TCS taxonomy v0.8
False Count
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A count whose real transfers or number differ from the cards shown
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The following is documentation data, not a standalone document or validation schema. Resolve references against the original source schema.
{
"id": "false-count",
"description": "A count whose real transfers or number differ from the cards shown",
"labels": {
"en": "False Count",
"es": "Cuenta Falsa",
"fr": "Faux Comptage",
"de": "Falsches Zählen"
},
"family_ref": "false-counts",
"action_contract": {
"requires": [
"source",
"target"
],
"parameters": {
"count": {
"required": true,
"description": "The number of cards shown (the beats); the real number transferred is the size of source in state, not this value",
"domain": "integer >= 1"
},
"side": {
"required": false,
"description": "Which side was shown as each beat passed",
"domain": [
"face",
"back",
"visible"
],
"default": "visible"
},
"technique": {
"required": false,
"description": "Named variant of the false count",
"domain": "string"
}
},
"post_state_invariant": "Every card actually in source transfers to target, one at a time; separately, count individual beats are shown to observers, which may repeat or omit cards when count differs from source's real size (docs/tcs/post-state-effects.md §14).",
"post_state": {
"state_schema_ref": "https://tamaraspec.org/schema/tcs-playing-cards-state-0.1.json",
"effects": [
{
"op": "show",
"subject": "source",
"select": {
"any": {
"param": "count"
}
},
"side": {
"param": "side"
},
"mode": "individual"
},
{
"op": "move",
"select": {
"all": true
},
"from": "source",
"to": "target",
"arrival": "unordered"
}
]
}
},
"presents_as": "count"
}Verbatim JSON · Source: schemas/tcs-taxonomy-0.8.json/verbs/false-count