Rules question

[celebur]

Originally Posted by youngump

To be consistent you'd have to be willing to make this call or explain some way in which it's different.

I disagree; to be consistent, we apply the official rules unless we're explicitly told otherwise by the house rules. There may well be some cases where there is no clear-cut way to handle situations that were not clarified by the house rules, but those rare, convoluted situations should not be taken as the norm for applying official rules.