[blml] The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep is sick

[Eric Landau]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Herman De Wael wrote:

> When Nigel says the TD should be able to force a player to guess, he
> is not talking about the player who is genuinely unaware, but to the
> one who needs a "guess" to determine what his partner is trying to
> tell him. Such a "guess" is based on much more than mere guesswork,
> and that much more needs to be divulged. And it boils down to telling
> them the guess.

Herman is exactly right here!  When "such a 'guess' is based on much  
more than mere guesswork... *that much more* [empahsis mine] needs to  
be divulged.

But while that may well "boil[] down to telling them the guess" in  
nearly every case, the laws *require* you to divulge "the much more"  
while *forbidding* you from divulging "the guess".

Eric Landau
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