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Discharges

  • A Discharge refers to a Signal Shift blind-play in which someone plays an unrelated card from their Third Finesse Position.
    • For example, if a player's hand is completely unclued, their Third Finesse Position is slot 3.
  • Just like a Bluff, a Discharge can only be performed on the very next player.

The Unknown Trash Discharge

  • The Unknown Trash Discharge is introduced at level 16.
  • This results in a Signal Shift from Play --> Trash.

The Unknown Dupe Discharge (UDD)

  • The Unknown Dupe Discharge is introduced at level 16.
  • This results in a Signal Shift from Play --> Trash.

The 5 Number Discharge (5ND)

  • The 5 Number Discharge is introduced in level 19.
  • This results in a Signal Shift from Play --> Trash (on the 5 Pulled card).

The Trash Push Discharge

  • First, see the section on the Trash Push.
  • Normally, when known-trash is touched as the focus of the clue, and the known-trash is on chop, it communicates a Trash Push.
  • However, what if the Trash Pushed card is trash? The other players can see that this clue must have some other purpose - it should signal an Discharge on the very next player.
  • This move is extremely similar to the Unknown Trash Discharge. In UTD, the focus of the clue is promised as trash. In the Trash Push Discharge, the Trash Pushed card is promised as trash.

The Prophetic Discharge

  • First, see the section on the Prophetic Finesse.
  • Prophetic Finesses can only be given with a number 1 clue.
  • If a player tries to use a color clue to initiate a Prophetic Finesse, they instead intend for the next player to blind-play their Third Finesse Position (like an Unknown Trash Discharge).
  • Other than that, everything else works like a Prophetic Finesse (e.g. one of the in-between players is promised to have the matching card on their Finesse Position).
  • Unlike the Prophetic Finesse, the clued player should only treat this as unnecessary move if the Discharged card could have been cleanly clued.
  • Prophetic Discharges can only be triggered by touching exactly one 1.
  • Prophetic Discharges can only be triggered by using a color clue.
  • Prophetic Discharges can be Layered. (See the Prophetic Finesse section for an example of this.)