# Encyclopedia of Shared Agreements

## Starting hand

### 1s Order: Left-to-Right

1s should play left to right. Playing out of order may trigger something. **This is a standard agreement.**

### 1s Order Chop Moves

Playing 1s out of order chop moves slot 1, shifting the expected discard inward by as many non-chop-moved cards as were skipped in the 1s order. **This is a standard agreement.**

### 1s Order Loaded Discards

When Bob is loaded, Alice playing 1s out of order provides him a discard, counting inward as many cards as were skipped, starting from slot 1. Currently used by **Fafrd / Sodium**, **PurpleJoe / Sodium**

### Starting Hand Stalls

On each player's first turn, rank (besides 1) touching the rightmost is a stall and asks the teammate to clue in response. **This is a standard agreement.**

## Special Signals

### Right Referential Rank Loaded Play Clues

Rank clues while loaded work like color play clues except targeting to the right. **This is a standard agreement.**

### Prompts

If a reclue only requires playing already-clued cards to make a focused card playable, those cards should play from the right until the focused card plays. **This is a standard agreement.**

### Bluffs

### Rank Trash Promise

A rank direct play clue touching only slot 1 gives PTD to the newest unclued card.

I (sodium) think **this is a standard agreement**.

### Pre-Prompt Bluffs

If a true finesse of a filled-in card requires at least one blind play, that blind play should occur before any cards prompt. Currently used by **Fafrd / Sodium**, **Hallmark / Sodium**.

### Negative Fill-Ins

When a clue gives negative info that makes another card playable by empathy or good touch, the clue retains its normal meaning unless that meaning is discard/lock, in which case the clue is only tempo on the not-touched card.

### No-information Double Bluffs

### No-information 2 plays

## Permission to Discard

### Hard PTD

After a card gets permission to discard, it remains the chop until it discards. In to reset Bob's PTD, one of the following must occur:

- Alice touches the PTD.
- Alice tells Bob to bomb a card.
- Alice sends a lock signal (contextual).
- Alice tells Bob to discard another card (may or may not be possible, depending on other agreements).

**This is a standard agreement**.

### PTD Safety Contract

At 2+ clues, the first turn a card gets PTD, it is globally expected to not be either of the following:

- Critical
- Unduplicated in hand and immediately playable

At ≤1.5 clues, it is is simply expected to not be critical.

### Loaded PTD

Rank clues given to a player with PTD touching a new card are loaded.

### Quasiloaded PTD

A rank clue (non-fill-in/non-reclue) referring to a card newer than PTD is a referential discard clue revoking PTD. Currently used by **Fafrd / Sodium**, **Hallmark / Sodium**.

### Minimal DDA

If we revoke PTD with a rank clue touching PTD, it is (quasi)loaded unless the revoked PTD could be newly-critical.

## Stalling Situations

### Unlock Promise

When a player is locked, their teammate playing a known card over discarding PTD provides an unlock signal to the rightmost possible connector.

### Locked Hand State PTD

### 8cs PTD

## Elimination Notes

### 1s Elimination Notes

We write elimination notes for 1s given PTD when they were good (2+ clues).

Used by: all teams.

### 2s Elimination Notes

In ≤5 suit, we write elimination notes for discarded good 2s.

### Playable Elimination Notes

### Revealed Knowledge Elimination Notes

## Free Choice

### 0cs Extra Discards

At 0 clues, choosing to play a non-5 over discarding PTD/kt promises a discard on slot 1 if it does not already have a chop moved note.

## Variants

### Pink

#### Pink 1s order

We play right to left and turn off 1s order free choice.

#### Pink Starting Hand Stalls

#### Pink Promise (weak)

#### Pink Discard Clues

#### Positional Clues

### Rainbow

#### Rainbow Promise (weak)

#### Expected Rainbow Fill-ins

### Brown

#### Brownferential Color Play Clues

#### Permanent Chop Moves

#### No-info Chop Moves

### White

#### No-infos

### Null

### Rainbow-Ones

#### Starting hand 1s

A color clue given at the start of the game promises that all touched cards are 1s.