diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ad7f9b..d36c28c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ this in Bacon, but my Bacon is pretty raw.  At best, I could
 propertize the cards to create a new card (i.e. a new state) every
 time a ball came in, but that seemed a little overwrought.  
 
-I'm sad that it requires underscore, but Node's native reduce doesn't
-support object iteration, only arrays.
-
 It was nice to have an opportunity to hack Coffee and Node again.
+
+I don't know that I trust Yahoo's server.  At least once I got back a
+"you lost" signal from the server.  Since this client includes full
+playback of every game, I could see that I had clearly won.
+Unfortunately, my initial code assumed "lost" as the default state, so
+I couldn't see if maybe the 'won' signal was lost before receiving the
+disconnect.  I've changed that to 'playing,' so we can see that
+condition now.
diff --git a/bingo.coffee b/bingo.coffee
index f73c37b..ee7a9fd 100644
--- a/bingo.coffee
+++ b/bingo.coffee
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ io = require "socket.io-client"
 
 bingo = ["B", "I", "N", "G", "O"]
 coors = [0..4]
-state = "lost"
+state = "playing"
 
 snum = (n) -> if n < 10 then " #{n}" else "#{n}"
 fnum = (j) -> if j.found then "[#{snum(j.n)}]" else " #{snum(j.n)} "