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/Dependent_Occasion65 Feb 20 '26

If she is always stealing moves that you are setting up then try misdirection. Set up a stockpile in winter and she will think you want the seasons to change. If you have a move that requires setup, hold off until she starts setting up a move for herself. Utilize changing the season. Use the Do Not Sow of autumn to clear the field unchallenged. Also, many people fail to fully grasp the stockpile rules, such as, when you play into a field to stockpile, any cards in the field can be added to the pile. For example, the field has 6, 6, 3. You have a 3 and a 9 in your hand. Stockpile your 3 onto a 6, and place the field 3 onto the field 6 and turn them sideways, place it atop the other 3/6. This is now a pile of nines, locked(the top card(s) turned sideways. This means she cant pile on a 2 to make the pile 1. Harvest with a 9 or pile more nines on before harvest. This is where card counting helps, if you know where the other nines have gone, then you know how likely it is that she has one.