• ✓Painted vocabulary cut-outs: plate, cup, spoon, bowl, flowers — plus three that needn't be there
• ✓The table's own things stay at one, however many come
• ✓A knife or fork is never wrong — just “only if you like”, because every house lays a table its own way
• ✓Short or over is said as a number and a thing: “two more cups to go”
• ✓Once it is right, two more phone to say they're coming — which is where counting becomes planning
• ✓A memory mode: look at a laid table, then lay it from memoryplanned

✓ = done · ☐ = planned. Every game is built one step at a time like this.