A seat's number was a grey digit in the top-left corner of the puck, and the
top-left corner is also where the blind badge drops off the rim and where a
long centred name reaches. Measured across 348 seats on 36 tables: 117 of them
had it printed under something else. All 66 seats posting a blind had it
covered outright — a 22px badge at z-index 4 over a 6px digit — and 51 more had
it sitting on the first letter of the player's own name, the whole glyph in the
worst case, on a 54px puck.
There is nowhere on the felt to move it to. The button's chip has the other end
of the top rim. Bets land on the rim between a seat and the pot, which is the
bottom edge for the seats above centre and the top edge for the ones below. The
middle of the puck is name, bet and stack, and all three are about this hand.
The chair number is the only mark on a puck that isn't, so it is the one that
gave way.
Nothing is lost that a tap doesn't return. The seat editor's heading reads
"Mike from work · Seat 2" now and the seat menu's first line leads with the
chair; a seat nobody has named still calls itself "Seat 5"; and an open chair
still wears its number large and centred, which is the one moment the number is
the thing being looked for rather than a footnote on somebody else's name.
The sweep had never mentioned any of this. The check that asks whether a puck
covers itself up knew about two of the three things a puck wears, and only ever
held them against writing — so the mark sitting on the names was invisible to
it, and so was a badge painted straight over another mark. Both gaps are
closed: put the number back and it reports five offenders on a Galaxy S8
ten-handed, naming Christopher, Alexandra, Jonah and the SB.
1148 tests, 418 audits clean.
