Creating a blank out of thin air, possibly via the premove feature

magratheazaphod commented 4 years ago

School Scrabble Player reported in our Discord that he was somehow able to create a blank out of thin air in this game. We think it has something to do with putting a premove on the board at a spot where opponent ended up playing.

jvc56 commented 4 years ago

I think it's definitely when a move comes down over a premove. A similar thing happened to me where one of my tiles disappears. It's always when an opponent plays over my premove.

domino14 commented 4 years ago

@jvc56 were you typing? we were thinking it was related to using drag-drop

jvc56 commented 4 years ago

I was typing, yeah, I never drag and drop.

domino14 commented 4 years ago

Thanks to a couple of players who were able to reproduce this reliably:

start a game against someone
premove somewhere, when it is NOT your turn, then click and HOLD one of the tiles you premoved. For example, let's say you're clicking and holding a tile at 8K.
if your opponent makes a play that has a tile at 8K, then you will suddenly get a blank -- the blank modal will pop up. You can assign the blank or dismiss it and then the blank will be on your rack
thankfully, the blank is not real. You can't play it or use it in any way.
you can make the blank go away by backspacing onto it sometimes, but it's not reliable. Refreshing or just taking a regular turn should fix it.

domino14 commented 4 years ago

fixed by #172

woogles-io / liwords

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