Hanabi :)

Today's post is about Hanabi..

Basically a game I played after a long time with Serena and Sanjana. To learn more about Hanbi, see this.

Here's the ID. This was the first time I was playing a rainbow and white 3 suits variant :P.. In summary we lost , we got only 21/25 score, but I think we did our best ( the deck was bad)..

But here's something I really liked [ 'cause I did a 3- layered self finesse :P]

here's the clued version:

So I gave a 4 clue to Serena(anser ), but note that the 4 card was a chop card, so by conventions it's a chop card. But wait.. how can it be a playable card, clearly we can play 4 , so anser waits and sees Sanjana( bluewhale) 's card. Bluewhale on the other hand realises that it's a "finesse" , so by convention plays her leftmost card..

And when she plays, she realises "Oh wait that was a playable card but it wasn't White 3" , so guesses that her slot 2 card must be White 4.

She waits for another turn and then plays her slot 2 card realises "Oh wait that was a playable card( R2) but it wasn't White 3"

She again waits and then plays her slot 3 and that's White 3 (YAYYY!!!). And the finess worked smoothly.

This is why I like Hanabi, one has to think a lot about what move one should do, so that the move one makes gives the most of the cards.

Here in my move I could have clued Bluewhale's Rainbow 2, but that move would have given me 1 clue - 1 card. But the move I made, gave us 1 clue - 3 clue.

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Apart from Hanabi, I am scared for IOQM results , the provisional scores are out! I hope I qualify for INMO..

Tomorrow I am giving PLO (Panini Linguistic Olympiad) and I am quite excited for this exam, haven't prepared anything and giving just because my friends are giving, but now I am finding linguistic problems quite interesting..

One can expect a blog post for tomorrow! See you soon!

Sunaina 💜

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AnandFebruary 14, 2021 at 1:43 PM
Wow Hanabi is fun! :D never tried rainbow though :P
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