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Bots now pick their start square and break path ties in their own corner's frame; the absolute tie-break made corners 1 and 2 win 25-28%. With that fixed, seat order is within target at 4 players, and a +1 stripe first-player bonus (new switch) gains only ~1 point, so no compensation. RULES.md v0.9 lists the tested alternatives; the plan has the 6.8 consolidation run and the seat-order study. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>