Examples of the Rank Choice Ejection

The Rank Choice Ejection is an advanced strategy.

Example 1

In a 3-player rainbow game:

• Yellow 4, green 3 and rainbow 4 are played on the stacks.
• Bob has an unclued yellow 5 on his Second Finesse Position.
• Cathy has an unclued rainbow 5 on her slot 4, and a blue 5 previously clued with number 5 on her slot 5.
• Alice wants to clue the rainbow 5 in Cathy's hand. She could use either a color clue or a number 5 clue to do so:
  • A blue clue would be good because it would be a clear Play Clue on the card (and would also "fill-in" the blue 5).
  • A number 5 could would be bad because it would look like a Save Clue on an unplayable 5.
• Alice still chooses to clue number 5 to Cathy, touching the rainbow 5 on Chop.
• Bob knows that Alice could have "cleanly" given a blue clue to Cathy, so he knows that Alice must be trying to send an additional message:
  • If Bob does nothing, Cathy will treat it as a 5 Save.
  • If Bob blind-plays his Finesse Position, Cathy might think it is a Finesse or Bluff on a green 5 (which is not true).
• Thus, Bob blind-plays his Second Finessed Position as a Rank Choice Ejection.
• This signals to Cathy that Alice's clue was not a Save Clue after all, but a Play Clue on the yellow or rainbow 5.