Saving Playable Cards when the Preceding Cards Are Not Promptable
Often times, a player will have two similar clued cards in their hand with the left-most being unplayable and the right-most being playable. In this situation, the other members of the team cannot use a Prompt to "get" the cards, since the left-most would misplay.
For example, in a 3-player game:
Red 1 is played on the stacks.
Earlier on in the game, Bob was given a 2 Save clue. Now, he has a playable red 2 on his slot 5 and an unplayable blue 2 on his slot 4.
Cathy has a red 3 on her chop.
If Alice clued the red 3 in Cathy's hand, Bob would be Prompted for slot 4, and blue 2 would misplay.
In this example, Cathy's red 3 is in danger of being discarded soon, so Alice is in a rough spot. From Save Principle, Alice is expected to not let the playable red 3 get discarded. But cluing the red 3 would cause Bob to misplay the valuable blue 2.
Players in this kind of situation will generally solve it in two ways:
Two players can work together. One player can give a Tempo Clue to the unpromptable card, and the other player can give a Play Clue to the next card.
Alternatively, one player can give a Tempo Clue to the unpromptable card and assume that the player with the next card will give some clue. Later on, someone can clue the next card.
If the next player will not immediately misplay, then sometimes you can give the Play Clue to the next card first.
The other players on the team are expected to realize what is going on and help out by immediately giving a Fix Clue to the Prompted player before they misplay.