1) Concrete LL examples
of when not to play on a multicard clue (and why)

With visual setups and history logs.
So if you encounter such situations in your games, please bookmark them and send them to me. I might then screenshoot them and use them in the guide.

2) A quizz
to test unknown players’ skills. From very basic to quite advanced LL.

With visual setups and history logs.
Same request: any interesting situations, send them to me.

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Pay special attention to the red boxes: under usual conventions, you would play in these cases. In LL, you would not.

The end result is a less systematic, more analytic, more situational playstyle than what you may know, where you don’t always play leftmost.

Other LL links:

When NOT to play left
LL in a nutshell
Impacts of LL on strategy
Is LL inferior to CL?

Leftism (playing leftmost when several cards are clued) logically results from the following efficient principle:

one should clue playables as soon as possible (ASAP)
(otherwise the clue might be made worse by future draws)

OK. Now, if you extend this logically:

1) A clue that is not given asap = not a play clue

2) IF the following conditions are met, [given asap] means [play left]
a- the clue is not on chop
b- the clued cards are not the same age (starting cards)
c- it is 100% true to say: “if the playable card were not the newest among them, they would have clued me earlier” (the “wait factor”)
Consequence: you can still "play left", but only if the situation logically allows.

3) In any other context, [given asap] does NOT mean [play left]

Because in many situations, it was not possible for your teammates to give the clue earlier, for a number of reasons (click me). In these cases, you cannot logically deduce where the playable card is and the clue should therefore not be considered an immediate play clue and you should NOT play leftmost.
Consequence: not all off-chop clues mean "play left", so you may sometimes safely clue cards that are in reverse order.

The end result is a less systematic, more analytic, more situational playstyle than what you may know, where you don’t always play leftmost and may save more stuff quite safely.

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Other LL links:

When NOT to play left
LL think chart
Impacts of LL on strategy
Is LL inferior to CL?

The first impression a CL player might have after playing LL is – it’s slower and therefore less efficient. Let’s look into the strengths and weaknesses of both styles.

 Note that not all these points have the same "weight".

Other LL links:

LL in a nutshell
LL vs CL: the differences
When NOT to play left
LL think chart

Variant

When the following cards are successfully played, the subsequent effect applies.

m1: the team loses a clue*

m2: for the next three moves, no cluing

m3: for the next three moves, no discarding

m4: for the next three moves, no playing**

m5: the team loses a life or the game ends

*on BGA, you need to remember that you have one less clue token for the rest of the game, unless m1 was played when there were no tokens left

**if m2-m3-m4 are played consecutively, the next player can do nothing on their turn and the team loses