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I was told today that I am notorious on the forums for being rude. If you're interested in using chop moves come find out how rude I am!

I've played in person ~100 times or so, with different groups who come from BGA or HG or neither. Sometimes I try to teach the simplest subset of the BGA conventions, sometimes we make up something new. My personal favorite game with some family we use chop focus for all clues, with saves for all cl...

This skip advice is really poor, I agree Malo. It's one of the hardest things to fix after someone gets the idea that "skip = play". It hamstrings the team from collaboratively managing discards, and it makes stall techniques harder (like double discard avoidance). Or, at the very least, &...

This is one of those things that varies between groups, but I would say BGA generally biases toward assuming playable clue versus longer finesse. HG is the opposite, as I understand it, you'd have to assume this could be either 3R or 3Y and delay/discard until that clarifies itself.

I don't know if this forum bumps threads to the top based on replies, but we've had some fun games with the crew so far. If anyone else is interested in joining, please check us out!

Every time I watch a replay I'm reminded that some people don't use stacked view.

Pretty obvious they are cheating, no other way to interpret this.

Probably they should just get rid of ELO and show number of games played by table size / variant. Hanab.live does this and it makes a lot more sense.

@Blacktango: I get that this would break their model either way. Fortunately they have some programmers

Hey all - I've been playing H-Group conventions a bit lately and it's left me wanting to try Chop Moves with the normal BGA conventions. I wrote up a doc here about how I think they could be incorporated. If you're interested, join the BGA Group -- when I see enough players online I'll try to start ...

Thanks all. What I'm hearing is this isn't consistent here on BGA. I find both sides of this reasonable. Unfortunately, the player in question told me they would have to RT thumb since I didn't understand this basic, obvious and universally shared principle. Bummer.

Bob has 2y Xx [1y] Xx [1r]. Charlie has Xx 2w Xx 3y 4y. Alice clues Y to Charlie, indicating 3y is playable, following a blind-play of 2y. On the following turn, Bob draws 1b. Charlie discards Xx and draws Xx. Alice clues W to Charlie. Should Bob play the newly drawn card, or continue the layer first?