docs/UI_DESIGN.md

@@ -79,9 +79,12 @@ Login uses `Screen`.
   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. The swipe-to-open-history gesture stays dropped (it fought native scroll);
-  history 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 hint's placement, not
+  the first time. 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. 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
+  hint's placement, not
   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
@@ -94,8 +97,12 @@ Login uses `Screen`.
   while the others read **sunk in** (an inset shadow). A tap on the plaque toggles
   the **move history** — a fixed-height slide-down drawer whose bottom border (and its
   shadow) pins to the board as the board slides down, instead of tracking the table as
-  moves accumulate; its scrollbar gutter is reserved so the centred word column does not
-  jitter. A move's row lists every word it formed (the main word first). While the history
+  moves accumulate; its scrollbar gutter is reserved so the centred cells do not jitter. The
+  history is a **ruled matrix** — one column per seat, aligned under the score plaques, each
+  seat's moves filling its column top to bottom: no player names (the plaque heads the column)
+  and no running total, just the word(s) and the move score, `WORD (12)`, centred. A non-play
+  move keeps its dim parenthesised tag `(pass)`; the seat whose move is awaited shows a dim
+  `thinking…` in its next cell (never the viewer's own). While the history
   is open the **slid board is inert** and the stage cannot scroll, so the whole board reads
   as a **tap-or-swipe-up-to-close** surface — closing genuinely clears the open state (it no
   longer merely scrolls the board out of view, which used to leave a stale-open state that
@@ -189,9 +196,9 @@ IV 🏅; active games show Your move 🟢 / Opponent's move ⏳; invitations use
 - **Friend code**: the issued code sits next to a 📋 copy control; tapping the code or
   the icon copies it. Flex text inputs carry `min-width:0` so they shrink instead of
   overflowing in Safari.
-- **History / GCG**: the in-game slide-down history gains the running total per move;
-  *Export GCG* (the 📤 in the history header) shares or downloads the `.gcg` file and
-  appears only once the game is finished.
+- **History / GCG**: the in-game slide-down history lays each move out in a per-seat grid
+  (the word(s) and the move score, no running total); *Export GCG* (the 📤 in the history
+  header) shares or downloads the `.gcg` file and appears only once the game is finished.
 - **Finished game**: the board keeps no last-word highlight and no zoom; the history header
   offers *Export GCG* (not *Drop game*) and the comms hub hides the 🔎 *Dictionary* tab; and
   the footer (rack + tab bar) is **drawn but inert** (greyed, non-interactive) rather than

ui/e2e/history.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import { expect, test, type Page } from './fixtures';
+
+// The redesigned move history: a ruled matrix with one column per seat (no player names, no
+// running total), opened by a swipe-down on the zoom-out board. The gesture is touch-only and
+// the desktop projects have no touch input, so the swipe is dispatched as PointerEvents with
+// pointerType:'touch'; a phone viewport so the board fills the width.
+test.use({ viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 } });
+
+async function openGame(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.goto('/');
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /guest/i }).click();
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /Ann/ }).click(); // the seeded active game G1 (your turn)
+  await expect(page.locator('[data-cell]').first()).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.pane')).toHaveCount(1); // let the screen-slide settle
+}
+
+/** touchSwipeDown dispatches a single-finger vertical touch drag on the board wrapper. */
+async function touchSwipeDown(page: Page, fromY: number, toY: number): Promise<void> {
+  const box = (await page.locator('.boardwrap').boundingBox())!;
+  const x = box.x + box.width / 2;
+  await page.locator('.boardwrap').evaluate(
+    (el, { x, fromY, toY }) => {
+      const fire = (type: string, y: number) =>
+        el.dispatchEvent(
+          new PointerEvent(type, { pointerType: 'touch', clientX: x, clientY: y, bubbles: true, cancelable: true }),
+        );
+      fire('pointerdown', fromY);
+      for (let i = 1; i <= 8; i++) fire('pointermove', fromY + ((toY - fromY) * i) / 8);
+      fire('pointerup', toY);
+    },
+    { x, fromY, toY },
+  );
+}
+
+test('a swipe-down on the zoom-out board opens the history', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openGame(page);
+  await page.locator('.stage').evaluate((el) => (el.scrollTop = 0)); // the pull only opens at the top
+  const box = (await page.locator('.boardwrap').boundingBox())!;
+
+  await touchSwipeDown(page, box.y + 20, box.y + 180);
+
+  await expect(page.locator('.history')).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('.boardwrap.slid')).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test('the history is a per-seat grid with move scores but no names or running total', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openGame(page);
+  await page.locator('.scoreboard').click(); // open the history (gesture is covered separately)
+
+  const grid = page.locator('.hgrid');
+  await expect(grid).toBeVisible();
+  // G1: You [HELLO 16, RAT 3] vs Ann [WORLD 9, AND 4] — a 2×2 matrix, no empty/thinking cells.
+  await expect(page.locator('.hcell')).toHaveCount(4);
+  await expect(grid).toContainText('HELLO');
+  await expect(grid).toContainText('(3)'); // RAT's per-move score
+  // The running total (RAT's was 19) and the seat names no longer appear in the table.
+  await expect(grid).not.toContainText('19');
+  await expect(grid).not.toContainText('Ann');
+});
+
+test('a swipe-down on the zoomed-in board does not open the history (native scroll wins)', async ({ page }) => {
+  await openGame(page);
+  // Double-tap an empty cell to zoom in (two synchronous clicks = a double-tap).
+  await page
+    .locator('[data-cell]:not(.filled)')
+    .nth(20)
+    .evaluate((el: HTMLElement) => {
+      el.click();
+      el.click();
+    });
+  await expect(page.locator('.viewport.zoomed')).toBeVisible();
+  const box = (await page.locator('.boardwrap').boundingBox())!;
+
+  await touchSwipeDown(page, box.y + 20, box.y + 180);
+
+  await expect(page.locator('.history')).toHaveCount(0);
+});

ui/src/game/Game.svelte

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   import { t, type MessageKey } from '../lib/i18n/index.svelte';
   import type { Direction, EvalResult, MoveRecord, MoveResult, StateView, Tile } from '../lib/model';
   import { lastMoveCells, replay } from '../lib/board';
+  import { historyGrid } from '../lib/history';
   import { centre, premiumGrid } from '../lib/premiums';
   import { variantNameKey } from '../lib/variants';
   import { alphabetLetters, hasAlphabet } from '../lib/alphabet';
@@ -101,6 +102,12 @@
   const isMyTurn = $derived(!!view && view.game.status === 'active' && view.game.toMove === view.seat);
   const gameOver = $derived(!!view && view.game.status !== 'active');
   const bagEmpty = $derived((view?.bagLen ?? 0) === 0);
+  // The seat whose move the history grid awaits with a "thinking…" placeholder: the player to
+  // move while the game is active, but never the viewer themselves (their own pending cell
+  // stays empty) and never on a finished game.
+  const thinkingSeat = $derived(
+    !view || gameOver || view.game.toMove === view.seat ? null : view.game.toMove,
+  );
 
   // moveActionLabel localizes a non-play move's history label (pass/exchange/resign/timeout);
   // an unknown action (forward-compat for the MoveAction string union) falls back to its raw
@@ -637,29 +644,61 @@
   }
 
   // --- move history: open by tapping the score bar, close by tapping or swiping up the board ---
-  // While the history is open the board is inert (CSS pointer-events), so the whole slid board
-  // reads as a "tap or swipe up to close" surface and the stage cannot scroll instead of close.
-  // The tap closes on click; the swipe closes as soon as enough upward travel is seen, so it
-  // never depends on where a fast swipe's pointerup lands (which differs across engines).
-  // Closing genuinely clears `historyOpen` (rather than only scrolling the slid board out of
+  // The boardwrap surface drives two gestures, selected by `historyOpen`:
+  //  - open: the slid board is inert (CSS pointer-events), so the whole board reads as a
+  //    "tap or swipe up to close" surface and the stage cannot scroll instead of close. The
+  //    tap closes on click; the swipe closes as soon as enough upward travel is seen, so it
+  //    never depends on where a fast swipe's pointerup lands (which differs across engines).
+  //  - closed: a downward "pull" opens the history, but only on the zoom-out board scrolled
+  //    to its top — zoomed, the one-finger drag pans the board, and mid-scroll a downward drag
+  //    is the stage's own vertical scroll (the conflict that once retired this open gesture).
+  // Both genuinely set `historyOpen` (closing no longer merely scrolls the slid board out of
   // view, which left a stale-open state that made a follow-up score-bar tap "jump" the board).
-  let histSwipeY: number | null = null;
+  let stageEl = $state<HTMLDivElement>();
+  let boardSwipe: { x: number; y: number; mode: 'open' | 'close' } | null = null;
   function toggleHistory() {
     historyOpen = !historyOpen;
   }
   function closeHistoryByGesture() {
     if (!historyOpen) return;
     historyOpen = false;
-    histSwipeY = null;
+    boardSwipe = null;
     // Swallow the click some browsers synthesise from a board tap, so it does not place a tile.
     swallowClick = true;
     setTimeout(() => (swallowClick = false), 120);
   }
+  function openHistoryByGesture() {
+    if (historyOpen) return;
+    historyOpen = true;
+    boardSwipe = null;
+    // Swallow the click the opening pull may synthesise, so it neither places a tile nor
+    // immediately re-closes the panel via the boardwrap's tap-to-close.
+    swallowClick = true;
+    setTimeout(() => (swallowClick = false), 120);
+  }
   function onBoardWrapDown(e: PointerEvent) {
-    histSwipeY = historyOpen ? e.clientY : null;
+    if (historyOpen) {
+      boardSwipe = { x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY, mode: 'close' };
+      return;
+    }
+    // Arm the open pull only where a downward drag is free to mean "reveal the history":
+    // the zoom-out board scrolled to its top, a touch pointer, no tile drag under way.
+    const onTile = !!(e.target as Element | null)?.closest?.('.cell.pending');
+    const atTop = (stageEl?.scrollTop ?? 0) <= 2;
+    boardSwipe =
+      !zoomed && atTop && !drag && !onTile && e.pointerType !== 'mouse'
+        ? { x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY, mode: 'open' }
+        : null;
   }
   function onBoardWrapMove(e: PointerEvent) {
-    if (histSwipeY !== null && histSwipeY - e.clientY > 32) closeHistoryByGesture();
+    if (!boardSwipe) return;
+    const dx = e.clientX - boardSwipe.x;
+    const dy = e.clientY - boardSwipe.y;
+    if (boardSwipe.mode === 'close') {
+      if (-dy > 32) closeHistoryByGesture(); // enough upward travel
+    } else if (dy > 40 && dy > Math.abs(dx) * 1.4) {
+      openHistoryByGesture(); // a clear, vertical-dominant downward pull
+    }
   }
   // A closed history clears every per-seat add-friend confirmation.
   $effect(() => {
@@ -733,7 +772,7 @@
       {/each}
     </div>
 
-    <div class="stage" class:histopen={historyOpen}>
+    <div class="stage" class:histopen={historyOpen} bind:this={stageEl}>
       {#if historyOpen}
         <div class="history">
           <div class="hhead">
@@ -746,16 +785,23 @@
               💬{#if (app.chatUnread[id] ?? 0) > 0}<span class="cbadge">{app.chatUnread[id]}</span>{/if}
             </button>
           </div>
-          <ol>
-            {#each moves as m, i (i)}
-              <li>
-                <span class="hp">{view.game.seats[m.player]?.displayName ?? m.player}</span>
-                <span class="ha" class:sys={m.action !== 'play'}>{m.action === 'play' ? m.words.join(', ') : `(${moveActionLabel(m.action)})`}</span>
-                <span class="hs">{m.score} <span class="ht">({m.total})</span></span>
-              </li>
-            {/each}
-            {#if moves.length === 0}<li class="hempty">—</li>{/if}
-          </ol>
+          <div class="hgridwrap">
+            <div class="hgrid" style="grid-template-columns: repeat({view.game.seats.length}, 1fr)">
+              {#each historyGrid(moves, view.game.seats.length, thinkingSeat) as row}
+                {#each row as cell (cell.player)}
+                  <div class="hcell">
+                    {#if cell.kind === 'play'}
+                      <span>{cell.words?.join(', ')} <span class="hsc">({cell.score})</span></span>
+                    {:else if cell.kind === 'action'}
+                      <span class="hsys">({moveActionLabel(cell.action ?? '')})</span>
+                    {:else if cell.kind === 'thinking'}
+                      <span class="hsys">{t('game.thinking')}</span>
+                    {/if}
+                  </div>
+                {/each}
+              {/each}
+            </div>
+          </div>
         </div>
       {/if}
 
@@ -766,8 +812,10 @@
         class:slid={historyOpen}
         onpointerdown={onBoardWrapDown}
         onpointermove={onBoardWrapMove}
-        onpointerup={() => (histSwipeY = null)}
-        onclick={closeHistoryByGesture}
+        onpointerup={() => (boardSwipe = null)}
+        onclick={() => {
+          if (!swallowClick) closeHistoryByGesture();
+        }}
       >
         <Board
           {board}
@@ -976,44 +1024,38 @@
     box-shadow: inset 0 -6px 10px -8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
     border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
   }
-  .history ol {
-    margin: 0;
-    padding: 8px 14px;
-    list-style: decimal;
-    display: flex;
-    flex-direction: column;
-    gap: 4px;
+  /* The history is a ruled matrix: one column per seat (aligned under the score plaque), each
+     seat's moves filling its column top to bottom. The thin grid lines are the 1px gap showing
+     the border colour through the cells' surface fill; there is no outer frame (cells sit flush
+     to the grid edge — the .hhead border above and the .history border below close the table).
+     The wrapper's horizontal padding matches the scoreboard so the columns line up under the
+     plaques. */
+  .hgridwrap {
+    padding: 8px var(--pad);
   }
-  .history li {
-    display: flex;
-    justify-content: space-between;
-    gap: 10px;
+  .hgrid {
+    display: grid;
+    gap: 1px;
+    background: var(--border);
     font-size: 0.9rem;
   }
-  .hp {
-    color: var(--text-muted);
-  }
-  .ha {
-    flex: 1;
+  .hcell {
+    display: grid;
+    place-items: center;
     text-align: center;
+    min-height: 1.7em;
+    padding: 6px 8px;
+    background: var(--surface-2);
+    overflow-wrap: anywhere;
   }
-  .ha.sys {
-    /* A non-scoring move (pass/exchange/resign/timeout): dimmer and parenthesised so it
-       reads as a system action rather than a scored word. */
+  /* Secondary annotations within a cell — the parenthesised move score, a non-play action
+     label, the awaited "thinking…" — read muted, like the old running-total/system labels. */
+  .hsc,
+  .hsys {
     color: var(--text-muted);
   }
-  .hs {
+  .hsc {
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-    font-weight: 600;
-  }
-  .ht {
-    color: var(--text-muted);
-    font-weight: 400;
-    font-size: 0.85em;
-  }
-  .hempty {
-    justify-content: center;
-    color: var(--text-muted);
   }
   .boardwrap {
     padding: 6px;

ui/src/lib/history.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { historyGrid, type HistoryCell } from './history';
+import type { MoveRecord } from './model';
+
+function play(player: number, words: string[], score: number): MoveRecord {
+  return { player, action: 'play', dir: 'H', mainRow: 7, mainCol: 7, tiles: [], words, count: words.length, score, total: 0 };
+}
+function action(player: number, act: 'pass' | 'exchange' | 'resign' | 'timeout'): MoveRecord {
+  return { player, action: act, dir: '', mainRow: 0, mainCol: 0, tiles: [], words: [], count: 0, score: 0, total: 0 };
+}
+function kinds(grid: HistoryCell[][]): string[][] {
+  return grid.map((row) => row.map((c) => c.kind));
+}
+
+describe('historyGrid', () => {
+  it('lays moves into per-seat columns and marks the awaited opponent as thinking', () => {
+    const moves = [play(0, ['ДОМ'], 12), action(1, 'pass'), play(0, ['ОСА', 'ОМ'], 12)];
+    const grid = historyGrid(moves, 2, 1); // seat 1 is to move
+
+    expect(kinds(grid)).toEqual([
+      ['play', 'action'],
+      ['play', 'thinking'],
+    ]);
+    expect(grid[0][0]).toMatchObject({ kind: 'play', words: ['ДОМ'], score: 12 });
+    expect(grid[1][0]).toMatchObject({ kind: 'play', words: ['ОСА', 'ОМ'], score: 12 });
+    expect(grid[0][1]).toMatchObject({ kind: 'action', action: 'pass' });
+    expect(grid[1][1]).toMatchObject({ kind: 'thinking', player: 1 });
+  });
+
+  it('renders no thinking cell when thinkingSeat is null (game over / own turn)', () => {
+    const moves = [play(0, ['ДОМ'], 12), action(1, 'pass'), play(0, ['ОСА'], 6)];
+    const grid = historyGrid(moves, 2, null);
+
+    expect(kinds(grid)).toEqual([
+      ['play', 'action'],
+      ['play', 'empty'],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('fills ragged columns with empty cells (a seat that stopped moving)', () => {
+    const moves = [
+      play(0, ['ДОМ'], 12),
+      play(1, ['КОТ'], 10),
+      action(2, 'resign'),
+      play(0, ['ОСА'], 6),
+      play(1, ['ЛИС'], 8),
+    ];
+    const grid = historyGrid(moves, 3, null);
+
+    expect(kinds(grid)).toEqual([
+      ['play', 'play', 'action'],
+      ['play', 'play', 'empty'],
+    ]);
+    expect(grid[0][2]).toMatchObject({ kind: 'action', action: 'resign' });
+  });
+
+  it('shows a lone thinking cell for the first mover on an empty journal', () => {
+    expect(kinds(historyGrid([], 2, 0))).toEqual([['thinking', 'empty']]);
+  });
+
+  it('produces an empty grid for an empty journal with no awaited mover', () => {
+    expect(historyGrid([], 2, null)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('ignores moves with an out-of-range seat', () => {
+    const grid = historyGrid([play(5, ['X'], 1), play(0, ['ДОМ'], 12)], 2, null);
+    expect(kinds(grid)).toEqual([['play', 'empty']]);
+    expect(grid[0][0]).toMatchObject({ words: ['ДОМ'] });
+  });
+});

ui/src/lib/history.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// Pure layout of the move journal for the in-game history panel. The panel mirrors the
+// score plaque above the board: one column per seat (a seat's moves fill its own column,
+// top to bottom) instead of a single chronological list. Keeping the arrangement here (not
+// in Game.svelte) lets it be unit-tested without a DOM; the component only renders the
+// resulting cells with i18n/CSS.
+
+import type { MoveRecord } from './model';
+
+/** A single cell of the history grid. The grid is row-major with one column per seat: a
+ * seat's k-th move sits in row k of its column. */
+export interface HistoryCell {
+  kind: 'play' | 'action' | 'thinking' | 'empty';
+  /** Seat index this cell belongs to (its column). */
+  player: number;
+  /** Words formed, main word first — set for kind 'play'. */
+  words?: string[];
+  /** Points scored by the move — set for kind 'play'. */
+  score?: number;
+  /** The non-play action ('pass' | 'exchange' | 'resign' | 'timeout' | …) — set for kind
+   * 'action'; the component localizes it. */
+  action?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * historyGrid arranges the move journal into a row-major matrix with one column per seat.
+ * Each seat's moves fill its column top to bottom, so a seat's k-th move lands in row k of
+ * its column; with a regular turn order the rows read as rounds. When thinkingSeat is
+ * non-null, that seat's next (still empty) cell becomes a 'thinking' placeholder — the move
+ * being awaited. Positions with no move are 'empty', so every row is exactly seatCount wide
+ * and the table rules evenly. Pass thinkingSeat=null when the game is over or when the
+ * awaited mover is the viewer themselves (the viewer's own pending cell stays empty).
+ */
+export function historyGrid(
+  moves: MoveRecord[],
+  seatCount: number,
+  thinkingSeat: number | null,
+): HistoryCell[][] {
+  const cols: HistoryCell[][] = Array.from({ length: seatCount }, () => []);
+  for (const m of moves) {
+    if (m.player < 0 || m.player >= seatCount) continue; // defensive: drop an out-of-range seat
+    cols[m.player].push(
+      m.action === 'play'
+        ? { kind: 'play', player: m.player, words: m.words, score: m.score }
+        : { kind: 'action', player: m.player, action: m.action },
+    );
+  }
+
+  const think =
+    thinkingSeat !== null && thinkingSeat >= 0 && thinkingSeat < seatCount ? thinkingSeat : null;
+  let rows = cols.reduce((n, c) => Math.max(n, c.length), 0);
+  if (think !== null) rows = Math.max(rows, cols[think].length + 1);
+
+  const grid: HistoryCell[][] = [];
+  for (let r = 0; r < rows; r++) {
+    const row: HistoryCell[] = [];
+    for (let p = 0; p < seatCount; p++) {
+      if (r < cols[p].length) row.push(cols[p][r]);
+      else if (think === p && r === cols[p].length) row.push({ kind: 'thinking', player: p });
+      else row.push({ kind: 'empty', player: p });
+    }
+    grid.push(row);
+  }
+  return grid;
+}

ui/src/lib/i18n.test.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ describe('i18n catalog', () => {
     expect(translate('en', 'move.exchange')).toBe('exchange');
   });
 
+  it('localizes the awaited-move (thinking) label', () => {
+    expect(translate('ru', 'game.thinking')).toBe('думает…');
+    expect(translate('en', 'game.thinking')).toBe('thinking…');
+  });
+
   it('maps error codes to keys with a generic fallback', () => {
     expect(errorKey('not_your_turn')).toBe('error.not_your_turn');
     expect(errorKey('totally_unknown')).toBe('error.generic');

ui/src/lib/i18n/en.ts

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ export const en = {
   'game.checkWait': 'Please wait a moment.',
   'game.noHintOptions': 'No options with your letters.',
   'game.scores': 'Scores: {n}',
+  'game.thinking': 'thinking…',
 
   'move.pass': 'pass',
   'move.exchange': 'exchange',

ui/src/lib/i18n/ru.ts

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ export const ru: Record<MessageKey, string> = {
   'game.checkWait': 'Секунду, пожалуйста.',
   'game.noHintOptions': 'Нет вариантов с вашим набором.',
   'game.scores': 'Очков: {n}',
+  'game.thinking': 'думает…',
 
   'move.pass': 'пас',
   'move.exchange': 'обмен',