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Left side is discard and right is play in this picture. Red comm will cause m5 to be bombed. Okay, thanks, I hadn’t realised there was an option to set up the hand like that. In that case, clue nothing for now, and see what gets drawn after discards. You don’t want the chop 1g anyway, and even the ...

So in your example after both Bob and Charlie played their own leftmost 1, confirming to everybody else (including Alice) they cannot see black 1, they should both play all their 1s without further reclues. I think Paso_ has already hinted at this, but to make it clear… Bob did not play a leftmost ...

Regardless of the number of players, when playing with Black Powder, after a 5 save the second player is obliged not to discard, due to the risk of 1k on the new chop. So you can save 5s safely. But as fraisuer suggests, red is probably a better clue. It still saves 5r and 5m, and also gets 1r playe...

I think the way H-Group deals with it is by adding caveats. I don't like caveats, generally. Yes, this is pretty much the case. H-Group’s approach is a very detailed convention with a lot of special cases to improve the team’s chances of maxing their score, including many special cases that have a ...

The newly coloured card takes precedence over the multi receiving its second (or more) colour. We use this precedence specifically to allow cluing a card that would otherwise be entirely blocked by a multi to the left. But there are players who haven’t had enough experience with Avalanche to learn t...

One person wins. Three people lose. The thing is, this simply isn’t true. I don’t mean specifically the BGA implementation of Hearts. It is not a general truth throughout the play of Hearts the world over. There are no official rules of Hearts. There is no governing body for the game, no worldwide ...

It is the cooperative nature of Hanabi that brings out this sort of behaviour. In a competitive game, another player’s error just means you win; only in cooperative games are we so strongly negatively affected by the mistakes of others. That said, some of the arguments that you get over in the Heart...

I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of the convention descriptions on the Wiki page. They are not intended to be a proscriptive guide for Hanabi strategy. They’re a descriptive guide for what conventions are regularly seen in use on BGA. There are three conventions described there: Finesse,...

unless I *have* to clue for some reason but there's no good clues to give, You basically never have to. Even if you have to clue, it’s better to give an empty clue than a bad clue. (And empty clues can convey a lot of useful information.) So then it's very annoying when a higher level player joins ...

Also, we should take into account the probability that somebody else will misfire if we fail to respond to an apparent play clue. If you and the clue-giver like 5-stalls, but the player after you does not, it may still be better to misfire than to let the next player misfire. (Of course, we also nee...