What is allowed in LL? Pretty much anything that makes sense. More clearly, any trick that a player could come up with through experience without anyone teaching them the trick – experience may mean 2, 10, 200, 3000 plays or more. The whole idea is to...
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Circular reasoning is a logical fallacy summed up as: - A therefore B- B therefore C- C therefore …- …- … theferore A However, none of A, B, C, etc. have sufficient premises to be logically valid. As usual, I am open to hearing and being convinced by...
Lire la suiteIn order to ensure a good experience on your first LL games, play the way you usually play, with the following differences: First 3-4 games 1) Give good clues ASAP . 2) First rule is valid even if leftmost isn’t playable . 3) Therefore assume any clue...
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Click to enlarge. 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...
Lire la suiteLeftism (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...
Lire la suiteThe 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". LL CL You can save unique cards...
Lire la suite1) You don’t systematically play leftmost when you receive a clue hitting multiple cards.You do when it’s logical, i.e. when it is obvious that your teammates would have clued you earlier if the playable card were not the one on the left. More detail...
Lire la suiteREASONS not to play leftmost Imagine the following scenario: – G2 is in play (or has recently been play-clued on another player’s hand)– you have just been clued “green”– your hand looks like: G x G x (in some cases it may even be x G G x) They clue now,...
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