seen: 2026-10-30, anlat (live after round 2), rehberim › paylaşmak on a desktop. selim: "i'm seeing two rows. in one there are three boxes, and the other one is just one box in the next row. so this is not a cube." the same was true of every face in anlat on a desktop (three across), and of faces with an odd number of pieces on a phone.
picture:
breaks: 24 (a face is always a complete square). it was already a decision of the cubes app (2026-10-30) and a finding here, but not yet a principle, so anlat never took it.
why it feels wrong: the grid is a face of the cube, and a cube's face is a square. three and one reads as a list that wrapped where the screen ended, so the shape says "a list", and the shape is the first thing anyone sees. the face's width was chosen by the screen (three fit on a desktop) instead of by the pieces (four want 2 × 2).
how it could follow: every face in anlat sits in the smallest n × n square that holds its pieces (own box and offered pieces included), and places not filled yet keep a pale dashed outline, because something can still come there. a phone holds two across at most (three leave no room for anlat's 19 px words), so past 2 × 2 a phone keeps two across with full rows; a wide screen holds up to 4 × 4. a wide piece (the words of a moment) lies across the square and is not counted.
status: fixed in anlat#78 (R54, merged 2026-10-30).
