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These tips are a big summary. There are lots of exceptions.
- Do NOT take tasks of low values if you have that card.
- Do NOT communicate if you see no problems in achieving the task. Reserve communication for problems.
- On the other hand, don’t try to keep your communication for later. If the game could be lost in one trick, usually communicate immediately.
- Mentally calculate the tricks performed when choosing tasks. This is particularly helpful when there are multiple tasks of the same suit.
- If you have 2+ rockets at 5players or in later missions, it may be a good idea to take a task of a suit that you do not have any cards of (or have just 1 of it). If you got only 1 rocket, TRY to avoid it.
- If you have rocket 3 and rocket 4, play rocket 3 first as a means of communicating your rockets.
- Draining rockets by playing them first is usually not a good idea.
- In variants specific missions, put more value to later calls. They got more informations to make their choice.
About communications:
As a general rule, always assume the communication means the minimum amount of cards (so a y3- comm tells he got only two yellows, potentially y39), then wonder if that makes sense to tell it or not :
- If yes, assume that until you get contradictory information (the first card discarded by that person is really important)
- If no, and it’s lowest while he holds a task on that color, that seems to say he got his own task
- If no, and it’s highest on a color he holds no tasks, that seems to say he wants to win his other(s) task(s) on that color
- If no, and it’s in a color he holds a task, and winning it with it is difficult/impossible, that means he got a rocket, and wants to win the task of that color with it.
For a detailed guide, go here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w4rU2aaTluTH91sfSKyxd0shhHKpnPCaZCTxkl4PHOQ/edit .