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How to play and study OFC

Rules, royalties, Fantasyland, and the formats OFC Lab solves — enough to sit a table, then take the same spots into the Trainer and Library.

Rules · ~8 min

Three rows, a 13-card board, fouls, scoops, and how OFC differs from closed Chinese poker.

Pineapple · Fantasyland · ~10 min

The 5-then-3 deal, discards, QQ+ qualification, 14-card Fantasyland, and stay rules.

Scoring · ~9 min

Row points, scoop bonus, the royalty tables OFC Lab uses, and what a foul costs.

Study · ~9 min

EV, street-by-street lines, the opening Library, practice mode, and what spends a solve.

Taiwanese · ~9 min

Two boards, a 1/2/4 split, no fouls — a different game from Open Face Chinese.

Formats · ~10 min

Five OFC formats: Fantasyland ladders, stay rules, low middles, and the 54-card deck.

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