Hello everyone,
It has been almost a year since
@Acerius and I undertook a comprehensive restructuring and rewriting of the rules, where there was a range of removals, merges, or shortenings of rule text. We managed to reduce the character count in that round by 35%, and take the number of rules down from 66 to 52.
@Acerius and I have been back at it again for 2026, however this time our main focus for this edition has been improving readability. We have long recognised that - particularly for non-native English speakers - the rules present a challenge with regards to comprehension and understanding.
To help objectively benchmark how easily understandable the rules are, we have used the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. While this method does come with its own limitations, it provides a good baseline in telling us how easily the rules might be...