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Historical Rules · 25 July 2025

Rule 800.5

Official source text from the 25 July 2025 Rules release

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Unless a chosen variant or option prescribes otherwise, seating order is determined by any mutually agreeable method. For example, players could agree to remain where they were before the game began, roll dice to determine seating order, and so on.

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