engine.ts used mulberry32 and engine.py used random.Random(seed). Same seed,
different word — so every ?seed= permalink on the site would have shown a
different puzzle than the recorded run it claimed to be replaying, and nobody
would have noticed until someone checked one by hand.
Both now derive the index from FNV-1a 32-bit over the decimal seed. A hash
rather than a PRNG because there is no honest one-line JavaScript equivalent of
Mersenne Twister, and this way there is nothing to keep in step: both sides
compute the same integer from the same string. Math.imul on the JS side is
load-bearing — a plain multiply overflows into a double and diverges after the
first few bytes.
Twelve seeds are pinned as a vector in both test suites.
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