Dibs

Dibs — manual

A board for dividing a haul. It records what the group decides; it decides nothing.

The pool: Everything unclaimed, belonging to nobody. Laid out on a square grid because position in the pool carries no meaning.
Your wedge: Reading outward from the pool: your interests, then your name, then what you have confirmed. Your emblem sits on the line between the last two.
Emblems: Identity, not portraiture. A device on its own field, so a wedge is findable at a glance and stays legible at any size the window allows.

An item leaves the pool to a player, or to one of these. Running totals are on the card, not the board.

Party — keep it: Held in common. What the group will jointly own rather than divide.
Assess — find out what it’s worth: No value agreed yet. Nothing here is divided now; it returns with a value and joins a later division.
Consign — sell it: Set aside for a buyer. What it fetches divides with everything else.
Dispose — be rid of it: Written off. Left behind, destroyed, given away, or put in proper custody.

Party and Assess are adjacent because both mean the group keeps it for now; Consign and Dispose because both mean it goes.

Claim: Drag a tile from the pool into a player's interest band. The item stays in the pool — what appears in the band is a ghosted reference to it.
Withdraw: Drag that reference anywhere outside its band. No aim needed; nothing actually moved.
Contested: Two or more claimants turns the outline magenta. Contested items cannot be confirmed — they are the argument still to be had.
Release: Drag a confirmed item back to the pool. The only inward move, and the haggling path.
Look: Click a tile for its card. Hover a wedge for that player; click to pin it open.

Two arcs, each lying on the border of the band it reports, centred on the wedge and growing both ways from the middle.

Inner arc: On the pool edge: what you have dibbed, against a full share. Starts at nothing, so an empty one is empty.
Outer arc: On the interest/confirmed line: your share of the haul. Its floor is the width of your emblem, so nothing protrudes until you hold something.
Scale: Both are sized to the narrowest player wedge, so a given length means the same quantity everywhere on the board. Nobody's gauge is finer than anybody else's.
Colour: Where that stands against the group's median: above, around, below. A comparison, not a verdict.
Outer track: Overshoot past a full share. Dashed means past twice it — off the scale, not an error.
Tick: That player has signalled ready.

Footer: recovered · unpriced · realized · written off · pool · dibbed · contested · ready. The middle two are placeholders until consignment and disposal settle at the table.
“balances on what is priced”: The books agree, but some items have no value yet, so the total is incomplete. Plain balanced means nothing is missing.
INVARIANT BROKEN: Something is keyed to a place that no longer exists and is rendering nowhere. Never ignore it.
Tile slider: Capacity against legibility. The readout is tile size / label size; the label goes amber below 11px, which is the floor for reading it across a table.
Seat: Puts that player's wedge at the bottom. Everyone keeps their order around the ring.

Dibs has no opinions. No dice, no scoring, no automatic winner. People decide; the board records.
Every action has an author. Some authors act in advance — Ready is consent given before the moment it is spent. The board never moves anything by itself.
Nothing settles without everyone. There is one rule for putting things in and taking them out: if you disagree, don't vote to settle. The board needs no others.
Silence is not consent. Indifference is a position you take on the record — I care not, or so long as those with an opinion agree — never one assumed of you because you said nothing.
Money settles desire, not trust. Two people wanting the same thing is a question about price. Two people disagreeing over whose hand should destroy it is not, and nothing here will treat it as one.
Unknown is never zero. A total that leaves rows out says so, in the footer and on every card.
Colour is never the only cue. Contested is an outline and a position, not just a hue.
Equal capacity, not equal area. Wedges are solved so every player has the same number of usable spots, whatever shape the window is.
Never exactly one way to undo something.
Limits are the group's, and default to none. The board can enforce a rule you set. It has none of its own.

Agreed in principle and specified — but not in this build, so don't plan a session around them.

Placing items in the four answers. The wedges render and reconcile, but nothing can be dragged into one yet.
Valuation as a claim. Apparent, unexamined, assessed, inconclusive, disputed or mutual — each with an author and a basis. Two answers are not appraisals: not worth counting, and whatever our appraisers decide.
The buyout. Once the pool is empty the consigned items return to it at their resale price for one last round. Anyone may buy at that price; whatever nobody buys, the party keeps — held, but not valued.
Disposal terms. How, and by whose hand, recorded with the item, along with whether the thing still exists.
Stances. Attaching I care not or so long as those with an opinion agree to your assent, so it survives the details being refined instead of dissolving every time a word changes.
Value carries. A shortfall becomes a note the party owes you, settled out of coin before the next division.
Splitting. Breaking stacks and coin, and topping up whoever came up short.
Settling as a vote, with conditions attached to it.
Bidding, to resolve contested items — and never a disposal.
Private tools. Filters, marks and your own valuations, seen by nobody else.

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