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A jack's power is carried by its artwork on a real deck — drawn in profile it shows one eye and removes a chip, drawn face-on it shows two and is wild. These cards render as rank and suit only, so J♦ and J♠ were indistinguishable in hand despite doing opposite things. Jacks in hand now carry the word on their face, and the hint under the hand says what tapping will do rather than the generic "tap a highlighted square", which was wrong for a one-eyed jack anyway — those target an opponent's chip, not a highlighted empty square. The caption is a general PlayingCardView option, so any later game whose cards carry meaning beyond rank and suit can use it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015qjfMiPUDshdKEUa6vxqzN
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83 lines
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# Sequence — implemented rules
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This is the ruleset the engine enforces. Anything marked **toggle** is exposed
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in the game setup screen.
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## ⚠️ The board layout is not the commercial one
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`SequenceBoard.LAYOUT` in `SequenceModel.kt` is a **generated** 10×10 layout, not
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a reproduction of the printed Sequence board. It was generated because the real
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arrangement could not be verified from here, and shipping a guessed one labelled
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as authentic would have been worse than shipping an honest substitute.
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It satisfies every property the rules depend on:
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- each of the 48 non-jack cards appears exactly twice,
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- the four corners are free squares,
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- no card is adjacent to its own twin (including diagonally).
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So the game plays correctly — but square for square it will not match a physical
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board, and two players using this app plus one physical board would disagree.
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To fix that, replace the ten strings in `LAYOUT` with the real arrangement.
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Nothing else needs to change; the parser, the tests and the AI all read from it.
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## Table
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- **Teams — *toggle*.** Two or three. Seats are dealt round-robin into teams, so
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team-mates are never seated adjacently.
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- **Players per team — *toggle*.** 1 to 4.
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- **Sequences to win — *toggle*.** Defaults to 2 for two teams and 1 for three
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teams, matching the usual rule, but can be set explicitly.
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## Cards
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Two full 52-card decks, shuffled together — 104 cards.
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Hand size shrinks as the table grows:
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| Players | Cards |
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| --- | --- |
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| 2 | 7 |
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| 3–4 | 6 |
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| 5–6 | 5 |
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| 7–9 | 4 |
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| 10+ | 3 |
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After playing a card you draw a replacement. If the draw pile runs out, the
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discards are shuffled to form a new one.
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## Turn
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Play one card and place a chip on a matching empty square, then draw.
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- **Two-eyed jacks** (♦ and ♣) are wild: place a chip on any empty square.
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- **One-eyed jacks** (♥ and ♠) remove one opposing chip — but never a chip that
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is part of a completed sequence, and never your own team's chip.
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On a physical deck the difference is carried by the artwork: a jack drawn in
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profile shows one eye, a jack drawn face-on shows two. These cards are drawn as
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rank and suit only, so a jack in hand is captioned **WILD** or **REMOVE**
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instead.
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- **Dead card — *toggle*, on by default.** If both squares printed with your card
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are already occupied, you may discard it and draw a replacement. This does not
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cost your turn, and you may do it once per turn.
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## Sequences
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A sequence is five chips in a row — horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
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- The **four corners are free squares** and count towards any team's sequence.
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- Two sequences may **share at most one chip**. The engine enforces this by
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refusing to count a run of five that contains more than one already-locked
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square.
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- Chips in a completed sequence are locked and cannot be removed by a one-eyed
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jack.
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The first team to reach the sequence target wins immediately.
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## Known simplifications
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- A completely blocked table (no legal move for anyone) ends the game without a
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winner rather than triggering a formal draw.
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- The AI does not count cards or track which squares opponents can still reach.
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