need better indications of game situation

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brimerbrimer
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need better indications of game situation

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First, when you accept a game of Yahtzee/Yams, assuming your settings allow for both, you can't tell which it is once the game starts. I shouldn't have to scan down the scorecard to deduce which game I must be playing. There should be a big, bold heading saying "Yahtzee" or "Yams".

Second, the game log doesn't provide enough info to know what happened. If you didn't see it live, then you'll never know. Here's an example:
brimerbrimer rolls the dice and gets: 2 / 2 / 1 / 4 / 6
brimerbrimer re-rolls 3 dice and gets: 4 / 6 / 6
So what did the player have at that point? 22466? 44666? There's no way to know. It would be nice to see something like this:
brimerbrimer rolls the dice and gets: 2 2 1 4 6
brimerbrimer re-rolls 3 dice (2 2 1) and gets: 4 6 6 4 6
Notes:
  • the slashes are unnecessary and make it harder to read, so I've removed them
  • show all dice resulting from the re-roll
  • use bold to indicate the new dice
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