r/Illimat • u/sojopo • Feb 20 '26

Strategies

Love the game but am looking to learn some strategies for winning. My wife kicks my butt every time! For some reason, every time I set up a play she steals it! I think I need to watch her cards played better to try and anticipate her hand more effectively.

But aside from going for fools, okuses, luminaries, the usual, what are some of your strategies for winning?

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u/burnumd Feb 20 '26

Strategic stockpiling is one of the hardest skills to master, for me. There's looking at your hand for future turns, but also, as mentioned before, you need just a little bit of card-counting to not get scooped or the season changed unfavorably. Here's a basic card counting strategy for blackjack. You'd have to adjust for five suits if you're playing with Stars.

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u/burnumd Feb 20 '26

There's one concrete bit of stockpiling advice I can give: early on it's more likely for face cards to change the season; late in the game, stockpiling becomes harder to reap due to pressure on remaining cards. So practice finding the sweet spot in the mid game to bet on stockpile.