The Player Hand

The Player Hand is the strip along the bottom of the session screen that holds tiles only you can see. Other players see how many tiles you have but not which ones.

Enabling the hand

The hand is controlled in Table Settings. Open the Table tab and look for the Hand section.

• Hand toggle -- turns the hand on or off for the entire session. When off, none of the actions below are available.
• Max Hand Size -- the maximum number of tiles any single player can hold (default 5, up to 99).

Getting tiles into your hand

There are several ways to add tiles to your hand:

When your hand is full, these actions are blocked and you see an error message telling you the hand limit.

A tile always enters your hand un-exhausted and upright, whatever state it was in on the table. Exhausting is a mark on a card in play, and a card in your hand is not in play. The same rule already applies to a card put back into a deck. Undo restores whatever the tile looked like on the table.

How big cards look in your hand

Cards in your hand are drawn at their real size, so a big card looks big and a small token looks small. Nothing is shrunk just for being large.

At rest a card is sunk below the bottom edge of the screen so only a strip of its top shows. Your hand never eats the table.

That strip always shows, whatever angle the card is at. A turned card is sunk by what it really paints at that angle, not by its upright height, so it can never end up below the line where you would be unable to see or grab it.

Hovering a card lifts it clear of the edge so you can see all of it. It does not magnify it. A card that was already at its real size is exactly the same size hovered as it was at rest, because it was already full size.

The hand only shrinks when the whole ROW stops fitting the width of the screen, and then every card shrinks by the same amount so cards never change size relative to each other. Hovering a card in a shrunken row gives it its real size back for as long as you are pointing at it. Past a point the shrinking stops and the hand fans cards out over one another instead.

Using tiles in your hand

Hover over a tile in your hand to lift it into view. From there you can:

• Drag to the table -- drag the tile upward out of the hand area and drop it anywhere on the table surface.
• Drag to a stack -- drag the tile onto a stack to add it on top.
• Double-click -- flips the tile between face-up and face-down.
• Right-click -- opens a context menu with actions for the tile.
• Reorder -- drag a tile sideways within the hand to change its position.

When your hand is empty, a message reads "Your hand is empty" in place of the tiles.

Passing a stack to another player

When you are holding a whole stack in your hand, select it and press Pass Left or Pass Right in the Action Dock. The stack leaves your hand and arrives in a neighboring player's hand.

• The direction is a per-press choice. There are two actions, and each one names the way it sends the stack. Nothing has to be configured beforehand, and two players at the same table can pass different ways on the same turn.
• Only that stack moves. The rest of your hand stays with you, exactly as it was.
• The contents stay private. Only the player currently holding the stack can see what is in it, both before and after the pass. The player who sent it can no longer see its contents.
• Pass is unavailable when you are the only player seated, because there is no other seat to send the stack to.
• A pass is undoable. Undo returns the stack, with its tiles, to the player who sent it.

Which way Left and Right go

Left is clockwise around the table, and lands on the next seat in the seating order. Right is counterclockwise, and lands on the previous one. Unoccupied seats are not part of the ring, so a stack hops over an empty seat to the next player who is actually sitting there.

These are the same two directions everywhere they appear: the Pass Left and Pass Right actions, the Direction field on the Pass Stack step, and the Left Player and Right Player options that every seat-targeting step offers.

Opening a stack to the table

When you are holding a whole stack, select it and press Open in the Action Dock to make it readable by every seat while it stays in your hand. Press Close on the same stack to make it private again.

• What changes. An open stack stays yours -- it is still addressable only to your seat, and only you can take tiles out of it, draw from it, or pass it along. The one thing Open changes is who can READ its contents: with the flag set, every seat can see the tiles inside, not just you. This is the ONE verb that intentionally relaxes hand privacy; every other held-stack action either keeps a stack private or moves it between exactly the seats already entitled to see it.
• Why it exists. An open stack is how an open-information draft works: everyone at the table can see what is in a stack as it moves from hand to hand, the way an open draft in a physical game works face-up on the table.
• How it looks. An open stack shows a teal ring around it and an "OPEN" pill in its corner, in both the hand dock and on the table -- to you and to every other seat, so nobody has to guess whether a stack they are looking at is open.
• Toggling it is immediate and undoable. Open and Close each apply the instant you press them, with no confirmation step, and each is one undo entry that restores the flag to what it was.
• Only a stack you are holding can be toggled. The button is greyed out for a stack on the table, a stack in someone else's hand, or a locked stack -- see the gate described on the Action Dock page.

What happens to the open flag as a stack moves:

What other players see

Other players cannot see which tiles are in your hand. They only see a count of how many tiles you hold, shown as a small number next to your name in the Players Panel.

The table host can enable optional hand interactions in Table Settings under the Preferences tab:

All of these are off by default. Turning on Revealed Hands also turns on Allow Looking At Other Hands, because an open hand is already readable. Spectators never see hand contents, whatever these settings say. When enabled, other players interact with your hand through the hand count button in the Players Panel. These interactions are announced to the table so everyone knows when someone looks at or takes from a hand.

Hand Lane

The Hand Lane is a separate, optional feature that places a visible drop zone near each player's space on the table surface. It is independent of the Player Hand at the bottom of the screen.

Enable it in Table Settings under the Table tab. It requires both Player Spaces and Hand to be turned on. The Hand Lane Height setting controls the depth of each lane in millimeters.