2026-09-08 · analog
Hanabi (2010) — The Rule That Matters Most Is the One the Rulebook Never Made
In Hanabi you hold your hand facing away from yourself, and a hint may name only one colour or one number. Yet the official rulebook hands the rule that matters most — what you are allowed to say — straight to the table. That is the first thing to vanish in code, and it is why an AI that scores 24 with a copy of itself scores almost zero beside a differently-trained partner.
