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The Table Is Asking Sunday, September 27
What do X and C mean at the end of a line on the card?
Rule
X means exposed and C means concealed. On an X line you may call a discard and lay the finished group face up on top of your rack. On a C line you may make no exposure at all while you build, and the only tile you may ever call is the fourteenth one, the tile that wins the hand.
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Today's questions
Every one of these says up front whether it is a rule, a recommendation, one table's house preference, or plain strategy. Knowing which is which settles most of the arguments before they start.
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