Merge dev: release 1.1

Verified on dev at 61db79e, the same tree: build, unit tests and Android
lint green, and it published v1.1.62-dev.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       # Stamp the APK as a dev-channel build exactly when it is a build of the
       # dev branch, which is exactly when it can be published below. Pull
       # request builds run against refs/pull/N/merge, so they stay unstamped at
-      # 1.0.0-dev: they are never published and must not claim a channel
+      # <series>.0-dev: they are never published and must not claim a channel
       # version.
       #
       # This condition has to stay in step with the publish steps' own. Stamping
@@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ jobs:
         if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev'
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          version="v1.0.${{ github.run_number }}-dev"
+          # The series comes from gradle.properties, which is the same file the
+          # build read when it stamped the APK — so the tag and what is inside
+          # it cannot name different versions.
+          series="$(sed -n 's/^plgVersionSeries=//p' gradle.properties)"
+          test -n "$series"
+          version="v${series}.${{ github.run_number }}-dev"
           src="app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk"
           dest="ProLibertateGames-${version}.apk"
           cp "$src" "$dest"

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ jobs:
         id: stage
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          version="v1.0.${{ github.run_number }}"
+          # The series comes from gradle.properties, which is the same file the
+          # build read when it stamped the APK — so the tag and what is inside
+          # it cannot name different versions.
+          series="$(sed -n 's/^plgVersionSeries=//p' gradle.properties)"
+          test -n "$series"
+          version="v${series}.${{ github.run_number }}"
           src="app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk"
           dest="ProLibertateGames-${version}.apk"
           cp "$src" "$dest"

CLAUDE.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Skipping step 4 leaves a branch whose head was never built and no release.
 Both long-lived branches publish, so a merge is a release, not just an
 integration:
 
-- **`dev`** → `ci.yml` publishes a `v1.0.N-dev` **prerelease**, offered by the
+- **`dev`** → `ci.yml` publishes a `v<series>.N-dev` **prerelease**, offered by the
   in-app updater to anyone on the Dev channel.
 - **`main`** → `release.yml` publishes a **production** release, which the
   updater installs for everyone on the Production channel.

README.md

@@ -5,20 +5,23 @@ or against other people over Wi-Fi (LAN).
 
 ## What works today
 
-The app shell is complete and ten games are playable end to end:
+The app shell is complete and every game in the catalogue is playable end to end:
 
 | | |
 | --- | --- |
-| **Playable** | Euchre, Kaiser, President, Golf, Wizard, Crazy 8s, Sequence, Chess, Ta Yü, Nine Men's Morris |
-| **Listed, not yet implemented** | Mastermind, Backgammon, Checkers, Pirates and Bulgars |
+| **Cards** | Euchre, Kaiser, President, Golf, Wizard, Crazy 8s |
+| **Board** | Sequence, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Mastermind, Nine Men's Morris, Pirates and Bulgars, Ta Yü |
 
-Unimplemented games appear in the menu marked *Coming soon* **on dev builds
-only** — a production release lists just the games that can actually be played,
-so nobody installs it and taps into a dead end. The menu decides this from the
-installed APK's own version name, so it follows the build rather than the
-channel selected for future updates. Adding one means
-writing a `GameRules` implementation, a `GameAi`, and a screen, then flipping
-`available` in `GameCatalog` — the menu, lobby, networking, settings and OTA
+Nothing is marked *Coming soon* at the moment, because nothing is waiting. The
+machinery for it is still there and still tested: a game listed in `GameCatalog`
+with `available = false` appears in the menu marked *Coming soon* **on dev builds
+only**, so a production release lists just what can actually be played and nobody
+installs it and taps into a dead end. The menu decides this from the installed
+APK's own version name, so it follows the build rather than the channel selected
+for future updates.
+
+Adding a game means writing a `GameRules` implementation, a `GameAi` and a
+screen, then flipping `available` — the menu, lobby, networking, settings and OTA
 layers are game-agnostic and need no changes.
 
 ## Playing with other people
@@ -162,9 +165,10 @@ production package instead.
 
 - `.github/workflows/ci.yml` — builds, tests and lints on `dev` and on pull
   requests into `dev` or `main`. Its APK artifact is a dev build, versioned
-  `1.0.0-dev`.
+  `<series>.0-dev` — the series being whatever `plgVersionSeries` says in
+  `gradle.properties`, currently **1.1**.
 - `.github/workflows/release.yml` — on push to `main`, builds the APK and
-  publishes it as a GitHub Release tagged `v1.0.<run-number>`. The in-app updater
+  publishes it as a GitHub Release tagged `v<series>.<run-number>`. The in-app updater
   reads that tag, which is why the APK's `versionCode` is the same run number.
 
 ### Installing without the app
@@ -183,14 +187,34 @@ prereleases by design, and that is exactly what keeps a production install from
 being handed a dev build. Dev builds are reached through the in-app updater with
 the channel set to dev, or from the releases page.
 
+### The version series
+
+A version is **`<series>.<run number>`**. The series is set by hand, once, in
+`gradle.properties`:
+
+```properties
+plgVersionSeries=1.1
+```
+
+Both workflows read that same property when they name a release tag, and the
+build reads it when it stamps the APK, so the tag and what is inside it cannot
+name different versions. Bumping a series is a one-line change to that file and
+nothing else.
+
+The number after it is the CI run number and keeps climbing on its own, which is
+what makes a series bump safe: `versionCode` is the run number *alone*, so
+going from 1.0 to 1.1 never looks like a downgrade to Android and never
+interrupts an OTA update. The series is a name for people; the run number is
+what the machines compare.
+
 ### Update channels
 
 Both pipelines publish, to two separate channels:
 
 | Channel | Published by | Tag | Marked |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| Production | `release.yml`, push to `main` | `v1.0.<n>` | release |
-| Dev | `ci.yml`, any build of `dev` | `v1.0.<n>-dev` | prerelease |
+| Production | `release.yml`, push to `main` | `v<series>.<n>` | release |
+| Dev | `ci.yml`, any build of `dev` | `v<series>.<n>-dev` | prerelease |
 
 Dev builds are published as **prereleases** deliberately: GitHub's "latest
 release" endpoint skips prereleases, so a production-channel install can never
@@ -269,7 +293,14 @@ game:
 - [Wizard](docs/RULES-wizard.md)
 - [Crazy 8s](docs/RULES-crazy8s.md)
 - [Chess](docs/RULES-chess.md)
+- [Checkers](docs/RULES-checkers.md) — **note the caveat about flying kings**
+- [Backgammon](docs/RULES-backgammon.md) — **note that there is no doubling cube**
+- [Mastermind](docs/RULES-mastermind.md) — played as a duel: each player sets
+  the code the other has to break
 - [Nine Men's Morris](docs/RULES-morris.md)
+- [Pirates and Bulgars](docs/RULES-pirates.md) — **note the caveats about the
+  reconstruction**: the book the theme comes from could not be obtained, so the
+  document says which rules are attested and which were chosen
 - [Ta Yü](docs/RULES-tayu.md) — **note the caveats about the reconstruction**:
   the game is out of print and the rulebook could not be obtained, so the
   document says which parts are attested and which were derived
@@ -289,6 +320,10 @@ game/          rules engines and AI — pure Kotlin, no Android, unit-tested
   crazyeights/ Crazy 8s model, rules, AI
   chess/       Chess model, FEN, move generation, search
   morris/      Nine Men's Morris board geometry, mills, rules, search
+  checkers/    Checkers board, compulsory captures, crowning, search
+  backgammon/  Backgammon points, dice, the maximal-roll rule, turn search
+  mastermind/  Mastermind codes, scoring, and a code breaker
+  pirates/     Pirates and Bulgars — the cross board, the hunt, search
   tayu/        Ta Yü tile geometry, river rules, scoring, AI
 net/           wire protocol, LAN transport, lobby, match driver
 score/         scorekeeper sheet — pure Kotlin, unit-tested — and its store

app/build.gradle.kts

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ val buildChannel = System.getenv("PLG_CHANNEL").orEmpty()
 val runNumber = (System.getenv("GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER") ?: "").toIntOrNull() ?: 0
 val stampVersion = buildChannel.isNotEmpty() && runNumber > 0
 
+// The version series, from gradle.properties. Both workflows read the same
+// property when they name a release tag, so the tag and the APK inside it
+// cannot disagree about which series they belong to.
+val versionSeries = (project.findProperty("plgVersionSeries") as String?) ?: "1.0"
+
 // Anything that is not an explicit production build is a dev build: ci.yml
 // stamps "dev", and a local build with nothing set counts as dev too.
 //
@@ -43,12 +48,15 @@ android {
         // know its own channel, so it must survive into the shipped APK. It
         // tracks isDevBuild rather than the stamp alone, so an unstamped local
         // build cannot end up claiming a channel its applicationId contradicts.
+        // versionCode stays the run number and nothing else, so it keeps
+        // climbing across a change of series: bumping 1.0 to 1.1 must not make
+        // an update look like a downgrade to Android.
         versionCode = if (stampVersion) runNumber else 1
         versionName = when {
-            stampVersion && buildChannel == "production" -> "1.0.$runNumber"
-            stampVersion -> "1.0.$runNumber-dev"
-            isDevBuild -> "1.0.0-dev"
-            else -> "1.0.0"
+            stampVersion && buildChannel == "production" -> "$versionSeries.$runNumber"
+            stampVersion -> "$versionSeries.$runNumber-dev"
+            isDevBuild -> "$versionSeries.0-dev"
+            else -> "$versionSeries.0"
         }
 
         // The launcher label. With both copies on the phone the app drawer shows

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/Catalog.kt

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ object GameCatalog {
     const val CHECKERS = "checkers"
     const val TAYU = "tayu"
     const val MORRIS = "morris"
+    const val PIRATES = "pirates"
 
     val all: List<GameDescriptor> = listOf(
         GameDescriptor(
@@ -119,8 +120,9 @@ object GameCatalog {
             minPlayers = 2,
             maxPlayers = 2,
             teamBased = false,
-            blurb = "Break the hidden code from black and white peg clues.",
-            available = false,
+            blurb = "Set a code for your opponent and break the one they set for you. " +
+                "Whoever cracks theirs first wins.",
+            available = true,
         ),
         GameDescriptor(
             id = BACKGAMMON,
@@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ object GameCatalog {
             maxPlayers = 2,
             teamBased = false,
             blurb = "Race your checkers home, and hit your opponent on the way.",
-            available = false,
+            available = true,
         ),
         GameDescriptor(
             id = CHESS,
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@ object GameCatalog {
             maxPlayers = 2,
             teamBased = false,
             blurb = "Forced captures, kings, and the long diagonal.",
-            available = false,
+            available = true,
         ),
         GameDescriptor(
             id = MORRIS,
@@ -162,6 +164,17 @@ object GameCatalog {
             blurb = "Three in a row takes a piece. Reduce them to two and the game is yours.",
             available = true,
         ),
+        GameDescriptor(
+            id = PIRATES,
+            title = "Pirates and Bulgars",
+            category = GameCategory.BOARD,
+            minPlayers = 2,
+            maxPlayers = 2,
+            teamBased = false,
+            blurb = "Two pirates hold the stronghold against twenty-four Bulgars. " +
+                "Only one side can take pieces, and it is not the big one.",
+            available = true,
+        ),
         GameDescriptor(
             id = TAYU,
             title = "Ta Yü",

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/backgammon/BackgammonAi.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameAi
+
+/**
+ * A backgammon player.
+ *
+ * This is not a search in the sense the chess and checkers players are. There
+ * is no tree to walk: the opponent's reply depends on dice nobody has thrown
+ * yet, so looking further ahead means averaging over twenty-one rolls rather
+ * than choosing the best one. What it does instead is weigh **whole turns** —
+ * every distinct way the roll can be played — and score the board each leaves
+ * behind.
+ *
+ * Weighing turns rather than checkers is the whole point. A backgammon move is
+ * only good in company: splitting the back checkers is right or wrong depending
+ * on what the other die did, and a player that chose one checker at a time
+ * would never see it.
+ *
+ * The interface hands back one checker at a time, so the best turn is worked
+ * out and its first step returned; the rest follows on the moves after, because
+ * the same calculation reaches the same turn.
+ */
+class BackgammonAi(private val level: BackgammonLevel? = null) :
+    GameAi<BackgammonState, BackgammonMove> {
+
+    override fun chooseMove(
+        state: BackgammonState,
+        seat: Int,
+        legal: List<BackgammonMove>,
+    ): BackgammonMove {
+        require(legal.isNotEmpty()) { "No legal move for seat $seat" }
+        val setting = level ?: state.options.level
+        if (legal.size == 1) return legal.first()
+
+        val random = Random(state.rollsMade * 31L + state.moveLog.size)
+
+        if (setting == BackgammonLevel.CASUAL) {
+            // Not thoughtless: it still prefers to hit, to come in off the bar
+            // and to bear off, which is most of what a beginner knows.
+            val scored = legal.map { move -> move to rough(state, seat, move) }
+            val best = scored.maxOf { it.second }
+            val equal = scored.filter { it.second == best }
+            return equal[random.nextInt(equal.size)].first
+        }
+
+        val sequences = BackgammonRules.deepestSequences(state, seat)
+        if (sequences.isEmpty()) return legal.first()
+
+        var best = sequences.first()
+        var bestScore = -Double.MAX_VALUE
+        for (sequence in sequences) {
+            val after = BackgammonRules.playSequence(state, seat, sequence)
+            val score = if (setting == BackgammonLevel.STRONG) {
+                // What the position is worth once the dice have had their say.
+                evaluate(after, seat) - averageReply(after, other(seat))
+            } else {
+                evaluate(after, seat)
+            }
+            if (score > bestScore) {
+                bestScore = score
+                best = sequence
+            }
+        }
+        return best.first()
+    }
+
+    /** A quick opinion of one checker, for the level that does not think. */
+    private fun rough(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int, move: BackgammonMove): Int {
+        val landing = BackgammonRules.destinationOf(seat, move.from, move.die)
+        var score = 0
+        if (move.from == BAR) score += 50
+        if (landing == null) score += 40
+        if (landing != null && state.countOn(landing, other(seat)) == 1) score += 60
+        if (landing != null && state.countOn(landing, seat) >= 1) score += 15
+        return score
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * What the opponent is likely to make of this position, averaged over the
+     * twenty-one distinct rolls of two dice.
+     *
+     * Doubles come up half as often as a mixed pair — 6-5 can be thrown two
+     * ways and 5-5 only one — so each roll is weighted rather than counted.
+     * Only the opponent's best answer to each roll is taken: they will not
+     * play a bad one on purpose.
+     */
+    private fun averageReply(state: BackgammonState, opponent: Int): Double {
+        if (state.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER) return 0.0
+
+        var total = 0.0
+        var weight = 0.0
+        for (high in 1..6) {
+            for (low in 1..high) {
+                val chance = if (high == low) 1.0 else 2.0
+                val dice = if (high == low) List(4) { high } else listOf(high, low)
+                val rolled = state.copy(turn = opponent, dice = dice, roll = listOf(high, low))
+                val replies = BackgammonRules.deepestSequences(rolled, opponent)
+                val bestReply = replies.maxOfOrNull { sequence ->
+                    evaluate(BackgammonRules.playSequence(rolled, opponent, sequence), opponent)
+                } ?: evaluate(rolled, opponent)
+                total += chance * bestReply
+                weight += chance
+            }
+        }
+        return total / weight
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The position from [seat]'s point of view.
+     *
+     * The pip count is the backbone of it — backgammon is a race, and the
+     * player who is ahead in the race wants to keep it simple. Everything else
+     * is about what happens when it is not simple: **a blot is only a liability
+     * if it can be hit**, so exposure is weighted by how far away the enemy
+     * checkers are, and a made point in your own home board is worth having
+     * because it is one more number your opponent cannot come in on.
+     */
+    private fun evaluate(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): Double {
+        val enemy = other(seat)
+
+        if (state.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER) {
+            val won = state.off[seat] >= CHECKERS
+            return if (won) WIN else -WIN
+        }
+
+        var score = 0.0
+
+        // The race. Being ahead in pips is the plainest good thing there is.
+        score += (state.pipCount(enemy) - state.pipCount(seat)) * PIP
+
+        // Checkers home and dry, and checkers sent back to the beginning.
+        score += state.off[seat] * BORNE_OFF
+        score -= state.off[enemy] * BORNE_OFF
+        score -= state.bar[seat] * ON_BAR
+        score += state.bar[enemy] * ON_BAR
+
+        for (point in 0 until POINTS) {
+            val mine = state.countOn(point, seat)
+            if (mine == 0) continue
+
+            if (mine >= 2) {
+                score += POINT_MADE
+                // A point in your own home board is a door shut in the face of
+                // anyone you send to the bar.
+                if (point in homeOf(seat)) score += HOME_POINT
+                // And an anchor deep in theirs is somewhere safe to come back to.
+                if (point in homeOf(enemy)) score += ANCHOR
+            } else {
+                // A blot, weighted by how easily it can be reached: something
+                // six away is in real danger, something twenty away is not.
+                val distance = shortestEnemyDistance(state, seat, point)
+                score -= when {
+                    distance <= 0 -> 0.0
+                    distance <= 6 -> BLOT_NEAR
+                    distance <= 12 -> BLOT_FAR
+                    else -> BLOT_DISTANT
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        score += primeLength(state, seat) * PRIME
+        return score
+    }
+
+    /** How far the nearest enemy checker is from reaching [point], in pips. */
+    private fun shortestEnemyDistance(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int, point: Int): Int {
+        val enemy = other(seat)
+        // Anything on the bar comes in at the far end and is a threat to the
+        // whole board on its way round.
+        if (state.bar[enemy] > 0) {
+            val fromBar = if (enemy == WHITE_SEAT) 24 - point else point + 1
+            if (fromBar in 1..6) return fromBar
+        }
+        var best = Int.MAX_VALUE
+        for (from in 0 until POINTS) {
+            if (state.countOn(from, enemy) == 0) continue
+            val gap = (point - from) * directionOf(enemy)
+            if (gap in 1..24 && gap < best) best = gap
+        }
+        return if (best == Int.MAX_VALUE) 0 else best
+    }
+
+    /** The longest run of consecutive points held, which is what traps a checker. */
+    private fun primeLength(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): Int {
+        var best = 0
+        var run = 0
+        for (point in 0 until POINTS) {
+            if (state.countOn(point, seat) >= 2) {
+                run++
+                if (run > best) best = run
+            } else {
+                run = 0
+            }
+        }
+        return best
+    }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val WIN = 10_000.0
+
+        const val PIP = 1.0
+        const val BORNE_OFF = 12.0
+        const val ON_BAR = 25.0
+        const val POINT_MADE = 4.0
+        const val HOME_POINT = 8.0
+        const val ANCHOR = 6.0
+        const val PRIME = 5.0
+        const val BLOT_NEAR = 14.0
+        const val BLOT_FAR = 6.0
+        const val BLOT_DISTANT = 2.0
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/backgammon/BackgammonModel.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+
+/**
+ * The board is twenty-four points, 0 to 23.
+ *
+ * **White runs down the numbers and bears off past 0; Black runs up them and
+ * bears off past 23.** White's home board is points 0–5, Black's is 18–23, and
+ * each enters from the bar into the *other* player's home: White at 24 minus
+ * the die, Black at the die minus one.
+ *
+ * A point holds a positive number of White checkers or a negative number of
+ * Black ones, never both — which is the rule that a point belongs to whoever
+ * has two or more on it, expressed as arithmetic rather than as a check.
+ */
+const val POINTS = 24
+
+const val CHECKERS = 15
+
+const val WHITE_SEAT = 0
+const val BLACK_SEAT = 1
+
+/** Where a checker sits when it has been hit, as a [BackgammonMove.from]. */
+const val BAR = 24
+
+fun other(seat: Int): Int = 1 - seat
+
+fun seatName(seat: Int): String = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) "White" else "Black"
+
+/** Which way this seat's checkers travel along the numbering. */
+fun directionOf(seat: Int): Int = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) -1 else 1
+
+/** The six points this seat bears off from. */
+fun homeOf(seat: Int): IntRange = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) 0..5 else 18..23
+
+/** Where a checker coming off the bar lands for a given die. */
+fun entryPoint(seat: Int, die: Int): Int = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) 24 - die else die - 1
+
+/**
+ * How far a point is from being borne off, counted in pips: 1 for the last
+ * point before home, 24 for the far corner. The pip count is the sum of these
+ * over a player's checkers and is the single most useful number in the game.
+ */
+fun pipsFrom(seat: Int, point: Int): Int = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) point + 1 else 24 - point
+
+@Serializable
+enum class BackgammonPhase { PLAYING, GAME_OVER }
+
+/**
+ * How a game ended. Backgammon scores by how badly the loser lost: a plain win
+ * is worth one point, a gammon two — the loser bore nothing off — and a
+ * backgammon three, where the loser still had a checker on the bar or in the
+ * winner's home when it finished.
+ */
+@Serializable
+enum class BackgammonOutcome(val label: String, val points: Int) {
+    WHITE_SINGLE("White wins", 1),
+    WHITE_GAMMON("White wins a gammon — Black bore nothing off", 2),
+    WHITE_BACKGAMMON("White wins a backgammon — Black was still stranded", 3),
+    BLACK_SINGLE("Black wins", 1),
+    BLACK_GAMMON("Black wins a gammon — White bore nothing off", 2),
+    BLACK_BACKGAMMON("Black wins a backgammon — White was still stranded", 3),
+}
+
+/** How hard the computer thinks about it. */
+@Serializable
+enum class BackgammonLevel(val label: String) {
+    /** Takes the first playable thing it finds a reason for. */
+    CASUAL("Casual"),
+
+    /** Weighs every way the turn could be played and takes the best. */
+    CLUB("Club"),
+
+    /**
+     * The same, and then weighs what the dice might do to it next — every one
+     * of the twenty-one distinct rolls, and the best reply to each.
+     */
+    STRONG("Strong"),
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class BackgammonOptions(
+    val level: BackgammonLevel = BackgammonLevel.CLUB,
+    /**
+     * Score a gammon as two and a backgammon as three, rather than calling
+     * every win a win. It changes nothing about the moves and everything about
+     * whether a hopeless game is worth playing out.
+     */
+    val countGammons: Boolean = true,
+)
+
+/**
+ * One checker moving one die's worth.
+ *
+ * A turn is two moves, or four on a double, and each is submitted on its own —
+ * which is how a person plays it, one checker at a time. What keeps that honest
+ * is that the legal moves are recomputed after each one: a move that would
+ * strand the rest of the turn is never offered, because a move is only legal if
+ * it starts a way of playing the whole roll.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class BackgammonMove(val from: Int, val die: Int) {
+    override fun toString(): String {
+        val origin = if (from == BAR) "bar" else "${from + 1}"
+        return "$origin/$die"
+    }
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class BackgammonState(
+    val options: BackgammonOptions,
+    /**
+     * The table's own seed, which every die of the game is thrown from
+     * together with [rollsMade]. It is part of the state rather than kept
+     * beside it so that a game is reproducible from what crosses the wire, and
+     * so two games running at once cannot get hold of each other's dice.
+     *
+     * Nothing is given away by sending it: backgammon has nothing hidden, and
+     * the host is authoritative about every roll in any case.
+     */
+    val seed: Long,
+    /** Positive is that many White checkers, negative that many Black ones. */
+    val points: List<Int>,
+    /** Checkers waiting to come back on, by seat. */
+    val bar: List<Int>,
+    /** Checkers safely borne off, by seat. */
+    val off: List<Int>,
+    val turn: Int,
+    /** The dice still to be played this turn. A double is four of them. */
+    val dice: List<Int>,
+    /** The pair as it was rolled, kept so the screen can show it whole. */
+    val roll: List<Int>,
+    /** How many rolls have been made, which is what makes the next one. */
+    val rollsMade: Int,
+    val phase: BackgammonPhase,
+    val outcome: BackgammonOutcome?,
+    val lastMove: BackgammonMove?,
+    val moveLog: List<String>,
+) {
+    fun countOn(point: Int, seat: Int): Int {
+        val value = points[point]
+        return if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) maxOf(value, 0) else maxOf(-value, 0)
+    }
+
+    fun ownerOf(point: Int): Int? = when {
+        points[point] > 0 -> WHITE_SEAT
+        points[point] < 0 -> BLACK_SEAT
+        else -> null
+    }
+
+    /** A single checker, which can be hit and sent back to the bar. */
+    fun isBlot(point: Int): Boolean = points[point] == 1 || points[point] == -1
+
+    /** Two or more of the enemy's: nowhere to land. */
+    fun isBlockedFor(point: Int, seat: Int): Boolean = countOn(point, other(seat)) >= 2
+
+    /** Everything home or borne off, which is what bearing off waits for. */
+    fun canBearOff(seat: Int): Boolean {
+        if (bar[seat] > 0) return false
+        val home = homeOf(seat)
+        return (0 until POINTS).none { it !in home && countOn(it, seat) > 0 }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The pip count: how many pips this seat still has to travel. A checker on
+     * the bar has the whole board to cross, which is why it costs 25.
+     */
+    fun pipCount(seat: Int): Int {
+        var pips = bar[seat] * 25
+        for (point in 0 until POINTS) pips += countOn(point, seat) * pipsFrom(seat, point)
+        return pips
+    }
+
+    fun checkersLeft(seat: Int): Int = CHECKERS - off[seat]
+}
+
+/**
+ * The standard opening array, from White's point of view: two on the 24, five
+ * on the 13, three on the 8 and five on the 6 — mirrored for Black.
+ */
+fun startingPoints(): List<Int> {
+    val points = IntArray(POINTS)
+    points[23] = 2
+    points[12] = 5
+    points[7] = 3
+    points[5] = 5
+    points[0] = -2
+    points[11] = -5
+    points[16] = -3
+    points[18] = -5
+    return points.toList()
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/backgammon/BackgammonRules.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.GameCatalog
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.TableConfig
+
+/**
+ * Backgammon as a pure state machine. See RULES-backgammon.md.
+ *
+ * The hard rule in backgammon is not how a checker moves, it is that **a player
+ * must use as much of the roll as they can**. It cannot be checked one move at
+ * a time, because whether a move is legal depends on what is left afterwards: a
+ * move that looks fine can be illegal precisely because playing it strands the
+ * other die.
+ *
+ * So the generator works backwards from whole turns. It searches out every way
+ * the roll could be played, keeps only the longest, and offers their first
+ * steps. Recomputing that after each checker means the rule is enforced by
+ * construction — a player physically cannot reach a position where the rest of
+ * their roll is unplayable when it need not have been.
+ *
+ * The dice are rolled from the table's own seed and a count of the rolls made,
+ * so a game is reproducible from the config it started with and a host and a
+ * client cannot disagree about what was thrown.
+ */
+object BackgammonRules : GameRules<BackgammonState, BackgammonMove> {
+
+    override val gameId: String = GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON
+
+    private val json = Json {
+        ignoreUnknownKeys = true
+        encodeDefaults = true
+    }
+
+    override fun initialState(config: TableConfig): BackgammonState {
+        require(config.seats.size == 2) { "Backgammon is a two-handed game" }
+        val options = json.decodeFromString<BackgammonOptions>(config.optionsJson)
+        return initialState(options, config.seed)
+    }
+
+    fun initialState(
+        options: BackgammonOptions = BackgammonOptions(),
+        seed: Long = 0L,
+    ): BackgammonState {
+        // The opening roll is one die each and the higher starts, playing both
+        // — so a double is thrown again rather than played.
+        var rolls = 0
+        var white: Int
+        var black: Int
+        do {
+            white = die(seed, rolls++)
+            black = die(seed, rolls++)
+        } while (white == black)
+
+        val opener = if (white > black) WHITE_SEAT else BLACK_SEAT
+        val roll = listOf(white, black).sortedDescending()
+
+        return BackgammonState(
+            options = options,
+            seed = seed,
+            points = startingPoints(),
+            bar = listOf(0, 0),
+            off = listOf(0, 0),
+            turn = opener,
+            dice = roll,
+            roll = roll,
+            rollsMade = rolls,
+            phase = BackgammonPhase.PLAYING,
+            outcome = null,
+            lastMove = null,
+            moveLog = emptyList(),
+        ).skipIfStuck()
+    }
+
+    private fun die(seed: Long, index: Int): Int = Random(seed * 1_000_003L + index).nextInt(6) + 1
+
+    override fun currentSeat(state: BackgammonState): Int? =
+        if (state.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER) null else state.turn
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moving one checker
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    /** Where a checker from [from] lands with [die], or null if it runs off the board. */
+    fun destinationOf(seat: Int, from: Int, die: Int): Int? {
+        if (from == BAR) return entryPoint(seat, die)
+        val landing = from + directionOf(seat) * die
+        return landing.takeIf { it in 0 until POINTS }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether one checker may be played, ignoring what it leaves behind. The
+     * "use as much of the roll as you can" rule is applied by [legalMoves] on
+     * top of this.
+     */
+    private fun canPlay(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int, move: BackgammonMove): Boolean {
+        if (move.die !in state.dice) return false
+
+        // Anything on the bar comes back on first; nothing else may move.
+        if (state.bar[seat] > 0 && move.from != BAR) return false
+        if (move.from == BAR) {
+            if (state.bar[seat] <= 0) return false
+            val entry = entryPoint(seat, move.die)
+            return !state.isBlockedFor(entry, seat)
+        }
+
+        if (state.countOn(move.from, seat) <= 0) return false
+
+        val landing = destinationOf(seat, move.from, move.die)
+        if (landing != null) return !state.isBlockedFor(landing, seat)
+
+        // Off the end of the board is bearing off, which has rules of its own.
+        return canBearOffFrom(state, seat, move.from, move.die)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Bearing off: the exact die takes a checker from the point that needs it,
+     * and a bigger die may take one from the highest occupied point when
+     * nothing sits further back. An overshooting die may never take a checker
+     * that a smaller one could have reached.
+     */
+    private fun canBearOffFrom(
+        state: BackgammonState,
+        seat: Int,
+        from: Int,
+        die: Int,
+    ): Boolean {
+        if (!state.canBearOff(seat)) return false
+        val needed = pipsFrom(seat, from)
+        if (die == needed) return true
+        if (die < needed) return false
+        // The die overshoots, so it is only allowed if this is the furthest
+        // checker from home.
+        return (0 until POINTS).none { point ->
+            state.countOn(point, seat) > 0 && pipsFrom(seat, point) > needed
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Applies one checker's move to the board, hitting a blot if there is one. */
+    private fun place(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int, move: BackgammonMove): BackgammonState {
+        val points = state.points.toMutableList()
+        val bar = state.bar.toMutableList()
+        val off = state.off.toMutableList()
+        val sign = if (seat == WHITE_SEAT) 1 else -1
+
+        if (move.from == BAR) {
+            bar[seat] = bar[seat] - 1
+        } else {
+            points[move.from] = points[move.from] - sign
+        }
+
+        val landing = destinationOf(seat, move.from, move.die)
+        if (landing == null) {
+            off[seat] = off[seat] + 1
+        } else {
+            // A lone enemy checker on the landing point is hit and starts again.
+            if (state.countOn(landing, other(seat)) == 1) {
+                points[landing] = 0
+                bar[other(seat)] = bar[other(seat)] + 1
+            }
+            points[landing] = points[landing] + sign
+        }
+
+        val dice = state.dice.toMutableList()
+        dice.remove(move.die)
+
+        return state.copy(points = points, bar = bar, off = off, dice = dice, lastMove = move)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moving a whole turn
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    fun legalMoves(state: BackgammonState): List<BackgammonMove> = legalMoves(state, state.turn)
+
+    /**
+     * The first steps of every way of playing as much of the roll as possible.
+     *
+     * Two ways of playing that both use every die are equally legal however
+     * they differ; one that uses a single die when both could have been used is
+     * not a legal turn at all. And when only one die can be played, it must be
+     * the higher — which is the one part of the rule that does not fall out of
+     * counting alone, so it is applied by hand at the end.
+     */
+    override fun legalMoves(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): List<BackgammonMove> {
+        if (state.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER || state.turn != seat) return emptyList()
+        if (state.dice.isEmpty()) return emptyList()
+
+        val memo = mutableMapOf<String, Int>()
+        val target = depthOf(state, seat, memo)
+        if (target == 0) return emptyList()
+
+        val moves = candidates(state, seat).filter { move ->
+            1 + depthOf(place(state, seat, move), seat, memo) == target
+        }.distinct()
+
+        if (target == 1) {
+            val highest = moves.maxOf { it.die }
+            return moves.filter { it.die == highest }
+        }
+        return moves
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * How many of the remaining dice can still be played, at best.
+     *
+     * Memoised on the position rather than on the path to it: the four orders a
+     * double can be played in mostly reach the same boards, and without the
+     * memo the search would walk every one of them separately. The cut-off when
+     * the best possible depth is reached matters just as much — most turns find
+     * a full-length play immediately and never look at the rest.
+     */
+    private fun depthOf(
+        state: BackgammonState,
+        seat: Int,
+        memo: MutableMap<String, Int>,
+    ): Int {
+        if (state.dice.isEmpty()) return 0
+        val key = turnKey(state)
+        memo[key]?.let { return it }
+
+        var best = 0
+        for (move in candidates(state, seat)) {
+            val depth = 1 + depthOf(place(state, seat, move), seat, memo)
+            if (depth > best) best = depth
+            if (best == state.dice.size) break
+        }
+        memo[key] = best
+        return best
+    }
+
+    /** What a half-played turn amounts to: the board, the bar, and the dice left. */
+    private fun turnKey(state: BackgammonState): String =
+        state.points.joinToString(",") + "|" + state.bar.joinToString(",") +
+            "|" + state.off.joinToString(",") + "|" + state.dice.sorted().joinToString(",")
+
+    /**
+     * Every longest way of playing what is left of the roll.
+     *
+     * Only for the computer, which wants to weigh whole turns rather than
+     * single checkers. Branches that cannot reach full length are cut before
+     * they are walked, and the list is capped: a double with checkers spread
+     * across the board has more orderings than are worth looking at, and they
+     * are mostly the same play in a different order anyway.
+     */
+    fun deepestSequences(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): List<List<BackgammonMove>> {
+        val memo = mutableMapOf<String, Int>()
+        val target = depthOf(state, seat, memo)
+        if (target == 0) return emptyList()
+
+        val found = mutableListOf<List<BackgammonMove>>()
+        val seen = mutableSetOf<String>()
+
+        fun walk(current: BackgammonState, played: List<BackgammonMove>) {
+            if (found.size >= SEQUENCE_CAP) return
+            if (played.size == target) {
+                // Two orderings that end on the same board are one play.
+                if (seen.add(turnKey(current))) found += played
+                return
+            }
+            for (move in candidates(current, seat)) {
+                val next = place(current, seat, move)
+                if (played.size + 1 + depthOf(next, seat, memo) == target) {
+                    walk(next, played + move)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        walk(state, emptyList())
+
+        if (target == 1 && found.isNotEmpty()) {
+            val highest = found.maxOf { it.single().die }
+            return found.filter { it.single().die == highest }
+        }
+        return found
+    }
+
+    /** The checkers that could move with one of the dice still in hand. */
+    private fun candidates(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): List<BackgammonMove> {
+        if (state.dice.isEmpty()) return emptyList()
+        val dice = state.dice.distinct()
+        val origins = if (state.bar[seat] > 0) {
+            listOf(BAR)
+        } else {
+            (0 until POINTS).filter { state.countOn(it, seat) > 0 }
+        }
+        return origins.flatMap { from ->
+            dice.mapNotNull { die ->
+                BackgammonMove(from, die).takeIf { canPlay(state, seat, it) }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun applyMove(
+        state: BackgammonState,
+        seat: Int,
+        move: BackgammonMove,
+    ): BackgammonState {
+        require(state.phase != BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER) { "The game is over" }
+        require(state.turn == seat) { "It is not seat $seat's turn" }
+        require(move in legalMoves(state, seat)) { "Illegal move $move for seat $seat" }
+
+        val played = place(state, seat, move)
+            .copy(moveLog = state.moveLog + "${seatName(seat)} $move")
+
+        val finished = played.withTerminalCheck()
+        if (finished.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER) return finished
+
+        // The turn ends when the dice run out or nothing more can be played.
+        return if (played.dice.isEmpty() || legalMoves(played, seat).isEmpty()) {
+            played.passTurn()
+        } else {
+            played
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Hands the dice to the other player and throws them. */
+    private fun BackgammonState.passTurn(): BackgammonState {
+        val next = other(turn)
+        val first = die(seed, rollsMade)
+        val second = die(seed, rollsMade + 1)
+        // A double is four moves of the same number, which is the one piece of
+        // luck in backgammon big enough to decide a game on its own.
+        val thrown = if (first == second) List(4) { first } else listOf(first, second)
+        return copy(
+            turn = next,
+            dice = thrown,
+            roll = listOf(first, second),
+            rollsMade = rollsMade + 2,
+        ).skipIfStuck()
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A player with nothing they can play loses the turn.
+     *
+     * Usually this is somebody stuck on the bar against a closed board. It can
+     * happen several times over, so it keeps rolling until somebody can move —
+     * with a cap, because a board that closed against a player who has nothing
+     * else on it would otherwise roll for ever.
+     */
+    private fun BackgammonState.skipIfStuck(): BackgammonState {
+        var state = this
+        var skipped = 0
+        while (state.phase != BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER &&
+            legalMoves(state, state.turn).isEmpty() &&
+            skipped < MAX_SKIPS
+        ) {
+            val next = other(state.turn)
+            val first = die(state.seed, state.rollsMade)
+            val second = die(state.seed, state.rollsMade + 1)
+            val thrown = if (first == second) List(4) { first } else listOf(first, second)
+            state = state.copy(
+                turn = next,
+                dice = thrown,
+                roll = listOf(first, second),
+                rollsMade = state.rollsMade + 2,
+                moveLog = state.moveLog + "${seatName(state.turn)} cannot move",
+            )
+            skipped++
+        }
+        return state
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Fifteen checkers off is the game. How much it is worth depends on how the
+     * loser was left: nothing borne off is a gammon, and still being on the bar
+     * or in the winner's home on top of that is a backgammon.
+     */
+    private fun BackgammonState.withTerminalCheck(): BackgammonState {
+        val winner = (0..1).firstOrNull { off[it] >= CHECKERS } ?: return this
+        val loser = other(winner)
+
+        val stranded = bar[loser] > 0 || homeOf(winner).any { countOn(it, loser) > 0 }
+        val severity = when {
+            !options.countGammons || off[loser] > 0 -> 0
+            stranded -> 2
+            else -> 1
+        }
+
+        val outcome = if (winner == WHITE_SEAT) {
+            when (severity) {
+                2 -> BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_BACKGAMMON
+                1 -> BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_GAMMON
+                else -> BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_SINGLE
+            }
+        } else {
+            when (severity) {
+                2 -> BackgammonOutcome.BLACK_BACKGAMMON
+                1 -> BackgammonOutcome.BLACK_GAMMON
+                else -> BackgammonOutcome.BLACK_SINGLE
+            }
+        }
+        return copy(phase = BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = outcome, dice = emptyList())
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Engine contract
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    override fun isFinished(state: BackgammonState): Boolean =
+        state.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER
+
+    override fun summary(state: BackgammonState): String = state.outcome?.label ?: buildString {
+        append(seatName(state.turn))
+        append(" to play ")
+        append(state.roll.joinToString("-"))
+        if (state.dice.size < state.roll.size) append(" (${state.dice.size} left)")
+    }
+
+    /** Backgammon hides nothing: the board and the dice are on the table. */
+    override fun viewFor(state: BackgammonState, seat: Int): BackgammonState = state
+
+    override fun encodeState(state: BackgammonState): String = json.encodeToString(state)
+    override fun decodeState(json: String): BackgammonState = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+    override fun encodeMove(move: BackgammonMove): String = json.encodeToString(move)
+    override fun decodeMove(json: String): BackgammonMove = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+
+    /**
+     * Plays a whole turn's worth of moves in one go, for the search and the
+     * tests. Anything that ends the turn stops it early.
+     */
+    fun playSequence(
+        state: BackgammonState,
+        seat: Int,
+        sequence: List<BackgammonMove>,
+    ): BackgammonState {
+        var current = state
+        for (move in sequence) {
+            if (current.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER || current.turn != seat) break
+            current = applyMove(current, seat, move)
+        }
+        return current
+    }
+
+    private const val MAX_SKIPS = 8
+
+    /** How many distinct ways of playing one roll the computer will weigh. */
+    private const val SEQUENCE_CAP = 300
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/checkers/CheckersAi.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameAi
+
+/**
+ * A negamax search with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening.
+ *
+ * Checkers can be searched deeper than chess for the same money: captures are
+ * compulsory, so most positions offer a handful of moves rather than thirty,
+ * and a forced capture costs nothing to search. That is why the levels here go
+ * to seven ply where the chess ones stop at four.
+ *
+ * There is no quiescence tail. The usual reason for one is a search stopping in
+ * the middle of an exchange, and compulsory capture takes care of that by
+ * itself: a position where a piece has just been taken almost always has the
+ * recapture as its only legal move, so the search plays it whether it wanted to
+ * or not.
+ */
+class CheckersAi(private val level: CheckersLevel? = null) :
+    GameAi<CheckersState, CheckersMove> {
+
+    private var nodeBudget = 0
+    private var nodesUsed = 0
+
+    override fun chooseMove(
+        state: CheckersState,
+        seat: Int,
+        legal: List<CheckersMove>,
+    ): CheckersMove {
+        require(legal.isNotEmpty()) { "No legal move for seat $seat" }
+        val setting = level ?: state.options.level
+        if (legal.size == 1) return legal.first()
+
+        nodeBudget = NODE_BUDGET
+        nodesUsed = 0
+
+        val random = Random(state.moveLog.size * 31L + state.positionKey().hashCode())
+
+        var best = legal.first()
+        var scored = legal.map { it to 0 }
+
+        for (depth in 1..setting.depth) {
+            val results = mutableListOf<Pair<CheckersMove, Int>>()
+            val ordered = order(legal, preferred = best)
+            for (move in ordered) {
+                val score = -negamax(
+                    state = CheckersRules.advanced(state, move),
+                    depth = depth - 1,
+                    alpha = -INFINITY,
+                    beta = INFINITY,
+                    ply = 1,
+                )
+                results += move to score
+                if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget) break
+            }
+            if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget && results.size < ordered.size) break
+            scored = results
+            best = results.maxBy { it.second }.first
+        }
+
+        val bestScore = scored.maxOf { it.second }
+        val acceptable = scored.filter { it.second >= bestScore - setting.slack() }
+        return acceptable[random.nextInt(acceptable.size)].first
+    }
+
+    private fun CheckersLevel.slack(): Int = when (this) {
+        CheckersLevel.CASUAL -> 80
+        CheckersLevel.CLUB -> 20
+        CheckersLevel.STRONG -> 0
+    }
+
+    private fun negamax(state: CheckersState, depth: Int, alpha: Int, beta: Int, ply: Int): Int {
+        nodesUsed++
+
+        if (state.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER) {
+            // The rules leave the loser on the clock, so a finished position is
+            // always a loss for the side to move — or a draw.
+            return when (state.outcome) {
+                CheckersOutcome.DRAW_NO_PROGRESS, CheckersOutcome.DRAW_REPETITION, null -> 0
+                else -> -(WIN - ply)
+            }
+        }
+        if (depth <= 0) return evaluate(state)
+
+        val moves = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state)
+        if (moves.isEmpty()) return -(WIN - ply)
+
+        var localAlpha = alpha
+        for (move in order(moves, preferred = null)) {
+            val score = -negamax(
+                state = CheckersRules.advanced(state, move),
+                depth = depth - 1,
+                alpha = -beta,
+                beta = -localAlpha,
+                ply = ply + 1,
+            )
+            if (score >= beta) return beta
+            if (score > localAlpha) localAlpha = score
+            if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget) break
+        }
+        return localAlpha
+    }
+
+    /** Longest captures first: they take the most and they cut the most. */
+    private fun order(moves: List<CheckersMove>, preferred: CheckersMove?): List<CheckersMove> =
+        moves.sortedByDescending { move ->
+            when {
+                move == preferred -> 1_000
+                else -> move.steps.size * 10
+            }
+        }
+
+    /**
+     * The position from the point of view of the side to move.
+     *
+     * Material first, then two things that decide checkers games far more than
+     * beginners expect: **kings are worth much more than men**, and **men are
+     * worth more the closer they are to being crowned**, so a search with
+     * nothing else to choose between will push its men up the board rather than
+     * shuffle along the back.
+     *
+     * The back row is worth holding for the opposite reason — an empty back row
+     * is a road to a crown for the other side — so the two pull against each
+     * other, which is about right.
+     */
+    private fun evaluate(state: CheckersState): Int {
+        val us = state.turn
+        val them = other(us)
+        var score = 0
+
+        for (square in 0 until SQUARES) {
+            val piece = state.board[square] ?: continue
+            val sign = if (piece.seat == us) 1 else -1
+            score += sign * if (piece.king) KING else MAN
+
+            if (!piece.king) {
+                // How many rows it has come, out of the seven it needs.
+                val advanced = if (piece.seat == BLACK_SEAT) rowOf(square) else 7 - rowOf(square)
+                score += sign * advanced * ADVANCE
+            }
+
+            // Sitting on the edge cannot be jumped, which is worth a little in
+            // a game whose entire tactic is being jumped.
+            if (columnOf(square) == 0 || columnOf(square) == 7) score += sign * EDGE
+
+            if (rowOf(square) == crownRowOf(other(piece.seat))) score += sign * BACK_ROW
+        }
+
+        score += MOBILITY * (mobility(state, us) - mobility(state, them))
+        return score
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Somewhere to go, counted as piece-to-empty-square steps rather than as
+     * legal moves: the legal list is only ever the captures when a capture
+     * exists, and a position is not immobile for being obliged to take.
+     */
+    private fun mobility(state: CheckersState, seat: Int): Int {
+        var count = 0
+        for (square in 0 until SQUARES) {
+            val piece = state.board[square] ?: continue
+            if (piece.seat != seat) continue
+            val directions = if (piece.king) {
+                listOf(1 to 1, 1 to -1, -1 to 1, -1 to -1)
+            } else {
+                listOf(forwardOf(seat) to 1, forwardOf(seat) to -1)
+            }
+            for ((rowStep, columnStep) in directions) {
+                val target = squareAt(rowOf(square) + rowStep, columnOf(square) + columnStep)
+                if (target != null && state.board[target] == null) count++
+            }
+        }
+        return count
+    }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val INFINITY = 1_000_000
+        const val WIN = 100_000
+        const val NODE_BUDGET = 200_000
+
+        const val MAN = 100
+        const val KING = 175
+        const val ADVANCE = 6
+        const val EDGE = 4
+        const val BACK_ROW = 5
+        const val MOBILITY = 2
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/checkers/CheckersModel.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+
+/**
+ * The board is the thirty-two dark squares, numbered 1–32 the way checkers has
+ * always been written down: square 1 at Black's left-hand end of the top row,
+ * running left to right and down the board to 32.
+ *
+ * Only dark squares are ever played on, so numbering them alone means a move is
+ * two small numbers rather than two coordinates, the notation the game is
+ * recorded in falls out for free, and there is no such thing as an illegal
+ * light square to have to rule out.
+ *
+ * Internally the squares are 0-based; [squareName] adds the one.
+ */
+const val SQUARES = 32
+
+/** The row a square sits on, 0 at the top of the board. */
+fun rowOf(square: Int): Int = square / 4
+
+/**
+ * The column, 0 at the left. Dark squares alternate which half of a pair of
+ * columns they fall in, which is what the odd-row offset is doing.
+ */
+fun columnOf(square: Int): Int {
+    val row = rowOf(square)
+    val within = square % 4
+    return within * 2 + if (row % 2 == 0) 1 else 0
+}
+
+/** The dark square at a row and column, or null if that square is light. */
+fun squareAt(row: Int, column: Int): Int? {
+    if (row !in 0..7 || column !in 0..7) return null
+    val offset = if (row % 2 == 0) 1 else 0
+    if ((column - offset) % 2 != 0) return null
+    return row * 4 + (column - offset) / 2
+}
+
+fun squareName(square: Int): String = "${square + 1}"
+
+@Serializable
+enum class CheckersPhase { PLAYING, GAME_OVER }
+
+@Serializable
+enum class CheckersOutcome(val label: String) {
+    BLACK_WINS("Black wins"),
+    WHITE_WINS("White wins"),
+    DRAW_NO_PROGRESS("A draw — nothing has been taken or crowned for a long time"),
+    DRAW_REPETITION("A draw by threefold repetition"),
+}
+
+/** How hard the computer thinks about it. */
+@Serializable
+enum class CheckersLevel(val label: String, val depth: Int) {
+    CASUAL("Casual", depth = 3),
+    CLUB("Club", depth = 5),
+    STRONG("Strong", depth = 7),
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class CheckersOptions(
+    val level: CheckersLevel = CheckersLevel.CLUB,
+    /**
+     * A king slides any distance along a diagonal and may take from a
+     * distance, as in international draughts. Off by default: the English game
+     * this board and notation come from has kings that move one square like
+     * anybody else, only in both directions.
+     */
+    val flyingKings: Boolean = false,
+    /**
+     * A man that reaches the far row is crowned and the turn ends there, even
+     * with another jump available. This is the English rule; the international
+     * one lets the jump continue and crowns only if the piece finishes there.
+     */
+    val crowningEndsTheTurn: Boolean = true,
+    val threefoldRepetition: Boolean = true,
+    /** Plies with no capture and no crowning before the game is called a draw. */
+    val plyLimitWithoutProgress: Int = 80,
+)
+
+/**
+ * Black moves down the board from row 0, White moves up from row 7. Black plays
+ * first, as in every published checkers rulebook.
+ */
+const val BLACK_SEAT = 0
+const val WHITE_SEAT = 1
+
+fun other(seat: Int): Int = 1 - seat
+
+fun seatName(seat: Int): String = if (seat == BLACK_SEAT) "Black" else "White"
+
+/** Which way a man of this seat advances: down the rows for Black, up for White. */
+fun forwardOf(seat: Int): Int = if (seat == BLACK_SEAT) 1 else -1
+
+/** The row a man of this seat is crowned on. */
+fun crownRowOf(seat: Int): Int = if (seat == BLACK_SEAT) 7 else 0
+
+@Serializable
+data class Piece(val seat: Int, val king: Boolean = false) {
+    val glyph: String get() = when {
+        seat == BLACK_SEAT && king -> "BK"
+        seat == BLACK_SEAT -> "B"
+        king -> "WK"
+        else -> "W"
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A move: where the piece started, and the squares it landed on in order.
+ *
+ * A quiet move has one landing square. A jump has one per hop, so a triple
+ * capture is one move with three of them rather than three moves — a
+ * multiple jump is one turn, and splitting it up would let a player stop
+ * halfway, which the rules do not allow.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class CheckersMove(val from: Int, val steps: List<Int>) {
+    val to: Int get() = steps.last()
+
+    val isJump: Boolean get() = steps.isNotEmpty() && jumped(from, steps.first()) != null
+
+    override fun toString(): String {
+        val separator = if (isJump) "x" else "-"
+        return (listOf(from) + steps).joinToString(separator) { squareName(it) }
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The square hopped over going from [from] to [to], or null when the two are
+ * not two squares apart on a diagonal.
+ */
+fun jumped(from: Int, to: Int): Int? {
+    val rowStep = rowOf(to) - rowOf(from)
+    val columnStep = columnOf(to) - columnOf(from)
+    if (kotlin.math.abs(rowStep) != 2 || kotlin.math.abs(columnStep) != 2) return null
+    return squareAt(rowOf(from) + rowStep / 2, columnOf(from) + columnStep / 2)
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class CheckersState(
+    val options: CheckersOptions,
+    /** Thirty-two dark squares; null is empty. */
+    val board: List<Piece?>,
+    val turn: Int,
+    val phase: CheckersPhase,
+    val outcome: CheckersOutcome?,
+    val lastMove: CheckersMove?,
+    /** Plies since anything was taken or crowned. */
+    val pliesSinceProgress: Int,
+    val repetitionKeys: List<String>,
+    val moveLog: List<String>,
+) {
+    fun count(seat: Int): Int = board.count { it?.seat == seat }
+
+    fun kings(seat: Int): Int = board.count { it?.seat == seat && it.king }
+
+    fun positionKey(): String = buildString {
+        for (square in 0 until SQUARES) {
+            append(
+                when (val piece = board[square]) {
+                    null -> '.'
+                    else -> when {
+                        piece.seat == BLACK_SEAT && piece.king -> 'K'
+                        piece.seat == BLACK_SEAT -> 'b'
+                        piece.king -> 'Q'
+                        else -> 'w'
+                    }
+                }
+            )
+        }
+        append(' ').append(turn)
+    }
+}
+
+/** The opening array: twelve a side on the three rows nearest each player. */
+fun startingBoard(): List<Piece?> = (0 until SQUARES).map { square ->
+    when (rowOf(square)) {
+        0, 1, 2 -> Piece(BLACK_SEAT)
+        5, 6, 7 -> Piece(WHITE_SEAT)
+        else -> null
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/checkers/CheckersRules.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.GameCatalog
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.TableConfig
+
+/**
+ * Checkers — English draughts — as a pure state machine. See RULES-checkers.md.
+ *
+ * Two rules shape everything else here. **Captures are compulsory**, so the
+ * move generator produces the jumps and throws the quiet moves away whenever
+ * there is a jump to be had; and **a multiple jump is one turn**, so a
+ * sequence of hops is one move object rather than several. A player cannot stop
+ * halfway through a capture, and building it as one move is what makes that
+ * true by construction rather than by a rule somewhere that has to be enforced.
+ */
+object CheckersRules : GameRules<CheckersState, CheckersMove> {
+
+    override val gameId: String = GameCatalog.CHECKERS
+
+    private val json = Json {
+        ignoreUnknownKeys = true
+        encodeDefaults = true
+    }
+
+    private val DIAGONALS = listOf(1 to 1, 1 to -1, -1 to 1, -1 to -1)
+
+    override fun initialState(config: TableConfig): CheckersState {
+        require(config.seats.size == 2) { "Checkers is a two-handed game" }
+        val options = json.decodeFromString<CheckersOptions>(config.optionsJson)
+        return initialState(options)
+    }
+
+    fun initialState(options: CheckersOptions = CheckersOptions()): CheckersState = CheckersState(
+        options = options,
+        board = startingBoard(),
+        turn = BLACK_SEAT,
+        phase = CheckersPhase.PLAYING,
+        outcome = null,
+        lastMove = null,
+        pliesSinceProgress = 0,
+        repetitionKeys = emptyList(),
+        moveLog = emptyList(),
+    ).let { start -> start.copy(repetitionKeys = listOf(start.positionKey())) }
+
+    override fun currentSeat(state: CheckersState): Int? =
+        if (state.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER) null else state.turn
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moves
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    fun legalMoves(state: CheckersState): List<CheckersMove> = legalMoves(state, state.turn)
+
+    override fun legalMoves(state: CheckersState, seat: Int): List<CheckersMove> {
+        if (state.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER || state.turn != seat) return emptyList()
+
+        val mine = (0 until SQUARES).filter { state.board[it]?.seat == seat }
+
+        val jumps = mine.flatMap { square ->
+            val piece = state.board[square]!!
+            // The piece is lifted before its own jumps are worked out, so the
+            // square it came from counts as empty for the rest of the sequence
+            // — a jump can and often does end back where it started.
+            val board = state.board.toMutableList()
+            board[square] = null
+            jumpsFrom(state.options, board, square, piece).map {
+                CheckersMove(from = square, steps = it)
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Compulsory capture: a quiet move is only a move when nothing at all
+        // can be taken, anywhere on the board.
+        if (jumps.isNotEmpty()) return jumps
+
+        return mine.flatMap { square ->
+            slidesFrom(state.options, state.board, square, state.board[square]!!).map {
+                CheckersMove(from = square, steps = listOf(it))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Which diagonals a piece may travel along: both ways for a king, forwards for a man. */
+    private fun directionsFor(piece: Piece): List<Pair<Int, Int>> =
+        if (piece.king) DIAGONALS else DIAGONALS.filter { it.first == forwardOf(piece.seat) }
+
+    /** Quiet moves — one square, or any distance for a flying king. */
+    private fun slidesFrom(
+        options: CheckersOptions,
+        board: List<Piece?>,
+        from: Int,
+        piece: Piece,
+    ): List<Int> = directionsFor(piece).flatMap { (rowStep, columnStep) ->
+        val reach = if (piece.king && options.flyingKings) 7 else 1
+        val landings = mutableListOf<Int>()
+        for (distance in 1..reach) {
+            val square = squareAt(
+                rowOf(from) + rowStep * distance,
+                columnOf(from) + columnStep * distance,
+            ) ?: break
+            if (board[square] != null) break
+            landings += square
+        }
+        landings
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Every complete jump sequence from [at], as lists of landing squares.
+     *
+     * A sequence only ends where no further jump is available: a player may not
+     * stop a capture halfway, so a shorter prefix of a longer jump is never
+     * offered as a move of its own.
+     *
+     * [board] is mutated as it recurses and put back afterwards, which is what
+     * stops the same piece being taken twice in one turn.
+     */
+    private fun jumpsFrom(
+        options: CheckersOptions,
+        board: MutableList<Piece?>,
+        at: Int,
+        piece: Piece,
+    ): List<List<Int>> {
+        val sequences = mutableListOf<List<Int>>()
+
+        for ((rowStep, columnStep) in directionsFor(piece)) {
+            val hops = if (piece.king && options.flyingKings) {
+                longJumps(board, at, piece, rowStep, columnStep)
+            } else {
+                shortJump(board, at, piece, rowStep, columnStep)
+            }
+
+            for ((over, landing) in hops) {
+                val taken = board[over]
+                board[over] = null
+
+                // A man reaching the crown row stops there under the English
+                // rule and is crowned; under the other it carries on as a man
+                // and is only crowned if it finishes there.
+                val crowning = !piece.king && rowOf(landing) == crownRowOf(piece.seat)
+                val continuations = if (crowning && options.crowningEndsTheTurn) {
+                    emptyList()
+                } else {
+                    jumpsFrom(options, board, landing, piece)
+                }
+
+                board[over] = taken
+
+                if (continuations.isEmpty()) {
+                    sequences += listOf(landing)
+                } else {
+                    continuations.forEach { sequences += listOf(landing) + it }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return sequences
+    }
+
+    /** The one hop a man or a short king can make in a direction, if any. */
+    private fun shortJump(
+        board: List<Piece?>,
+        at: Int,
+        piece: Piece,
+        rowStep: Int,
+        columnStep: Int,
+    ): List<Pair<Int, Int>> {
+        val over = squareAt(rowOf(at) + rowStep, columnOf(at) + columnStep) ?: return emptyList()
+        val landing = squareAt(rowOf(at) + rowStep * 2, columnOf(at) + columnStep * 2)
+            ?: return emptyList()
+        val victim = board[over] ?: return emptyList()
+        if (victim.seat == piece.seat) return emptyList()
+        if (board[landing] != null) return emptyList()
+        return listOf(over to landing)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A flying king's captures: the first piece along the diagonal, if it is an
+     * enemy, taken by landing on any empty square beyond it.
+     *
+     * Note that a captured piece is lifted at once rather than left standing
+     * until the turn ends. International draughts leaves it there as an
+     * obstacle, which occasionally forbids a sequence this allows; the
+     * difference is written down in the rules document rather than pretended
+     * away.
+     */
+    private fun longJumps(
+        board: List<Piece?>,
+        at: Int,
+        piece: Piece,
+        rowStep: Int,
+        columnStep: Int,
+    ): List<Pair<Int, Int>> {
+        var distance = 1
+        val over: Int
+        while (true) {
+            val square = squareAt(
+                rowOf(at) + rowStep * distance,
+                columnOf(at) + columnStep * distance,
+            ) ?: return emptyList()
+            val occupant = board[square]
+            if (occupant != null) {
+                if (occupant.seat == piece.seat) return emptyList()
+                over = square
+                break
+            }
+            distance++
+        }
+
+        val landings = mutableListOf<Pair<Int, Int>>()
+        var beyond = distance + 1
+        while (true) {
+            val square = squareAt(
+                rowOf(at) + rowStep * beyond,
+                columnOf(at) + columnStep * beyond,
+            ) ?: break
+            if (board[square] != null) break
+            landings += over to square
+            beyond++
+        }
+        return landings
+    }
+
+    override fun applyMove(state: CheckersState, seat: Int, move: CheckersMove): CheckersState {
+        require(state.phase != CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER) { "The game is over" }
+        require(state.turn == seat) { "It is not seat $seat's turn" }
+        require(move in legalMoves(state, seat)) { "Illegal move $move for seat $seat" }
+
+        val next = make(state, seat, move)
+        return next
+            .copy(
+                repetitionKeys = state.repetitionKeys + next.positionKey(),
+                moveLog = state.moveLog + "${seatName(seat)} $move",
+            )
+            .withTerminalCheck(includeDraws = true)
+    }
+
+    /** The position after [move], with the draw bookkeeping left off, for the search. */
+    fun advanced(state: CheckersState, move: CheckersMove): CheckersState =
+        make(state, state.turn, move).withTerminalCheck(includeDraws = false)
+
+    private fun make(state: CheckersState, seat: Int, move: CheckersMove): CheckersState {
+        val board = state.board.toMutableList()
+        val piece = requireNotNull(board[move.from]) { "no piece on ${squareName(move.from)}" }
+        board[move.from] = null
+
+        var taken = 0
+        var at = move.from
+        for (landing in move.steps) {
+            jumped(at, landing)?.let { over ->
+                if (board[over] != null) {
+                    board[over] = null
+                    taken++
+                }
+            } ?: run {
+                // A flying king's capture is further than a single hop, so the
+                // square it took is found by walking the line rather than by
+                // halving the distance.
+                if (state.options.flyingKings && piece.king) {
+                    victimBetween(board, at, landing)?.let { over ->
+                        board[over] = null
+                        taken++
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            at = landing
+        }
+
+        val crowned = !piece.king && rowOf(move.to) == crownRowOf(seat)
+        board[move.to] = if (crowned) piece.copy(king = true) else piece
+
+        return state.copy(
+            board = board,
+            turn = other(seat),
+            lastMove = move,
+            // Taking a piece or crowning one is progress; shuffling kings
+            // around is what the draw rule is there to stop.
+            pliesSinceProgress = if (taken > 0 || crowned) 0 else state.pliesSinceProgress + 1,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /** The single enemy piece standing between two squares on a diagonal. */
+    private fun victimBetween(board: List<Piece?>, from: Int, to: Int): Int? {
+        val rowStep = (rowOf(to) - rowOf(from)).let { if (it > 0) 1 else -1 }
+        val columnStep = (columnOf(to) - columnOf(from)).let { if (it > 0) 1 else -1 }
+        var distance = 1
+        while (true) {
+            val square = squareAt(
+                rowOf(from) + rowStep * distance,
+                columnOf(from) + columnStep * distance,
+            ) ?: return null
+            if (square == to) return null
+            if (board[square] != null) return square
+            distance++
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the game has just ended, from the point of view of the player who
+     * is now to move: they are the only one who can have lost pieces or run out
+     * of squares on the ply just played.
+     */
+    private fun CheckersState.withTerminalCheck(includeDraws: Boolean): CheckersState {
+        val loser = turn
+
+        // No pieces, or no move: both are a loss, and they are the same
+        // condition as far as the rules are concerned.
+        if (legalMoves(this, loser).isEmpty()) {
+            return copy(
+                phase = CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER,
+                outcome = if (loser == BLACK_SEAT) {
+                    CheckersOutcome.WHITE_WINS
+                } else {
+                    CheckersOutcome.BLACK_WINS
+                },
+            )
+        }
+
+        if (!includeDraws) return this
+
+        if (options.plyLimitWithoutProgress > 0 &&
+            pliesSinceProgress >= options.plyLimitWithoutProgress
+        ) {
+            return copy(
+                phase = CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER,
+                outcome = CheckersOutcome.DRAW_NO_PROGRESS,
+            )
+        }
+
+        if (options.threefoldRepetition) {
+            val here = repetitionKeys.lastOrNull()
+            if (here != null && repetitionKeys.count { it == here } >= 3) {
+                return copy(
+                    phase = CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER,
+                    outcome = CheckersOutcome.DRAW_REPETITION,
+                )
+            }
+        }
+
+        return this
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Engine contract
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    override fun isFinished(state: CheckersState): Boolean =
+        state.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER
+
+    override fun summary(state: CheckersState): String = state.outcome?.label
+        ?: "${seatName(state.turn)} to move"
+
+    /** Checkers hides nothing: both players see the same board. */
+    override fun viewFor(state: CheckersState, seat: Int): CheckersState = state
+
+    override fun encodeState(state: CheckersState): String = json.encodeToString(state)
+    override fun decodeState(json: String): CheckersState = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+    override fun encodeMove(move: CheckersMove): String = json.encodeToString(move)
+    override fun decodeMove(json: String): CheckersMove = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+
+    /** Leaf nodes at [depth]. The single most useful check on a move generator. */
+    fun perft(state: CheckersState, depth: Int): Long {
+        if (depth == 0) return 1L
+        val moves = legalMoves(state)
+        if (depth == 1) return moves.size.toLong()
+        return moves.sumOf { move ->
+            val next = advanced(state, move)
+            if (next.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER) 1L else perft(next, depth - 1)
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/mastermind/MastermindAi.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameAi
+
+/**
+ * A code setter and a code breaker.
+ *
+ * There is no tree to search here — the opponent makes no reply, and a guess
+ * cannot be answered badly — so the whole game is in choosing which code to try
+ * next. Three ways of choosing it, in rising order of how much it thinks:
+ *
+ * - **Casual** takes anything untried, ruled out or not.
+ * - **Club** never guesses a code the answers have already eliminated. That one
+ *   rule is most of the strength.
+ * - **Strong** is Knuth's idea one ply deep: among the codes still standing, it
+ *   plays the one whose *worst* possible answer leaves the smallest number of
+ *   candidates behind, so it cannot be given a reply that tells it little.
+ */
+class MastermindAi(private val level: MastermindLevel? = null) :
+    GameAi<MastermindState, MastermindMove> {
+
+    override fun chooseMove(
+        state: MastermindState,
+        seat: Int,
+        legal: List<MastermindMove>,
+    ): MastermindMove {
+        require(legal.isNotEmpty()) { "No legal guess for seat $seat" }
+        val setting = level ?: state.options.level
+
+        // Deterministic for a given position, so a host and a client watching
+        // the same game agree on what the computer did.
+        val random = Random(seat * 7919L + state.guesses[seat].size * 31L + state.options.hashCode())
+
+        // Choosing its own code, which is a different job from breaking one.
+        //
+        // Two deliberate things here. It does not try to be clever — a code
+        // picked to beat a particular solver is a code with a pattern in it,
+        // and a pattern is the one thing a code should not have. And it is the
+        // only choice in this file drawn from a source nobody else can see:
+        // every other random here is seeded from the position so a host and a
+        // client agree, but a code seeded from anything on the wire could be
+        // worked out by the player who is supposed to be guessing it.
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.SETTING) {
+            return MastermindMove(MastermindRules.randomCode(state.options, Random.Default))
+        }
+
+        if (setting == MastermindLevel.CASUAL) return legal[random.nextInt(legal.size)]
+
+        val standing = MastermindRules.consistentCodes(state, seat)
+            .filterNot { code -> state.guesses[seat].any { it.code == code } }
+        // Nothing consistent left means the answers contradict each other,
+        // which cannot happen in a game this code scored — but a guess still
+        // has to be returned rather than an exception.
+        if (standing.isEmpty()) return legal[random.nextInt(legal.size)]
+        if (standing.size == 1) return MastermindMove(standing.single())
+
+        if (setting == MastermindLevel.CLUB) {
+            return MastermindMove(standing[random.nextInt(standing.size)])
+        }
+
+        return MastermindMove(minimax(standing, random))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The candidate whose worst reply leaves the fewest codes standing.
+     *
+     * Both lists are sampled when they are large. The full calculation is every
+     * candidate against every survivor, which on a fresh six-colour game is
+     * more than a million scorings — a second or two of a phone's time for a
+     * choice that a sample of them makes just as well.
+     */
+    private fun minimax(standing: List<List<Int>>, random: Random): List<Int> {
+        val candidates = sample(standing, CANDIDATES, random)
+        val against = sample(standing, OPPONENTS, random)
+
+        var best = candidates.first()
+        var bestWorst = Int.MAX_VALUE
+        for (candidate in candidates) {
+            val partitions = mutableMapOf<Feedback, Int>()
+            for (possible in against) {
+                val answer = scoreGuess(possible, candidate)
+                partitions[answer] = (partitions[answer] ?: 0) + 1
+            }
+            val worst = partitions.values.max()
+            if (worst < bestWorst) {
+                bestWorst = worst
+                best = candidate
+            }
+        }
+        return best
+    }
+
+    private fun sample(codes: List<List<Int>>, limit: Int, random: Random): List<List<Int>> {
+        if (codes.size <= limit) return codes
+        val picked = LinkedHashSet<Int>()
+        while (picked.size < limit) picked += random.nextInt(codes.size)
+        return picked.map { codes[it] }
+    }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val CANDIDATES = 80
+        const val OPPONENTS = 400
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/mastermind/MastermindModel.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+
+/**
+ * Mastermind as a duel.
+ *
+ * The pencil-and-paper game is one person setting a code and another breaking
+ * it, which makes a poor two-handed game: one player would sit and watch. Here
+ * **each player sets the code their opponent will have to break**, and then
+ * both are breaking one, a guess each in turn. Whoever cracks theirs first
+ * wins.
+ *
+ * Setting your own code is the half of Mastermind a generated code takes away.
+ * Choosing it is a real decision — whether to repeat a colour, whether to leave
+ * one out — and it is a decision made against a particular opponent, which a
+ * random number generator cannot do.
+ *
+ * The symmetry is what makes it fair to end the game at the foot of a round
+ * rather than the moment somebody gets it: if the first player cracks the code
+ * on their sixth guess, the second player still gets a sixth guess to equal it,
+ * and equalling it is a draw.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class MastermindOptions(
+    /** How many colours the code is drawn from. */
+    val colours: Int = 6,
+    /** How many pegs long the code is. */
+    val length: Int = 4,
+    /** Whether a colour may appear more than once in the code. */
+    val allowDuplicates: Boolean = true,
+    /** Guesses each. Running out with neither code broken is a draw. */
+    val maxGuesses: Int = 10,
+    val level: MastermindLevel = MastermindLevel.CLUB,
+) {
+    /** How many codes are possible, which is what a guess is chosen from. */
+    fun codeSpace(): Int = if (allowDuplicates) {
+        var total = 1
+        repeat(length) { total *= colours }
+        total
+    } else {
+        var total = 1
+        for (step in 0 until length) total *= (colours - step).coerceAtLeast(0)
+        total
+    }
+}
+
+/** How hard the computer thinks about it. */
+@Serializable
+enum class MastermindLevel(val label: String) {
+    /**
+     * Guesses anything it has not tried, whether or not the answers so far rule
+     * it out. Beatable by anybody who is paying attention.
+     */
+    CASUAL("Casual"),
+
+    /**
+     * Never guesses a code the answers have already ruled out. That alone is a
+     * respectable player and cracks a four-peg, six-colour code in about five.
+     */
+    CLUB("Club"),
+
+    /**
+     * Consistent, and among the consistent codes it picks the one whose worst
+     * answer leaves the fewest possibilities standing — a one-ply minimax over
+     * the replies, which is Knuth's idea without the full lookahead.
+     */
+    STRONG("Strong"),
+}
+
+/**
+ * The answer to a guess: how many pegs are the right colour in the right place,
+ * and how many are the right colour somewhere else.
+ *
+ * The two counts never double-count a peg. That is the whole subtlety of
+ * scoring Mastermind, and it is why [scoreGuess] counts colours rather than
+ * walking pairs.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class Feedback(val exact: Int, val misplaced: Int) {
+    override fun toString(): String = "$exact·$misplaced"
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class Guess(val code: List<Int>, val feedback: Feedback)
+
+/**
+ * Scores [guess] against [secret].
+ *
+ * Exact matches are counted first and taken out; what is left is compared by
+ * colour count, so three reds guessed against one red can only ever be worth
+ * one peg however they are arranged.
+ */
+fun scoreGuess(secret: List<Int>, guess: List<Int>): Feedback {
+    require(secret.size == guess.size) { "a guess must be as long as the code" }
+    var exact = 0
+    val secretLeft = mutableListOf<Int>()
+    val guessLeft = mutableListOf<Int>()
+    for (index in secret.indices) {
+        if (secret[index] == guess[index]) {
+            exact++
+        } else {
+            secretLeft += secret[index]
+            guessLeft += guess[index]
+        }
+    }
+    val counts = secretLeft.groupingBy { it }.eachCount().toMutableMap()
+    var misplaced = 0
+    for (colour in guessLeft) {
+        val left = counts[colour] ?: 0
+        if (left > 0) {
+            misplaced++
+            counts[colour] = left - 1
+        }
+    }
+    return Feedback(exact = exact, misplaced = misplaced)
+}
+
+/** Every code the options allow, in a fixed order. */
+fun allCodes(options: MastermindOptions): List<List<Int>> {
+    var codes = listOf(emptyList<Int>())
+    repeat(options.length) {
+        codes = codes.flatMap { prefix ->
+            (0 until options.colours)
+                .filter { options.allowDuplicates || it !in prefix }
+                .map { prefix + it }
+        }
+    }
+    return codes
+}
+
+@Serializable
+enum class MastermindPhase {
+    /** Each player is choosing the code their opponent will have to break. */
+    SETTING,
+
+    /** Both codes are set and the guessing has started. */
+    GUESSING,
+    GAME_OVER,
+}
+
+@Serializable
+enum class MastermindOutcome(val label: String) {
+    FIRST_WINS("Broken first by the player who opened"),
+    SECOND_WINS("Broken first by the player who replied"),
+    DRAW_BOTH("A draw — both codes broken in the same number of guesses"),
+    DRAW_NEITHER("A draw — neither code was broken in time"),
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class MastermindState(
+    val options: MastermindOptions,
+    /**
+     * The code each seat is guarding, which is the one their opponent is trying
+     * to break. Redacted before this ever leaves the host: see
+     * [MastermindRules.viewFor].
+     *
+     * Empty means one of two quite different things — not chosen yet, or
+     * chosen and hidden from the device this copy was sent to — which is what
+     * [declared] is for. Without it a screen could not tell "they are still
+     * thinking" from "they are ready and you cannot see it".
+     */
+    val secrets: List<List<Int>>,
+    /** Whether each seat has settled on a code. */
+    val declared: List<Boolean>,
+    /** What each seat has guessed at their opponent's code, oldest first. */
+    val guesses: List<List<Guess>>,
+    val turn: Int,
+    val phase: MastermindPhase,
+    val outcome: MastermindOutcome?,
+) {
+    fun broke(seat: Int): Boolean =
+        guesses[seat].any { it.feedback.exact == options.length }
+
+    /** How many guesses it took, or null if this seat has not cracked it. */
+    fun brokeIn(seat: Int): Int? = guesses[seat]
+        .indexOfFirst { it.feedback.exact == options.length }
+        .takeIf { it >= 0 }
+        ?.plus(1)
+
+    fun guessesLeft(seat: Int): Int = options.maxGuesses - guesses[seat].size
+
+    /** True where a code has been set but stripped out of this copy. */
+    fun isHidden(seat: Int): Boolean = declared[seat] && secrets[seat].isEmpty()
+
+    /** True once this seat has chosen the code their opponent must break. */
+    fun hasSet(seat: Int): Boolean = declared[seat]
+}
+
+const val FIRST_SEAT = 0
+const val SECOND_SEAT = 1
+
+fun other(seat: Int): Int = 1 - seat

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/mastermind/MastermindRules.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.GameCatalog
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.TableConfig
+
+/**
+ * A row of pegs.
+ *
+ * The same move does both jobs the game asks for: while the codes are being
+ * set it *is* your code, and after that it is a guess at theirs. Which one it
+ * means is decided by the phase rather than by a flag on the move, because the
+ * phase is the thing that actually knows — a flag could disagree with it, and
+ * then one of the two would be wrong.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class MastermindMove(val code: List<Int>) {
+    override fun toString(): String = code.joinToString("") { ('A' + it).toString() }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Mastermind as a state machine. See RULES-mastermind.md.
+ *
+ * A game runs in two phases. First each player chooses the code their opponent
+ * will have to break, one after the other; then both players guess, a row each
+ * in turn, until somebody cracks one.
+ *
+ * This is the one game here with anything to hide, so [viewFor] does real work:
+ * the host holds both codes and sends each device only its own, which means an
+ * opponent's code is never on the wire in the first place. A code set on a
+ * guest's device travels to the host as a move and stops there — moves are
+ * intents sent to the host and are never relayed to the other player, so the
+ * only copy that reaches an opponent's screen is the redacted one.
+ *
+ * Nothing else in this file may leak a code either: note that [summary] talks
+ * about counts rather than colours.
+ */
+object MastermindRules : GameRules<MastermindState, MastermindMove> {
+
+    override val gameId: String = GameCatalog.MASTERMIND
+
+    private val json = Json {
+        ignoreUnknownKeys = true
+        encodeDefaults = true
+    }
+
+    override fun initialState(config: TableConfig): MastermindState {
+        require(config.seats.size == 2) { "Mastermind is a two-handed game" }
+        val options = json.decodeFromString<MastermindOptions>(config.optionsJson)
+        return initialState(options)
+    }
+
+    fun initialState(options: MastermindOptions = MastermindOptions()): MastermindState {
+        require(options.length >= 1) { "a code needs at least one peg" }
+        require(options.colours >= 2) { "a code needs at least two colours" }
+        require(options.allowDuplicates || options.colours >= options.length) {
+            "${options.length} different colours cannot be drawn from ${options.colours}"
+        }
+        return MastermindState(
+            options = options,
+            // Nobody has chosen anything yet. The codes are the players' to
+            // set, which is half of what makes it a game rather than a puzzle.
+            secrets = listOf(emptyList(), emptyList()),
+            declared = listOf(false, false),
+            guesses = listOf(emptyList(), emptyList()),
+            turn = FIRST_SEAT,
+            phase = MastermindPhase.SETTING,
+            outcome = null,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /** A code drawn at random, which is how the computer sets its own. */
+    fun randomCode(options: MastermindOptions, random: Random): List<Int> {
+        if (options.allowDuplicates) {
+            return List(options.length) { random.nextInt(options.colours) }
+        }
+        val bag = (0 until options.colours).toMutableList()
+        return List(options.length) { bag.removeAt(random.nextInt(bag.size)) }
+    }
+
+    /** Whether a row of pegs is a code this table allows at all. */
+    fun isWellFormed(options: MastermindOptions, code: List<Int>): Boolean =
+        code.size == options.length &&
+            code.all { it in 0 until options.colours } &&
+            (options.allowDuplicates || code.distinct().size == code.size)
+
+    override fun currentSeat(state: MastermindState): Int? =
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER) null else state.turn
+
+    /**
+     * While the codes are being set, every code this table allows. After that,
+     * every code this seat has not already guessed.
+     *
+     * Repeating a guess is not illegal by the rules of the game, but it can
+     * only ever waste a turn, and leaving it out keeps the computer from
+     * wasting one.
+     */
+    override fun legalMoves(state: MastermindState, seat: Int): List<MastermindMove> {
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER || state.turn != seat) return emptyList()
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.SETTING) {
+            return allCodes(state.options).map { MastermindMove(it) }
+        }
+        val tried = state.guesses[seat].map { it.code }.toSet()
+        return allCodes(state.options).filterNot { it in tried }.map { MastermindMove(it) }
+    }
+
+    override fun applyMove(
+        state: MastermindState,
+        seat: Int,
+        move: MastermindMove,
+    ): MastermindState {
+        require(state.phase != MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER) { "The game is over" }
+        require(state.turn == seat) { "It is not seat $seat's turn" }
+        require(isWellFormed(state.options, move.code)) {
+            "a code is ${state.options.length} pegs from ${state.options.colours} colours" +
+                if (state.options.allowDuplicates) "" else ", all different"
+        }
+
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.SETTING) return declare(state, seat, move.code)
+
+        require(state.guesses[seat].none { it.code == move.code }) {
+            "that guess has been made already"
+        }
+        val secret = state.secrets[other(seat)]
+        require(secret.isNotEmpty()) {
+            "this device does not hold that code — a guess is scored by the host"
+        }
+
+        val scored = Guess(code = move.code, feedback = scoreGuess(secret, move.code))
+        val guesses = state.guesses.toMutableList()
+        guesses[seat] = guesses[seat] + scored
+
+        return state.copy(guesses = guesses, turn = other(seat)).withTerminalCheck()
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Writes down the code this seat will be guarding.
+     *
+     * The two players choose one after the other rather than at the same time,
+     * because the engine only ever has one seat on the clock. It costs nothing:
+     * neither can see the other's, so going second is not an advantage — and
+     * once both are down, the guessing starts with the player who set first.
+     */
+    private fun declare(
+        state: MastermindState,
+        seat: Int,
+        code: List<Int>,
+    ): MastermindState {
+        require(!state.declared[seat]) { "seat $seat has already set a code" }
+
+        val secrets = state.secrets.toMutableList()
+        secrets[seat] = code
+        val declared = state.declared.toMutableList()
+        declared[seat] = true
+
+        val ready = declared.all { it }
+        return state.copy(
+            secrets = secrets,
+            declared = declared,
+            phase = if (ready) MastermindPhase.GUESSING else MastermindPhase.SETTING,
+            turn = if (ready) FIRST_SEAT else other(seat),
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The game ends at the foot of a round, never in the middle of one.
+     *
+     * Both players have had the same number of guesses only when the turn has
+     * come back round to the opener, so that is the only place it is fair to
+     * compare them — otherwise opening would be worth half a guess.
+     */
+    private fun MastermindState.withTerminalCheck(): MastermindState {
+        if (turn != FIRST_SEAT) return this
+
+        val first = broke(FIRST_SEAT)
+        val second = broke(SECOND_SEAT)
+        val outcome = when {
+            first && second -> MastermindOutcome.DRAW_BOTH
+            first -> MastermindOutcome.FIRST_WINS
+            second -> MastermindOutcome.SECOND_WINS
+            guessesLeft(FIRST_SEAT) <= 0 && guessesLeft(SECOND_SEAT) <= 0 ->
+                MastermindOutcome.DRAW_NEITHER
+
+            else -> return this
+        }
+        return copy(phase = MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = outcome)
+    }
+
+    override fun isFinished(state: MastermindState): Boolean =
+        state.phase == MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER
+
+    override fun summary(state: MastermindState): String = state.outcome?.label ?: when {
+        state.phase == MastermindPhase.SETTING ->
+            "Setting the codes — ${state.declared.count { it }} of 2 chosen"
+
+        else -> "Guess ${state.guesses[state.turn].size + 1} of ${state.options.maxGuesses}"
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Strips out the code this seat is not entitled to see.
+     *
+     * A seat keeps its own code — they chose it, and they are guarding it — and
+     * loses the one they are trying to break. Whether the opponent has chosen
+     * yet is *not* stripped: that is not a secret, and a screen has to be able
+     * to say "waiting for them" rather than sitting blank.
+     *
+     * Once the game is finished both codes are shown: there is nothing left to
+     * protect, and a code breaker wants to see what they were up against.
+     */
+    override fun viewFor(state: MastermindState, seat: Int): MastermindState {
+        if (state.phase == MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER) return state
+        val secrets = state.secrets.mapIndexed { index, code ->
+            if (index == seat) code else emptyList()
+        }
+        return state.copy(secrets = secrets)
+    }
+
+    override fun encodeState(state: MastermindState): String = json.encodeToString(state)
+    override fun decodeState(json: String): MastermindState = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+    override fun encodeMove(move: MastermindMove): String = json.encodeToString(move)
+    override fun decodeMove(json: String): MastermindMove = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+
+    /** Codes still consistent with everything [seat] has been told so far. */
+    fun consistentCodes(state: MastermindState, seat: Int): List<List<Int>> {
+        val answers = state.guesses[seat]
+        return allCodes(state.options).filter { candidate ->
+            answers.all { scoreGuess(candidate, it.code) == it.feedback }
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/pirates/PiratesAi.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates
+
+import kotlin.random.Random
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameAi
+
+/**
+ * A negamax search with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening, over the
+ * same rules engine the game runs on.
+ *
+ * The interesting part of a hunt game is that the two sides want opposite
+ * shapes out of the same board, and one evaluation has to speak for both. The
+ * pirates want Bulgars gone and room to move; the Bulgars want to be many, to
+ * be forward, and above all not to be jumpable. The terms below are written
+ * from the Bulgars' side and negated for the pirates, so the two cannot drift
+ * apart and start valuing the same position differently.
+ */
+class PiratesAi(private val level: PiratesLevel? = null) : GameAi<PiratesState, PiratesMove> {
+
+    private var nodeBudget = 0
+    private var nodesUsed = 0
+
+    override fun chooseMove(state: PiratesState, seat: Int, legal: List<PiratesMove>): PiratesMove {
+        require(legal.isNotEmpty()) { "No legal move for seat $seat" }
+        val setting = level ?: state.options.level
+        if (legal.size == 1) return legal.first()
+
+        nodeBudget = NODE_BUDGET
+        nodesUsed = 0
+
+        val random = Random(state.moveLog.size * 31L + state.positionKey().hashCode())
+
+        var best = legal.first()
+        var scored = legal.map { it to 0 }
+
+        for (depth in 1..setting.depth) {
+            val results = mutableListOf<Pair<PiratesMove, Int>>()
+            val ordered = order(legal, preferred = best)
+            for (move in ordered) {
+                val score = -negamax(
+                    state = PiratesRules.advanced(state, move),
+                    depth = depth - 1,
+                    alpha = -INFINITY,
+                    beta = INFINITY,
+                    ply = 1,
+                )
+                results += move to score
+                if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget) break
+            }
+            if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget && results.size < ordered.size) break
+            scored = results
+            best = results.maxBy { it.second }.first
+        }
+
+        val bestScore = scored.maxOf { it.second }
+        val acceptable = scored.filter { it.second >= bestScore - setting.slack() }
+        return acceptable[random.nextInt(acceptable.size)].first
+    }
+
+    private fun PiratesLevel.slack(): Int = when (this) {
+        PiratesLevel.CASUAL -> 60
+        PiratesLevel.CLUB -> 15
+        PiratesLevel.STRONG -> 0
+    }
+
+    private fun negamax(state: PiratesState, depth: Int, alpha: Int, beta: Int, ply: Int): Int {
+        nodesUsed++
+
+        if (state.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER) {
+            return when (state.outcome) {
+                PiratesOutcome.DRAW_STALEMATE, null -> 0
+                // A finished game leaves the loser on the clock in two of the
+                // three endings; the third — the stronghold filled — is a win
+                // for the side that has just moved, so it is read off the
+                // outcome rather than assumed.
+                PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_STORM ->
+                    if (state.turn == BULGAR_SEAT) WIN - ply else -(WIN - ply)
+
+                else -> -(WIN - ply)
+            }
+        }
+        if (depth <= 0) return evaluate(state)
+
+        val moves = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+        if (moves.isEmpty()) return -(WIN - ply)
+
+        var localAlpha = alpha
+        for (move in order(moves, preferred = null)) {
+            val score = -negamax(
+                state = PiratesRules.advanced(state, move),
+                depth = depth - 1,
+                alpha = -beta,
+                beta = -localAlpha,
+                ply = ply + 1,
+            )
+            if (score >= beta) return beta
+            if (score > localAlpha) localAlpha = score
+            if (nodesUsed >= nodeBudget) break
+        }
+        return localAlpha
+    }
+
+    /** Captures first, then moves into the stronghold: the two things that change anything. */
+    private fun order(moves: List<PiratesMove>, preferred: PiratesMove?): List<PiratesMove> =
+        moves.sortedByDescending { move ->
+            when {
+                move == preferred -> 1_000
+                move.steps.size > 1 -> 200
+                isJumpFrom(move.from, move.steps.first()) -> 100
+                isStronghold(move.to) -> 20
+                else -> 0
+            }
+        }
+
+    /** The position from the point of view of the side to move. */
+    private fun evaluate(state: PiratesState): Int {
+        var bulgarView = 0
+
+        bulgarView += state.count(BULGAR_SEAT) * BULGAR
+        bulgarView += state.stronghold() * IN_STRONGHOLD
+
+        // How far up the board the crowd has come. The stronghold is at the
+        // top, so a low row number is ground gained.
+        for (point in 0 until POINTS) {
+            if (state.board[point] != BULGAR_SEAT) continue
+            bulgarView += (GRID - 1 - rowOf(point)) * ADVANCE
+            // A Bulgar with an empty point directly behind it on a line is one
+            // a pirate can jump. Being unjumpable is most of staying alive.
+            if (isExposed(state, point)) bulgarView -= EXPOSED
+        }
+
+        // Room for the pirates to work in, which is what the Bulgars are
+        // slowly taking away.
+        bulgarView -= pirateMobility(state) * PIRATE_ROOM
+
+        return if (state.turn == BULGAR_SEAT) bulgarView else -bulgarView
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether a pirate could jump this Bulgar: a pirate on one side of it along
+     * a line, and an empty point on the other.
+     */
+    private fun isExposed(state: PiratesState, point: Int): Boolean {
+        for (neighbour in ADJACENCY[point]) {
+            if (state.board[neighbour] != PIRATE_SEAT) continue
+            val landing = pointAt(
+                rowOf(point) + (rowOf(point) - rowOf(neighbour)),
+                columnOf(point) + (columnOf(point) - columnOf(neighbour)),
+            ) ?: continue
+            if (landing in ADJACENCY[point] && state.board[landing] == null) return true
+        }
+        return false
+    }
+
+    private fun pirateMobility(state: PiratesState): Int =
+        (0 until POINTS)
+            .filter { state.board[it] == PIRATE_SEAT }
+            .sumOf { point -> ADJACENCY[point].count { state.board[it] == null } }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val INFINITY = 1_000_000
+        const val WIN = 100_000
+        const val NODE_BUDGET = 150_000
+
+        const val BULGAR = 100
+        const val IN_STRONGHOLD = 55
+        const val ADVANCE = 4
+        const val EXPOSED = 22
+        const val PIRATE_ROOM = 3
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/pirates/PiratesModel.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+
+/**
+ * Dalmatian Pirates and the Volga Bulgars — Sid Sackson's name for the hunt
+ * game usually called **Asalto**, and before that a cousin of Fox and Geese.
+ *
+ * Two pirates hold a stronghold at the head of a cross-shaped board. Twenty-four
+ * Bulgars come at it from the other three arms, and cannot take anything: their
+ * whole method is weight of numbers. The pirates cannot be driven off by force
+ * either — they are taken only by being penned in — so each side is trying to
+ * do something the other cannot do back.
+ *
+ * See RULES-pirates.md, which is honest about which parts of this are attested
+ * and which had to be chosen: the book the theme comes from could not be
+ * obtained, so the mechanics here are Asalto's.
+ *
+ * The board is a seven-by-seven grid with the four corners cut away, leaving
+ * thirty-three points. Points are numbered in reading order.
+ */
+const val GRID = 7
+
+/** True where the cross-shaped board has a point at all. */
+fun isOnBoard(row: Int, column: Int): Boolean =
+    row in 0 until GRID && column in 0 until GRID && (row in 2..4 || column in 2..4)
+
+/** The thirty-three points, in reading order. */
+val CELLS: List<Pair<Int, Int>> = (0 until GRID).flatMap { row ->
+    (0 until GRID).mapNotNull { column -> (row to column).takeIf { isOnBoard(row, column) } }
+}
+
+val POINTS = CELLS.size
+
+fun rowOf(point: Int): Int = CELLS[point].first
+
+fun columnOf(point: Int): Int = CELLS[point].second
+
+fun pointAt(row: Int, column: Int): Int? =
+    if (isOnBoard(row, column)) CELLS.indexOf(row to column).takeIf { it >= 0 } else null
+
+/**
+ * The stronghold: the nine points of the top arm.
+ *
+ * Twenty-four points are left outside it, which is exactly the number of
+ * Bulgars — the board and the pieces are cut to each other, and the game opens
+ * with every point occupied but the seven the pirates are not standing on.
+ */
+val STRONGHOLD: List<Int> = (0 until POINTS).filter { rowOf(it) <= 2 && columnOf(it) in 2..4 }
+
+fun isStronghold(point: Int): Boolean = point in STRONGHOLD
+
+/**
+ * The lines drawn on the board.
+ *
+ * Orthogonal neighbours are always joined. Diagonals are drawn only where the
+ * row and column add to an even number, which is the pattern printed on every
+ * board of this family — it is why the centre of the board has eight lines out
+ * of it and the point beside it has four.
+ */
+val ADJACENCY: List<List<Int>> = (0 until POINTS).map { point ->
+    val row = rowOf(point)
+    val column = columnOf(point)
+    val steps = if ((row + column) % 2 == 0) {
+        listOf(0 to 1, 0 to -1, 1 to 0, -1 to 0, 1 to 1, 1 to -1, -1 to 1, -1 to -1)
+    } else {
+        listOf(0 to 1, 0 to -1, 1 to 0, -1 to 0)
+    }
+    steps.mapNotNull { (rowStep, columnStep) -> pointAt(row + rowStep, column + columnStep) }
+}
+
+/** Seat 0 is the crowd, seat 1 the pair. */
+const val BULGAR_SEAT = 0
+const val PIRATE_SEAT = 1
+
+fun other(seat: Int): Int = 1 - seat
+
+fun seatName(seat: Int): String = if (seat == BULGAR_SEAT) "the Bulgars" else "the pirates"
+
+/** The point's name: files a–g left to right, ranks 7–1 top to bottom. */
+fun pointName(point: Int): String = "${'a' + columnOf(point)}${GRID - rowOf(point)}"
+
+fun pointFromName(name: String): Int? =
+    pointAt(GRID - (name[1] - '0'), name[0] - 'a')
+
+@Serializable
+enum class PiratesPhase { PLAYING, GAME_OVER }
+
+@Serializable
+enum class PiratesOutcome(val label: String) {
+    BULGARS_STORM("The Bulgars win — the stronghold is full of them"),
+    BULGARS_PEN_IN("The Bulgars win — the pirates have nowhere left to go"),
+    PIRATES_CUT_DOWN("The pirates win — too few Bulgars are left to fill the stronghold"),
+    DRAW_STALEMATE("A draw — neither side has got anywhere in a long time"),
+}
+
+/** How hard the computer thinks about it. */
+@Serializable
+enum class PiratesLevel(val label: String, val depth: Int) {
+    CASUAL("Casual", depth = 2),
+    CLUB("Club", depth = 4),
+    STRONG("Strong", depth = 6),
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class PiratesOptions(
+    val level: PiratesLevel = PiratesLevel.CLUB,
+    /**
+     * A pirate who can take must take. The traditional way of enforcing this is
+     * *huffing* — the other player removes a pirate that failed to capture —
+     * which is the same rule with an extra step and a way to forget to use it.
+     */
+    val captureIsCompulsory: Boolean = true,
+    /**
+     * Bulgars may not retreat: they move towards the stronghold or across, and
+     * never back down the board. Turning this off makes them far harder to
+     * pin, and much less like the game.
+     */
+    val bulgarsMayNotRetreat: Boolean = true,
+    /** Plies with nothing taken and no ground gained before it is called a draw. */
+    val plyLimitWithoutProgress: Int = 60,
+)
+
+/**
+ * A move: where a piece started and where it landed, one entry per hop.
+ *
+ * A Bulgar's move is always a single step. A pirate's may be a chain of jumps,
+ * which is one turn and one move object — a capture cannot be abandoned
+ * halfway.
+ */
+@Serializable
+data class PiratesMove(val from: Int, val steps: List<Int>) {
+    val to: Int get() = steps.last()
+
+    override fun toString(): String {
+        val separator = if (steps.size > 1 || isJumpFrom(from, steps.first())) "x" else "-"
+        return (listOf(from) + steps).joinToString(separator) { pointName(it) }
+    }
+}
+
+/** Whether two points are a jump apart: two steps along one line. */
+fun isJumpFrom(from: Int, to: Int): Boolean = jumpedBetween(from, to) != null
+
+/** The point hopped over, or null when the two are not two steps apart on a line. */
+fun jumpedBetween(from: Int, to: Int): Int? {
+    val rowStep = rowOf(to) - rowOf(from)
+    val columnStep = columnOf(to) - columnOf(from)
+    if (kotlin.math.abs(rowStep) > 2 || kotlin.math.abs(columnStep) > 2) return null
+    if (kotlin.math.abs(rowStep) != 2 && kotlin.math.abs(columnStep) != 2) return null
+    // A jump must be along a line, so the two halves have to be steps of one.
+    if (rowStep % 2 != 0 || columnStep % 2 != 0) return null
+    val middle = pointAt(rowOf(from) + rowStep / 2, columnOf(from) + columnStep / 2) ?: return null
+    return middle.takeIf { middle in ADJACENCY[from] && to in ADJACENCY[middle] }
+}
+
+@Serializable
+data class PiratesState(
+    val options: PiratesOptions,
+    /** Thirty-three points; null is empty, otherwise the seat standing there. */
+    val board: List<Int?>,
+    val turn: Int,
+    val phase: PiratesPhase,
+    val outcome: PiratesOutcome?,
+    val lastMove: PiratesMove?,
+    /** Plies since a pirate took something or a Bulgar entered the stronghold. */
+    val pliesSinceProgress: Int,
+    val moveLog: List<String>,
+) {
+    fun count(seat: Int): Int = board.count { it == seat }
+
+    /** How many of the stronghold's nine points the Bulgars are standing on. */
+    fun stronghold(): Int = STRONGHOLD.count { board[it] == BULGAR_SEAT }
+
+    fun positionKey(): String = buildString {
+        for (point in 0 until POINTS) {
+            append(
+                when (board[point]) {
+                    BULGAR_SEAT -> 'b'
+                    PIRATE_SEAT -> 'P'
+                    else -> '.'
+                }
+            )
+        }
+        append(' ').append(turn)
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The opening array: Bulgars on every point outside the stronghold, and the two
+ * pirates on the stronghold's back corners — the deepest points they have, and
+ * the ones a Bulgar has to come furthest to reach.
+ */
+fun startingBoard(): List<Int?> {
+    val board = arrayOfNulls<Int>(POINTS)
+    (0 until POINTS).forEach { point ->
+        if (!isStronghold(point)) board[point] = BULGAR_SEAT
+    }
+    val corners = STRONGHOLD.filter { rowOf(it) == 0 && columnOf(it) != 3 }
+    corners.forEach { board[it] = PIRATE_SEAT }
+    return board.toList()
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/pirates/PiratesRules.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates
+
+import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.GameCatalog
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.GameRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.TableConfig
+
+/**
+ * Pirates and Bulgars — Asalto — as a pure state machine. See RULES-pirates.md.
+ *
+ * The two sides do not play the same game, and almost every line here is one
+ * side or the other rather than both. Pirates go anywhere along a line and take
+ * by jumping, in chains, compulsorily. Bulgars go one step and never backwards,
+ * and cannot take anything at all: they win by arriving.
+ *
+ * That asymmetry is the reason the win conditions are counted rather than
+ * shared. Bulgars win by filling the stronghold or by leaving the pirates
+ * nowhere to go; pirates win by cutting the Bulgars below the nine it takes to
+ * fill it — at which point the attack cannot succeed however long it goes on.
+ */
+object PiratesRules : GameRules<PiratesState, PiratesMove> {
+
+    override val gameId: String = GameCatalog.PIRATES
+
+    private val json = Json {
+        ignoreUnknownKeys = true
+        encodeDefaults = true
+    }
+
+    override fun initialState(config: TableConfig): PiratesState {
+        require(config.seats.size == 2) { "Pirates and Bulgars is a two-handed game" }
+        val options = json.decodeFromString<PiratesOptions>(config.optionsJson)
+        return initialState(options)
+    }
+
+    fun initialState(options: PiratesOptions = PiratesOptions()): PiratesState = PiratesState(
+        options = options,
+        board = startingBoard(),
+        // The attackers move first: the pirates are already where they want to be.
+        turn = BULGAR_SEAT,
+        phase = PiratesPhase.PLAYING,
+        outcome = null,
+        lastMove = null,
+        pliesSinceProgress = 0,
+        moveLog = emptyList(),
+    )
+
+    override fun currentSeat(state: PiratesState): Int? =
+        if (state.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER) null else state.turn
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moves
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    fun legalMoves(state: PiratesState): List<PiratesMove> = legalMoves(state, state.turn)
+
+    override fun legalMoves(state: PiratesState, seat: Int): List<PiratesMove> {
+        if (state.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER || state.turn != seat) return emptyList()
+        val mine = (0 until POINTS).filter { state.board[it] == seat }
+
+        if (seat == PIRATE_SEAT) {
+            val jumps = mine.flatMap { from ->
+                val board = state.board.toMutableList()
+                board[from] = null
+                jumpsFrom(board, from).map { PiratesMove(from = from, steps = it) }
+            }
+            // A pirate who can take must take — the rule huffing exists to
+            // enforce, applied directly.
+            if (jumps.isNotEmpty() && state.options.captureIsCompulsory) return jumps
+
+            val steps = mine.flatMap { from ->
+                ADJACENCY[from].filter { state.board[it] == null }
+                    .map { PiratesMove(from = from, steps = listOf(it)) }
+            }
+            return jumps + steps
+        }
+
+        return mine.flatMap { from ->
+            ADJACENCY[from]
+                .filter { state.board[it] == null && bulgarMayGo(state, from, it) }
+                .map { PiratesMove(from = from, steps = listOf(it)) }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether a Bulgar may make this step.
+     *
+     * They press towards the stronghold and never retreat, which is what makes
+     * the attack a commitment: a Bulgar that walks past a gap cannot come back
+     * for it. The stronghold is at the top of the board, so "forwards" is up
+     * the rows and "across" is along one.
+     */
+    private fun bulgarMayGo(state: PiratesState, from: Int, to: Int): Boolean {
+        if (!state.options.bulgarsMayNotRetreat) return true
+        return rowOf(to) <= rowOf(from)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Every complete chain of jumps from [at], as lists of landing points.
+     *
+     * [board] arrives with the jumping pirate already lifted, and is mutated as
+     * the search recurses so a Bulgar cannot be jumped twice in one turn. A
+     * chain only ends where no further jump exists, so a shorter prefix of a
+     * longer capture is never offered on its own.
+     */
+    private fun jumpsFrom(board: MutableList<Int?>, at: Int): List<List<Int>> {
+        val sequences = mutableListOf<List<Int>>()
+
+        for (over in ADJACENCY[at]) {
+            if (board[over] != BULGAR_SEAT) continue
+            val landing = beyond(at, over) ?: continue
+            if (board[landing] != null) continue
+
+            board[over] = null
+            val continuations = jumpsFrom(board, landing)
+            board[over] = BULGAR_SEAT
+
+            if (continuations.isEmpty()) {
+                sequences += listOf(landing)
+            } else {
+                continuations.forEach { sequences += listOf(landing) + it }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return sequences
+    }
+
+    /** The point directly past [over] as seen from [from], if the line runs on. */
+    private fun beyond(from: Int, over: Int): Int? {
+        val landing = pointAt(
+            rowOf(over) + (rowOf(over) - rowOf(from)),
+            columnOf(over) + (columnOf(over) - columnOf(from)),
+        ) ?: return null
+        return landing.takeIf { it in ADJACENCY[over] }
+    }
+
+    override fun applyMove(state: PiratesState, seat: Int, move: PiratesMove): PiratesState {
+        require(state.phase != PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER) { "The game is over" }
+        require(state.turn == seat) { "It is not seat $seat's turn" }
+        require(move in legalMoves(state, seat)) { "Illegal move $move for seat $seat" }
+
+        return make(state, seat, move)
+            .copy(moveLog = state.moveLog + "${seatName(seat)}: $move")
+            .withTerminalCheck(includeDraws = true)
+    }
+
+    /** The position after [move] with the draw clock left off, for the search. */
+    fun advanced(state: PiratesState, move: PiratesMove): PiratesState =
+        make(state, state.turn, move).withTerminalCheck(includeDraws = false)
+
+    private fun make(state: PiratesState, seat: Int, move: PiratesMove): PiratesState {
+        val board = state.board.toMutableList()
+        board[move.from] = null
+
+        var taken = 0
+        var at = move.from
+        for (landing in move.steps) {
+            jumpedBetween(at, landing)?.let { over ->
+                if (board[over] != null) {
+                    board[over] = null
+                    taken++
+                }
+            }
+            at = landing
+        }
+        board[move.to] = seat
+
+        // Progress is a pirate taking somebody, or a Bulgar getting into the
+        // stronghold. Everything else is the two sides circling each other.
+        val before = state.stronghold()
+        val next = state.copy(board = board, turn = other(seat), lastMove = move)
+        val gained = next.stronghold() > before
+
+        return next.copy(
+            pliesSinceProgress = if (taken > 0 || gained) 0 else state.pliesSinceProgress + 1,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the game has ended.
+     *
+     * Order matters. Filling the stronghold is checked first because it is an
+     * arrival rather than an absence — a board where the Bulgars have just
+     * walked into the last square is a Bulgar win even if the pirates have also
+     * run out of moves on it.
+     */
+    private fun PiratesState.withTerminalCheck(includeDraws: Boolean): PiratesState {
+        if (stronghold() == STRONGHOLD.size) {
+            return copy(phase = PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_STORM)
+        }
+
+        // Too few Bulgars left to fill it, so the assault can never succeed
+        // however long the game runs.
+        if (count(BULGAR_SEAT) < STRONGHOLD.size) {
+            return copy(phase = PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = PiratesOutcome.PIRATES_CUT_DOWN)
+        }
+
+        // Whoever is on the clock with nothing to play has lost — which for the
+        // pirates is being penned in, and for the Bulgars means they have run
+        // themselves out of forward moves.
+        if (legalMoves(this, turn).isEmpty()) {
+            return copy(
+                phase = PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER,
+                outcome = if (turn == PIRATE_SEAT) {
+                    PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_PEN_IN
+                } else {
+                    PiratesOutcome.PIRATES_CUT_DOWN
+                },
+            )
+        }
+
+        if (!includeDraws) return this
+
+        if (options.plyLimitWithoutProgress > 0 &&
+            pliesSinceProgress >= options.plyLimitWithoutProgress
+        ) {
+            return copy(phase = PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = PiratesOutcome.DRAW_STALEMATE)
+        }
+
+        return this
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Engine contract
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    override fun isFinished(state: PiratesState): Boolean = state.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER
+
+    override fun summary(state: PiratesState): String = state.outcome?.label ?: buildString {
+        append(if (state.turn == BULGAR_SEAT) "The Bulgars" else "The pirates")
+        append(" to move · ")
+        append("${state.stronghold()} of ${STRONGHOLD.size} in the stronghold, ")
+        append("${state.count(BULGAR_SEAT)} Bulgars left")
+    }
+
+    /** Nothing is hidden: the whole board is on the table. */
+    override fun viewFor(state: PiratesState, seat: Int): PiratesState = state
+
+    override fun encodeState(state: PiratesState): String = json.encodeToString(state)
+    override fun decodeState(json: String): PiratesState = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+    override fun encodeMove(move: PiratesMove): String = json.encodeToString(move)
+    override fun decodeMove(json: String): PiratesMove = this.json.decodeFromString(json)
+
+    /** Leaf nodes at [depth], as a check on the move generator. */
+    fun perft(state: PiratesState, depth: Int): Long {
+        if (depth == 0) return 1L
+        val moves = legalMoves(state)
+        if (depth == 1) return moves.size.toLong()
+        return moves.sumOf { move ->
+            val next = advanced(state, move)
+            if (next.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER) 1L else perft(next, depth - 1)
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/GameSetupScreen.kt

@@ -30,14 +30,22 @@ import org.prolibertate.games.game.GameDescriptor
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.PlayerKind
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.PlayerSlot
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.engine.TableConfig
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonLevel
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonOptions
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersLevel
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.chess.ChessLevel
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.chess.ChessOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.crazyeights.CrazyEightsOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.euchre.EuchreOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.golf.GolfOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.kaiser.KaiserOptions
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindLevel
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisLevel
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisOptions
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesLevel
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.president.PresidentOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.sequence.SequenceOptions
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.tayu.TayuLevel
@@ -74,9 +82,16 @@ fun GameSetupScreen(
     var chess by remember { mutableStateOf(ChessOptions()) }
     var tayu by remember { mutableStateOf(TayuOptions()) }
     var morris by remember { mutableStateOf(MorrisOptions()) }
+    var checkers by remember { mutableStateOf(CheckersOptions()) }
+    var backgammon by remember { mutableStateOf(BackgammonOptions()) }
+    var mastermind by remember { mutableStateOf(MastermindOptions()) }
+    var pirates by remember { mutableStateOf(PiratesOptions()) }
     // Not an engine option: which seat the local player takes. Seat 0 is
     // always White, so choosing Black means sitting in seat 1.
     var playWhite by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
+    // Pirates and Bulgars is not symmetrical, so which side you take is the
+    // first thing about the game rather than a detail of it.
+    var playPirates by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
 
     val optionsJson = when (descriptor.id) {
         GameCatalog.EUCHRE -> setupJson.encodeToString(euchre)
@@ -89,6 +104,10 @@ fun GameSetupScreen(
         GameCatalog.CHESS -> setupJson.encodeToString(chess)
         GameCatalog.TAYU -> setupJson.encodeToString(tayu)
         GameCatalog.MORRIS -> setupJson.encodeToString(morris)
+        GameCatalog.CHECKERS -> setupJson.encodeToString(checkers)
+        GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON -> setupJson.encodeToString(backgammon)
+        GameCatalog.MASTERMIND -> setupJson.encodeToString(mastermind)
+        GameCatalog.PIRATES -> setupJson.encodeToString(pirates)
         else -> "{}"
     }
     val seatCount = seatCountFor(descriptor.id, optionsJson)
@@ -125,6 +144,19 @@ fun GameSetupScreen(
 
                 GameCatalog.MORRIS -> MorrisOptionsEditor(morris) { morris = it }
 
+                GameCatalog.CHECKERS -> CheckersOptionsEditor(checkers) { checkers = it }
+
+                GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON -> BackgammonOptionsEditor(backgammon) { backgammon = it }
+
+                GameCatalog.MASTERMIND -> MastermindOptionsEditor(mastermind) { mastermind = it }
+
+                GameCatalog.PIRATES -> PiratesOptionsEditor(
+                    options = pirates,
+                    playPirates = playPirates,
+                    onChange = { pirates = it },
+                    onSide = { playPirates = it },
+                )
+
                 else -> Text("No options yet for this game.")
             }
 
@@ -137,9 +169,14 @@ fun GameSetupScreen(
                 style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
             )
 
-            // Chess is the only game so far where the local player picks a
-            // seat rather than always taking the first one.
-            val localSeat = if (descriptor.id == GameCatalog.CHESS && !playWhite) 1 else 0
+            // Two games let the local player pick a seat rather than always
+            // taking the first one: chess by colour, and Pirates and Bulgars by
+            // which side of a very lopsided fight they fancy.
+            val localSeat = when {
+                descriptor.id == GameCatalog.CHESS && !playWhite -> 1
+                descriptor.id == GameCatalog.PIRATES && playPirates -> 1
+                else -> 0
+            }
             PrimaryAction(text = "Play against the computer") {
                 onPlayOffline(
                     offlineConfig(descriptor.id, optionsJson, seatCount, playerName, localSeat),
@@ -202,7 +239,8 @@ fun seatCountFor(gameId: String, optionsJson: String): Int {
             GameCatalog.WIZARD ->
                 setupJson.decodeFromString<WizardOptions>(optionsJson).playerCount
 
-            GameCatalog.CHESS, GameCatalog.MORRIS -> 2
+            GameCatalog.CHESS, GameCatalog.MORRIS, GameCatalog.CHECKERS,
+            GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON, GameCatalog.MASTERMIND, GameCatalog.PIRATES -> 2
 
             GameCatalog.TAYU ->
                 setupJson.decodeFromString<TayuOptions>(optionsJson).playerCount
@@ -537,6 +575,178 @@ private fun ChessOptionsEditor(
     }
 }
 
+@Composable
+private fun CheckersOptionsEditor(options: CheckersOptions, onChange: (CheckersOptions) -> Unit) {
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Opponent",
+            values = CheckersLevel.entries.toList(),
+            selected = options.level,
+            display = { it.label },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(level = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Flying kings",
+            subtitle = "A king slides the length of a diagonal and takes from a distance, " +
+                "as in the international game",
+            checked = options.flyingKings,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(flyingKings = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Crowning ends the turn",
+            subtitle = "A man jumping into the back row stops there. Turn this off and it " +
+                "carries on jumping as a man",
+            checked = options.crowningEndsTheTurn,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(crowningEndsTheTurn = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Threefold repetition",
+            subtitle = "The same position three times over is a draw",
+            checked = options.threefoldRepetition,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(threefoldRepetition = it)) },
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "Captures are always compulsory, and a multiple jump is one turn — " +
+                "there is no version of this game where you may stop halfway.",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun BackgammonOptionsEditor(
+    options: BackgammonOptions,
+    onChange: (BackgammonOptions) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Opponent",
+            values = BackgammonLevel.entries.toList(),
+            selected = options.level,
+            display = { it.label },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(level = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Count gammons",
+            subtitle = "A loser who bore nothing off has lost double, and one still on the " +
+                "bar has lost treble",
+            checked = options.countGammons,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(countGammons = it)) },
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "One game rather than a match, and no doubling cube: there is nothing " +
+                "to double when nothing is being kept.",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun MastermindOptionsEditor(
+    options: MastermindOptions,
+    onChange: (MastermindOptions) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Opponent",
+            values = MastermindLevel.entries.toList(),
+            selected = options.level,
+            display = { it.label },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(level = it)) },
+        )
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Colours",
+            values = listOf(6, 8),
+            selected = options.colours,
+            display = { "$it" },
+            onSelect = { colours ->
+                onChange(
+                    options.copy(
+                        colours = colours,
+                        // A code of distinct colours cannot be longer than the
+                        // number of colours there are.
+                        length = if (options.allowDuplicates) {
+                            options.length
+                        } else {
+                            options.length.coerceAtMost(colours)
+                        },
+                    )
+                )
+            },
+        )
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Pegs",
+            values = listOf(3, 4, 5),
+            selected = options.length,
+            display = { "$it" },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(length = it)) },
+        )
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Guesses each",
+            values = listOf(8, 10, 12),
+            selected = options.maxGuesses,
+            display = { "$it" },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(maxGuesses = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Repeated colours",
+            subtitle = "A colour may appear more than once in the code",
+            checked = options.allowDuplicates,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(allowDuplicates = it)) },
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "${options.codeSpace()} possible codes. Both players are set one and " +
+                "both are breaking one, so cracking it in the same round as your " +
+                "opponent is a draw.",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun PiratesOptionsEditor(
+    options: PiratesOptions,
+    playPirates: Boolean,
+    onChange: (PiratesOptions) -> Unit,
+    onSide: (Boolean) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "You play",
+            values = listOf(false, true),
+            selected = playPirates,
+            display = { if (it) "the two pirates" else "the twenty-four Bulgars" },
+            onSelect = onSide,
+        )
+        ChipRow(
+            label = "Opponent",
+            values = PiratesLevel.entries.toList(),
+            selected = options.level,
+            display = { it.label },
+            onSelect = { onChange(options.copy(level = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "A pirate who can take must take",
+            subtitle = "The rule that huffing exists to enforce, applied directly",
+            checked = options.captureIsCompulsory,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(captureIsCompulsory = it)) },
+        )
+        ToggleRow(
+            title = "Bulgars may not retreat",
+            subtitle = "They press towards the stronghold or across, and never back",
+            checked = options.bulgarsMayNotRetreat,
+            onChange = { onChange(options.copy(bulgarsMayNotRetreat = it)) },
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "The two sides are not playing the same game. The pirates take by " +
+                "jumping and win by cutting the Bulgars below the nine it takes to fill " +
+                "the stronghold; the Bulgars cannot take anything at all, and win by " +
+                "filling it or by leaving the pirates nowhere to go.",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
 @Composable
 private fun MorrisOptionsEditor(options: MorrisOptions, onChange: (MorrisOptions) -> Unit) {
     Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/PlayScreen.kt

@@ -31,10 +31,26 @@ import org.prolibertate.games.game.kaiser.KaiserMove
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.kaiser.KaiserPhase
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.kaiser.KaiserRules
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.kaiser.KaiserState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonAi
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersAi
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindAi
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindState
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisAi
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisMove
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisRules
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.morris.MorrisState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesAi
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesState
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.president.PresidentAi
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.president.PresidentMove
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.president.PresidentPhase
@@ -55,12 +71,16 @@ import org.prolibertate.games.game.wizard.WizardRules
 import org.prolibertate.games.game.wizard.WizardState
 import org.prolibertate.games.net.MatchController
 import org.prolibertate.games.settings.Settings
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.BackgammonScreen
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.CheckersScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.ChessScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.CrazyEightsScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.EuchreScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.GolfScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.KaiserScreen
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.MastermindScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.MorrisScreen
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.PiratesScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.PresidentScreen
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.TRICK_HOLD_MILLIS
 import org.prolibertate.games.ui.game.SequenceScreen
@@ -307,6 +327,76 @@ fun PlayScreen(
             TayuScreen(controller = controller, localSeat = route.localSeat, onExit = onExit)
         }
 
+        GameCatalog.CHECKERS -> {
+            val controller = remember(route) {
+                MatchController<CheckersState, CheckersMove>(
+                    rules = CheckersRules,
+                    ai = CheckersAi(),
+                    config = route.config,
+                    scope = scope,
+                    role = role,
+                    localSeats = setOf(route.localSeat),
+                    primarySeat = route.localSeat,
+                    aiThinkingMillis = { settings.scaled(250L) },
+                )
+            }
+            StartMatch(env, controller, route)
+            CheckersScreen(controller = controller, localSeat = route.localSeat, onExit = onExit)
+        }
+
+        GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON -> {
+            val controller = remember(route) {
+                MatchController<BackgammonState, BackgammonMove>(
+                    rules = BackgammonRules,
+                    ai = BackgammonAi(),
+                    config = route.config,
+                    scope = scope,
+                    role = role,
+                    localSeats = setOf(route.localSeat),
+                    primarySeat = route.localSeat,
+                    // A checker at a time, so the pause is per checker rather
+                    // than per turn — half of it, or a double would take an age.
+                    aiThinkingMillis = { settings.scaled(350L) },
+                )
+            }
+            StartMatch(env, controller, route)
+            BackgammonScreen(controller = controller, localSeat = route.localSeat, onExit = onExit)
+        }
+
+        GameCatalog.MASTERMIND -> {
+            val controller = remember(route) {
+                MatchController<MastermindState, MastermindMove>(
+                    rules = MastermindRules,
+                    ai = MastermindAi(),
+                    config = route.config,
+                    scope = scope,
+                    role = role,
+                    localSeats = setOf(route.localSeat),
+                    primarySeat = route.localSeat,
+                    aiThinkingMillis = { settings.scaled(900L) },
+                )
+            }
+            StartMatch(env, controller, route)
+            MastermindScreen(controller = controller, localSeat = route.localSeat, onExit = onExit)
+        }
+
+        GameCatalog.PIRATES -> {
+            val controller = remember(route) {
+                MatchController<PiratesState, PiratesMove>(
+                    rules = PiratesRules,
+                    ai = PiratesAi(),
+                    config = route.config,
+                    scope = scope,
+                    role = role,
+                    localSeats = setOf(route.localSeat),
+                    primarySeat = route.localSeat,
+                    aiThinkingMillis = { settings.scaled(250L) },
+                )
+            }
+            StartMatch(env, controller, route)
+            PiratesScreen(controller = controller, localSeat = route.localSeat, onExit = onExit)
+        }
+
         GameCatalog.MORRIS -> {
             val controller = remember(route) {
                 MatchController<MorrisState, MorrisMove>(

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/game/BackgammonScreen.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,419 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.ui.game
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.background
+import androidx.compose.foundation.border
+import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.BoxWithConstraints
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxHeight
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
+import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.collectAsState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.sp
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BAR
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonPhase
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.CHECKERS
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.WHITE_SEAT
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.other
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.seatName
+import org.prolibertate.games.net.MatchController
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.ScreenScaffold
+
+private val BoardField = Color(0xFF7A5230)
+private val PointLight = Color(0xFFE8CFA9)
+private val PointDark = Color(0xFF9C3B2E)
+private val WhiteChecker = Color(0xFFF7F2E7)
+private val BlackChecker = Color(0xFF23201C)
+private val CheckerEdge = Color(0x66000000)
+private val SelectedPoint = Color(0x8830C030)
+private val TargetPoint = Color(0x66FFC107)
+
+/**
+ * The backgammon board, drawn as two banks of twelve points with the bar down
+ * the middle.
+ *
+ * Tap a point to pick a checker up and tap where it goes; if there is only one
+ * thing that checker can do, tapping it plays it. The dice left to play are
+ * shown above the board and go out as they are used.
+ *
+ * Points are drawn in the engine's own numbering — 1 to 24 with White running
+ * down — rather than being flipped for whoever is sitting there. A backgammon
+ * board is symmetrical and both players read the same numbers off it.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun BackgammonScreen(
+    controller: MatchController<BackgammonState, BackgammonMove>,
+    localSeat: Int,
+    onExit: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val state by controller.state.collectAsState()
+    val legal by controller.legalMoves.collectAsState()
+    val abandoned by controller.abandoned.collectAsState()
+
+    var selected by remember { mutableStateOf<Int?>(null) }
+    var confirmingEnd by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+
+    val endGameAction: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+        TextButton(onClick = { confirmingEnd = true }) { Text("End game") }
+    }
+
+    val current = state
+    if (current == null) {
+        ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+            Box(modifier, contentAlignment = Alignment.Center) { Text("Setting up…") }
+            abandoned?.let { LeftBoardDialog(it, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned) }
+            if (confirmingEnd) LeaveDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+        }
+        return
+    }
+
+    val fromSelected = legal.filter { it.from == selected }
+    val targets = fromSelected.mapNotNull { move ->
+        org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonRules
+            .destinationOf(current.turn, move.from, move.die)
+    }.toSet()
+
+    val onPointTapped: (Int) -> Unit = { point ->
+        val landing = fromSelected.firstOrNull { move ->
+            org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon.BackgammonRules
+                .destinationOf(current.turn, move.from, move.die) == point
+        }
+        when {
+            landing != null -> {
+                controller.submit(landing)
+                selected = null
+            }
+
+            legal.any { it.from == point } -> {
+                val fromHere = legal.filter { it.from == point }
+                // Nothing to choose between means nothing to ask about.
+                if (fromHere.size == 1) {
+                    controller.submit(fromHere.single())
+                    selected = null
+                } else {
+                    selected = point
+                }
+            }
+
+            else -> selected = null
+        }
+    }
+
+    ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+        Column(modifier = modifier, verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp)) {
+            Status(current, localSeat)
+            DiceRow(current)
+
+            BoxWithConstraints(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().weight(1f)) {
+                val boardWidth = minOf(maxWidth, maxHeight * 1.25f)
+                Board(
+                    state = current,
+                    width = boardWidth,
+                    height = minOf(maxHeight, boardWidth * 0.8f),
+                    selected = selected,
+                    targets = targets,
+                    onTap = onPointTapped,
+                )
+            }
+
+            OffAndBar(current, localSeat) { onPointTapped(BAR) }
+        }
+
+        val over = abandoned
+        when {
+            over != null -> LeftBoardDialog(over, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned)
+            confirmingEnd -> LeaveDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+            current.phase == BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER -> ResultDialog(current, onExit)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private const val TITLE = "Backgammon"
+
+@Composable
+private fun Status(state: BackgammonState, localSeat: Int) {
+    val yours = state.turn == localSeat && state.phase == BackgammonPhase.PLAYING
+    Column {
+        Text(
+            text = state.outcome?.label ?: when {
+                yours && state.bar[localSeat] > 0 -> "Come in off the bar"
+                yours -> "Your roll to play"
+                else -> "Thinking…"
+            },
+            fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "You play ${seatName(localSeat)} · " +
+                "${state.pipCount(localSeat)} pips against ${state.pipCount(other(localSeat))}",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/** The dice, with the ones already played greyed out rather than removed. */
+@Composable
+private fun DiceRow(state: BackgammonState) {
+    val left = state.dice.toMutableList()
+    val shown = if (state.roll.size == 2 && state.roll[0] == state.roll[1]) {
+        List(4) { state.roll[0] }
+    } else {
+        state.roll
+    }
+    Row(horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp)) {
+        shown.forEach { die ->
+            val unplayed = left.remove(die)
+            Box(
+                modifier = Modifier
+                    .size(30.dp)
+                    .background(if (unplayed) PointLight else Color(0x33808080))
+                    .border(1.dp, CheckerEdge),
+                contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+            ) {
+                Text(
+                    text = "$die",
+                    color = Color(0xFF23201C),
+                    fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Board(
+    state: BackgammonState,
+    width: Dp,
+    height: Dp,
+    selected: Int?,
+    targets: Set<Int>,
+    onTap: (Int) -> Unit,
+) {
+    val columnWidth = width / 13
+    val bankHeight = height / 2
+
+    Column(modifier = Modifier.width(width).height(height).background(BoardField)) {
+        // The top bank runs 13 to 24 left to right, the bottom 12 down to 1 —
+        // the standard layout, with White's home at the bottom right.
+        Bank(
+            points = (12..23).toList(),
+            state = state,
+            columnWidth = columnWidth,
+            bankHeight = bankHeight,
+            pointingDown = true,
+            selected = selected,
+            targets = targets,
+            onTap = onTap,
+        )
+        Bank(
+            points = (11 downTo 0).toList(),
+            state = state,
+            columnWidth = columnWidth,
+            bankHeight = bankHeight,
+            pointingDown = false,
+            selected = selected,
+            targets = targets,
+            onTap = onTap,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Bank(
+    points: List<Int>,
+    state: BackgammonState,
+    columnWidth: Dp,
+    bankHeight: Dp,
+    pointingDown: Boolean,
+    selected: Int?,
+    targets: Set<Int>,
+    onTap: (Int) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Row(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().height(bankHeight)) {
+        points.forEachIndexed { index, point ->
+            // The bar sits between the two halves of each bank.
+            if (index == 6) {
+                Box(
+                    modifier = Modifier
+                        .width(columnWidth)
+                        .fillMaxHeight()
+                        .background(BoardField)
+                        .border(1.dp, Color(0x33000000))
+                )
+            }
+            PointColumn(
+                point = point,
+                state = state,
+                width = columnWidth,
+                height = bankHeight,
+                light = index % 2 == 0,
+                pointingDown = pointingDown,
+                selected = point == selected,
+                target = point in targets,
+                onTap = { onTap(point) },
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun PointColumn(
+    point: Int,
+    state: BackgammonState,
+    width: Dp,
+    height: Dp,
+    light: Boolean,
+    pointingDown: Boolean,
+    selected: Boolean,
+    target: Boolean,
+    onTap: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val white = state.countOn(point, WHITE_SEAT)
+    val black = state.countOn(point, 1 - WHITE_SEAT)
+    val count = white + black
+
+    Box(
+        modifier = Modifier
+            .width(width)
+            .height(height)
+            .background(if (light) PointLight.copy(alpha = 0.35f) else PointDark.copy(alpha = 0.5f))
+            .then(if (selected) Modifier.background(SelectedPoint) else Modifier)
+            .then(if (target) Modifier.background(TargetPoint) else Modifier)
+            .border(1.dp, Color(0x22000000))
+            .clickable { onTap() },
+        contentAlignment = if (pointingDown) Alignment.TopCenter else Alignment.BottomCenter,
+    ) {
+        Column(
+            verticalArrangement = if (pointingDown) Arrangement.Top else Arrangement.Bottom,
+            horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+        ) {
+            // Five checkers is as many as fit; anything beyond that is written
+            // on the last one, which is what a crowded board does anyway.
+            val drawn = minOf(count, 5)
+            repeat(drawn) { index ->
+                val isLast = index == drawn - 1
+                Box(
+                    modifier = Modifier
+                        .size(width * 0.82f)
+                        .clip(CircleShape)
+                        .background(if (white > 0) WhiteChecker else BlackChecker)
+                        .border(1.dp, CheckerEdge, CircleShape),
+                    contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                ) {
+                    if (isLast && count > 5) {
+                        Text(
+                            text = "$count",
+                            color = if (white > 0) Color(0xFF23201C) else Color(0xFFF7F2E7),
+                            fontSize = (width.value * 0.36f).sp,
+                            fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                        )
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Text(
+            text = "${point + 1}",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelSmall,
+            color = Color(0x99000000),
+            modifier = Modifier
+                .align(if (pointingDown) Alignment.BottomCenter else Alignment.TopCenter)
+                .padding(1.dp),
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/** What is on the bar and what is safely off, with the bar tappable to come in. */
+@Composable
+private fun OffAndBar(state: BackgammonState, localSeat: Int, onBarTapped: () -> Unit) {
+    Row(
+        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(12.dp),
+        verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+    ) {
+        TextButton(onClick = onBarTapped, enabled = state.bar[localSeat] > 0) {
+            Text("Bar: ${state.bar[localSeat]}")
+        }
+        Text(
+            text = "Borne off — you ${state.off[localSeat]} of $CHECKERS, " +
+                "them ${state.off[other(localSeat)]}",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeaveDialog(onEnd: () -> Unit, onKeepPlaying: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onKeepPlaying,
+        title = { Text("End this game?") },
+        text = {
+            Text(
+                "This game ends here and the position is not saved. Anyone else " +
+                    "at the table is told you have left."
+            )
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onEnd) { Text("End the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onKeepPlaying) { Text("Keep playing") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeftBoardDialog(notice: String, onExit: () -> Unit, onStay: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onStay,
+        title = { Text("The game has ended") },
+        text = { Text("$notice There are no more moves to play.") },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onStay) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun ResultDialog(state: BackgammonState, onExit: () -> Unit) {
+    var dismissed by remember(state.outcome) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    if (dismissed) return
+
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = { dismissed = true },
+        title = { Text("Game over") },
+        text = {
+            Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+                Text(state.outcome?.label.orEmpty(), fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold)
+                state.outcome?.let {
+                    Text(
+                        text = "Worth ${it.points} point${if (it.points == 1) "" else "s"}.",
+                        style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = { dismissed = true }) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/game/CheckersScreen.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.ui.game
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.background
+import androidx.compose.foundation.border
+import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.BoxWithConstraints
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.foundation.verticalScroll
+import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
+import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.collectAsState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.sp
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.BLACK_SEAT
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersPhase
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.CheckersState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.seatName
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers.squareAt
+import org.prolibertate.games.net.MatchController
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.ScreenScaffold
+
+private val LightSquare = Color(0xFFEEDAB4)
+private val DarkSquare = Color(0xFF9A7248)
+private val BlackPiece = Color(0xFF1E1B18)
+private val WhitePiece = Color(0xFFF7F2E7)
+private val PieceEdge = Color(0x66000000)
+private val SelectedSquare = Color(0x8830C030)
+private val PathSquare = Color(0x66FFC107)
+private val MoveDot = Color(0x66000000)
+private val CrownInk = Color(0xFFFFC107)
+
+/**
+ * The checkers board.
+ *
+ * Tap a piece, then tap where it goes. A multiple jump is one move as far as
+ * the rules are concerned, so it is tapped out one hop at a time and sent when
+ * the chain is complete — a player cannot stop in the middle of it, and the
+ * board will not let them try.
+ *
+ * The board is drawn from the local player's side, so a game as White is played
+ * up the screen the way it would be across a real table.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun CheckersScreen(
+    controller: MatchController<CheckersState, CheckersMove>,
+    localSeat: Int,
+    onExit: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val state by controller.state.collectAsState()
+    val legal by controller.legalMoves.collectAsState()
+    val abandoned by controller.abandoned.collectAsState()
+
+    var selected by remember { mutableStateOf<Int?>(null) }
+    // The hops tapped out so far of a jump that is not finished.
+    var path by remember { mutableStateOf(emptyList<Int>()) }
+    var confirmingEnd by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+
+    val endGameAction: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+        TextButton(onClick = { confirmingEnd = true }) { Text("End game") }
+    }
+
+    val current = state
+    if (current == null) {
+        ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+            Box(modifier, contentAlignment = Alignment.Center) { Text("Setting up…") }
+            abandoned?.let { LeftTableDialog(it, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned) }
+            if (confirmingEnd) EndGameDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+        }
+        return
+    }
+
+    // Every move still possible given the piece picked up and the hops tapped.
+    val following = legal.filter { move ->
+        move.from == selected && move.steps.take(path.size) == path
+    }
+    val nextHops = following.mapNotNull { it.steps.getOrNull(path.size) }.toSet()
+
+    val onSquareTapped: (Int) -> Unit = { square ->
+        when {
+            square in nextHops -> {
+                val extended = path + square
+                val done = following.firstOrNull { it.steps == extended }
+                if (done != null) {
+                    controller.submit(done)
+                    selected = null
+                    path = emptyList()
+                } else {
+                    path = extended
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Picking up a different piece, which is what a misplaced tap means.
+            legal.any { it.from == square } -> {
+                selected = square
+                path = emptyList()
+            }
+
+            else -> {
+                selected = null
+                path = emptyList()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+        BoxWithConstraints(modifier = modifier) {
+            val wide = maxWidth > maxHeight
+            val side = if (wide) minOf(maxHeight, maxWidth * 0.62f) else minOf(maxWidth, maxHeight * 0.72f)
+
+            val board: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+                Board(
+                    state = current,
+                    flipped = localSeat != BLACK_SEAT,
+                    side = side,
+                    selected = selected,
+                    path = path,
+                    destinations = nextHops,
+                    onTap = onSquareTapped,
+                )
+            }
+            val panel: @Composable (Modifier) -> Unit = { panelModifier ->
+                Column(modifier = panelModifier, verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+                    Status(current, localSeat, path.isNotEmpty())
+                    MoveLog(current, modifier = Modifier.weight(1f, fill = false))
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (wide) {
+                Row(Modifier.fillMaxSize(), horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(12.dp)) {
+                    board()
+                    panel(Modifier.weight(1f).fillMaxSize())
+                }
+            } else {
+                Column(
+                    modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
+                    verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
+                    horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+                ) {
+                    board()
+                    panel(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().weight(1f))
+                }
+            }
+
+            val over = abandoned
+            when {
+                over != null -> LeftTableDialog(over, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned)
+                confirmingEnd -> EndGameDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+                current.phase == CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER -> ResultDialog(current, onExit)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private const val TITLE = "Checkers"
+
+@Composable
+private fun Board(
+    state: CheckersState,
+    flipped: Boolean,
+    side: Dp,
+    selected: Int?,
+    path: List<Int>,
+    destinations: Set<Int>,
+    onTap: (Int) -> Unit,
+) {
+    val cell = side / 8
+    Column(modifier = Modifier.size(side).border(2.dp, DarkSquare)) {
+        for (displayRow in 0 until 8) {
+            Row(modifier = Modifier.weight(1f)) {
+                for (displayColumn in 0 until 8) {
+                    // Turning the board round is one subtraction, so nothing
+                    // below this has to know which way up it is drawn.
+                    val row = if (flipped) 7 - displayRow else displayRow
+                    val column = if (flipped) 7 - displayColumn else displayColumn
+                    val square = squareAt(row, column)
+
+                    Box(
+                        modifier = Modifier
+                            .weight(1f)
+                            .fillMaxSize()
+                            .background(if (square == null) LightSquare else DarkSquare)
+                            .then(
+                                if (square != null && square in path) {
+                                    Modifier.background(PathSquare)
+                                } else {
+                                    Modifier
+                                }
+                            )
+                            .then(
+                                if (square != null && square == selected) {
+                                    Modifier.background(SelectedSquare)
+                                } else {
+                                    Modifier
+                                }
+                            )
+                            .then(
+                                if (square != null) Modifier.clickable { onTap(square) } else Modifier
+                            ),
+                        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                    ) {
+                        val piece = square?.let { state.board[it] }
+                        if (piece != null) {
+                            Box(
+                                modifier = Modifier
+                                    .size(cell * 0.74f)
+                                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                                    .background(
+                                        if (piece.seat == BLACK_SEAT) BlackPiece else WhitePiece
+                                    )
+                                    .border(1.dp, PieceEdge, CircleShape),
+                                contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                            ) {
+                                // A crown rather than a second disc: two discs
+                                // stacked is what a wooden set does and what a
+                                // small screen cannot show.
+                                if (piece.king) {
+                                    Text(
+                                        text = "♛",
+                                        color = CrownInk,
+                                        fontSize = (cell.value * 0.42f).sp,
+                                    )
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                        if (square != null && square in destinations) {
+                            Box(
+                                modifier = Modifier
+                                    .size(cell * 0.28f)
+                                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                                    .background(MoveDot)
+                            )
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Status(state: CheckersState, localSeat: Int, midJump: Boolean) {
+    val yours = state.turn == localSeat && state.phase == CheckersPhase.PLAYING
+    Column {
+        Text(
+            text = state.outcome?.label ?: when {
+                midJump -> "Keep jumping — the capture has to be finished"
+                yours -> "Your move"
+                else -> "Thinking…"
+            },
+            fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "You play ${seatName(localSeat)} · " +
+                "${state.count(localSeat)} left (${state.kings(localSeat)} crowned) " +
+                "against ${state.count(1 - localSeat)}",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+        if (state.phase == CheckersPhase.PLAYING) {
+            Text(
+                text = "A capture must be taken when one is on the board.",
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun MoveLog(state: CheckersState, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
+    if (state.moveLog.isEmpty()) {
+        Text("No moves yet.", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall, modifier = modifier)
+        return
+    }
+    Column(modifier = modifier.verticalScroll(rememberScrollState())) {
+        state.moveLog.chunked(2).forEachIndexed { index, pair ->
+            Text(
+                text = "${index + 1}. ${pair.joinToString("   ")}",
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun EndGameDialog(onEnd: () -> Unit, onKeepPlaying: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onKeepPlaying,
+        title = { Text("End this game?") },
+        text = {
+            Text(
+                "This game ends here and the position is not saved. Anyone else " +
+                    "at the table is told you have left."
+            )
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onEnd) { Text("End the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onKeepPlaying) { Text("Keep playing") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeftTableDialog(notice: String, onExit: () -> Unit, onStay: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onStay,
+        title = { Text("The game has ended") },
+        text = { Text("$notice There are no more moves to play.") },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onStay) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun ResultDialog(state: CheckersState, onExit: () -> Unit) {
+    var dismissed by remember(state.outcome) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    if (dismissed) return
+
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = { dismissed = true },
+        title = { Text("Game over") },
+        text = {
+            Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+                Text(state.outcome?.label.orEmpty(), fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold)
+                Text(
+                    text = "${state.moveLog.size} moves played.",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                )
+            }
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = { dismissed = true }) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/game/MastermindScreen.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.ui.game
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.background
+import androidx.compose.foundation.border
+import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.ExperimentalLayoutApi
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.FlowRow
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.foundation.verticalScroll
+import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
+import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.collectAsState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateListOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.alpha
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.Feedback
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.Guess
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindPhase
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindRules
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.MastermindState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind.other
+import org.prolibertate.games.net.MatchController
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.PrimaryAction
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.ScreenScaffold
+
+/**
+ * The eight code pegs.
+ *
+ * Kept well apart in hue *and* in lightness, because a code you cannot read is
+ * not a puzzle, it is an eye test — and one player in twelve cannot tell the
+ * red from the green.
+ */
+private val PegColours = listOf(
+    Color(0xFFD32F2F),
+    Color(0xFF1976D2),
+    Color(0xFFFBC02D),
+    Color(0xFF388E3C),
+    Color(0xFFF57C00),
+    Color(0xFF7B1FA2),
+    Color(0xFF00ACC1),
+    Color(0xFFFAFAFA),
+)
+
+private val EmptySlot = Color(0x33808080)
+private val ExactPeg = Color(0xFF212121)
+private val MisplacedPeg = Color(0xFFFFFFFF)
+
+/**
+ * Mastermind, played as a duel: each player sets the code their opponent will
+ * have to break, and then both are breaking one, a guess each in turn.
+ *
+ * The same row of pegs does both jobs — tap the colours to build it, and the
+ * button says which one you are doing. The answer to each guess is the little
+ * pegs beside it: a dark one for a colour in the right place, a light one for a
+ * colour in the wrong place, and no indication whatever of which is which.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun MastermindScreen(
+    controller: MatchController<MastermindState, MastermindMove>,
+    localSeat: Int,
+    onExit: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val state by controller.state.collectAsState()
+    val abandoned by controller.abandoned.collectAsState()
+
+    val building = remember { mutableStateListOf<Int>() }
+    var confirmingEnd by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+
+    val endGameAction: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+        TextButton(onClick = { confirmingEnd = true }) { Text("End game") }
+    }
+
+    val current = state
+    if (current == null) {
+        ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+            Box(modifier, contentAlignment = Alignment.Center) { Text("Setting up…") }
+            abandoned?.let { LeftDialog(it, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned) }
+            if (confirmingEnd) EndDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+        }
+        return
+    }
+
+    val setting = current.phase == MastermindPhase.SETTING
+    val yourTurn = current.turn == localSeat && current.phase != MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER
+    // A row has to be a code this table allows — which on a no-repeats table
+    // rules out a repeated colour — and a guess may not be one already made.
+    val readyToSend = MastermindRules.isWellFormed(current.options, building.toList()) &&
+        (setting || current.guesses[localSeat].none { it.code == building.toList() })
+
+    ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+        Column(
+            modifier = modifier.verticalScroll(rememberScrollState()),
+            verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(10.dp),
+        ) {
+            Text(
+                text = when {
+                    current.outcome != null -> current.outcome!!.label
+                    setting && yourTurn -> "Set the code they will have to break"
+                    setting -> "Waiting for them to set theirs…"
+                    yourTurn -> "Your guess — ${current.guessesLeft(localSeat)} left"
+                    else -> "Thinking…"
+                },
+                fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+            )
+            Text(
+                text = if (setting) {
+                    "Choose any code the table allows. They will not see it, and you " +
+                        "will be breaking the one they choose for you."
+                } else {
+                    "A dark peg is a colour in the right place, a light one a colour " +
+                        "somewhere else. Which is which is for you to work out."
+                },
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+            )
+
+            if (setting) {
+                // Nothing has been guessed yet, so the only thing worth showing
+                // is whether the other player is ready.
+                Text(
+                    text = if (current.hasSet(other(localSeat))) {
+                        "They have set theirs."
+                    } else {
+                        "They have not set theirs yet."
+                    },
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                )
+            } else {
+                Text(
+                    text = "Your guesses",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleSmall,
+                    fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                )
+                GuessList(current, localSeat)
+            }
+
+            if (current.phase != MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER) {
+                Builder(
+                    length = current.options.length,
+                    colours = current.options.colours,
+                    allowDuplicates = current.options.allowDuplicates,
+                    building = building,
+                    enabled = yourTurn,
+                    label = if (setting) "Set this code" else "Guess",
+                    ready = readyToSend,
+                    onSubmit = {
+                        controller.submit(MastermindMove(building.toList()))
+                        building.clear()
+                    },
+                )
+            }
+
+            if (!setting) {
+                Text(
+                    text = "Against you",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleSmall,
+                    fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                    modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 8.dp),
+                )
+                Text(
+                    text = "${current.guesses[other(localSeat)].size} guesses at your code so far.",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                )
+                GuessList(current, other(localSeat))
+            }
+
+            // Your own code, which is yours to see all along — you chose it, and
+            // you are guarding it rather than guessing it.
+            if (current.secrets[localSeat].isNotEmpty()) {
+                Text(
+                    text = "The code you set",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleSmall,
+                    fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                    modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 8.dp),
+                )
+                PegRow(current.secrets[localSeat])
+            }
+        }
+
+        val over = abandoned
+        when {
+            over != null -> LeftDialog(over, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned)
+            confirmingEnd -> EndDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+            current.phase == MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER -> ResultDialog(current, localSeat, onExit)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private const val TITLE = "Mastermind"
+
+@Composable
+private fun GuessList(state: MastermindState, seat: Int) {
+    val guesses = state.guesses[seat]
+    if (guesses.isEmpty()) {
+        Text("Nothing yet.", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall)
+        return
+    }
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+        guesses.forEachIndexed { index, guess ->
+            GuessRow(index + 1, guess, state.options.length)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun GuessRow(number: Int, guess: Guess, length: Int) {
+    Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+        Text(
+            text = "$number.",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelSmall,
+            modifier = Modifier.size(width = 22.dp, height = 20.dp),
+        )
+        PegRow(guess.code)
+        Box(modifier = Modifier.padding(start = 10.dp)) {
+            FeedbackPegs(guess.feedback, length)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun PegRow(code: List<Int>) {
+    Row(horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+        code.forEach { colour -> Peg(colour) }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Peg(colour: Int?, size: androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp = 26.dp) {
+    Box(
+        modifier = Modifier
+            .size(size)
+            .clip(CircleShape)
+            .background(colour?.let { PegColours[it % PegColours.size] } ?: EmptySlot)
+            .border(1.dp, Color(0x55000000), CircleShape)
+    )
+}
+
+/**
+ * The answer, as pegs rather than as numbers.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not laid out one-per-code-peg: the pegs say how many, never
+ * which, and putting them in a tidy row under the code would invite reading a
+ * position into them that is not there.
+ */
+@OptIn(ExperimentalLayoutApi::class)
+@Composable
+private fun FeedbackPegs(feedback: Feedback, length: Int) {
+    FlowRow(
+        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(3.dp),
+        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(3.dp),
+        maxItemsInEachRow = (length + 1) / 2,
+    ) {
+        repeat(feedback.exact) {
+            Box(
+                modifier = Modifier
+                    .size(10.dp)
+                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                    .background(ExactPeg)
+                    .border(1.dp, Color(0x55000000), CircleShape)
+            )
+        }
+        repeat(feedback.misplaced) {
+            Box(
+                modifier = Modifier
+                    .size(10.dp)
+                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                    .background(MisplacedPeg)
+                    .border(1.dp, Color(0x55000000), CircleShape)
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/** The guess being built: tap a colour to add it, tap a peg to take it back. */
+@OptIn(ExperimentalLayoutApi::class)
+@Composable
+private fun Builder(
+    length: Int,
+    colours: Int,
+    allowDuplicates: Boolean,
+    building: MutableList<Int>,
+    enabled: Boolean,
+    label: String,
+    ready: Boolean,
+    onSubmit: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp)) {
+        Row(horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+            repeat(length) { slot ->
+                Box(
+                    modifier = Modifier.clickable(enabled = enabled && slot < building.size) {
+                        // Taking a peg back removes it and everything after it,
+                        // which is what a physical board does when you lift one
+                        // out of the middle of a row you are still filling.
+                        while (building.size > slot) building.removeAt(building.size - 1)
+                    }
+                ) {
+                    Peg(building.getOrNull(slot), size = 32.dp)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        FlowRow(
+            horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp),
+            verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp),
+        ) {
+            repeat(colours) { colour ->
+                // On a table without repeats, a colour already down is not a
+                // colour you can put down again — greyed rather than merely
+                // refused, so it never comes as a surprise.
+                val spent = !allowDuplicates && colour in building
+                Box(
+                    modifier = Modifier.alpha(if (spent) 0.3f else 1f).clickable(
+                        enabled = enabled && !spent && building.size < length,
+                    ) {
+                        building.add(colour)
+                    }
+                ) {
+                    Peg(colour, size = 34.dp)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        PrimaryAction(
+            text = label,
+            enabled = enabled && ready,
+            onClick = onSubmit,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun EndDialog(onEnd: () -> Unit, onKeepPlaying: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onKeepPlaying,
+        title = { Text("End this game?") },
+        text = { Text("The game ends here. Anyone else at the table is told you have left.") },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onEnd) { Text("End the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onKeepPlaying) { Text("Keep playing") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeftDialog(notice: String, onExit: () -> Unit, onStay: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onStay,
+        title = { Text("The game has ended") },
+        text = { Text("$notice There are no more guesses to make.") },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onStay) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun ResultDialog(state: MastermindState, localSeat: Int, onExit: () -> Unit) {
+    var dismissed by remember(state.outcome) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    if (dismissed) return
+
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = { dismissed = true },
+        title = { Text("Game over") },
+        text = {
+            Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(6.dp)) {
+                Text(state.outcome?.label.orEmpty(), fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold)
+                // Both codes are shown now: there is nothing left to protect,
+                // and everyone wants to see what they were up against.
+                Text("The code you were breaking", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall)
+                PegRow(state.secrets[other(localSeat)])
+                state.brokeIn(localSeat)?.let {
+                    Text("You broke it in $it.", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall)
+                }
+                state.brokeIn(other(localSeat))?.let {
+                    Text("They broke yours in $it.", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall)
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = { dismissed = true }) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/ui/game/PiratesScreen.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,410 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.ui.game
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.Canvas
+import androidx.compose.foundation.background
+import androidx.compose.foundation.border
+import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.BoxWithConstraints
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.foundation.verticalScroll
+import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
+import androidx.compose.material3.Text
+import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.collectAsState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
+import androidx.compose.ui.geometry.Offset
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.ADJACENCY
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.BULGAR_SEAT
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.GRID
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PIRATE_SEAT
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.POINTS
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesMove
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesPhase
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.PiratesState
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.STRONGHOLD
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.columnOf
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.isOnBoard
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.isStronghold
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.pointAt
+import org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates.rowOf
+import org.prolibertate.games.net.MatchController
+import org.prolibertate.games.ui.ScreenScaffold
+
+private val BoardField = Color(0xFFE7D6B8)
+private val StrongholdField = Color(0xFFCBA96B)
+private val BoardLine = Color(0xFF5C4326)
+private val BulgarStone = Color(0xFF3C6E47)
+private val PirateStone = Color(0xFF7A1E1E)
+private val StoneEdge = Color(0x66000000)
+private val VacantPoint = Color(0x442B2B2B)
+private val SelectedRing = Color(0xFF2E9E2E)
+private val PathRing = Color(0xFFE0A800)
+private val DestinationDot = Color(0x66000000)
+
+/**
+ * Pirates and Bulgars, on the cross-shaped board.
+ *
+ * Tap one of your pieces and then where it goes. A pirate's chain of jumps is
+ * one turn, so it is tapped out hop by hop and sent when there is nothing left
+ * to take — the capture cannot be abandoned halfway, and the board will not let
+ * a player try.
+ *
+ * The stronghold is the shaded arm at the top. Both sides look at it the same
+ * way up: the board is not turned round, because what each side is trying to do
+ * with it is not the same and swapping ends would only disguise that.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun PiratesScreen(
+    controller: MatchController<PiratesState, PiratesMove>,
+    localSeat: Int,
+    onExit: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val state by controller.state.collectAsState()
+    val legal by controller.legalMoves.collectAsState()
+    val abandoned by controller.abandoned.collectAsState()
+
+    var selected by remember { mutableStateOf<Int?>(null) }
+    var path by remember { mutableStateOf(emptyList<Int>()) }
+    var confirmingEnd by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+
+    val endGameAction: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+        TextButton(onClick = { confirmingEnd = true }) { Text("End game") }
+    }
+
+    val current = state
+    if (current == null) {
+        ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+            Box(modifier, contentAlignment = Alignment.Center) { Text("Setting up…") }
+            abandoned?.let { LeftFieldDialog(it, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned) }
+            if (confirmingEnd) LeaveFieldDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+        }
+        return
+    }
+
+    val following = legal.filter { it.from == selected && it.steps.take(path.size) == path }
+    val nextHops = following.mapNotNull { it.steps.getOrNull(path.size) }.toSet()
+
+    val onPointTapped: (Int) -> Unit = { point ->
+        when {
+            point in nextHops -> {
+                val extended = path + point
+                val done = following.firstOrNull { it.steps == extended }
+                if (done != null) {
+                    controller.submit(done)
+                    selected = null
+                    path = emptyList()
+                } else {
+                    path = extended
+                }
+            }
+
+            legal.any { it.from == point } -> {
+                selected = point
+                path = emptyList()
+            }
+
+            else -> {
+                selected = null
+                path = emptyList()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    ScreenScaffold(title = TITLE, onBack = onExit, actions = endGameAction) { modifier ->
+        BoxWithConstraints(modifier = modifier) {
+            val wide = maxWidth > maxHeight
+            val side = if (wide) {
+                minOf(maxHeight, maxWidth * 0.6f)
+            } else {
+                minOf(maxWidth, maxHeight * 0.68f)
+            }
+
+            val board: @Composable () -> Unit = {
+                Board(
+                    state = current,
+                    side = side,
+                    selected = selected,
+                    path = path.toSet(),
+                    destinations = nextHops,
+                    onTap = onPointTapped,
+                )
+            }
+            val panel: @Composable (Modifier) -> Unit = { panelModifier ->
+                Column(modifier = panelModifier, verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp)) {
+                    Status(current, localSeat, path.isNotEmpty())
+                    MoveLog(current, modifier = Modifier.weight(1f, fill = false))
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (wide) {
+                Row(Modifier.fillMaxSize(), horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(12.dp)) {
+                    board()
+                    panel(Modifier.weight(1f).fillMaxSize())
+                }
+            } else {
+                Column(
+                    modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
+                    verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
+                    horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+                ) {
+                    board()
+                    panel(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().weight(1f))
+                }
+            }
+
+            val over = abandoned
+            when {
+                over != null -> LeftFieldDialog(over, onExit, controller::dismissAbandoned)
+                confirmingEnd -> LeaveFieldDialog(onExit) { confirmingEnd = false }
+                current.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER -> ResultDialog(current, onExit)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private const val TITLE = "Pirates and Bulgars"
+
+@Composable
+private fun Board(
+    state: PiratesState,
+    side: Dp,
+    selected: Int?,
+    path: Set<Int>,
+    destinations: Set<Int>,
+    onTap: (Int) -> Unit,
+) {
+    Box(modifier = Modifier.size(side)) {
+        Lines(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize())
+
+        Column(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize()) {
+            for (row in 0 until GRID) {
+                Row(modifier = Modifier.weight(1f).fillMaxWidth()) {
+                    for (column in 0 until GRID) {
+                        val point = pointAt(row, column)
+                        Box(
+                            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f).fillMaxSize(),
+                            contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                        ) {
+                            if (point != null) {
+                                Point(
+                                    state = state,
+                                    point = point,
+                                    cell = side / GRID,
+                                    selected = point == selected,
+                                    onPath = point in path,
+                                    isDestination = point in destinations,
+                                    onTap = { onTap(point) },
+                                )
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The board itself: the cross, the stronghold shaded, and a line between every
+ * pair of points that are joined.
+ *
+ * The lines are drawn from the adjacency table rather than from a picture of a
+ * board, so what a player can see is exactly what the rules allow — there is no
+ * way for the drawing and the moves to disagree about where the diagonals are.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun Lines(modifier: Modifier) {
+    Canvas(modifier = modifier) {
+        val cell = size.width / GRID
+        val stroke = (cell * 0.045f).coerceAtLeast(2f)
+        fun centre(point: Int) = Offset(
+            x = (columnOf(point) + 0.5f) * cell,
+            y = (rowOf(point) + 0.5f) * cell,
+        )
+
+        // The cross, filled square by square so the cut corners come out right.
+        for (row in 0 until GRID) {
+            for (column in 0 until GRID) {
+                if (!isOnBoard(row, column)) continue
+                val inStronghold = pointAt(row, column)?.let { isStronghold(it) } == true
+                drawRect(
+                    color = if (inStronghold) StrongholdField else BoardField,
+                    topLeft = Offset(column * cell, row * cell),
+                    size = androidx.compose.ui.geometry.Size(cell, cell),
+                )
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (from in 0 until POINTS) {
+            for (to in ADJACENCY[from]) {
+                // Each line once rather than twice over.
+                if (to <= from) continue
+                drawLine(
+                    color = BoardLine,
+                    start = centre(from),
+                    end = centre(to),
+                    strokeWidth = stroke,
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Point(
+    state: PiratesState,
+    point: Int,
+    cell: Dp,
+    selected: Boolean,
+    onPath: Boolean,
+    isDestination: Boolean,
+    onTap: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    val occupant = state.board[point]
+    Box(
+        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize().clickable { onTap() },
+        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+    ) {
+        when {
+            occupant != null -> Box(
+                modifier = Modifier
+                    .size(cell * 0.7f)
+                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                    .background(if (occupant == PIRATE_SEAT) PirateStone else BulgarStone)
+                    .border(
+                        width = when {
+                            selected -> cell * 0.07f
+                            onPath -> cell * 0.05f
+                            else -> 1.dp
+                        },
+                        color = when {
+                            selected -> SelectedRing
+                            onPath -> PathRing
+                            else -> StoneEdge
+                        },
+                        shape = CircleShape,
+                    )
+            )
+
+            else -> Box(
+                modifier = Modifier
+                    .size(if (isDestination) cell * 0.32f else cell * 0.14f)
+                    .clip(CircleShape)
+                    .background(if (isDestination) DestinationDot else VacantPoint)
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun Status(state: PiratesState, localSeat: Int, midJump: Boolean) {
+    val yours = state.turn == localSeat && state.phase == PiratesPhase.PLAYING
+    Column {
+        Text(
+            text = state.outcome?.label ?: when {
+                midJump -> "Keep jumping — the capture has to be finished"
+                yours -> "Your move"
+                else -> "Thinking…"
+            },
+            fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = "You play ${if (localSeat == PIRATE_SEAT) "the pirates" else "the Bulgars"} · " +
+                "${state.stronghold()} of ${STRONGHOLD.size} points held, " +
+                "${state.count(BULGAR_SEAT)} Bulgars left",
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+        Text(
+            text = if (localSeat == PIRATE_SEAT) {
+                "Cut them below ${STRONGHOLD.size} and the assault is finished. " +
+                    "You must take when you can."
+            } else {
+                "Fill the stronghold or pen the pirates in. You cannot take anything, " +
+                    "and you cannot go back."
+            },
+            style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun MoveLog(state: PiratesState, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
+    if (state.moveLog.isEmpty()) {
+        Text("No moves yet.", style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall, modifier = modifier)
+        return
+    }
+    Column(modifier = modifier.verticalScroll(rememberScrollState())) {
+        state.moveLog.takeLast(30).forEach {
+            Text(text = it, style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeaveFieldDialog(onEnd: () -> Unit, onKeepPlaying: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onKeepPlaying,
+        title = { Text("End this game?") },
+        text = {
+            Text(
+                "This game ends here and the position is not saved. Anyone else " +
+                    "at the table is told you have left."
+            )
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onEnd) { Text("End the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onKeepPlaying) { Text("Keep playing") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun LeftFieldDialog(notice: String, onExit: () -> Unit, onStay: () -> Unit) {
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = onStay,
+        title = { Text("The game has ended") },
+        text = { Text("$notice There are no more moves to play.") },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = onStay) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun ResultDialog(state: PiratesState, onExit: () -> Unit) {
+    var dismissed by remember(state.outcome) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    if (dismissed) return
+
+    AlertDialog(
+        onDismissRequest = { dismissed = true },
+        title = { Text("Game over") },
+        text = {
+            Column(verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp)) {
+                Text(state.outcome?.label.orEmpty(), fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold)
+                Text(
+                    text = "${state.moveLog.size} moves played.",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                )
+            }
+        },
+        confirmButton = { TextButton(onClick = onExit) { Text("Leave the game") } },
+        dismissButton = { TextButton(onClick = { dismissed = true }) { Text("Look at the board") } },
+    )
+}

app/src/main/java/org/prolibertate/games/update/Updater.kt

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ private const val DEV_SUFFIX = "-dev"
 /**
  * Over-the-air updates from the repository's GitHub Releases.
  *
- * Release tags are v1.0.<run-number> and the APK's versionCode is that same run
+ * Release tags are v<series>.<run-number> and the APK's versionCode is that same run
  * number, so comparing the two is enough to tell whether a newer build exists.
  * The repository's releases must be publicly downloadable — no token is
  * embedded in the app, and GitHub blocks anonymous access to private assets.
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ class Updater(private val activity: Activity) {
 
     private fun toRelease(json: JSONObject): Release? {
         val tag = json.optString("tag_name").ifBlank { return null }
-        // Tags are v1.0.<n> or v1.0.<n>-dev; the run number is the trailing part.
+        // Tags are v<series>.<n>, with -dev on a prerelease. Only the trailing
+        // run number is read: the series is a name for people and changing it
+        // must not make an older build look newer.
         val versionCode = tag.substringAfterLast('.')
             .removeSuffix(DEV_SUFFIX)
             .toIntOrNull()

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/CatalogTest.kt

@@ -26,12 +26,25 @@ class CatalogTest {
     }
 
     @Test
-    fun `a dev build lists everything including what is still coming`() {
+    fun `a dev build lists the whole catalogue`() {
         val shown = GameCategory.entries.flatMap {
             GameCatalog.byCategory(it, includeComingSoon = true)
         }
         assertEquals(GameCatalog.all.size, shown.size)
-        assertTrue("unfinished games are visible while developing", shown.any { !it.available })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `every game in the catalogue can be played`() {
+        // There is nothing left marked "coming soon". The machinery that hides
+        // unfinished games from a production build is still there and still
+        // tested above — it simply has nothing to hide at the moment, and this
+        // is what will fail the day something is added to the list before its
+        // engine is written.
+        assertTrue(GameCatalog.all.all { it.available })
+        assertEquals(
+            GameCatalog.byCategory(GameCategory.BOARD, includeComingSoon = false),
+            GameCatalog.byCategory(GameCategory.BOARD, includeComingSoon = true),
+        )
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -61,6 +74,10 @@ class CatalogTest {
                 GameCatalog.CHESS,
                 GameCatalog.TAYU,
                 GameCatalog.MORRIS,
+                GameCatalog.CHECKERS,
+                GameCatalog.MASTERMIND,
+                GameCatalog.BACKGAMMON,
+                GameCatalog.PIRATES,
             ),
             GameCatalog.playable.map { it.id }.toSet(),
         )

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/backgammon/BackgammonRulesTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,408 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.backgammon
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class BackgammonRulesTest {
+
+    private fun start(seed: Long = 1L) = BackgammonRules.initialState(BackgammonOptions(), seed)
+
+    /**
+     * A board built by hand. Points are given the way a player says them —
+     * White's 6 point is index 5 — so [white] and [black] are index-to-count.
+     */
+    private fun position(
+        white: Map<Int, Int> = emptyMap(),
+        black: Map<Int, Int> = emptyMap(),
+        turn: Int = WHITE_SEAT,
+        dice: List<Int> = listOf(6, 5),
+        bar: List<Int> = listOf(0, 0),
+        off: List<Int> = listOf(0, 0),
+    ): BackgammonState {
+        val points = IntArray(POINTS)
+        white.forEach { (point, count) -> points[point] = count }
+        black.forEach { (point, count) -> points[point] = -count }
+        return start().copy(
+            points = points.toList(),
+            turn = turn,
+            dice = dice,
+            roll = dice.take(2),
+            bar = bar,
+            off = off,
+        )
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The board
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening array is fifteen a side in the usual places`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(15, (0 until POINTS).sumOf { state.countOn(it, WHITE_SEAT) })
+        assertEquals(15, (0 until POINTS).sumOf { state.countOn(it, BLACK_SEAT) })
+        assertEquals(2, state.countOn(23, WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(5, state.countOn(12, WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(3, state.countOn(7, WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(5, state.countOn(5, WHITE_SEAT))
+        // The two sides are mirror images, so the opening pip counts match.
+        assertEquals(167, state.pipCount(WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(167, state.pipCount(BLACK_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the two sides run in opposite directions`() {
+        assertEquals(-1, directionOf(WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(1, directionOf(BLACK_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(0..5, homeOf(WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(18..23, homeOf(BLACK_SEAT))
+        // A checker on the point nearest home is one pip from being off.
+        assertEquals(1, pipsFrom(WHITE_SEAT, 0))
+        assertEquals(1, pipsFrom(BLACK_SEAT, 23))
+        assertEquals(24, pipsFrom(WHITE_SEAT, 23))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `each player comes in from the bar at the other end`() {
+        assertEquals(23, entryPoint(WHITE_SEAT, 1))
+        assertEquals(18, entryPoint(WHITE_SEAT, 6))
+        assertEquals(0, entryPoint(BLACK_SEAT, 1))
+        assertEquals(5, entryPoint(BLACK_SEAT, 6))
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The dice
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening roll is two different dice and the higher one starts`() {
+        (1L..25L).forEach { seed ->
+            val state = BackgammonRules.initialState(BackgammonOptions(), seed)
+            assertEquals(2, state.dice.size)
+            assertNotEquals(state.dice[0], state.dice[1])
+            assertEquals(state.dice.sortedDescending(), state.dice)
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun assertNotEquals(a: Int, b: Int) =
+        assertTrue("expected different dice, got $a and $b", a != b)
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the same table throws the same dice`() {
+        assertEquals(start(9L).dice, start(9L).dice)
+        assertEquals(start(9L).seed, 9L)
+        // And a game replayed from its own state rolls on identically.
+        val first = start(9L)
+        val second = BackgammonRules.decodeState(BackgammonRules.encodeState(first))
+        val move = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(first).first()
+        assertEquals(
+            BackgammonRules.applyMove(first, first.turn, move),
+            BackgammonRules.applyMove(second, second.turn, move),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a double is four moves, not two`() {
+        val doubled = position(
+            white = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            black = mapOf(0 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(3, 3, 3, 3),
+        )
+        assertEquals(4, doubled.dice.size)
+        var state = doubled
+        repeat(4) {
+            val moves = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state)
+            assertTrue("ran out of moves after $it", moves.isNotEmpty())
+            state = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, moves.first())
+        }
+        // Four threes is twelve pips off the count.
+        assertEquals(doubled.pipCount(WHITE_SEAT) - 12, state.pipCount(WHITE_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moving
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a point with two enemy checkers cannot be landed on`() {
+        val state = position(white = mapOf(23 to 2), black = mapOf(17 to 2), dice = listOf(6, 5))
+        // 23 minus 6 is 17, which Black holds.
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).none { it.from == 23 && it.die == 6 })
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).any { it.from == 23 && it.die == 5 })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a lone enemy checker is hit and goes to the bar`() {
+        val state = position(white = mapOf(23 to 2), black = mapOf(17 to 1, 0 to 2))
+        val hit = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 23 && it.die == 6 }
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, hit)
+        assertEquals(1, after.bar[BLACK_SEAT])
+        assertEquals(1, after.countOn(17, WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(0, after.countOn(17, BLACK_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nothing else moves while a checker is on the bar`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(23 to 2, 12 to 3),
+            black = mapOf(0 to 2),
+            bar = listOf(1, 0),
+        )
+        val moves = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue("everything must come in first", moves.all { it.from == BAR })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a closed board leaves a barred player with nothing and the turn passes`() {
+        // Black holds every point White could come in on, so White cannot move
+        // at all and the dice go back across the table.
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(12 to 3),
+            black = (18..23).associateWith { 2 },
+            bar = listOf(1, 0),
+            turn = WHITE_SEAT,
+            dice = listOf(6, 5),
+        )
+        val settled = BackgammonRules.applyMove(
+            state.copy(turn = BLACK_SEAT, dice = listOf(1, 2)),
+            BLACK_SEAT,
+            BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state.copy(turn = BLACK_SEAT, dice = listOf(1, 2))).first(),
+        )
+        assertTrue(settled.moveLog.isNotEmpty())
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Using as much of the roll as possible
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a move that would strand the other die is not offered`() {
+        // White has one checker on 23 and Black holds 17. Playing the 6 first
+        // is blocked outright; playing the 5 first lands on 18, and the 6 then
+        // carries on to 12. Only the order that plays the whole roll is a move,
+        // so the 6 is not offered even though six pips of it are playable
+        // further down the line.
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(23 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(17 to 2, 0 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(6, 5),
+        )
+        val moves = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertEquals("only one first step plays the whole roll", 1, moves.size)
+        assertEquals(5, moves.single().die)
+
+        // And playing it does leave the 6 to play.
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, moves.single())
+        assertEquals(WHITE_SEAT, after.turn)
+        assertEquals(listOf(6), after.dice)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `when only one die can be played it must be the higher`() {
+        // Either die can be played on its own — 23 to 17, or 23 to 18 — but
+        // never both, because 12 is shut and that is where eleven pips land
+        // whichever order they are played in. The rules say take the bigger.
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(23 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(12 to 2, 11 to 2, 0 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(6, 5),
+        )
+        val moves = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertEquals(1, moves.size)
+        assertEquals("the higher die has to be the one played", 6, moves.single().die)
+
+        // Playing it ends the turn, because the 5 has nowhere to go.
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, moves.single())
+        assertEquals(BLACK_SEAT, after.turn)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Bearing off
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nothing comes off until everything is home`() {
+        val notHome = position(white = mapOf(5 to 2, 12 to 1), black = mapOf(0 to 2))
+        assertFalse(notHome.canBearOff(WHITE_SEAT))
+
+        val home = position(white = mapOf(5 to 2, 3 to 1), black = mapOf(23 to 2))
+        assertTrue(home.canBearOff(WHITE_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an exact die takes a checker off`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(5 to 2),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(6, 1),
+        )
+        val off = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 5 && it.die == 6 }
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, off)
+        assertEquals(1, after.off[WHITE_SEAT])
+        assertEquals(1, after.countOn(5, WHITE_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a bigger die only takes the furthest checker`() {
+        // Something on the 6 point, so a 6 must take that and not the one on
+        // the 3; with the 6 point empty, the 6 may take the furthest instead.
+        val blocked = position(
+            white = mapOf(5 to 1, 2 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(6, 6, 6, 6),
+        )
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.legalMoves(blocked).none { it.from == 2 })
+
+        val free = position(
+            white = mapOf(2 to 2),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(6, 6, 6, 6),
+        )
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.legalMoves(free).any { it.from == 2 })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `fifteen off wins the game`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(0 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(1, 2),
+            off = listOf(14, 0),
+        )
+        val last = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 0 }
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, last)
+        assertEquals(BackgammonPhase.GAME_OVER, after.phase)
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.isFinished(after))
+        assertNull(BackgammonRules.currentSeat(after))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a loser who bore nothing off has lost a gammon`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(0 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(1, 2),
+            off = listOf(14, 0),
+        )
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(
+            state,
+            WHITE_SEAT,
+            BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 0 },
+        )
+        assertEquals(BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_GAMMON, after.outcome)
+        assertEquals(2, after.outcome!!.points)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a loser still on the bar has lost a backgammon`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(0 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 1),
+            dice = listOf(1, 2),
+            off = listOf(14, 0),
+            bar = listOf(0, 1),
+        )
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(
+            state,
+            WHITE_SEAT,
+            BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 0 },
+        )
+        assertEquals(BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_BACKGAMMON, after.outcome)
+        assertEquals(3, after.outcome!!.points)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a loser who bore one off has only lost a single game`() {
+        val state = position(
+            white = mapOf(0 to 1),
+            black = mapOf(23 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(1, 2),
+            off = listOf(14, 1),
+        )
+        val after = BackgammonRules.applyMove(
+            state,
+            WHITE_SEAT,
+            BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first { it.from == 0 },
+        )
+        assertEquals(BackgammonOutcome.WHITE_SINGLE, after.outcome)
+        assertEquals(1, after.outcome!!.points)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Turns
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the turn passes when the dice run out`() {
+        var state = position(
+            white = mapOf(23 to 2, 12 to 2),
+            black = mapOf(0 to 2, 11 to 2),
+            dice = listOf(3, 4),
+        )
+        state = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+        assertEquals("still White's roll", WHITE_SEAT, state.turn)
+        state = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+        assertEquals(BLACK_SEAT, state.turn)
+        assertEquals("the new player has dice to play", 2, state.roll.size)
+        assertTrue(state.dice.isNotEmpty())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a whole game can be played out without getting stuck`() {
+        var state = start(3L)
+        var plies = 0
+        while (!BackgammonRules.isFinished(state) && plies < 4000) {
+            val moves = BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state)
+            assertTrue("nobody can move at ply $plies", moves.isNotEmpty())
+            state = BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, state.turn, moves.last())
+            plies++
+        }
+        assertTrue("the game never finished in $plies plies", BackgammonRules.isFinished(state))
+        assertNotNull(state.outcome)
+        assertEquals(CHECKERS, state.off.max())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an illegal move is refused rather than played`() {
+        val state = start(2L)
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                BackgammonRules.applyMove(state, state.turn, BackgammonMove(from = 3, die = 6))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "the other player cannot move on this roll",
+            runCatching {
+                BackgammonRules.applyMove(
+                    state,
+                    other(state.turn),
+                    BackgammonRules.legalMoves(state).first(),
+                )
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a state survives the round trip over the wire`() {
+        val state = start(5L)
+        assertEquals(state, BackgammonRules.decodeState(BackgammonRules.encodeState(state)))
+        val move = BackgammonMove(from = BAR, die = 4)
+        assertEquals(move, BackgammonRules.decodeMove(BackgammonRules.encodeMove(move)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nothing is hidden from either seat`() {
+        val state = start(5L)
+        assertEquals(state, BackgammonRules.viewFor(state, BLACK_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the summary says whose roll it is and what they threw`() {
+        val state = position(white = mapOf(23 to 2), black = mapOf(0 to 2), dice = listOf(6, 5))
+        assertTrue(BackgammonRules.summary(state).startsWith("White to play 6-5"))
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/checkers/CheckersRulesTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,350 @@
+package org.prolibertate.games.game.checkers
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class CheckersRulesTest {
+
+    private fun start(options: CheckersOptions = CheckersOptions()) =
+        CheckersRules.initialState(options)
+
+    /** A board built by hand, for positions a game would take an hour to reach. */
+    private fun position(
+        black: List<Int> = emptyList(),
+        blackKings: List<Int> = emptyList(),
+        white: List<Int> = emptyList(),
+        whiteKings: List<Int> = emptyList(),
+        turn: Int = BLACK_SEAT,
+        options: CheckersOptions = CheckersOptions(),
+    ): CheckersState {
+        val board = arrayOfNulls<Piece>(SQUARES)
+        black.forEach { board[it - 1] = Piece(BLACK_SEAT) }
+        blackKings.forEach { board[it - 1] = Piece(BLACK_SEAT, king = true) }
+        white.forEach { board[it - 1] = Piece(WHITE_SEAT) }
+        whiteKings.forEach { board[it - 1] = Piece(WHITE_SEAT, king = true) }
+        return start(options).copy(board = board.toList(), turn = turn)
+    }
+
+    /** Squares are written 1–32 in the notation and 0–31 in the code. */
+    private fun square(number: Int) = number - 1
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The board
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the thirty-two dark squares map to the board and back`() {
+        (0 until SQUARES).forEach { square ->
+            val row = rowOf(square)
+            val column = columnOf(square)
+            assertTrue("$square is off the board", row in 0..7 && column in 0..7)
+            assertEquals("square $square", square, squareAt(row, column))
+            // Dark squares are the ones where row and column have different parity.
+            assertEquals(1, (row + column) % 2)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `light squares are not squares at all`() {
+        assertNull(squareAt(0, 0))
+        assertNull(squareAt(7, 7))
+        assertNull(squareAt(-1, 0))
+        assertNull(squareAt(0, 8))
+        // The corners of the playable diagonal.
+        assertEquals(0, squareAt(0, 1))
+        assertEquals(SQUARES - 1, squareAt(7, 6))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening array is twelve a side on the three nearest rows`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(12, state.count(BLACK_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(12, state.count(WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(0, state.kings(BLACK_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(BLACK_SEAT, state.turn)
+        // The two middle rows are empty, which is what makes an opening move
+        // possible at all.
+        (12 until 20).forEach { assertNull(state.board[it]) }
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Moving
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening position has seven moves, as every rulebook says`() {
+        assertEquals(7, CheckersRules.legalMoves(start()).size)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the move generator counts what it should, four ply down`() {
+        // The published perft numbers for English draughts. A generator that
+        // matches them this far has very little room left to be wrong: they
+        // count compulsory captures, crowning and the men's forward-only rule
+        // all at once.
+        assertEquals(7L, CheckersRules.perft(start(), 1))
+        assertEquals(49L, CheckersRules.perft(start(), 2))
+        assertEquals(302L, CheckersRules.perft(start(), 3))
+        assertEquals(1469L, CheckersRules.perft(start(), 4))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a man moves forward only, and a king moves both ways`() {
+        val man = position(black = listOf(14), white = listOf(30))
+        assertEquals(
+            setOf(square(17), square(18)),
+            CheckersRules.legalMoves(man).map { it.to }.toSet(),
+        )
+
+        val king = position(blackKings = listOf(14), white = listOf(30))
+        assertEquals(
+            setOf(square(9), square(10), square(17), square(18)),
+            CheckersRules.legalMoves(king).map { it.to }.toSet(),
+        )
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Taking
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a capture is compulsory`() {
+        // Black has a jump on the board, so the quiet moves elsewhere are not
+        // moves at all.
+        val state = position(black = listOf(14, 12), white = listOf(18, 30))
+        val moves = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue("only the jump may be played", moves.all { it.isJump })
+        assertEquals(1, moves.size)
+        assertEquals(square(23), moves.single().to)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a double jump is one move, not two`() {
+        // Two white men lined up for Black to hop over in a single turn.
+        val state = position(black = listOf(14), white = listOf(18, 27))
+        val moves = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertEquals(1, moves.size)
+        val jump = moves.single()
+        assertEquals(2, jump.steps.size)
+        assertEquals(square(32), jump.to)
+
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, jump)
+        assertEquals(0, after.count(WHITE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(1, after.count(BLACK_SEAT))
+        // One move, so the turn has passed exactly once.
+        assertEquals(WHITE_SEAT, after.turn)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `stopping halfway through a capture is not offered`() {
+        val state = position(black = listOf(14), white = listOf(18, 27))
+        // The single hop that stops on 23 is a prefix of the double, and the
+        // rules do not allow it to be played on its own.
+        assertTrue(
+            CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).none { it.steps == listOf(square(23)) }
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the same piece is never taken twice in one turn`() {
+        val state = position(blackKings = listOf(15), white = listOf(18, 19))
+        CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).forEach { move ->
+            val taken = mutableListOf<Int>()
+            var at = move.from
+            move.steps.forEach { landing ->
+                jumped(at, landing)?.let { taken += it }
+                at = landing
+            }
+            assertEquals("a piece was jumped twice: $move", taken.size, taken.distinct().size)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a man may not jump backwards`() {
+        // A white man sits behind the black man; nothing can be taken.
+        val state = position(black = listOf(18), white = listOf(14, 30))
+        assertTrue(CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).none { it.isJump })
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Crowning
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a man reaching the far row is crowned`() {
+        val state = position(black = listOf(25), white = listOf(1))
+        val move = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).first()
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, move)
+        assertTrue("it should be crowned", after.board[move.to]!!.king)
+        assertEquals(1, after.kings(BLACK_SEAT))
+        // Crowning is progress, so the draw clock goes back to nothing.
+        assertEquals(0, after.pliesSinceProgress)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `crowning ends the turn under the English rule`() {
+        // A black man can jump into the crown row with another jump available
+        // beyond it. Under the English rule it stops and is crowned.
+        val state = position(black = listOf(22), white = listOf(26, 19), turn = BLACK_SEAT)
+        val english = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue(english.isNotEmpty())
+        english.filter { rowOf(it.to) == crownRowOf(BLACK_SEAT) }.forEach {
+            assertEquals("the turn stops on crowning", 1, it.steps.size)
+        }
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Kings that fly
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a flying king slides the length of the diagonal`() {
+        val short = position(blackKings = listOf(15), white = listOf(1))
+        val long = position(
+            blackKings = listOf(15),
+            white = listOf(1),
+            options = CheckersOptions(flyingKings = true),
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "a flying king reaches further than a walking one",
+            CheckersRules.legalMoves(long).size > CheckersRules.legalMoves(short).size,
+        )
+        assertTrue(CheckersRules.legalMoves(short).all { it.steps.size == 1 })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a flying king takes from a distance and lands where it likes`() {
+        // The king on 1 and the man on 10 share a diagonal with open board
+        // beyond it, so the king may take it and carry on to any of the empty
+        // squares past it.
+        val state = position(
+            blackKings = listOf(1),
+            white = listOf(10),
+            turn = BLACK_SEAT,
+            options = CheckersOptions(flyingKings = true),
+        )
+        val takes = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).filter { move ->
+            CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, move).count(WHITE_SEAT) == 0
+        }
+        assertTrue("the far man should be takeable", takes.isNotEmpty())
+        assertTrue(
+            "and the king may stop on any square beyond it",
+            takes.map { it.to }.distinct().size >= 2,
+        )
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Ending
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `taking the last piece wins`() {
+        val state = position(black = listOf(14), white = listOf(18))
+        val move = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).single()
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, move)
+        assertEquals(CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER, after.phase)
+        assertEquals(CheckersOutcome.BLACK_WINS, after.outcome)
+        assertTrue(CheckersRules.isFinished(after))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a player with no move loses, pieces or not`() {
+        // White's single man is in the corner with a black man in front of it
+        // and a black man behind the landing square, so it cannot move.
+        val state = position(
+            black = listOf(23, 27, 26),
+            white = listOf(32),
+            turn = BLACK_SEAT,
+        )
+        val quiet = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).firstOrNull { !it.isJump }
+        assertNotNull("black needs a quiet move for this test", quiet)
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, quiet!!)
+        if (CheckersRules.legalMoves(after, WHITE_SEAT).isEmpty()) {
+            assertEquals(CheckersOutcome.BLACK_WINS, after.outcome)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `shuffling kings about is eventually a draw`() {
+        val state = position(
+            blackKings = listOf(15),
+            whiteKings = listOf(32),
+            options = CheckersOptions(plyLimitWithoutProgress = 4, threefoldRepetition = false),
+        ).copy(pliesSinceProgress = 3)
+        val quiet = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).first { !it.isJump }
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, quiet)
+        assertEquals(CheckersOutcome.DRAW_NO_PROGRESS, after.outcome)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the same position three times over is a draw`() {
+        val state = position(blackKings = listOf(15), whiteKings = listOf(32))
+        val move = CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).first { !it.isJump }
+        // Where that move lands, seen twice already: playing it makes three.
+        val key = CheckersRules.advanced(state, move).positionKey()
+        val primed = state.copy(repetitionKeys = listOf(key, key))
+
+        val after = CheckersRules.applyMove(primed, BLACK_SEAT, move)
+        assertEquals(CheckersOutcome.DRAW_REPETITION, after.outcome)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The engine contract
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an illegal move is refused rather than played`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, CheckersMove(0, listOf(20)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "white cannot move first",
+            runCatching {
+                CheckersRules.applyMove(state, WHITE_SEAT, CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a state survives the round trip over the wire`() {
+        var state = start()
+        state = CheckersRules.applyMove(state, BLACK_SEAT, CheckersRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+        assertEquals(state, CheckersRules.decodeState(CheckersRules.encodeState(state)))
+        val move = CheckersMove(from = 10, steps = listOf(14, 21))
+        assertEquals(move, CheckersRules.decodeMove(CheckersRules.encodeMove(move)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nothing is hidden from either seat`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(state, CheckersRules.viewFor(state, WHITE_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a move reads as the notation the game is written in`() {
+        assertEquals("11-15", CheckersMove(from = square(11), steps = listOf(square(15))).toString())
+        assertEquals(
+            "11x18x25",
+            CheckersMove(from = square(11), steps = listOf(square(18), square(25))).toString(),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the summary says whose move it is and how it ended`() {
+        assertEquals("Black to move", CheckersRules.summary(start()))
+        val over = start().copy(
+            phase = CheckersPhase.GAME_OVER,
+            outcome = CheckersOutcome.WHITE_WINS,
+        )
+        assertEquals(CheckersOutcome.WHITE_WINS.label, CheckersRules.summary(over))
+        assertNull(CheckersRules.currentSeat(over))
+        assertFalse(CheckersRules.isFinished(start()))
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/mastermind/MastermindAiTest.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class MastermindAiTest {
+
+    private fun choose(
+        state: MastermindState,
+        seat: Int = state.turn,
+        level: MastermindLevel = MastermindLevel.CLUB,
+    ): MastermindMove =
+        MastermindAi(level).chooseMove(state, seat, MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, seat))
+
+    @Test
+    fun `it sets a code the table allows`() {
+        listOf(
+            MastermindOptions(),
+            MastermindOptions(colours = 8, length = 5),
+            MastermindOptions(colours = 6, length = 4, allowDuplicates = false),
+        ).forEach { options ->
+            val state = MastermindRules.initialState(options)
+            repeat(10) {
+                val move = choose(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+                assertTrue(
+                    "the computer set ${move.code} on $options",
+                    MastermindRules.isWellFormed(options, move.code),
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the code it sets is not the same every game`() {
+        // It is the one choice in the game drawn from a source the opponent
+        // cannot reconstruct — a code that came off the table's own seed could
+        // be worked out by the player who is meant to be guessing it.
+        val options = MastermindOptions()
+        val seen = (1..40).map {
+            choose(MastermindRules.initialState(options), FIRST_SEAT).code
+        }.toSet()
+        assertTrue("it set the same code 40 times running", seen.size > 1)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a consistent solver breaks a code well inside the limit`() {
+        // Both codes set by hand, then the computer plays both seats. A player
+        // that never guesses something the answers have ruled out should crack
+        // a four-peg, six-colour code in about five.
+        var state = MastermindRules.initialState(MastermindOptions(maxGuesses = 10))
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(3, 1, 4, 1)))
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, SECOND_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(5, 0, 2, 5)))
+
+        var plies = 0
+        while (!MastermindRules.isFinished(state) && plies < 40) {
+            state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, state.turn, choose(state))
+            plies++
+        }
+
+        assertTrue("the game never ended", MastermindRules.isFinished(state))
+        assertNotNull(state.outcome)
+        val broke = state.brokeIn(FIRST_SEAT) ?: state.brokeIn(SECOND_SEAT)
+        assertNotNull("neither side broke a code in ten guesses", broke)
+        assertTrue("it took $broke guesses", broke!! <= 8)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `it never guesses something the answers have already ruled out`() {
+        var state = MastermindRules.initialState(MastermindOptions())
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)))
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, SECOND_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(4, 5, 4, 5)))
+
+        repeat(6) {
+            if (MastermindRules.isFinished(state)) return
+            val seat = state.turn
+            val move = choose(state, level = MastermindLevel.STRONG)
+            // Everything already answered must still hold for this guess.
+            state.guesses[seat].forEach { answered ->
+                assertEquals(
+                    "guess ${move.code} contradicts ${answered.code}",
+                    answered.feedback,
+                    scoreGuess(move.code, answered.code),
+                )
+            }
+            state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, seat, move)
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/mastermind/MastermindRulesTest.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.mastermind
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class MastermindRulesTest {
+
+    private fun start(options: MastermindOptions = MastermindOptions()) =
+        MastermindRules.initialState(options)
+
+    /**
+     * A game with both codes already set, reached the way a real one is: each
+     * player choosing theirs in turn.
+     */
+    private fun withSecrets(
+        first: List<Int>,
+        second: List<Int>,
+        options: MastermindOptions = MastermindOptions(),
+    ): MastermindState {
+        val set = MastermindRules.applyMove(start(options), FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(first))
+        return MastermindRules.applyMove(set, SECOND_SEAT, MastermindMove(second))
+    }
+
+    private fun guess(state: MastermindState, code: List<Int>) =
+        MastermindRules.applyMove(state, state.turn, MastermindMove(code))
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Scoring
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a peg in the right place is exact and one in the wrong place is not`() {
+        assertEquals(Feedback(4, 0), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(0, 4), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(3, 2, 1, 0)))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(2, 2), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(0, 2, 1, 3)))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(0, 0), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 0, 0, 0), listOf(1, 1, 1, 1)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a colour is never counted twice`() {
+        // Three reds guessed against one red is worth one peg, however they sit.
+        assertEquals(Feedback(1, 0), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(0, 0, 0, 0)))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(0, 1), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 4, 4, 0)))
+        // And one red guessed against three is worth one as well.
+        assertEquals(Feedback(1, 0), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 0, 0, 1), listOf(0, 2, 3, 4)))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(2, 2), scoreGuess(listOf(0, 0, 1, 1), listOf(0, 1, 0, 1)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `scoring reads the same either way round`() {
+        // Which is what lets the solver test a candidate against a past guess
+        // rather than having to hold on to the code it was scored against.
+        val codes = allCodes(MastermindOptions(colours = 4, length = 3))
+        codes.take(30).forEach { a ->
+            codes.take(30).forEach { b ->
+                assertEquals(scoreGuess(a, b), scoreGuess(b, a))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Setting up
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a new game has no codes in it — the players set them`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(MastermindPhase.SETTING, state.phase)
+        assertEquals(FIRST_SEAT, state.turn)
+        assertTrue(state.secrets.all { it.isEmpty() })
+        assertFalse(state.hasSet(FIRST_SEAT))
+        assertFalse(state.hasSet(SECOND_SEAT))
+        // Nothing is hidden yet, because there is nothing to hide.
+        assertFalse(state.isHidden(SECOND_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `each player sets their own code, one after the other`() {
+        var state = start()
+        assertEquals(allCodes(state.options).size, MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, FIRST_SEAT).size)
+
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)))
+        assertEquals(MastermindPhase.SETTING, state.phase)
+        assertEquals(SECOND_SEAT, state.turn)
+        assertTrue(state.hasSet(FIRST_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), state.secrets[FIRST_SEAT])
+
+        state = MastermindRules.applyMove(state, SECOND_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(4, 4, 5, 5)))
+        assertEquals(MastermindPhase.GUESSING, state.phase)
+        // The guessing starts with the player who set first.
+        assertEquals(FIRST_SEAT, state.turn)
+        assertEquals(listOf(4, 4, 5, 5), state.secrets[SECOND_SEAT])
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the code you set is the one your opponent is breaking`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(first = listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), second = listOf(5, 5, 5, 5))
+        // The first player guesses at the second player's code, which is 5555.
+        state = guess(state, listOf(5, 5, 5, 5))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(4, 0), state.guesses[FIRST_SEAT].single().feedback)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a code the table does not allow is refused`() {
+        val state = start(MastermindOptions(colours = 6, length = 4, allowDuplicates = false))
+        assertTrue(
+            "a repeated colour on a no-repeats table",
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 0, 1, 2)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "the wrong number of pegs",
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        // And a table without repeats offers only codes without repeats.
+        assertTrue(
+            MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+                .all { it.code.distinct().size == it.code.size }
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nobody sets a code twice`() {
+        val state = MastermindRules.applyMove(
+            start(),
+            FIRST_SEAT,
+            MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)),
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(3, 2, 1, 0)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a table without duplicates counts a smaller space`() {
+        val options = MastermindOptions(colours = 6, length = 4, allowDuplicates = false)
+        // The falling factorial rather than a power.
+        assertEquals(6 * 5 * 4 * 3, options.codeSpace())
+        assertEquals(6 * 5 * 4 * 3, allCodes(options).size)
+        assertTrue(allCodes(options).all { it.distinct().size == it.size })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `every code is offered once and only once`() {
+        val options = MastermindOptions(colours = 4, length = 3)
+        val codes = allCodes(options)
+        assertEquals(4 * 4 * 4, codes.size)
+        assertEquals(codes.size, codes.distinct().size)
+        assertEquals(options.codeSpace(), codes.size)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Keeping the codes secret
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a code being chosen is not shown to the other player either`() {
+        val half = MastermindRules.applyMove(start(), FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)))
+        val asSecond = MastermindRules.viewFor(half, SECOND_SEAT)
+        assertTrue("set and hidden", asSecond.isHidden(FIRST_SEAT))
+        // But that they are ready is not a secret, or the screen could not say so.
+        assertTrue(asSecond.hasSet(FIRST_SEAT))
+        assertFalse(asSecond.hasSet(SECOND_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a player is shown their own code and not the one they are breaking`() {
+        val state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 0, 1))
+        val asFirst = MastermindRules.viewFor(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+        assertEquals(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), asFirst.secrets[FIRST_SEAT])
+        assertTrue("the code being broken must not cross the wire", asFirst.isHidden(SECOND_SEAT))
+
+        val asSecond = MastermindRules.viewFor(state, SECOND_SEAT)
+        assertEquals(listOf(4, 5, 0, 1), asSecond.secrets[SECOND_SEAT])
+        assertTrue(asSecond.isHidden(FIRST_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `both codes are shown once the game is over`() {
+        val state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 0, 1))
+            .copy(phase = MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER, outcome = MastermindOutcome.DRAW_NEITHER)
+        val seen = MastermindRules.viewFor(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+        assertFalse(seen.isHidden(SECOND_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(state, seen)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a device that was never told the code cannot score a guess against it`() {
+        // Which is what stops a client trying to run the host's job locally and
+        // silently scoring every guess as nothing.
+        val redacted = MastermindRules.viewFor(
+            withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 0, 1)),
+            FIRST_SEAT,
+        )
+        val attempt = runCatching {
+            MastermindRules.applyMove(redacted, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 0, 0, 0)))
+        }
+        assertTrue(attempt.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Playing
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a guess is answered and the turn passes`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(5, 5, 5, 5))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 1, 3, 2))
+        assertEquals(SECOND_SEAT, state.turn)
+        assertEquals(1, state.guesses[FIRST_SEAT].size)
+        // The first player is guessing at the second player's code.
+        assertEquals(Feedback(0, 0), state.guesses[FIRST_SEAT].single().feedback)
+
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 1, 2, 3))
+        assertEquals(Feedback(4, 0), state.guesses[SECOND_SEAT].single().feedback)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the same guess is not offered twice`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(5, 5, 5, 5))
+        val opening = listOf(0, 0, 1, 1)
+        val before = MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, FIRST_SEAT).size
+        state = guess(state, opening)
+        state = guess(state, listOf(3, 3, 3, 3))
+        val after = MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+        assertEquals(before - 1, after.size)
+        assertTrue(after.none { it.code == opening })
+
+        val repeated = runCatching {
+            MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(opening))
+        }
+        assertTrue(repeated.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a guess of the wrong shape is refused`() {
+        val state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(5, 5, 5, 5))
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "a colour outside the game is not a guess",
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, FIRST_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 9)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                MastermindRules.applyMove(state, SECOND_SEAT, MastermindMove(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3)))
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Ending
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the player who replies always gets an equal number of guesses`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        // The first player breaks it immediately. The game does not stop
+        // there — the second player is owed a guess of their own.
+        state = guess(state, listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        assertEquals(MastermindPhase.GUESSING, state.phase)
+        assertEquals(SECOND_SEAT, state.turn)
+
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 0, 0, 0))
+        assertEquals(MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER, state.phase)
+        assertEquals(MastermindOutcome.FIRST_WINS, state.outcome)
+        assertNull(MastermindRules.currentSeat(state))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `breaking it in the same round is a draw`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 1, 2, 3))
+        assertEquals(MastermindOutcome.DRAW_BOTH, state.outcome)
+        assertEquals(1, state.brokeIn(FIRST_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(1, state.brokeIn(SECOND_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the player who replies can win it outright`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 0, 0, 0))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 1, 2, 3))
+        assertEquals(MastermindOutcome.SECOND_WINS, state.outcome)
+        assertNull(state.brokeIn(FIRST_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `running out of guesses with neither code broken is a draw`() {
+        val options = MastermindOptions(colours = 6, length = 4, maxGuesses = 2)
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 0, 0, 0), listOf(1, 1, 1, 1), options)
+        repeat(2) {
+            state = guess(state, listOf(2, 2, 2, it))
+            state = guess(state, listOf(3, 3, 3, it))
+        }
+        assertEquals(MastermindOutcome.DRAW_NEITHER, state.outcome)
+        assertEquals(0, state.guessesLeft(FIRST_SEAT))
+        assertTrue(MastermindRules.legalMoves(state, FIRST_SEAT).isEmpty())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a state survives the round trip over the wire`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 1, 2, 3))
+        assertEquals(state, MastermindRules.decodeState(MastermindRules.encodeState(state)))
+        val move = MastermindMove(listOf(1, 2, 3, 4))
+        assertEquals(move, MastermindRules.decodeMove(MastermindRules.encodeMove(move)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the summary counts guesses without ever naming a colour`() {
+        assertEquals("Setting the codes — 0 of 2 chosen", MastermindRules.summary(start()))
+        val state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(4, 5, 4, 5))
+        assertEquals("Guess 1 of 10", MastermindRules.summary(state))
+        val over = state.copy(
+            phase = MastermindPhase.GAME_OVER,
+            outcome = MastermindOutcome.FIRST_WINS,
+        )
+        assertEquals(MastermindOutcome.FIRST_WINS.label, MastermindRules.summary(over))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the codes still standing are exactly those that fit every answer`() {
+        var state = withSecrets(listOf(0, 1, 2, 3), listOf(5, 4, 3, 2))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 0, 1, 1))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(0, 0, 0, 0))
+        state = guess(state, listOf(2, 3, 4, 5))
+
+        val standing = MastermindRules.consistentCodes(state, FIRST_SEAT)
+        assertTrue("the real code must survive", listOf(5, 4, 3, 2) in standing)
+        standing.forEach { candidate ->
+            state.guesses[FIRST_SEAT].forEach { answered ->
+                assertEquals(answered.feedback, scoreGuess(candidate, answered.code))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/prolibertate/games/game/pirates/PiratesRulesTest.kt

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+package org.prolibertate.games.game.pirates
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class PiratesRulesTest {
+
+    private fun start(options: PiratesOptions = PiratesOptions()) =
+        PiratesRules.initialState(options)
+
+    private fun point(name: String) = requireNotNull(pointFromName(name)) { "no point $name" }
+
+    private fun position(
+        bulgars: List<String>,
+        pirates: List<String>,
+        turn: Int = BULGAR_SEAT,
+        options: PiratesOptions = PiratesOptions(),
+    ): PiratesState {
+        val board = arrayOfNulls<Int>(POINTS)
+        bulgars.forEach { board[point(it)] = BULGAR_SEAT }
+        pirates.forEach { board[point(it)] = PIRATE_SEAT }
+        return start(options).copy(board = board.toList(), turn = turn)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The board
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the cross has thirty-three points and a nine-point stronghold`() {
+        assertEquals(33, POINTS)
+        assertEquals(9, STRONGHOLD.size)
+        // Which leaves exactly twenty-four points outside it — the number of
+        // Bulgars, and not a coincidence.
+        assertEquals(24, POINTS - STRONGHOLD.size)
+        assertFalse(isOnBoard(0, 0))
+        assertFalse(isOnBoard(6, 6))
+        assertTrue(isOnBoard(3, 0))
+        assertTrue(isOnBoard(0, 3))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `lines run orthogonally everywhere and diagonally on the even points`() {
+        // The centre of the board has all eight; the point beside it has four.
+        assertEquals(8, ADJACENCY[point("d4")].size)
+        assertEquals(4, ADJACENCY[point("d5")].size)
+        // And every line is drawn from both ends.
+        (0 until POINTS).forEach { from ->
+            ADJACENCY[from].forEach { to ->
+                assertTrue("${pointName(from)}–${pointName(to)} is one-way", from in ADJACENCY[to])
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `points are named as a grid, and the names round-trip`() {
+        // Reading order, so the stronghold starts at its top-left corner.
+        assertEquals("c7", pointName(STRONGHOLD.first()))
+        assertEquals("e5", pointName(STRONGHOLD.last()))
+        (0 until POINTS).forEach { assertEquals(it, pointFromName(pointName(it))) }
+        assertNull(pointFromName("a7"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening array fills the board but the stronghold`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(24, state.count(BULGAR_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(2, state.count(PIRATE_SEAT))
+        assertEquals(0, state.stronghold())
+        assertEquals(BULGAR_SEAT, state.turn)
+        // Every point outside the stronghold is occupied by a Bulgar.
+        (0 until POINTS).filterNot { isStronghold(it) }.forEach {
+            assertEquals(BULGAR_SEAT, state.board[it])
+        }
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The Bulgars
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `Bulgars move one step and never backwards`() {
+        val state = position(bulgars = listOf("d4"), pirates = listOf("c7", "e7"))
+        val moves = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue("every Bulgar move is a single step", moves.all { it.steps.size == 1 })
+        moves.forEach {
+            assertTrue(
+                "${pointName(it.to)} is behind ${pointName(it.from)}",
+                rowOf(it.to) <= rowOf(it.from),
+            )
+        }
+        // d4 is the centre, so eight lines out of it and three of them go back.
+        assertEquals(5, moves.size)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `Bulgars may retreat when the table says so`() {
+        val penned = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d4"),
+            pirates = listOf("c7", "e7"),
+            options = PiratesOptions(bulgarsMayNotRetreat = false),
+        )
+        assertEquals(8, PiratesRules.legalMoves(penned).size)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `Bulgars cannot take anything`() {
+        // A pirate stands next to a Bulgar with an empty point beyond it, which
+        // would be a capture if the Bulgars could capture.
+        val state = position(bulgars = listOf("d5"), pirates = listOf("d6", "c7"))
+        assertTrue(PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).all { it.steps.size == 1 })
+        assertTrue(PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).none { isJumpFrom(it.from, it.to) })
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The pirates
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a pirate takes by jumping and must take when it can`() {
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d5", "d3", "b4", "f4", "c1", "e1", "d1", "a3", "g3"),
+            pirates = listOf("d6", "c7"),
+            turn = PIRATE_SEAT,
+        )
+        val moves = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue("with a jump on the board nothing else is a move", moves.isNotEmpty())
+        assertTrue(moves.all { isJumpFrom(it.from, it.steps.first()) })
+
+        val jump = moves.first { it.from == point("d6") }
+        val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, PIRATE_SEAT, jump)
+        // One Bulgar per hop — and the hops carry on while there is another to
+        // take, so this one takes two.
+        assertEquals(9 - jump.steps.size, after.count(BULGAR_SEAT))
+        assertTrue(jump.steps.size >= 1)
+        assertEquals(0, after.pliesSinceProgress)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a chain of jumps is one turn`() {
+        // Two Bulgars in a line with a gap past each, so the pirate takes both.
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d6", "d4", "b4", "f4", "c1", "e1", "d1", "a3", "g3", "c2"),
+            pirates = listOf("d7", "c7"),
+            turn = PIRATE_SEAT,
+        )
+        val chains = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).filter { it.steps.size > 1 }
+        assertTrue("the double jump should be there", chains.isNotEmpty())
+        val chain = chains.first()
+        val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, PIRATE_SEAT, chain)
+        assertEquals(10 - chain.steps.size, after.count(BULGAR_SEAT))
+        // One move, so the turn has passed exactly once.
+        assertEquals(BULGAR_SEAT, after.turn)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a pirate that cannot take may walk`() {
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("a3", "g3", "d1", "c1", "e1", "c2", "e2", "a4", "g4"),
+            pirates = listOf("c7", "e7"),
+            turn = PIRATE_SEAT,
+        )
+        val moves = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue(moves.isNotEmpty())
+        assertTrue(moves.all { it.steps.size == 1 })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the same Bulgar is never taken twice in one chain`() {
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d6", "d4", "c5", "b4", "c1", "e1", "d1", "a3", "g3", "f4"),
+            pirates = listOf("d7", "e7"),
+            turn = PIRATE_SEAT,
+        )
+        PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).forEach { move ->
+            val taken = mutableListOf<Int>()
+            var at = move.from
+            move.steps.forEach { landing ->
+                jumpedBetween(at, landing)?.let { taken += it }
+                at = landing
+            }
+            assertEquals("a Bulgar was jumped twice: $move", taken.size, taken.distinct().size)
+        }
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Ending
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `filling the stronghold wins it for the Bulgars`() {
+        // Eight of the nine points held, the ninth empty at c5, and a Bulgar on
+        // b5 one step to its left. The pirates have been driven out of it
+        // entirely, which is the only way this position arises.
+        val held = STRONGHOLD.map { pointName(it) }.filterNot { it == "c5" }
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = held + listOf("b5"),
+            pirates = listOf("a4", "g4"),
+            turn = BULGAR_SEAT,
+        )
+        assertEquals(8, state.stronghold())
+
+        val into = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+            .single { it.from == point("b5") && it.to == point("c5") }
+        val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, BULGAR_SEAT, into)
+
+        assertEquals(9, after.stronghold())
+        assertEquals(PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_STORM, after.outcome)
+        assertTrue(PiratesRules.isFinished(after))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `cutting the Bulgars below nine wins it for the pirates`() {
+        // Nine Bulgars, one of them about to be jumped: eight cannot fill a
+        // nine-point stronghold, so the assault is over.
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d5", "b4", "f4", "c1", "e1", "d1", "a3", "g3", "c2"),
+            pirates = listOf("d6", "c7"),
+            turn = PIRATE_SEAT,
+        )
+        val jump = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).first { isJumpFrom(it.from, it.steps.first()) }
+        val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, PIRATE_SEAT, jump)
+        assertEquals(PiratesOutcome.PIRATES_CUT_DOWN, after.outcome)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `pirates with nowhere to go have lost`() {
+        // Both pirates in the stronghold's back corners with Bulgars filling
+        // every point they could step or jump to.
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = STRONGHOLD.map { pointName(it) }.filterNot { it == "c7" || it == "e7" } +
+                listOf("c4", "d4", "e4", "b4", "f4", "a3", "g3", "d1"),
+            pirates = listOf("c7", "e7"),
+            turn = BULGAR_SEAT,
+        )
+        // Whatever the Bulgars play, if the pirates end up stuck they lose.
+        val move = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).firstOrNull()
+        if (move != null) {
+            val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, BULGAR_SEAT, move)
+            if (after.phase == PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER) {
+                assertTrue(
+                    after.outcome == PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_PEN_IN ||
+                        after.outcome == PiratesOutcome.BULGARS_STORM
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a game that gets nowhere for a long time is a draw`() {
+        val state = position(
+            bulgars = listOf("d5", "b4", "f4", "c1", "e1", "d1", "a3", "g3", "c2", "e2"),
+            pirates = listOf("c7", "e7"),
+            turn = BULGAR_SEAT,
+            options = PiratesOptions(plyLimitWithoutProgress = 2),
+        ).copy(pliesSinceProgress = 1)
+        val quiet = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).first { !isStronghold(it.to) }
+        val after = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, BULGAR_SEAT, quiet)
+        assertEquals(PiratesOutcome.DRAW_STALEMATE, after.outcome)
+    }
+
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // The engine contract
+    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the opening has a move for the crowd and the generator counts straight`() {
+        val state = start()
+        val moves = PiratesRules.legalMoves(state)
+        assertTrue(moves.isNotEmpty())
+        assertTrue(moves.all { state.board[it.from] == BULGAR_SEAT })
+        assertEquals(moves.size.toLong(), PiratesRules.perft(state, 1))
+        assertTrue(PiratesRules.perft(state, 2) > moves.size.toLong())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an illegal move is refused rather than played`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertTrue(
+            runCatching {
+                PiratesRules.applyMove(state, PIRATE_SEAT, PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+        assertTrue(
+            "a Bulgar cannot walk onto an occupied point",
+            runCatching {
+                PiratesRules.applyMove(
+                    state,
+                    BULGAR_SEAT,
+                    PiratesMove(from = point("d1"), steps = listOf(point("d2"))),
+                )
+            }.exceptionOrNull() is IllegalArgumentException
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a state survives the round trip over the wire`() {
+        var state = start()
+        state = PiratesRules.applyMove(state, BULGAR_SEAT, PiratesRules.legalMoves(state).first())
+        assertEquals(state, PiratesRules.decodeState(PiratesRules.encodeState(state)))
+        val move = PiratesMove(from = 0, steps = listOf(1))
+        assertEquals(move, PiratesRules.decodeMove(PiratesRules.encodeMove(move)))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `nothing is hidden from either seat`() {
+        val state = start()
+        assertEquals(state, PiratesRules.viewFor(state, PIRATE_SEAT))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the summary counts the stronghold and the crowd`() {
+        val summary = PiratesRules.summary(start())
+        assertTrue(summary.contains("0 of 9"))
+        assertTrue(summary.contains("24 Bulgars"))
+        val over = start().copy(
+            phase = PiratesPhase.GAME_OVER,
+            outcome = PiratesOutcome.PIRATES_CUT_DOWN,
+        )
+        assertEquals(PiratesOutcome.PIRATES_CUT_DOWN.label, PiratesRules.summary(over))
+        assertNull(PiratesRules.currentSeat(over))
+    }
+}

docs/RULES-backgammon.md

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+# Backgammon
+
+Twenty-four points, fifteen checkers a side, and two dice. Bring everything
+round to your home board and bear it off before your opponent does.
+
+## The board
+
+Points are numbered 1 to 24. **White runs down the numbers and bears off past
+1; Black runs up them and bears off past 24.** White's home board is points 1–6,
+Black's is 19–24.
+
+A point belongs to whoever has two or more checkers on it, and is closed to the
+other player. A point with exactly one checker on it is a **blot**, and can be
+hit.
+
+## The opening
+
+Each player throws one die and the higher number starts, playing both dice as
+thrown. A tie is thrown again, so the game never opens on a double.
+
+## A turn
+
+Throw two dice and move one checker for each. **A double is four moves**, not
+two.
+
+The rule that decides most disputes is this one: **you must use as much of the
+roll as you can.** If there is a way to play both dice, you must play both, even
+when playing one would suit you better. If only one can be played, it must be
+the higher one. The app enforces this by working out every way the whole roll
+could be played before offering you anything, so a move that would strand the
+other die is simply never on the board. That is why a legal-looking move
+sometimes cannot be tapped: playing it would waste half your roll.
+
+## Hitting and the bar
+
+Landing on a blot sends it to the bar. A player with a checker on the bar must
+bring it back on before moving anything else, entering in the opponent's home
+board: White enters on 24 minus the die, Black on the die itself. If every entry
+point is closed the turn is lost, and it can be lost several times over.
+
+## Bearing off
+
+Once all fifteen checkers are in your home board you may start bearing off. An
+exact die takes a checker off the point that needs it. A bigger die may take one
+off your highest occupied point, but only when nothing is standing further back —
+an overshooting die may never take a checker that a smaller die could have
+reached.
+
+## Winning
+
+Fifteen off wins. How much it is worth depends on how badly the loser lost:
+
+| | |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Single**, 1 point | the loser has borne at least one checker off |
+| **Gammon**, 2 points | the loser has borne nothing off |
+| **Backgammon**, 3 points | and still has a checker on the bar or in the winner's home |
+
+Counting gammons is an option. It changes nothing about the moves and everything
+about whether a hopeless game is worth playing out.
+
+## Not implemented
+
+**There is no doubling cube.** A single game is played rather than a match to a
+number of points, and with nothing being kept between games there is nothing for
+a cube to double. It is the largest thing missing from this implementation and
+the one a serious player will notice first.
+
+## The dice
+
+Every die in the game comes from the table's own seed and a count of how many
+rolls have been made, so a game is reproducible from the state it started in and
+a host and a client can never disagree about what was thrown. The seed travels
+with the state, which is safe: backgammon has nothing hidden, and the host is
+authoritative about every roll in any case.
+
+## What the computer does
+
+Not a search in the sense the chess and checkers players are one — there is no
+tree to walk, because the opponent's reply depends on dice nobody has thrown
+yet. Instead it weighs **whole turns**: every distinct way the roll can be
+played, scored by the board it leaves behind.
+
+Weighing turns rather than checkers is the point. A backgammon move is only good
+in company — splitting the back checkers is right or wrong depending on what the
+other die did — and a player choosing one checker at a time would never see it.
+
+At the strongest level it also averages what the dice might do to it next: all
+twenty-one distinct rolls, weighted properly (6-5 comes up twice as often as
+5-5), taking the opponent's best answer to each.
+
+The evaluation is built on the pip count, because backgammon is a race. Around
+that: a blot is only a liability if it can be hit, so exposure is weighted by
+how far away the nearest enemy checker is; a made point in your own home board
+is worth having because it is one more number your opponent cannot come in on;
+and a long run of consecutive points is what traps a checker behind it.

docs/RULES-checkers.md

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+# Checkers
+
+English draughts, on the thirty-two dark squares of an eight-by-eight board.
+Twelve pieces a side, Black moves first.
+
+## The board
+
+Squares are numbered 1 to 32 the way the game has always been written down:
+square 1 at the top left, running along each row and down the board to 32. Black
+starts on 1–12, White on 21–32, and the two middle rows are empty. Only the dark
+squares are ever played on, so a move is two numbers — `11-15` for a quiet move,
+`11x18` for a jump.
+
+## Moving
+
+A man moves one square diagonally **forwards**. Black moves down the board,
+White up it.
+
+A man that reaches the far row is **crowned** and becomes a king, which moves
+one square diagonally in either direction.
+
+## Taking
+
+You take by jumping an enemy piece and landing on the empty square directly
+beyond it. Three rules follow, and all three are enforced by the engine rather
+than left to the players:
+
+- **A capture is compulsory.** If anything can be taken anywhere on the board,
+  a quiet move is not a legal move at all. The app simply will not offer one.
+- **A multiple jump is one turn.** Where a jump can be followed by another with
+  the same piece, it must be — and the whole chain is a single move. A shorter
+  prefix of a longer capture is never offered, so there is no way to stop
+  halfway.
+- **A man may not jump backwards.** Only kings take in both directions.
+
+You do *not* have to take the longest capture available: any complete jump will
+do. That is the English rule; international draughts requires the maximum.
+
+## Crowning mid-jump
+
+A man that jumps into the far row is crowned and **the turn ends there**, even
+with another jump available. This is the English rule and it is on by default.
+Turn *Crowning ends the turn* off and the man carries on jumping as a man,
+crowned only if it finishes on the back row — which is the international rule.
+
+## Winning
+
+A player who has no pieces, or who has pieces but no legal move, has lost. The
+two are the same condition as far as the engine is concerned: no moves is a
+loss, whatever the reason.
+
+## Draws
+
+- **Threefold repetition** — the same position with the same player to move,
+  three times over.
+- **Eighty plies without progress** — forty moves each with nothing taken and
+  nothing crowned. Both are options.
+
+## Flying kings
+
+Off by default. Turned on, a king slides any distance along a diagonal and takes
+an enemy piece from a distance, landing on any empty square beyond it — the
+international king.
+
+**One honest deviation:** a piece taken by a flying king is lifted immediately.
+International draughts leaves captured pieces standing until the turn ends, so
+they block the rest of the sequence, which occasionally forbids a chain this
+implementation allows. Fixing it properly means tracking captured-but-present
+pieces through the whole search, and it is written down here rather than
+pretended away.
+
+## What the computer does
+
+Negamax with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening, to seven ply at the
+strongest level — deeper than the chess player reaches, because compulsory
+capture keeps the branching factor low.
+
+There is no quiescence search and it does not need one: the usual failure of a
+fixed-depth search is stopping in the middle of an exchange, and compulsory
+capture handles that by itself, since a position where a piece has just been
+taken usually has the recapture as its only legal move.
+
+Its evaluation counts material first, with kings worth well over a man, and then
+two things beginners underrate: **men are worth more the closer they are to
+being crowned**, and **the back row is worth holding**, because an empty back
+row is a road to a crown for the other side. The two pull against each other,
+which is about right.
+
+## The move generator is checked against published numbers
+
+`CheckersRulesTest` counts the leaf nodes below the opening position — 7, 49,
+302 and 1469 at one to four ply — and those are the published figures for
+English draughts. A generator that matches them that far has very little room
+left to be wrong: the counts fold in compulsory capture, crowning and the
+men's forward-only rule all at once.

docs/RULES-mastermind.md

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+# Mastermind
+
+A hidden code of coloured pegs, and a fixed number of guesses to break it.
+
+## Played as a duel
+
+The pencil-and-paper game is one person setting a code and another breaking it,
+which makes a poor two-handed game: one player would sit and watch.
+
+Here **each player sets the code their opponent will have to break**, and then
+both are breaking one, a guess each in turn. Whoever cracks theirs first wins.
+
+Setting your own code is half of Mastermind, and a generated one takes it away.
+Whether to repeat a colour, whether to leave one out, whether to do the thing
+this particular opponent will not expect — those are real decisions, and no
+random number generator makes them.
+
+The codes are chosen one after the other rather than at the same time, because
+the engine only ever has one player on the clock. It costs nothing: neither can
+see the other's, so going second is not an advantage. Once both are down, the
+guessing starts with whoever set first.
+
+That symmetry is why the game ends at the foot of a round rather than the moment
+somebody gets it. If the player who went first breaks the code on their sixth
+guess, the player who replied still gets a sixth guess of their own — and
+equalling it is a draw. Ending it any earlier would make going first worth half
+a guess.
+
+## The answer
+
+Each guess is answered with pegs:
+
+- a **dark** peg for a colour in the right place;
+- a **light** peg for a colour that is in the code but somewhere else.
+
+**A colour is never counted twice.** Three reds guessed against a code with one
+red is worth exactly one peg, however they are arranged. The pegs say how many,
+never which, and they are deliberately not lined up under the code they answer —
+a tidy row would invite reading a position into them that is not there.
+
+## Options
+
+| | |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Colours** | 6 or 8 |
+| **Pegs** | 3, 4 or 5 |
+| **Guesses each** | 8, 10 or 12 |
+| **Repeated colours** | on by default; off makes every peg a different colour |
+| **Opponent** | Casual, Club or Strong |
+
+The setup screen shows how many codes are possible, which is the honest measure
+of how hard a game will be: 1,296 for the standard four pegs and six colours,
+32,768 for five pegs and eight.
+
+## Ending
+
+- One player breaks it and the other does not — that player wins.
+- Both break it in the same round — a draw.
+- Neither breaks it before the guesses run out — a draw.
+
+## Keeping the codes secret
+
+This is the only game here with anything to hide, and it is the only one whose
+`viewFor` does real work. The host holds both codes and sends each device **only
+its own**: the code you are trying to break is never on your device in the first
+place, so there is nothing to find by digging through what arrived over the
+network.
+
+A code set on a guest's device reaches the host as a move, and stops there.
+Moves travel one way — they are intents sent to the host, never relayed on to
+the other player — so the only copy that ever reaches an opponent's screen is
+the redacted one.
+
+What is *not* hidden is whether the other player has finished choosing. That is
+not a secret, and a screen has to be able to say "waiting for them" rather than
+sit there blank, so the state carries a plain flag per player alongside the
+code.
+
+A guess is scored by the host, which is the only machine that can score it. A
+device asked to score a guess against a code it was never given refuses rather
+than quietly answering "nothing" — tested, because that failure would look like
+a very hard code rather than like a bug.
+
+Both codes are revealed when the game ends. There is nothing left to protect,
+and a code breaker wants to see what they were up against.
+
+## What the computer does
+
+**Setting a code**, the computer takes one at random and does not try to be
+clever: a code chosen to beat a particular solver is a code with a pattern in
+it, and a pattern is the one thing a code should not have.
+
+That single choice is drawn from a source nobody else can see. Every other
+random number in this app is seeded from the position so that a host and a
+client agree on what happened — but a code seeded from anything that travels
+over the wire could be reconstructed by the very player who is supposed to be
+guessing it.
+
+**Breaking one**, there is no tree to search — a guess cannot be answered badly,
+and the opponent makes no reply — so the whole game is in choosing what to try
+next.
+
+- **Casual** guesses anything it has not tried, ruled out or not.
+- **Club** never guesses a code the answers have already eliminated. That one
+  rule is most of the strength, and it cracks a standard code in about five.
+- **Strong** is Knuth's idea one ply deep: among the codes still standing, it
+  plays the one whose *worst* possible answer leaves the fewest candidates
+  behind, so it cannot be handed a reply that tells it little. Both lists are
+  sampled when they are large — the full calculation on a fresh game is over a
+  million scorings for a choice a sample makes just as well.

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+# Pirates and Bulgars
+
+Two pirates hold a stronghold at the head of a cross-shaped board. Twenty-four
+Bulgars come at it from the other three arms. Only one side can take pieces, and
+it is not the big one.
+
+## Note the caveats about the reconstruction
+
+**"Dalmatian Pirates and the Volga Bulgars" is Sid Sackson's theming, in *The
+Book of Classic Board Games*, of the game usually called Asalto** — itself a
+nineteenth-century descendant of Fox and Geese. That much is attested.
+
+The book could not be obtained, so **what is implemented here is Asalto**, and
+where Asalto's own sources disagree a choice had to be made. What follows says
+which is which, in the same spirit as the Ta Yü document: the game is playable
+and coherent, and it is not a transcription of a rulebook nobody here has read.
+
+**Attested** — the shape of the board and its thirty-three points; the
+stronghold being one nine-point arm; two hunters against twenty-four; the
+hunters taking by jumping and the crowd being unable to take at all; the crowd
+winning by filling the stronghold or by penning the hunters in; the hunters
+winning by cutting the crowd below the number needed to fill it.
+
+**Chosen here** —
+
+- **Which side is which.** Sackson's theme names two peoples; nothing available
+  said which of them is the pair and which the crowd. The pirates are the two,
+  on the reasoning that a raiding party is small and a stronghold is what you
+  raid.
+- **The diagonals.** Boards of this family are printed with diagonals in a
+  pattern rather than everywhere. The pattern used is the usual one: a diagonal
+  exists where the row and column of a point add to an even number, which gives
+  the centre eight lines and its neighbours four.
+- **Compulsory capture instead of huffing.** Traditionally a hunter who fails to
+  take when it could is *huffed* — removed by the other player. That is the same
+  rule with an extra step and a way to forget to use it, so a pirate that can
+  take simply must. It is an option, and turning it off restores the choice
+  without restoring the punishment.
+- **Bulgars may not retreat.** Standard for the soldiers in Asalto, and stated
+  here as an option because it is the single rule that most changes how the game
+  feels.
+- **The draw rule.** No source gives one. Sixty plies with nothing taken and no
+  ground gained is called a draw, because two sides that can each hold a
+  position otherwise have no reason ever to stop.
+
+## The board
+
+```
+        c7  d7  e7          ← the stronghold, nine points
+        c6  d6  e6
+        c5  d5  e5
+a4  b4  c4  d4  e4  f4  g4
+a3  b3  c3  d3  e3  f3  g3    (the middle band is seven wide)
+a2  b2  c2  d2  e2  f2  g2
+        c1  d1  e1
+```
+
+Thirty-three points: a seven-by-seven grid with the four corners cut away. The
+top arm — nine points — is the stronghold, which leaves exactly twenty-four
+points outside it. That is not a coincidence: the board and the pieces are cut
+to each other, and the game opens with every point occupied except the seven the
+pirates are not standing on.
+
+Lines run orthogonally between all neighbouring points, and diagonally where the
+row and column add to an even number. **The lines the screen draws come from the
+same table the moves come from**, so what you can see and what you may play
+cannot disagree.
+
+## The two sides
+
+**The Bulgars** — twenty-four. Move one step along a line, towards the
+stronghold or across it, **never back down the board**. They cannot take
+anything at all.
+
+**The pirates** — two. Move one step along a line in any direction, and take by
+jumping an adjacent Bulgar to the empty point directly beyond. A jump may be
+followed by another with the same pirate, and then it must be: a chain is one
+turn, and it cannot be abandoned halfway.
+
+The Bulgars move first. The pirates are already where they want to be.
+
+## Winning
+
+**The Bulgars win** by occupying all nine points of the stronghold, or by
+leaving the pirates with no legal move.
+
+**The pirates win** by cutting the Bulgars below nine, at which point there are
+not enough of them left to fill the stronghold however long the game runs.
+
+## What the computer does
+
+Negamax with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening, over the same rules
+engine the game runs on.
+
+The interesting part of a hunt game is that the two sides want opposite shapes
+out of the same board, and one evaluation has to speak for both. The terms are
+written from the Bulgars' point of view and negated for the pirates, so the two
+cannot drift apart and start valuing the same position differently.
+
+What it counts: how many Bulgars are left and how far up the board they have
+come; how much of the stronghold they hold; how much room the pirates have to
+work in; and — the term that does the most work — **how many Bulgars are
+standing where a pirate could jump them**. A Bulgar with an empty point behind
+it on a line is a Bulgar about to be taken, and not being jumpable is most of
+staying alive in this game.

gradle.properties

@@ -11,3 +11,15 @@ kotlin.code.style=official
 
 # Only build the resources needed for the configuration being built.
 android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
+
+# The version series every build and every release tag is named for: an APK is
+# <series>.<run number>, a production tag is v<series>.<n> and a dev tag adds
+# -dev. It lives here rather than in the build file because the workflows have
+# to name the tag as well, and they read it straight out of this file — three
+# copies of "1.1" would be three chances for a release to be tagged one thing
+# and built as another.
+#
+# Only the series is set by hand. The number after it is the CI run number, so
+# it keeps climbing on its own and an APK's versionCode never goes backwards
+# when this changes.
+plgVersionSeries=1.1