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Sign in to add a houseruleOn the turn you lay your initial thirty points you may do nothing else: no splitting, no adding to other people's sets, no rearranging. From your next turn on, manipulate freely. CHECK YOUR OWN RULES FIRST — the editions disagree. Spears lets you come out and immediately take the table apart in the same turn, and the Pressman and Goliath sets read that way too, and if those are your rules this is a real restriction: it is where a first meld turns into a five-minute solo puzzle and, occasionally, into somebody winning off one enormous turn. Lemada's current rules already make you wait, so if you bought the box recently you are playing this already.
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When you play a joker into a group of three, say aloud which colour it stands for. From then on only that exact tile can reclaim it. Officially a joker in a group of three may be swapped out by EITHER of the two missing colours, which quietly doubles the chance of it coming back — naming it makes a joker a commitment rather than a loan.
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A joker may not be used in the thirty points you need to come out. Once you are on the table it behaves normally. The official rules allow it and score it as the tile it stands for, which lets a player open on a joker they were never going to be able to place otherwise — and then spend the rest of the game defending it.
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