Sea Salt & Paper Analysis

Following a game: start with New game, then in Setup choose the round's event, who starts, and the two cards that start the discard piles; press Play from this position. Then enter each move as it happens. Your own decisions are the same as on the vs AI page. When one needs something only you saw (the two cards you drew, the card your fish pair drew, the lobster's five), a card grid opens: click the cards, and the move is made as soon as the last one is named. The grid shows how many copies of each card could still be there.

The opponent's moves are what you saw them do: took a card from a pile, drew two and discarded one (name the discard), played a pair (name its cards), ended their turn, said STOP or LAST CHANCE (name the hand they reveal). What you can't see stays unknown: the card they kept, what their fish drew, which buried card their crab pair took. At the end of a round, name the cards that start the next round's discard piles, and its event.

Setup describes any position at the start of a turn (or just after taking a card): scores, events, the discard piles (every card on them, bottom to top), your hand, how many cards the opponent holds and the ones you know of, the pairs in front of each player. Click + add to add cards, and a card to remove it; 👁 under a card in your hand marks it as one the opponent knows you hold. The deck is whatever isn't anywhere else.

The analysis runs on your decisions, from what you know: the computer guesses what you can't see many times over, the same way it plays. It shows its favourite choices with your chance of winning after each, and the bar shows your chance now. It can't analyze the opponent's decisions unless you know their whole hand. ← and → step through the game, and the Moves list jumps anywhere; making a different move somewhere replaces the moves after it. The game is kept in the page's address, so a link (Copy link) opens it as it stands.