no its not tru online but in real tournaments u cannot communicate
Are you allowed to help your partner by making suggestions.
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I dunno where @Theproguy88 brought this answer from, but it is allowed.
Bughouse is a game for duos. In real tournaments (Including the international bughouse gathering which is the closest thing to a bughouse world championship) you are allowed to call out moves for your partner.
Not only that, you can also share tactics (Like: "Wait for last seconds") or require pieces. Telling moves is thought to be cheating but isnt.
Nov 20, 2016
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Of course it's allowed. In FICS which is the home of bughouse for 20 years you can feed your partner moves just by making moves on his board and he sees them as suggestions. Something i hope to be implanted here as well. Currently the communication here is terrible. Chatting is just not fit for the dynamics of this game.
Nov 20, 2016
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#6
Making move/strategy suggestions for your partner is allowed in casual games (online, OTB, everywhere).
Making move/strategy suggestions for your partner is allowed in tournaments (online, OTB, everywhere).
Making move/strategy suggestions for your partner is part of the game.
Anyone saying it is "cheating" or not part of the game clearly hasn't played much bughouse. I've played on FICS for decades, played OTB all over the world, and played in countless bughouse tournaments both online and OTB.
The only thing disallowed is physically moving your partner's pieces for him OTB.
Nov 20, 2016
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#7
You are not allowed to help your partner by making suggestions if you are playing against me. Otherwise, it's OK. 
Communication is a key part of bughouse. It's expected that you will ask for pieces, ask your partner not to lose specific pieces, etc. It's quite common for a stronger player to suggest specific moves to a weaker partner.
It's allowed online, and it's allowed OTB. As long as you don't physically move your partner's pieces (an impossibility online), it's all good.
I think it is bad that they turned off communication in the game-Chat (which all 4 Players can read)
Starting privat Chat each game is anoying.
Beside it looks fair to me when the opponents hear the communication too.
In OTB tourneys also everyone hears what is said
There are different tournaments rules for that/ In some allowed all that stuff. But in some stricktly rules that allowed only #pieces claims or time anouncments#.
Yes, you can speak to your team member.
There's no point in Bughouse if you can't communicate with your team member.
Chess is a sport to begin with.
When you play chess with someone else, actively, and knowingly, against other individuals in the same proximity or vicinity, in what is specifically designed a team-sport type of event, then, prohibiting communication negates the purpose of the game to begin with.
Asking if communicating with your team members (with or without your opponent hearing) is roughly like saying that you can't discuss a chess game with your opponent during the game. (Don't ever bother to speak-up and analyze, let alone offer a draw, that would just be out of place. Everyone is always on their own and no moves should ever be suggested or talked about by anyone, and Jeremy Silman and Irving Chernev and the Polgar family should go to hell for all of their contributions to the chess world.)
The latter observation is the (absurd) extremity of asking whether or not discussion among a team members during a team-event should somehow be prohibited because someone doesn't think it's fair. (If you don't like people talking during Bughouse, go play Crazyhouse and STFU.)
Of course this is allowed, both online and in face-to-face tournaments. I've played in bughouse tournaments at the national level when I was in high school and bughouse partners (at least the good ones) were constantly communicating with each other. You just can't be a formidable team otherwise.
Is that cheating?