: magnify into it. Only the first
               // (zoom-in) hold centres; once zoomed we never move the board on hover.
-              if (drag && isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed) {
+              if (drag && isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed && app.zoomBoard) {
                 focus = c;
                 zoomed = true;
                 haptic('light');
@@ -729,8 +747,8 @@
     if (pendingMap.has(`${row},${col}`)) return;
     focus = { row, col };
     // Auto-zoom is portrait-only: landscape fits the whole board, magnifying it there
-    // only hides the rest of the position.
+    // only hides the rest of the position. The "Zoom the board" setting can turn it off.
-    if (isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed) zoomed = true;
+    if (isCoarse() && !landscape && !zoomed && app.zoomBoard) zoomed = true;
     if (placement.rack[index] === BLANK) {
       blankPrompt = { rackIndex: index, row, col };
       return;
@@ -1030,23 +1048,11 @@
         // Mark the turn as hinted: the interstitial fires when the player CONFIRMS the move (commit),
         // not now — showing it here would interrupt placing the preview and revert the board on close.
         hintUsedThisTurn = true;
-        // Scroll the (zoomed) board to the hint's placement rather than the top-left:
+        // A hint just landed: if the board was zoomed in, zoom OUT to the whole board so the hint's
-        // focus the centre of the laid tiles' bounding box.
+        // word — highlighted green while composing — is guaranteed visible rather than possibly
-        const p = placement.pending;
+        // parked off-screen under the old zoom. A full board needs no scroll-to-word, so the former
-        if (p.length) {
+        // focus/recenter step is gone with the zoom-in.
-          const rows = p.map((tt) => tt.row);
+        if (zoomed) zoomed = false;
-          const cols = p.map((tt) => tt.col);
-          focus = {
-            row: Math.round((Math.min(...rows) + Math.max(...rows)) / 2),
-            col: Math.round((Math.min(...cols) + Math.max(...cols)) / 2),
-          };
-          // Ask the board to scroll to the hint word. A zoomed-out board zooms in (and centres)
-          // on the next line (portrait only); this nonce also recentres a board that is already
-          // zoomed in, where the unchanged zoom state would otherwise leave it parked where the
-          // player was looking.
-          recenter++;
-        }
-        if (isCoarse() && !landscape) zoomed = true;
         view = { ...view, hintsRemaining: h.hintsRemaining };
         syncWallet(h.walletBalance);
         // The hint is the engine's own top-ranked, fully scored legal move: reuse it as the
@@ -1486,15 +1492,16 @@
     {#if landscape}
       <div class="game-land">
         <div class="leftpane">
+          {@render turnStrip()}
           {@render scoreboardBlock()}
           <div class="history land">{@render historyBody()}</div>
-          {@render statusBlock()}
           {@render rackRow()}
           <TabBar>{@render controlButtons()}</TabBar>
         </div>
         <div class="rightpane">{@render boardBlock()}</div>
       </div>
     {:else}
+      {@render turnStrip()}
       {@render scoreboardBlock()}
       <div class="stage" class:histopen={historyOpen} bind:this={stageEl}>
         {#if historyOpen}
@@ -1502,7 +1509,6 @@
         {/if}
         {@render boardBlock()}
       </div>
-      {@render statusBlock()}
       {@render rackRow()}
     {/if}
   {:else}
@@ -1517,6 +1523,24 @@
 
 <!-- Reusable game-screen pieces, arranged differently by the portrait and landscape branches
      above so the markup and logic stay single-sourced (see the {#if landscape} split). -->
+{#snippet turnStrip()}
+  <!-- A thin line above the score plaques: while composing a legal play it reads the formed
+       word(s) and the move score ("WORD+WORD = N"); otherwise whose turn it is during play, or the
+       viewer's result once the game ends. A hotseat game shows its result as per-seat medals on the
+       plaques (2-4 local players have no single "you"), so the strip is hidden when it is over. -->
+  {#if view && !(gameOver && view.game.hotseat)}
+    <div class="turnstrip" class:result={gameOver}>
+      {#if gameOver}
+        {resultText()}
+      {:else if preview?.legal && !recallOverRack}
+        {preview.words.map((w) => w.toUpperCase()).join('+')} = {preview.score}
+      {:else}
+        {view.game.hotseat ? t('hotseat.turnOf', { name: hotseatName(view.game.toMove) }) : isMyTurn ? t('game.yourTurn') : turnLabel()}
+      {/if}
+    </div>
+  {/if}
+{/snippet}
+
 {#snippet scoreboardBlock()}
   {#if view}
     {@const badge = badgeKind(app.chatUnread[id] ?? false, app.messageUnread[id] ?? false)}
@@ -1603,10 +1627,11 @@
           {/each}
         {/each}
       </div>
+      {#if view.game.endReason === 'aborted'}
+        <p class="horganizer">{t('game.abortedNote')}</p>
+      {/if}
     </div>
-    {#if view.game.endReason === 'aborted'}
+    <div class="hbagfoot">{view.bagLen === 0 ? t('game.bagEmpty') : t('game.bag', { n: view.bagLen })}</div>
-      <p class="horganizer">{t('game.abortedNote')}</p>
-    {/if}
   {/if}
 {/snippet}
 
@@ -1639,6 +1664,9 @@
       {focus}
       {recenter}
       {dropTarget}
+      {previewLegal}
+      formed={formedCells}
+      scoreBadge={boardBadge}
       oncell={onCell}
       ontogglezoom={(r, c) => { focus = { row: r, col: c }; if (!gameOver) zoomed = !zoomed; }}
       onrecall={onRecall}
@@ -1647,25 +1675,6 @@
   </div>
 {/snippet}
 
-{#snippet statusBlock()}
-  {#if view}
-    <div class="status">
-      <span>{view.bagLen === 0 ? t('game.bagEmpty') : t('game.bag', { n: view.bagLen })}</span>
-      {#if gameOver}
-        <!-- A hotseat game shows its result as per-seat medals on the plaques (below), not a
-             viewer-centric "you won/lost" — with 2-4 local players there is no single "you". A vs_ai
-             game keeps the "you won/lost" text (one human). -->
-        {#if !view.game.hotseat}<strong class="over">{resultText()}</strong>{/if}
-      {:else if placement.pending.length === 0}
-        <span class="turn-ind">{view.game.hotseat ? t('hotseat.turnOf', { name: hotseatName(view.game.toMove) }) : isMyTurn ? t('game.yourTurn') : turnLabel()}</span>
-      {/if}
-      <span class="scores">
-        {#if recallOverRack}{:else if preview}{preview.legal ? t('game.previewWords', { words: preview.words.join(', '), n: preview.score }) : t('game.previewIllegal')}{/if}
-      </span>
-    </div>
-  {/if}
-{/snippet}
-
 {#snippet rackRow()}
   <!-- The footer is drawn even when the game is over (rack + controls), but inert:
        a finished game shows the final rack greyed out and the controls disabled. -->
@@ -1680,23 +1689,26 @@
           slots={rackSlots}
           {variant}
           {selected}
-          {landscape}
           shuffling={shuffling && !app.reduceMotion}
           draggingId={reorderDragId}
           dropIndex={reorderTo}
+          confirm={!gameOver && placement.pending.length > 0 && !recallOverRack ? confirmBtn : undefined}
           ondown={onRackDown}
         />
       {/if}
     </div>
-    {#if !gameOver && placement.pending.length > 0 && !recallOverRack}
-      <button class="make" onclick={commit} disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady || !preview?.legal} aria-label={t('game.makeMove')}>✅</button>
-    {/if}
   </div>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet confirmBtn()}
+  <!-- The confirm-move control lives in the rack's fixed 7th slot (see Rack). Shown only while a
+       play is staged; disabled until the preview says it is legal. -->
+  <button class="make" onclick={commit} disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady || !preview?.legal} aria-label={t('game.makeMove')}>✅</button>
+{/snippet}
+
 {#snippet controlButtons()}
   <button class="tab" disabled={busy || !canMove || !netReady} onclick={openExchange}>
-    <span class="sq" data-coach="game-turn">🔄</span><span class="lbl">{t('game.draw')}</span>
+    <span class="sq" data-coach="game-turn">🔄{#if view && view.bagLen > 0}<span class="badge">{view.bagLen}</span>{/if}</span><span class="lbl">{t('game.draw')}</span>
   </button>
   {#if view?.game.hotseat}
     <!-- Hotseat: no hints. The freed slot becomes the host (referee) button — always available
@@ -1757,7 +1769,11 @@
 {/if}
 
 {#if exchangeOpen && view}
-  <Modal title={t('game.exchangeTitle')} onclose={() => (exchangeOpen = false)}>
+  <Modal
+    title={t('game.exchangeTitle')}
+    titleAside={view.bagLen === 0 ? t('game.bagEmpty') : t('game.bagCount', { n: view.bagLen })}
+    onclose={() => (exchangeOpen = false)}
+  >
     <div class="exch">
       {#each view.rack as letter, i (i)}
         <button class="etile" class:sel={exchangeSel.includes(i)} disabled={!canExchange} onclick={() => toggleExch(i)}>
@@ -1906,6 +1922,25 @@
     font-weight: 700;
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
   }
+  /* The thin turn/result line above the score plaques (see turnStrip): whose turn it is during
+     play, accented for the viewer's win/lose result once the game ends. */
+  .turnstrip {
+    flex: none;
+    /* A smaller bottom pad than top: the score plaques below carry their own top padding, so an
+       even strip read as too tall with the text pushed up. */
+    padding: 4px var(--pad) 2px;
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 0.85rem;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    color: var(--text);
+    background: var(--bg-elev);
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  }
+  .turnstrip.result {
+    color: var(--accent);
+  }
   .stage {
     position: relative;
     /* The board is the only part that scrolls vertically when the game does not fit;
@@ -1924,16 +1959,12 @@
     position: absolute;
     inset: 0 0 auto 0;
     z-index: 2;
-    /* A fixed-height drawer matching the board's slid offset, so the bottom border
+    /* A fixed-height drawer matching the board's slid offset, so the bottom border and its shadow
-       and its shadow pin to the board immediately instead of tracking the table as
+       pin to the board immediately instead of tracking the table as moves accumulate. It is a flex
-       moves accumulate. scrollbar-gutter reserves the scrollbar so the centred word
+       column: the header and the pinned bag footer stay put while the grid (.hgridwrap) scrolls. */
-       column does not jump left/right when the list overflows. */
     height: 62%;
-    overflow: auto;
+    display: flex;
-    /* No iOS rubber-band inside the drawer: the moves list does not elastically bounce past its
+    flex-direction: column;
-       ends (the document is already pinned; this stops the inner scroller's own bounce). */
-    overscroll-behavior: none;
-    scrollbar-gutter: stable;
     background: var(--surface-2);
     box-shadow: inset 0 -6px 10px -8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
     border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
@@ -1945,8 +1976,26 @@
      The wrapper's horizontal padding matches the scoreboard so the columns line up under the
      plaques. */
   .hgridwrap {
+    flex: 1 1 auto;
+    min-height: 0;
+    overflow: auto;
+    /* No iOS rubber-band inside the scroller: the moves list does not elastically bounce past its
+       ends (the document is already pinned; this stops the inner scroller's own bounce). */
+    overscroll-behavior: none;
+    /* Reserve the scrollbar so the centred word column does not jump left/right on overflow. */
+    scrollbar-gutter: stable;
     padding: 8px var(--pad);
   }
+  /* The bag count pinned bottom-left of the move table, out of the scrolling grid, so it stays put
+     as moves accumulate. The same count also rides the exchange control as a badge (see
+     controlButtons), which is the always-visible indicator when the table is closed. */
+  .hbagfoot {
+    flex: none;
+    padding: 6px var(--pad);
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+    font-size: 0.85rem;
+    border-top: 1px solid var(--border);
+  }
   .hgrid {
     display: grid;
     gap: 1px;
@@ -1991,28 +2040,6 @@
   .boardwrap.slid :global(.viewport) {
     pointer-events: none;
   }
-  .status {
-    display: flex;
-    flex: none;
-    align-items: center;
-    justify-content: space-between;
-    padding: 2px var(--pad) 6px;
-    color: var(--text-muted);
-    font-size: 0.85rem;
-  }
-  .turn-ind {
-    font-weight: 600;
-    color: var(--text);
-  }
-  .over {
-    color: var(--accent);
-  }
-  .scores {
-    font-weight: 600;
-    color: var(--ok);
-    min-width: 64px;
-    text-align: right;
-  }
   /* The single-word-rule label centred in the history header between its two icons. */
   .oneword-label {
     flex: 1;
@@ -2033,40 +2060,31 @@
     pointer-events: none;
     opacity: 0.55;
   }
+  /* Landscape: the rack sits directly under the docked history (no board between them), so give it a
+     small gap above; portrait gets its spacing from the board's own padding. */
+  .game-land .rack-row {
+    padding-top: 6px;
+  }
   .rack-wrap {
     flex: 1;
     min-width: 0;
   }
-  /* A borderless icon button (like the tab bar), not a filled accent button — and disabled
+  /* The confirm-move control occupies the rack's fixed 7th column while a play is staged (a
-     while the pending word is known to be illegal. It is an overlay, NOT a flex sibling of the
+     borderless icon button, like the tab bar). It is rendered inside the rack grid (see Rack), so it
-     rack: the rack keeps the full row width with a fixed tile size (no reflow or tile resize
+     lines up with the tiles and stays the rightmost slot no matter how many tiles remain. */
-     when a tile is staged), and the button is absolutely pinned over the slots a staged tile
-     frees on the right. Its right edge sits at var(--pad) — directly under the right edge of the
-     preview caption above (.status shares that padding). */
   .make {
-    position: absolute;
+    grid-column: 7;
-    right: var(--pad);
+    align-self: stretch;
-    top: 0;
+    display: grid;
-    bottom: 6px;
+    place-items: center;
-    width: 56px;
     background: none;
     color: var(--text);
     border: none;
-    display: grid;
-    place-items: center end;
     font-size: 1.8rem;
   }
   .make:disabled {
     opacity: 0.4;
   }
-  /* Landscape: the rack fills a narrow fixed-width panel with exactly seven tile slots, so the 56px
-     button (sized for the roomy portrait rack) is wider than the single slot a staged tile frees and
-     overlaps the now-rightmost tile. Match the button to one landscape tile slot (its width formula),
-     so it sits inside the freed slot with its right edge level with the rack's right edge — the
-     mirror of the first tile's left edge. */
-  .game-land .make {
-    width: calc((100% - 2 * var(--pad) - 6 * 5px) / 7);
-  }
   /* The move-history header: leave (active) / export (finished) on the left, comms on the
      right, icon-only. Sticky so it stays atop the scrolling move list. */
   .hhead {

ui/src/game/Rack.svelte

@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@
   import { valueForLetter } from '../lib/alphabet';
   import type { Variant } from '../lib/model';
   import { usesStarBlank, BLANK_STAR } from '../lib/variants';
+  import type { Snippet } from 'svelte';
 
   let {
     slots,
     variant,
     selected,
-    landscape = false,
     shuffling = false,
     draggingId = null,
     dropIndex = null,
+    confirm,
     ondown,
   }: {
     // Each slot carries a stable id that travels with its tile through a shuffle, so the
@@ -20,14 +21,14 @@
     slots: (RackSlot & { id: number })[];
     variant: Variant;
     selected: number | null;
-    /** Landscape layout: size the tiles to share the (narrow) left-panel width instead of the
-     *  viewport-width measure, so seven tiles never overflow the panel. */
-    landscape?: boolean;
     shuffling?: boolean;
     // While a rack tile is being dragged to reorder it, draggingId is its id (hidden here —
     // the drag ghost stands in) and dropIndex is the slot where a gap opens.
     draggingId?: number | null;
     dropIndex?: number | null;
+    /** The confirm-move control, rendered as the fixed 7th slot of the rack while a play is staged
+     *  (the parent owns the button and its enablement; the rack only positions it). */
+    confirm?: Snippet;
     ondown: (e: PointerEvent, index: number) => void;
   } = $props();
 
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
   }
 </script>
 
-<div class="rack" class:reordering={draggingId != null || dropIndex != null} class:landscape data-rack>
+<div class="rack" class:reordering={draggingId != null || dropIndex != null} data-rack>
   {#each shown as slot, i (slot.id)}
     <button
       class="tile"
@@ -75,21 +76,26 @@
       {/if}
     </button>
   {/each}
+  {@render confirm?.()}
 </div>
 
 <style>
+  /* Seven equal columns filling the whole tray width, so the tiles are square and as large as the
+     row allows — the same in portrait and landscape. The tile glyphs use cqw against the rack width
+     (the query container) so they track the tile size, the way the board sizes its labels on its
+     .scaler. */
   .rack {
-    display: flex;
+    display: grid;
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(7, 1fr);
     gap: 5px;
-    align-items: center;
+    align-items: start;
-    /* Reserve one tile's height so an empty rack (e.g. a finished game) keeps the
+    container-type: inline-size;
-       footer the same size as during play — no layout jump between states. */
+    /* Reserve about one tile's height so an empty rack (e.g. a finished game) keeps the footer the
+       same size as during play — no layout jump between states. */
     min-height: min(12.5vw, 46px);
   }
   .tile {
     position: relative;
-    flex: 0 0 auto;
-    width: min(12.5vw, 46px);
     aspect-ratio: 1;
     background: var(--tile-bg);
     color: var(--tile-text);
@@ -97,7 +103,6 @@
     border-radius: 5px;
     box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 0 var(--tile-edge);
     font-weight: 700;
-    font-size: 1.4rem;
     touch-action: none;
     user-select: none;
     -webkit-user-select: none;
@@ -109,35 +114,6 @@
     outline: 3px solid var(--accent);
     outline-offset: -3px;
   }
-  /* Landscape: the rack sits in a fixed-width left panel, so the tiles share the panel width
-     (capped at the portrait size) and shrink below it when the panel is narrow, instead of the
-     viewport-width measure that would overflow seven tiles in a column. */
-  .rack.landscape {
-    /* Size the tile glyphs relative to the rack (the board sizes its labels the same way, on its
-       .scaler container). The tile is a flex + aspect-ratio item whose OWN container-query size
-       resolves unreliably, so the rack — which has a definite width — is the query container. A
-       fixed-rem letter overflowed the tile once it shrank below 46px in a narrow left panel and
-       dropped into the bottom-left corner. The cqw values track the rack≈7×tile relation. */
-    container-type: inline-size;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .tile {
-    /* Fixed tile size (1/7 of the fixed-width rack, accounting for the six 5px gaps), NOT flex-grow:
-       so placing a tile leaves the remaining ones put instead of growing them to refill the row —
-       matching the portrait rack. The constant rack width also keeps the cqw glyphs above steady as
-       tiles leave. */
-    flex: 0 0 auto;
-    width: calc((100% - 6 * 5px) / 7);
-    max-width: 46px;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .letter {
-    font-size: 6cqw;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .val {
-    font-size: 3.1cqw;
-  }
-  .rack.landscape .star {
-    font-size: 7.6cqw;
-  }
   /* While reordering, tiles at/after the drop slot slide right to open a gap there (one
      tile width plus the rack gap), so the drop position is visible. */
   .rack.reordering .tile {
@@ -150,12 +126,15 @@
     position: absolute;
     top: 8%;
     left: 14%;
+    font-size: 6vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 — approximates the portrait rack ≈ viewport width */
+    font-size: 6cqw;
   }
   .val {
     position: absolute;
     right: 4px;
     bottom: 1px;
-    font-size: 0.7rem;
+    font-size: 3.1vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 */
+    font-size: 3.1cqw;
     font-weight: 600;
   }
   /* Erudit's blank ("звёздочка") shows its star horizontally centred on the otherwise empty
@@ -167,6 +146,7 @@
     left: 0;
     right: 0;
     text-align: center;
-    font-size: 1.7rem;
+    font-size: 7.6vmin; /* cqw fallback for Chrome < 105 */
+    font-size: 7.6cqw;
   }
 </style>

ui/src/gen/fbs/scrabblefb.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export { FriendCode } from './scrabblefb/friend-code.js';
 export { FriendList } from './scrabblefb/friend-list.js';
 export { FriendRespondRequest } from './scrabblefb/friend-respond-request.js';
 export { GameActionRequest } from './scrabblefb/game-action-request.js';
+export { GameLimits } from './scrabblefb/game-limits.js';
 export { GameList } from './scrabblefb/game-list.js';
 export { GameOverEvent } from './scrabblefb/game-over-event.js';
 export { GameView } from './scrabblefb/game-view.js';

ui/src/gen/fbs/scrabblefb/game-limits.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// automatically generated by the FlatBuffers compiler, do not modify
+
+import * as flatbuffers from 'flatbuffers';
+
+export class GameLimits {
+  bb: flatbuffers.ByteBuffer|null = null;
+  bb_pos = 0;
+  __init(i:number, bb:flatbuffers.ByteBuffer):GameLimits {
+  this.bb_pos = i;
+  this.bb = bb;
+  return this;
+}
+
+static getRootAsGameLimits(bb:flatbuffers.ByteBuffer, obj?:GameLimits):GameLimits {
+  return (obj || new GameLimits()).__init(bb.readInt32(bb.position()) + bb.position(), bb);
+}
+
+static getSizePrefixedRootAsGameLimits(bb:flatbuffers.ByteBuffer, obj?:GameLimits):GameLimits {
+  bb.setPosition(bb.position() + flatbuffers.SIZE_PREFIX_LENGTH);
+  return (obj || new GameLimits()).__init(bb.readInt32(bb.position()) + bb.position(), bb);
+}
+
+vsAi():number {
+  const offset = this.bb!.__offset(this.bb_pos, 4);
+  return offset ? this.bb!.readInt32(this.bb_pos + offset) : 0;
+}
+
+random():number {
+  const offset = this.bb!.__offset(this.bb_pos, 6);
+  return offset ? this.bb!.readInt32(this.bb_pos + offset) : 0;
+}
+
+friends():number {
+  const offset = this.bb!.__offset(this.bb_pos, 8);
+  return offset ? this.bb!.readInt32(this.bb_pos + offset) : 0;
+}
+
+static startGameLimits(builder:flatbuffers.Builder) {
+  builder.startObject(3);
+}
+
+static addVsAi(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, vsAi:number) {
+  builder.addFieldInt32(0, vsAi, 0);
+}
+
+static addRandom(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, random:number) {
+  builder.addFieldInt32(1, random, 0);
+}
+
+static addFriends(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, friends:number) {
+  builder.addFieldInt32(2, friends, 0);
+}
+
+static endGameLimits(builder:flatbuffers.Builder):flatbuffers.Offset {
+  const offset = builder.endObject();
+  return offset;
+}
+
+static createGameLimits(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, vsAi:number, random:number, friends:number):flatbuffers.Offset {
+  GameLimits.startGameLimits(builder);
+  GameLimits.addVsAi(builder, vsAi);
+  GameLimits.addRandom(builder, random);
+  GameLimits.addFriends(builder, friends);
+  return GameLimits.endGameLimits(builder);
+}
+}

ui/src/gen/fbs/scrabblefb/game-view.ts

@@ -113,8 +113,13 @@ unreadMessages():boolean {
   return offset ? !!this.bb!.readInt8(this.bb_pos + offset) : false;
 }
 
+kind():number {
+  const offset = this.bb!.__offset(this.bb_pos, 34);
+  return offset ? this.bb!.readInt32(this.bb_pos + offset) : 0;
+}
+
 static startGameView(builder:flatbuffers.Builder) {
-  builder.startObject(15);
+  builder.startObject(16);
 }
 
 static addId(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, idOffset:flatbuffers.Offset) {
@@ -189,12 +194,16 @@ static addUnreadMessages(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, unreadMessages:boolean) {
   builder.addFieldInt8(14, +unreadMessages, +false);
 }
 
+static addKind(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, kind:number) {
+  builder.addFieldInt32(15, kind, 0);
+}
+
 static endGameView(builder:flatbuffers.Builder):flatbuffers.Offset {
   const offset = builder.endObject();
   return offset;
 }
 
-static createGameView(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, idOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, variantOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, dictVersionOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, statusOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, players:number, toMove:number, turnTimeoutSecs:number, multipleWordsPerTurn:boolean, moveCount:number, endReasonOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, seatsOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, lastActivityUnix:bigint, vsAi:boolean, unreadChat:boolean, unreadMessages:boolean):flatbuffers.Offset {
+static createGameView(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, idOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, variantOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, dictVersionOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, statusOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, players:number, toMove:number, turnTimeoutSecs:number, multipleWordsPerTurn:boolean, moveCount:number, endReasonOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, seatsOffset:flatbuffers.Offset, lastActivityUnix:bigint, vsAi:boolean, unreadChat:boolean, unreadMessages:boolean, kind:number):flatbuffers.Offset {
   GameView.startGameView(builder);
   GameView.addId(builder, idOffset);
   GameView.addVariant(builder, variantOffset);
@@ -211,6 +220,7 @@ static createGameView(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, idOffset:flatbuffers.Offset,
   GameView.addVsAi(builder, vsAi);
   GameView.addUnreadChat(builder, unreadChat);
   GameView.addUnreadMessages(builder, unreadMessages);
+  GameView.addKind(builder, kind);
   return GameView.endGameView(builder);
 }
 }

ui/src/gen/fbs/scrabblefb/profile.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import * as flatbuffers from 'flatbuffers';
 import { AdsInfo } from '../scrabblefb/ads-info.js';
 import { BannerInfo } from '../scrabblefb/banner-info.js';
 import { DictVersion } from '../scrabblefb/dict-version.js';
+import { GameLimits } from '../scrabblefb/game-limits.js';
 
 
 export class Profile {
@@ -141,8 +142,13 @@ ads(obj?:AdsInfo):AdsInfo|null {
   return offset ? (obj || new AdsInfo()).__init(this.bb!.__indirect(this.bb_pos + offset), this.bb!) : null;
 }
 
+gameLimits(obj?:GameLimits):GameLimits|null {
+  const offset = this.bb!.__offset(this.bb_pos, 40);
+  return offset ? (obj || new GameLimits()).__init(this.bb!.__indirect(this.bb_pos + offset), this.bb!) : null;
+}
+
 static startProfile(builder:flatbuffers.Builder) {
-  builder.startObject(18);
+  builder.startObject(19);
 }
 
 static addUserId(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, userIdOffset:flatbuffers.Offset) {
@@ -241,6 +247,10 @@ static addAds(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, adsOffset:flatbuffers.Offset) {
   builder.addFieldOffset(17, adsOffset, 0);
 }
 
+static addGameLimits(builder:flatbuffers.Builder, gameLimitsOffset:flatbuffers.Offset) {
+  builder.addFieldOffset(18, gameLimitsOffset, 0);
+}
+
 static endProfile(builder:flatbuffers.Builder):flatbuffers.Offset {
   const offset = builder.endObject();
   return offset;

ui/src/lib/app.svelte.ts

@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ export const app = $state<{
   locale: Locale;
   reduceMotion: boolean;
   boardLabels: BoardLabelMode;
+  /** Auto-zoom the board toward a tile when it is placed (touch/mobile only; the wide desktop and
+   *  landscape layouts already fit the whole board and never auto-zoom). On by default. */
+  zoomBoard: boolean;
   /** Completion flags for the two first-run coachmark series (components/Coachmark.svelte). */
   onboarding: OnboardingState;
   /** Whether a first-run coachmark overlay is currently on screen. While set, the scrolling promo
@@ -172,6 +175,7 @@ export const app = $state<{
   locale: 'en',
   reduceMotion: false,
   boardLabels: 'beginner',
+  zoomBoard: true,
   onboarding: { lobbyDone: false, gameDone: false },
   coachActive: false,
   notifications: 0,
@@ -813,6 +817,7 @@ export async function bootstrap(): Promise<void> {
   app.theme = prefs.theme ?? 'auto';
   app.reduceMotion = prefs.reduceMotion ?? false;
   app.boardLabels = prefs.boardLabels ?? 'beginner';
+  app.zoomBoard = prefs.zoomBoard ?? true;
   app.onboarding = await loadOnboarding();
   applyTheme(app.theme);
   applyReduceMotion(app.reduceMotion);
@@ -1232,6 +1237,7 @@ function persistPrefs(): void {
     locale: app.locale,
     reduceMotion: app.reduceMotion,
     boardLabels: app.boardLabels,
+    zoomBoard: app.zoomBoard,
   });
   // Mirror the device-independent display prefs to Telegram CloudStorage so they follow the user
   // across devices (no-op outside Telegram / on a client predating it). Locale is excluded — it
@@ -1321,6 +1327,11 @@ export function setBoardLabels(mode: BoardLabelMode): void {
   persistPrefs();
 }
 
+export function setZoomBoard(on: boolean): void {
+  app.zoomBoard = on;
+  persistPrefs();
+}
+
 // Background/foreground lifecycle: silence the reconnect banner during a suspend and
 // reconnect quietly on return (and refresh the lobby badge for any push missed while
 // hidden, §10). Several signals cover the platforms: the page Visibility API, the

ui/src/lib/codec.test.ts

@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ describe('codec', () => {
     fb.GameView.addLastActivityUnix(b, BigInt(1717000000));
     fb.GameView.addVsAi(b, true);
     fb.GameView.addUnreadChat(b, true);
+    fb.GameView.addKind(b, 2);
     const game = fb.GameView.endGameView(b);
     const games = fb.GameList.createGamesVector(b, [game]);
     fb.GameList.startGameList(b);
@@ -436,6 +437,7 @@ describe('codec', () => {
     expect(gl.games[0].lastActivityUnix).toBe(1717000000);
     expect(gl.games[0].vsAi).toBe(true);
     expect(gl.games[0].unreadChat).toBe(true);
+    expect(gl.games[0].kind).toBe(2);
     expect(gl.atGameLimit).toBe(true);
   });
 
@@ -830,6 +832,26 @@ describe('codec', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('decodes the profile active-game limits (guest tier)', () => {
+    const b = new Builder(64);
+    const uid = b.createString('u-1');
+    const limits = fb.GameLimits.createGameLimits(b, 1, 1, 0);
+    fb.Profile.startProfile(b);
+    fb.Profile.addUserId(b, uid);
+    fb.Profile.addGameLimits(b, limits);
+    b.finish(fb.Profile.endProfile(b));
+    expect(decodeProfile(b.asUint8Array()).gameLimits).toEqual({ vsAi: 1, random: 1, friends: 0 });
+  });
+
+  it('leaves the profile game limits undefined when absent', () => {
+    const b = new Builder(64);
+    const uid = b.createString('u-1');
+    fb.Profile.startProfile(b);
+    fb.Profile.addUserId(b, uid);
+    b.finish(fb.Profile.endProfile(b));
+    expect(decodeProfile(b.asUint8Array()).gameLimits).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   it('carries the suppressed flag through the ad config', () => {
     const b = new Builder(64);
     const uid = b.createString('u-1');

ui/src/lib/codec.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import type {
   RobotFriendRequestEntry,
   Banner,
   AdsConfig,
+  GameLimits,
   BannerCampaign,
   BestMove,
   BestMoveTile,
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ function decodeGameView(g: fb.GameView): GameView {
     vsAi: g.vsAi(),
     unreadChat: g.unreadChat(),
     unreadMessages: g.unreadMessages(),
+    kind: g.kind(),
     seats,
   };
 }
@@ -467,9 +469,18 @@ export function decodeProfile(buf: Uint8Array): Profile {
     telegramLinked: p.telegramLinked(),
     vkLinked: p.vkLinked(),
     dictVersions: decodeDictVersions(p),
+    gameLimits: decodeGameLimits(p),
   };
 }
 
+// decodeGameLimits projects the caller's tier active-game caps (per kind, -1 = unlimited), or
+// undefined when absent (an old backend); the New-Game screen then applies no lock.
+function decodeGameLimits(p: fb.Profile): GameLimits | undefined {
+  const g = p.gameLimits();
+  if (!g) return undefined;
+  return { vsAi: g.vsAi(), random: g.random(), friends: g.friends() };
+}
+
 // decodeDictVersions reads the profile's per-variant current dictionary versions into a
 // variant-keyed map, so the offline preloader can look up the version for each enabled
 // variant. An entry with an unknown variant or empty version is skipped.
@@ -1137,6 +1148,7 @@ function emptyGame(): GameView {
     vsAi: false,
     unreadChat: false,
     unreadMessages: false,
+    kind: 0,
     seats: [],
   };
 }

ui/src/lib/formed.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { formedGeometry, badgePlacement } from './formed';
+import type { Board } from './board';
+
+const SIZE = 15;
+
+// board builds a 15×15 empty board with the given committed tiles placed.
+function board(tiles: Array<[number, number, string]> = []): Board {
+  const b: Board = [];
+  for (let r = 0; r < SIZE; r++) {
+    const row: (Board[number][number])[] = [];
+    for (let c = 0; c < SIZE; c++) row.push(null);
+    b.push(row);
+  }
+  for (const [r, c, letter] of tiles) b[r][c] = { letter, blank: false };
+  return b;
+}
+
+const cells = (g: ReturnType<typeof formedGeometry>) => [...(g?.cells ?? new Set())].sort();
+
+describe('formedGeometry', () => {
+  it('returns null with nothing staged', () => {
+    expect(formedGeometry(board(), [], true)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('finds a fresh horizontal word with no cross words', () => {
+    const g = formedGeometry(board(), [
+      { row: 7, col: 7 },
+      { row: 7, col: 8 },
+    ], true);
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, dir: 'H', len: 2 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['7,7', '7,8']);
+  });
+
+  it('finds a fresh vertical word', () => {
+    const g = formedGeometry(board(), [
+      { row: 7, col: 7 },
+      { row: 8, col: 7 },
+    ], true);
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, dir: 'V', len: 2 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['7,7', '8,7']);
+  });
+
+  it('extends a committed tile into the main word (committed cell in the set)', () => {
+    // A committed A at (7,7); a lone tile to its right forms the two-letter main word.
+    const g = formedGeometry(board([[7, 7, 'A']]), [{ row: 7, col: 8 }], true);
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, dir: 'H', len: 2 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['7,7', '7,8']);
+  });
+
+  it('collects a cross word through a staged tile, committed cells included', () => {
+    // Committed X above and Y below (7,8) leave a one-cell gap; a horizontal play through it also
+    // completes the vertical X-_-Y cross word.
+    const g = formedGeometry(board([[6, 8, 'X'], [8, 8, 'Y']]), [
+      { row: 7, col: 7 },
+      { row: 7, col: 8 },
+    ], true);
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, dir: 'H', len: 2 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['6,8', '7,7', '7,8', '8,8']);
+  });
+
+  it('omits cross words under the single-word rule (multipleWords = false)', () => {
+    // The same board as the cross-word case, but a single-word game: the engine ignores the vertical
+    // X-_-Y run (and it need not be a real word), so the geometry must highlight only the main
+    // (horizontal) word — the reported "БО lights up green in a one-word game" bug.
+    const g = formedGeometry(board([[6, 8, 'X'], [8, 8, 'Y']]), [
+      { row: 7, col: 7 },
+      { row: 7, col: 8 },
+    ], false);
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, dir: 'H', len: 2 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['7,7', '7,8']);
+  });
+
+  it('takes the longer axis as the main word for a lone connecting tile', () => {
+    // (7,8) joins a length-3 horizontal (cols 6-8) and a length-4 vertical (rows 5-8): the vertical
+    // is longer, so it is the main word and the horizontal becomes a cross word.
+    const g = formedGeometry(
+      board([
+        [7, 6, 'A'],
+        [7, 7, 'B'],
+        [5, 8, 'C'],
+        [6, 8, 'D'],
+        [8, 8, 'E'],
+      ]),
+      [{ row: 7, col: 8 }],
+      true,
+    );
+    expect(g?.main).toEqual({ row: 5, col: 8, dir: 'V', len: 4 });
+    expect(cells(g)).toEqual(['5,8', '6,8', '7,6', '7,7', '7,8', '8,8']);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('badgePlacement', () => {
+  it('anchors a mid-board horizontal word at the last letter, top-right', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 7, col: 5, dir: 'H', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 7, corner: 'tr' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a right-edge horizontal word at the first letter, bottom-left', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 7, col: 12, dir: 'H', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 12, corner: 'bl' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a top-edge horizontal word at the first letter, bottom-left', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 0, col: 5, dir: 'H', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 0, col: 5, corner: 'bl' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a left-edge horizontal word at the last letter, top-right', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 7, col: 0, dir: 'H', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 2, corner: 'tr' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a bottom-edge horizontal word at the last letter, top-right', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 14, col: 5, dir: 'H', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 14, col: 7, corner: 'tr' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a mid-board vertical word at the first letter, top-right', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 5, col: 7, dir: 'V', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 5, col: 7, corner: 'tr' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a top-edge vertical word at the last letter, bottom-left', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 0, col: 7, dir: 'V', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 2, col: 7, corner: 'bl' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a right-edge vertical word at the last letter, bottom-left', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 5, col: 14, dir: 'V', len: 3 })).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 14, corner: 'bl' });
+  });
+
+  it('anchors a full-width horizontal word at the last letter, top-right (clamped by the board)', () => {
+    expect(badgePlacement({ row: 7, col: 0, dir: 'H', len: 15 })).toEqual({ row: 7, col: 14, corner: 'tr' });
+  });
+});