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Historical Rules · 2 February 2024

Rule 728.1b

Official source text from the 2 February 2024 Rules release

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Occasionally the game gets into a state in which a set of actions could be repeated indefinitely (thus creating a “loop”). In that case, the shortcut rules can be used to determine how many times those actions are repeated without having to actually perform them, and how the loop is broken.

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