This is why calling Hanabi a "game" is generous. It's largely just an exercise in mathematics disguised as a game. There is only one real player: the person declaring the rules of deduction for everyone to follow.
Well if you play differently from how everyone else expects, you all suffer for it. Most games reward you for thinking up something creative that the other players missed; Hanabi punishes you instead. You have to hew to how you played in previous games and play as boringly as possible.