From 624626b9a10ae47cf7d5f6e91765570ed759bd74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: historia <[not public]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:58:28 -0400
Subject: feat: better roulette racetrack graphics and payout table

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 building_guide/roulette.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'building_guide')

diff --git a/building_guide/roulette.md b/building_guide/roulette.md
index e257b31..3960e2b 100644
--- a/building_guide/roulette.md
+++ b/building_guide/roulette.md
@@ -35,8 +35,12 @@ ANSI). Three views share one renderer:
   pockets, and outside bets. The whole five-row zero lane (three numbered rows
   plus the two separators between them) carries the green background, and its
   outer corners are rounded in Unicode mode. A racetrack table draws
-  `renderRouletteRacetrack` above the board: a rounded panel listing each call
-  bet's chips and wheel-order number series, plus the Neighbors syntax.
+  `renderRouletteRacetrack` above the board: a numbered oval in physical
+  clockwise wheel order, with 26 at the right tip. Interior dividers meet
+  each call bet's pockets, left to right: Tiers du Cylindre, Orphelins,
+  Voisins du Zero, Zero. Connected box-drawing steps separate Tiers from
+  Orphelins; Zero has a curved boundary within Voisins. Neighbors is not
+  drawn on the board, but remains in the payout reference and help.
 - **Spinning**: a stylised 17x9 wheel (wider than tall so it reads as a circle
   in a terminal cell grid). Only the rim is colored, as solid red and black
   pockets alternating around the circumference; pockets are two cells wide
@@ -51,8 +55,14 @@ ANSI). Three views share one renderer:
   The smallest (five-row) cards drop the rule so the ball can sit directly
   under the number.
 
-The odds reminder (`Numbers 35:1 ...`) is not part of the ambient board. It is
-shown only by the `table` command (and `table rules`). Each table's one-line
+The colored payout tables in `internal/game/render_casino_help.go` use the
+shared ANSI-aware `ui.Table` renderer, respecting ASCII/Unicode and wrap width.
+They show wheel-specific win chances and net profit odds, including call-bet
+exceptions. They appear only with `table` and `table rules`, not ambient art.
+`table help` opens the current game's guide; `help casino` indexes the brief
+casino guides in `data/help/`. `help racetrack` explains chip placements and
+rounding, including `zero`/`jeu zero` versus the straight-number target `0`.
+Each table's one-line
 overview is kept short (`Label | Limits 1-10000 | n/m seated | state`) so it
 fits beside a look minimap; `writeLookSideBySide` also wraps any content line
 that would otherwise run into the map column.
@@ -69,12 +79,12 @@ simultaneous wagers remain future work: `Participant.Wager` still holds a
 single stake.
 
 Single-zero tables may set `roulette.racetrack: true`. That adds the four
-French call bets (Voisins du Zéro, Tiers du Cylindre, Orphelins, Zero Spiel)
+French call bets (Voisins du Zéro, Tiers du Cylindre, Orphelins, Jeu Zero)
 and the Neighbors bet (a chosen number plus four on each side in wheel order).
 The racetrack is a single-zero layout only: the validator rejects
 `racetrack: true` together with `double_zero: true`. A call bet is **one
 wager** whose amount is the total stake spread evenly over the bet's chips
-(Voisins 9, Tiers 6, Orphelins 5, Zero Spiel 4, Neighbors 9). Because the
+(Voisins 9, Tiers 6, Orphelins 5, Jeu Zero 4, Neighbors 9). Because the
 components are ordinary inside bets, each returns `36/covered` when its
 number hits, so a winning pocket can pay a different multiple of the stake
 than another (for example 0 on Voisins pays 24/9, while 4 pays 18/9). The
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