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...
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...
(What is rightism?) A number of times I came across situations where I received a multicard clue including my second chop and it felt more logical to play rightmost. Would we be discovering a new case of rightism? The following case shows this from the...
1) 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...
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...
REASONS 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,...
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...
In 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...
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". LL CL You can save unique cards...
Conventional leftism (CL) is when you receive a multi-card clue and play the newest of them while it is not logical to do so. For example you have Y4 Y3 in hand in this order (say second and third slots). Y2 has just been played. You receive a yellow...
#1 Discard order During the game, you will find out (perhaps because of others doing it) it is not a good idea to discard a card you have just drawn and it is not a good idea either to hold a card for the whole game (this card may be useless and you trash...
#8 Don't be afraid to discard – trust Trusting your teammates is key in Hanabi. If your teammates have not clued your chop card for some time, you can discard it safely. If you discard an important card, it is their fault. A common mistake from beginners...
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...
A murder was committed. The police knows the following: - the murderer was a male (A)- he was 1.72m-1.82m tall (B)- he had brown hair (C)- he was right-handed (D)- he had a high-pitched voice (E)- he had green eyes (F) It takes all criteria to declare...
In several 2-player games, I found myself wishing my teammate discarded from the left instead of from the right, because it would make things much easier to handle. So I’m thinking it would be good if there were a way to warn your teammate in such situations....
Starting 1's The game has just started. R1 and Y1 are already in play or are about to be played. You have not discarded or played any cards yet. You receive a 1 clue and your hand looks like this: 1) ? 1 ? 1 The best option is to play your rightmost 1...
The reason why I reject conventions and want to play by logic only is my philosophy, how I see this amazing game, i.e. as a logic game. And also self reward. I suppose we all (or most of us do) play cooperative games for how rewarding it is to beat the...
Now, most BGA Hanabi good players have gradually ended up realizing that playing 1s from the right was the best option (suppressing the very strong leftism reflex). That's awesome. It took a lot of time, but they have come to see reason. However, in the...
Finesse is an awesome thing. When I heard about finesse, I thought it was genious. The logical reasoning behind it is brilliant. However, I have never seen a trick cause so many strikes (wrongly played card). This, in my opinion, is due to a vast majority...
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...
1– Early game chop move You clue me several 1s with a number clue. I see 1s on your hand, not on chop. It would be risky for me to clue them because they might be the same color as my 1s, causing bombs. If your chop is rubbish I’ll play my 1s first, to...
#14 Chop clues When you receive a clue that includes your chop card, be very careful about it. Had the clue not been given, you would have discarded your chop card soon, so it is very likely that the clue is only telling you "save it". Some 4s are playable...
The indirect clue This is where you have 2 clued cards that share a feature (say 3) and receive a clue that targets only one of them which clearly is not playable. Why would your teammate waste a useless clue? Because he's telling you you should play...
Here is what I mean when I say... Convention: a non-logical trick that is used by Hanabi players to achieve better scores. Therefore, it is supposed that players have agreed upon such a trick, making it a convention, instead of just letting it happen....
A few days ago, I had an interesting conversation with a player used, like 99% "good players or more" on BGA, to the "play left discard right" technique. I invited him and another such player on a table where I wanted to play with no conventions and no...
