Card rules · 2026-10-29
Yesterday's Wild Rank Does Not Define the New Hand
A wild designation can belong to one hand rather than to a player or an entire session. Remembering the previous designation is not evidence that it remains active.
A wild designation can belong to one hand rather than to a player or an entire session. Remembering the previous designation is not evidence that it remains active.
Keep the hand identifier with the designation
In a teaching example, hand H12 designates sevens wild. Hand H13 explicitly designates nines. A grouping reviewed in H13 must use H13's designation. Applying the old seven rule would combine cards from one hand with a condition from another.
The same caution applies to replays. A help panel or note saved during H12 can remain visible after H13 starts. Its continued presence does not automatically extend its rule scope. Conversely, if the actual format keeps a designation for an entire match, the relevant match rule should say so.
What changes, and what does not?
The printed identity of 7♠ remains seven of spades. What may change is its assigned role under the current hand's rules. Confusing those two properties can produce an explanation that says the card itself changed rank.
H12 and H13 must be evaluated with their own wild designations. A saved view from H12 remains useful for that old hand; it does not override the explicit nine-wild condition in H13.
Re-evaluate the same group under the new designation
Take 5♣, 6♣ and 7♦. With sevens wild and substitution permitted, 7♦ can represent 7♣. With nines wild instead, the natural 7♦ no longer supplies that replacement under the same definition. The cards and their layout are unchanged. The applicable designation is the fact that changed the assessment.