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Gamehelphanabi
OK kids At least rules for Hanabi:
1) New cards come from left so DISCARD cards from RIGHT
2) Sometimes somebody can have important card that not playable right now, TO SAVE it WAIT UNTIL it'll come to the RIGHT POSITION and clue it BY NUMBER
6) Sometimes player after you get hand where all cards important and unplayable. To say to him that his hand blocked: DROP RIGHT card when you have LAST CLUE DROP SECOND from RIGHT to say that he has 2 cards to save (always try to give him clue to give and play his hand as fast as it possible)
3) To make somebody to put(place/play) card there are 2 ways:
3.1 BY COLOUR: when you get or give colour it means LEFT COLORED CARD PLAYABLE 3.2 BY NUMBER: when you get or give SINGLE NUMBER not right position 3.3 Could be another variants (if you got 222, remember that all of them could be played after all 111111)
4) DON'T DISCARD CLUED cards - DON'T CLUE USELESS cards (possible when 4-5 players, rare for 3, but always try)
- I don't know what you listen at videos called "rules" but nobody know those ^ simple rules, so i decided to write*
5***) If you play 4-5 players, it is impossible to give 30 clues for 30 cards, so there are some expert tricks:*** I'll try to show situations:
Finesse Table - r_|y_|g_|b_|w_|m_ - empty as you see.
Me|Me|Me
??|??|?? - you
g5|b2|r4
I give to the 3rd player BLUE colour, it is UNPLAYABLE, and one card needed to fix it, it is mean that you have that card at LEFT POSITION. So you play left card and it is BLUE1 (if your hand contain clued card that could be that needed by colour or by number, you should play it, not the left).
Bluff Table the same
Me|Me|Me
g1|b4|w3
??|??|R? - you
I gave you RED colour, and 2nd player played his green 1, he see that your red UNPLAYABLE, and trying to fix it; you see that colours are different, so you understand that it was BLUFF also, now you know that your red is red2 if at table there are no red1, etc.
Reverse Table the same
Me|Me|Me
??|??|Y? - you
y1|g4|w3
I gave you YELLOW colour, looks like usual making to play, but you can see, that 3rd player has playable yellow card at the left position, he see that your yellow unplayable so he fixing it by left card, and then you put your yellow2.
All this tricks help you to save +50% clues, so getting 30 for 5 players become possible. Sometimes there are some variants of this tricks, you will see them at game like reverse for next 3 turns or finesse when 2-3 players have playable cards at the left sides and you just give clue to the last playable card...
Important) There are no random moves to spend clues, everything means something