Card rules · 2026-10-29
Can a Warning Still Be Corrected Before Submission?
The important question after a grouping warning is whether the hand is still a proposal or has already been submitted. The same word, invalid, can appear at either stage.
The important question after a grouping warning is whether the hand is still a proposal or has already been submitted. The same word, invalid, can appear at either stage.
An editable proposal
In the first exercise, the checker previews a group containing 4♣ and 5♣. It warns that the sequence needs another card. The player already holds 6♣ elsewhere in the unsubmitted hand and moves it into the group. The revised proposal now contains 4♣, 5♣, 6♣.
That repairs this group. The rest of the hand still needs checking, especially the group from which 6♣ was moved.
A committed declaration
In the second exercise, the player submits the incomplete grouping first. The stated procedure evaluates that submitted snapshot and records an invalid declaration. Rearranging cards afterwards changes a local proposal; it does not replace the snapshot already evaluated.
The difference is the submission boundary. A warning while editing and a result after submission are not interchangeable opportunities to try again.
Which hand produced the result?
Place the submitted grouping beside its result, then keep later edits separately. Otherwise a complete-looking revised group may be used to argue that the earlier incomplete submission should have passed. Conversely, a preliminary warning should not be described as a final failed declaration unless submission actually occurred.
Check the moment of submission before interpreting the warning. Before that boundary, the question is whether the proposal can still be edited. After it, the question is which submitted cards were evaluated. Keeping those moments separate prevents a later correction from being confused with the earlier result.