Just to be clear on this, we’re trading looks at these cards, not the cards themselves, correct?
You mean slips? Well, once you read the slip (rule slip) you don’t really need to retain the slip (you can memorise it or write it down in a notebook). The rules are just that, rules. You want to get a look at as many as you can using your letter cards or rule peeks as an offer so in the end you will actually know how to score the letters you have and which ones you need to get to increase your score (or decrease your score, depending on all the rules :dubious: ).
If you meant letter cards then yes, you are physically giving up the card in exchange for another one(s) or a look at an above mentioned rule(s).
The letter cards are like money and the rules are what you need to know in order to wisely use your money.
I think. 
**TO clarify, if you exchange rules with Priceguy then you just PM him the rule he wants and he PMs you the rule you want. You don’t give anything up. You just get a note on your log that you’ve seen the new rule.
If you two were to exchange letter cards then you would physically re-do your letter inventory to show this. **
Again, I think.
Based on the way the offer was phrased, I’d have to rule that it was exchanging rule slips. (cards have letters. Slips have numbers.)
USCDiver, if you want to offer a trade based on ‘looks’, you’ll have to reissue the offer.
So there is a difference if you’ve seen a rule verses owning it? What might that difference be? (is there possibly a rule that deals with points and rule slips?)
Is that too much to answer without giving anything away? (Be careful, your answer to that might give something away. 
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I’m still learning…
Yes, if you’ve seen a rule, but don’t own it, then in this version of the game you can’t trade on it - you can’t show it to anybody else out of ‘your own personal notebook.’
So, by the end of the game a lot of people may have the information that’s on rule #8, but still, only a few people can actually profit by spreading the information further. And I will be enforcing this - no selling other players looks at rules where you don’t HOLD them. (as opposed to rules you’ve SEEN.)
Okay?
Ok, here goes.
Uncommon Sense’s offer #1:
Open to anyone who would like to see Rule #14, I will give the first person who requests it, a letter card of their choice (except Z) in exchange for a look at Rule #13.
:smack: Of course, forgot that part.
You can see and use (personally benefit from) all the rules you are offered looks at but you can only trade on the rules you actually have. And you may acquire more rules if you actually trade for them. Gotcha.
Sorry Hal. I’m glad we cleared that up!
Just to clarify again, you can PM each other if you’re very sure that the you each hold the appropriate rule slips, you’re sure that the trade was offered and accepted legally, and I’m not around to handle it. Otherwise, I will be handling the PMs myself. Woe betide the haggler who PMs trade information and I have something to nitpick about the way the trade was handled!
Oh, and if you’re PMing another player with rule information, you PM it to me as well, just so that I can see what you were saying, to make sure there’s no grounds for an antitrust lawsuit or something. 
So, if someone accepts my offer in post #86 they PM you and then you PM me letting me know the deal went down?
You’ll PM me letting me know which letter they wanted (and also removed from my inventory) and you’ll also PM them with the rule look (or is that up to me)?
Fun! (soon as I get the hang of this)
Not quite.
They post openly to accept the trade, saying something like…
Accept Uncommon Sense’s offer #1, and taking the N card
And then I’ll PM both of you at the same time, listing the text of rule 13 and 14 in the PM.
Sure, cinchy.
I will be away for most the weekend…sorry hope I can catch up when I get back
Guess I will try to get a trade out
Mad Trade # 1-Trade rules #9 and #19 and the letters E C For any two rules 10 and under(except 1 and 9) and the letter D and W
A question for the company.
Should the default for ‘trading rules’ be handing over the slip, and use the term ‘show’ for showing the rule without relinquishing it, or should the default ‘trade’ be a show and use some other word for ‘selling’ the rule??
Withdraw Mad #1
Withdraw Priceguy offer #1
Accept Uncommon Sense’s offer #1 and take the I card.
As a counter offer, [COLOR=Blue]PercyPercy offer #1: I offer Priceguy an E card and a look at rule 14 for a peek at rule 13 and an N card.
-Lil
Ok…I think I’ve the hang of this now…
Hal Offer #1: Hey Priceguy, I’ll give you an F Card and a look at Rule #5 in exchange for an L Card and a look at Rule #2.
[COLOR=Red]withdraw PercyPercy offer #1[COLOR=Black]
Percypercy offer #2
I offer Doctor Who a peek at rule number 3 and a d for a look at rule 13
That’s withdraw Percypercy Offer #1
-Lil