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Safe Actions

  • A safe action is a known playable card or a known trash card.
  • Any clue that reveals a safe action in a previously-clued card has no additional meaning, even if it touches new cards.
y2 is on the play stacks. Alice clues 3 to Bob, filling in y3.
Alice's clue reveals a playable y3. This is not a Referential Play Clue.
  • Safe actions can be indicated with clues that don't touch the cards they are signalling to be playable or trash.
y4 is on the play stacks. Alice clues 5 to Bob, revealing a yellow card as !5.
Alice's clue reveals a trash yellow card. This is not a Referential Discard Clue.
  • However, a colour clue that reveals a new safe action in a newly-clued card is still referential.
    • A rank clue that reveals a new safe action in a newly-clued card is a Playable Rank Clue, covered below.
p4 is on the play stacks. Alice clues purple to Bob, touching slot 2.
Alice's clue reveals p5 from good touch, but it is still a Referential Play Clue. Bob should play slot 1 first.

Playable Rank Clues​

  • A rank clue where all good touch identities of that rank are playable is a direct play on those cards.
  • Cards that are playable from good touch should be played from left-to-right.
No cards have been played. Alice clues 1 to Bob.
Alice's clue reveals two playable 1s. This is not a Referential Discard Clue.