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JusterGame wrote: ↑12 December 2020, 16:45 Hello - I just played a game that was set to 'progession' as I saw after joining. I cannot find any gudiance on BGA about how it works, and I couldn't be certain from the gameplay that I fully understood. A web-search led to a dead end too.
It looks interesting though.

HELP

whatshisbucket wrote: ↑12 December 2020, 20:27

JusterGame wrote: ↑12 December 2020, 16:45 Hello - I just played a game that was set to 'progession' as I saw after joining. I cannot find any gudiance on BGA about how it works, and I couldn't be certain from the gameplay that I fully understood. A web-search led to a dead end too.
It looks interesting though.

HELP

I think you mean "professional". This mode changes the mechanics in that cards can now be placed on the left side of rows as well as the right. The cards are still played from smallest to largest, and are still placed in the closest possible location on the left or right side of each of the four rows.
If there is tie for closest possible location (which is now possible), the player can choose where to play it.
If a card is played which has nowhere to go (if it is larger than any of the left cards and smaller than any of the right cards), the person who played it takes a row of their choice (similarly to if they had played a very small card without the professional variant).

zoomboom wrote: ↑29 April 2025, 17:13

whatshisbucket wrote: ↑12 December 2020, 20:27 I think you mean "professional". This mode changes the mechanics in that cards can now be placed on the left side of rows as well as the right. The cards are still played from smallest to largest, and are still placed in the closest possible location on the left or right side of each of the four rows.
If there is tie for closest possible location (which is now possible), the player can choose where to play it.
If a card is played which has nowhere to go (if it is larger than any of the left cards and smaller than any of the right cards), the person who played it takes a row of their choice (similarly to if they had played a very small card without the professional variant).

Thanks for this info (if there's a tie) - it was difficult to find. Didn't see it in the 'How to Play'. I'll add it there.

• Row #1 has 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Row #2 has 10 and 15. Row #3 and #4 have much higher numbers.
• Player A plays a 9, player B plays an 8.
• In this case, the 8 would be played first since it's lower than the 9. Player B can choose where to play it, since it's equally close to the 10 and to the 6.
• If they choose to play on row #2 to the left of the 10, then the 9 would have to be played on row #1 on the right side of the 6, but can't fit there since there's 5 cards already in the row! Player A has to take that row of cards, then the 9 is left to start a new row.