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# Trictrac Vocabulary — French / English
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This table maps the French game terminology to the English terms used in this codebase (primarily the `store` crate). Where a code identifier exists, it is shown in `monospace`.
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| French | English (code) | Notes |
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| -------------------------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| tablier | board | `Board` |
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| case / flèche | field | `Field` (1–24, 0 = exit); "flèche" (arrow) and "case" both refer to a field/point |
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| demi-case | half-field | A field occupied by exactly one checker |
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| dame | checker | `Checker`; a playing piece |
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| talon | stack | The starting pile of 15 checkers before they are deployed |
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| coin de repos / coin | rest corner / corner | `corner`; field 12 (White) or 13 (Black) |
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| bande de départ | starting rail | The side rail where stacks start; holds the pegs and flag |
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| bande de sortie | exit rail | Same rail, used as an extra field value during exit |
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| petit jan | small jan | Fields 1–6; `is_field_in_small_jan` |
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| grand jan | big jan | Fields 7–12 (White's side, opponent's near zone) |
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| jan de retour | return jan | Fields 19–24; same fields as opponent's small jan ; where checkers gather before exiting; `last quarter` |
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| table des petits jans | small jan table | The board half containing both players' small jans (fields 1–12) |
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| table des grands jans | big jan table | The board half containing both players' big jans (fields 13–24) |
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| plein (d'un jan) | filled (jan) | All 6 fields of a jan hold ≥ 2 checkers |
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| remplir | fill | Scoring event: completing the fill of a jan; `FilledQuarter` |
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| conserver | conserve | Scoring event: maintaining a filled jan without breaking it; `FilledQuarter` |
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| jan de récompense — battre à vrai | true hit | `TrueHitSmallJan`, `TrueHitBigJan`, `TrueHitOpponentCorner` |
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| jan de récompense — battre à faux | false hit | `FalseHitSmallJan`, `FalseHitBigJan` |
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| batterie du coin | corner hit | `TrueHitOpponentCorner`; hitting the opponent's empty rest corner |
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| jan-qui-ne-peut / impuissance | helpless man | `HelplessMan`; a die value that cannot be played (penalty for opponent) |
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| jan de deux tables | two tables jan | `TwoTables` |
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| contre-jan de deux tables | contre two tables | `ContreTwoTables` |
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| jan de mézéas | mezeas jan | `Mezeas` |
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| contre-jan de mézéas | contre mezeas | `ContreMezeas` |
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| jan de six tables / jan de trois coups | six tables jan | `SixTables`; also called "three-roll jan" |
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| sortie (première) | first player to exit | `FirstPlayerToExit` |
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| sortie (nombre sortant) | exit (exact exit) | Moving a checker off the board with an exact die value |
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| nombre excédant | overflow number | Die value exceeding the checker's distance to the exit rail |
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| nombre défaillant | failing number | A die value that cannot be played within the jan |
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| tout d'une | chained move | `chained move`; one checker playing both dice successively |
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| repos (case de repos) | rest (resting field) | An intermediate field where a checker pauses in a chained move |
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| doublet | double | `is_double`; both dice show the same value |
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| dé / dés | die / dice | `Dice` |
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| cornet | dice cup | — |
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| par puissance | by puissance | `is_move_by_puissance`; taking own corner using opponent's empty corner as virtual step |
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| par effet | by effect | `can_take_corner_by_effect`; taking own corner by normal die values |
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| d'emblée | simultaneously | Two checkers entering (or leaving) the corner at the same time |
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| dédoubler | unstack corner | Using one of the two corner-holding checkers (forbidden for corner exits) |
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| trou / jeu | hole | `holes`; 12 points = 1 hole; the primary scoring unit |
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| fichet | peg | Physical marker tracking holes won along the board edge |
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| jeton | token | Physical marker tracking points within a game (0–12) |
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| pavillon | flag | The bredouille marker taken by the second player to score |
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| bredouille | bredouille | `can_bredouille`; winning a hole while opponent scored nothing |
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| petite bredouille | small bredouille | Winning a round (marqué) with ≥ 6 consecutive holes |
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| grande bredouille | big bredouille | `can_big_bredouille`; winning a round with ≥ 12 consecutive holes |
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| relevé | new setting | Resetting checkers to their stacks after a hole or exit |
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| primauté | first-move privilege | The right to roll first, held by the player who exited or left first |
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| s'en aller | leave / go | `Go` event; choosing to start a new setting after winning a hole |
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| tenir | stay / hold | Choosing to continue after winning a hole instead of leaving |
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| marqué | round | A scoring round in the "partie à écrire" |
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| partie ordinaire | ordinary game | First to 12 holes wins |
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| partie à écrire | scored game | Multi-round game played for tokens |
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| à la chouette | chouette | Three- or four-player format |
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| refait | replay | A drawn round (equal holes) that must be replayed |
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| consolation | consolation | Bonus tokens paid to the winner and, in 3-player games, the non-playing player |
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| postillon | postillon | The first "double bet" in final payment settlement |
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| école | school | `schools`; a penalty for a marking error; opponent scores the missed points |
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| fausse case | false move | Playing a checker to the wrong field |
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| fausse école | false school | Incorrectly claiming or marking a school penalty |
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| augmentation d'école | school escalation | Back-and-forth dispute over a school penalty |
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| pile de misère | misery pile | A special scoring configuration (not yet implemented in the codebase) |
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