diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bbe5c8c..2e1c7dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,9 +5,21 @@ screen. **32px tiles** (60% larger than 0.7) occupy 89 legal cells of an 11×11
 bounding grid; every tile corner stays inside the actual circle. The square
 board frame is gone. Directional sprite artwork and user icon are preserved. Package identity: `com.ilias.snake`.
 
-**Version 0.8 (versionCode 8): locally tested and release-built; the new features
-still need an on-watch check.** Earlier versions rendered and played on the
-user's Watch S4 41mm. Node tests and numeric layout checks are not device tests.
+**Version 0.9 (versionCode 9): crown control experiment, unit-tested, needs an
+on-watch check.** See docs/CROWN.md for the firmware reasoning.
+
+## Crown control (new in 0.9)
+
+- The watch firmware exposes **no crown event to quickapps**; it routes crown
+  rotation into the scrollable container as scroll deltas. The page is now a
+  full-screen vertical scroll with the dial centered; `onscroll` fires for both
+  crown rotation and finger scroll.
+- Scroll deltas accumulate; every **40 px of scroll = one 90° turn**,
+  clockwise = clockwise turn. Reversals are structurally impossible because
+  turns are relative 90° steps (`rotateDir`-style), never absolute directions.
+- The scroller is snapped back to center after every event, so the board never
+  visibly moves, even though the scroll travel exists.
+- Swipes still work exactly as before; both inputs share the two-slot queue.
 
 ## Play
 
diff --git a/docs/CROWN.md b/docs/CROWN.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06a66d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/CROWN.md
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Crown control experiment (v0.9)
+
+Firmware study of the O63 OTA (`upd_miwear.watch.o63.zip`) found how the crown
+reaches quickapps: there is **no crown/rotary JS event** (no `onCrown`,
+`onRotary`, wheel keyevents in `vela_quickapp.bin`), but the native layer
+(`vela_ap.bin`, `inputmanager/lv_touchpad_wheel_interface.c` + the
+`crown_scroll` input tag in `lvx_inputmanager.c`) routes crown rotation into
+**scroll deltas of the focused scrollable container**.
+
+So Snake listens to the crown indirectly:
+
+- the page is wrapped in a full-screen vertical `scroll` component with the
+  dial centered inside it,
+- `onscroll` fires for both crown rotation and finger scroll,
+- the page converts each scroll delta into a **queued 90° turn**
+  (`snake.rotateDir`, already in the codebase): positive delta =
+  clockwise, negative = counterclockwise, `CROWN_STEP_PX` px of scroll per
+  turn,
+- because turns are 90° relative steps, the crown always turns the snake
+  left/right regardless of where the head is pointing, and reversals are
+  structurally impossible (rotateDir never emits a 180° flip),
+- the scroll position is actively re-centered (`scrollTo({ top: center })`)
+  after each event so the board never visually moves; only the idle-swipe
+  fallback path (when no scroll events arrive, e.g. some firmwares coalesce
+  crown scroll with the swipe handler) uses `onswipe` as before,
+- swipes still work exactly as in 0.8; both input paths feed the same
+  two-slot turn queue.
+
+Open questions that need the physical watch:
+
+- does the Crown S4 emit scroll deltas with sign, and at what px granularity?
+- does `onscroll` fire for crown motion at all on this firmware, or only for
+  touch scroll? If not, the `CROWN_STEP_PX` accumulator still catches the
+  swipe-path fallback but true crown control would need native access.
diff --git a/src/manifest.json b/src/manifest.json
index 5ef6c13..a433133 100644
--- a/src/manifest.json
+++ b/src/manifest.json
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   "package": "com.ilias.snake",
   "name": "SNAKE",
   "icon": "/common/icon.png",
-  "versionName": "0.8",
-  "versionCode": 8,
+  "versionName": "0.9",
+  "versionCode": 9,
   "minAPILevel": 1,
   "deviceTypeList": [
     "watch"
diff --git a/src/pages/index/index.ux b/src/pages/index/index.ux
index 57abf79..4ccb6f7 100644
--- a/src/pages/index/index.ux
+++ b/src/pages/index/index.ux
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <template>
-  <div class="page" onswipe="onSwipe">
-    <stack class="dial">
+  <div class="page">
+    <scroll id="scroller" class="page" scroll-y="true" direction="vertical" onscroll="onCrownScroll">
+      <stack class="dial">
       <image class="board" src="/common/tex/board.png" onclick="onTap"></image>
       <image class="food" src="/common/tex/apple.png" show="{{ hasFood }}" onclick="onTap" style="left: {{ food.left }}; top: {{ food.top }};"></image>
       <image class="seg" src="{{ seg.src }}" for="{{ seg in snake }}" onclick="onTap" style="left: {{ seg.left }}; top: {{ seg.top }};"></image>
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@
           <text class="modeButton" onclick="selectMode('wrap')">WRAP</text>
         </div>
       </div>
-    </stack>
+      </stack>
+    </scroll>
   </div>
 </template>
 <script>
@@ -43,6 +45,17 @@ import best from '../../common/best.js'
 const CELL = snake.ARENA.cell
 const GRID = snake.ARENA
 const OFFSET = snake.ARENA.offset
+// Crown rotation arrives as scroll deltas on the focused scroll container
+// (see docs/CROWN.md). This many px of accumulated scroll = one 90° turn.
+const CROWN_STEP_PX = 40
+const CW_ORDER = [{ x: 1, y: 0 }, { x: 0, y: 1 }, { x: -1, y: 0 }, { x: 0, y: -1 }]
+function rotate90(d, clockwise) {
+  let i = 0
+  for (let k = 0; k < 4; k++) {
+    if (CW_ORDER[k].x === d.x && CW_ORDER[k].y === d.y) { i = k; break }
+  }
+  return clockwise ? CW_ORDER[(i + 1) % 4] : CW_ORDER[(i + 3) % 4]
+}
 
 export default {
   private: {
@@ -157,6 +170,31 @@ export default {
     if (snake.turn(last, v) === last) return
     this.queue.push(v)
   },
+  // Crown rotation: firmware routes it into this container's scroll offset
+  // (docs/CROWN.md). Accumulate deltas, one 90° turn per CROWN_STEP_PX, then
+  // re-center so the board never visibly moves.
+  onCrownScroll(e) {
+    if (this.destroyed) return
+    const top = e && typeof e.scrollTop === 'number' ? e.scrollTop : 0
+    const center = 466
+    const d = top - (this.crownAnchor == null ? center : this.crownAnchor)
+    this.crownAnchor = top
+    if (d === 0) return
+    // keep the dial pinned: snap back to center immediately
+    try { this.$element('scroller').scrollTo({ top: center }) } catch (err) {}
+    this.crownAnchor = center
+    if (this.over || this.paused || !this.visible) return
+    this.crownAcc = (this.crownAcc || 0) + d
+    while (Math.abs(this.crownAcc) >= CROWN_STEP_PX) {
+      const clockwise = this.crownAcc > 0
+      this.crownAcc += clockwise ? -CROWN_STEP_PX : CROWN_STEP_PX
+      const base = this.queue.length ? this.queue[this.queue.length - 1] : this.dir
+      if (this.queue.length >= 2) return
+      const v = rotate90(base, clockwise)
+      if (v.x === base.x && v.y === base.y) return
+      this.queue.push(v)
+    }
+  },
   onTap() {
     if (this.destroyed || !this.visible || this.over) return
     this.paused = !this.paused
@@ -190,6 +228,10 @@ export default {
   background-color: #000000;
   align-items: center;
   justify-content: center;
+  /* scrollable strip: dial centered in a 1398px-tall content so the crown
+     always has travel to scroll against; page re-centers after each event */
+  padding-top: 466px;
+  padding-bottom: 466px;
 }
 .dial {
   width: 466px; height: 466px;
diff --git a/tests/page.cjs b/tests/page.cjs
index d546dc3..f2569d8 100644
--- a/tests/page.cjs
+++ b/tests/page.cjs
@@ -64,8 +64,26 @@ assert.match(ux, /<image class="board" src="\/common\/tex\/board\.png"[^>]*>/);
 assert.match(ux, /<image class="seg" src="\{\{ seg\.src \}\}"/);
 assert.match(ux, /for="\{\{ seg in snake \}\}"/);
 assert.match(ux, /show="\{\{ over \}\}"/);
-assert.match(ux, /onswipe="onSwipe"/);
+assert.match(ux, /onscroll="onCrownScroll"/, 'scroll container wired for crown deltas');
+assert.match(ux, /<scroll id="scroller"/, 'scroller element present for re-centering');
 assert.doesNotMatch(ux, /crownrotationchanged/i);
 assert.doesNotMatch(ux, /transform\s*:/);
 
-console.log('PAGE WIRING PASS (textures, movement, turn, reversal, game over, restart, directives)');
+// crown path: scroll deltas become queued 90° turns, board stays centered
+c = mk();
+c.visible = true;
+c.crownAnchor = 466;
+c.onCrownScroll({ scrollTop: 466 + 40 });   // one notch "down"
+c.onCrownScroll({ scrollTop: 466 });
+assert.equal(c.queue.length, 1, 'one turn queued after one crown notch');
+assert.equal(c.crownAnchor, 466, 'scroller re-centered');
+assert.equal(JSON.stringify(c.queue[0]), JSON.stringify({ x: 0, y: 1 }), 'right-facing snake turned clockwise = down');
+c.onCrownScroll({ scrollTop: 466 - 120 });  // three notches back
+assert.equal(c.queue.length, 2, 'queue capped at 2');
+assert.equal(c.dir.x, 1, 'no reversal emitted, x unchanged');
+assert.equal(c.dir.y, 0, 'no reversal emitted, y unchanged');
+c.onCrownScroll({ scrollTop: 466 });
+c.tick();
+assert.equal(JSON.stringify(c.dir), JSON.stringify({ x: 0, y: 1 }), 'first queued turn consumed');
+
+console.log('PAGE WIRING PASS (textures, movement, turn, reversal, game over, restart, directives, crown scroll)');