Level 1 - Basics

This is a brief summary of the Basic Conventions. If you haven't read those, it's recommended to start there.

Special Moves

To get an unclued card (the Target) to play, a colour clue is given to the unclued card immediately to its right (the Focus).
The Focus of the clue is the leftmost newly-clued card, except slot 1 has the lowest precedence.
The Target of the clue is the previously-unclued card to its left, wrapping around to the right side if necessary.

To get an unclued card (the Target) to discard, a rank clue is given to the unclued card immediately to its left (the Focus).
The Focus of the clue is the leftmost newly-clued card.
The Target of the clue is the unclued card to its right (no wraparound).
A discard clue that has no Target is a Lock Clue, and the receiver cannot discard any card until further information is given.

A safe action is a known playable card or a known trash card.
Any clue that reveals a new safe action has no additional meaning, even if it touches new cards.

If a player has a safe action, they do not have a chop.
When a player has no safe actions, they are given Permission to Discard slot 1.
When a player receives a safe action, the card that would have been on chop moves into the hand instead, becoming sieved.

Referential Discard Clues are rank instead of colour since they are less likely to be blocked when trying to discard trash.
- A clue would be blocked if a useful card of the same rank/colour is directly to the left of a trash card.
- However, Playable Rank Clues allow playable cards on the left to be played before potential trash cards on the right.
- A potential Playable Colour Clue variation would only work when the particular stack is up to 4, and is thus much less useful.
The Lock Clue can be thought of as a Referential Discard Clue that targets slot 1 (with wraparound).
- This clue is useless, since the default action would be to discard slot 1 even if this clue wasn't given.
- Thus, the clue is repurposed to have a different meaning.