Every playthrough showed the exact same fixed 30 letters in the exact
same order — no randomization anywhere in the codebase. Added 15 new
letters (3 per day, l31-l45), bringing each day's pool to 9, and
changed the engine to draw PER_DAY_COUNT (6) at random from that pool
per game instead of always using the same fixed set.
- engine.ts: buildRoster() shuffles each day's pool and takes the
first 6; GameState now carries a `roster` (letter ids in day order)
generated once at createState() and persisted with the rest of the
save. lettersForDay/currentLetter read through the roster instead
of the full LETTERS array directly.
- Save key bumped to v3 — old saves have no roster field, and
backfilling one wouldn't match already-recorded decisions, so old
saves are simply ignored rather than partially migrated.
- Tests rewritten: several previously asserted specific letter ids at
specific positions, which no longer holds under randomization.
Split into buildRoster() property tests (right count, no dupes,
every id resolves, different seeds differ) and engine tests that
either check general correctness or construct an explicit roster
when a specific letter's behavior needs locking in (l22, l04).
Verified: 11/11 vitest, tsc clean, and a real 5-fresh-games browser
test confirming 5 different first-letter senders instead of the same
one every time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
