blackshoe Posted March 31, 2019 Report Share Posted March 31, 2019 Man, when you get the bit in your teeth you don't stop, do you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 No, they explicitly allow you to ask and to be told, but not to have "aids to memory".What's the significant difference between asking every time it's your turn, and having something that passively shows what it is? The only difference I can think of is that the other players know that you forgot and had to be reminded. Is that really significant? And if you ask, then we have to be concerned about the UI to partner, although it's hard to imagine what this UI would suggest -- maybe that an earlier play was based on a misremembered contract, although he wouldn't know what you erroneously thought the contract was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 What's the significant difference between asking every time it's your turn, and having something that passively shows what it is? The only difference I can think of is that the other players know that you forgot and had to be reminded. Is that really significant? And if you ask, then we have to be concerned about the UI to partner, although it's hard to imagine what this UI would suggest -- maybe that an earlier play was based on a misremembered contract, although he wouldn't know what you erroneously thought the contract was.It may or may not be significant, though having a visible card on the table informing everyone in the room of the contract is surely not desirable, but I don't think someone should be able to say, without contradiction, that something is "explicitly" allowed when it is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weejonnie Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 As a point of order - bidding boxes normally have three doubles in them - how many 'undouble' cards will be provided? (EBU only). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weejonnie Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 (before anyone comments - this is the April Fool in this month's magazine.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted April 3, 2019 Report Share Posted April 3, 2019 It may or may not be significant, though having a visible card on the table informing everyone in the room of the contract is surely not desirable, but I don't think someone should be able to say, without contradiction, that something is "explicitly" allowed when it is not.I was only concerned with the players of the hand in question. I agree that making the contract easily visible to passersby is undesirable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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