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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #175 on: March 25, 2014, 08:59:24 am »
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Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.


Harem?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #176 on: March 25, 2014, 09:33:40 am »
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Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.

Mountebank?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #177 on: March 25, 2014, 09:57:54 am »
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I don't think heron is right.

edit:  I wonder if it is Sir Martin and ConMan meant to say "Though nine are five".

What do you think it is?

edit: I think that would be too easy.

How does Dame Josephine fit?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #178 on: March 25, 2014, 10:06:16 am »
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I don't think heron is right.

edit:  I wonder if it is Sir Martin and ConMan meant to say "Though nine are five".

What do you think it is?

edit: I think that would be too easy.

How does Dame Josephine fit?

What does she have four of that all the other Knights have three of?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #179 on: March 25, 2014, 10:18:10 am »
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Oh, I think I get it now.
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #180 on: March 25, 2014, 12:08:29 pm »
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A festival trader I am not.
I interpret the revelations.

Answer:Swindler
I don't get it :(

Another word for festival is fair.
The card lets the player choose replacements for the revealed card thus an interpretation of the revelations.

Whoa there, no cards are revealed after a Swindler play ;)

True, according tot he text the card is trashed. However, the opponent gets to select the replacement. The identity of the top card must become public knowledge in order for the opponent to make his decision. Whenever the contents of a player's deck or hand are made public knowledge we tend to call that revealing.
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #181 on: March 25, 2014, 06:04:35 pm »
+1

And here's another:
While many are ten we ten are one,
Though nine are three I alone am four.


Dame Josephine
Correct! As for the comment that "others are also three", this is specifically in the context of the ten that are one ;)
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #182 on: March 31, 2014, 09:38:27 pm »
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And one more, for good measure:

Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.

This one's still open.

And how about a hard mode one?
I am not a Base Card,
But I am always in the game.


And this one has clues for a few cards:
Have you been listening carefully?
Or are you trying to choose between us?
Or do you think I have nothing to give?
Or do you think I'm going to change?
Or maybe you just think I'm too strange?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #183 on: March 31, 2014, 09:46:47 pm »
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And how about a hard mode one?
I am not a Base Card,
But I am always in the game.


The trash card?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #184 on: March 31, 2014, 10:23:17 pm »
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And how about a hard mode one?
I am not a Base Card,
But I am always in the game.

- Hermit. Don't just spend all day at your computer dude. Get some sunlight.
- Masterpiece. Thank you, thank you.
- Governor. And that game is Puerto Rico.
- Moat. People are just scared of attacks I guess.
- The placeholder card for the Copper pile.
- Province, but not the one with art from Base Cards.
- Nobles. The players themselves are nobles, and not "base."
- Minion, it's in the title, obv.

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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #185 on: March 31, 2014, 10:38:05 pm »
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And how about a hard mode one?
I am not a Base Card,
But I am always in the game.

- Hermit. Don't just spend all day at your computer dude. Get some sunlight.
- Masterpiece. Thank you, thank you.
- Governor. And that game is Puerto Rico.
- Moat. People are just scared of attacks I guess.
- The placeholder card for the Copper pile.
- Province, but not the one with art from Base Cards.
- Nobles. The players themselves are nobles, and not "base."
- Minion, it's in the title, obv.

The last of these is infact the one I intended. I do love me some word play.
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #186 on: April 11, 2014, 10:02:32 pm »
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The measly urchin knocks on my door
So I react surprised
And don't give him anything
After that man left
Another urchin came
While I still didn't give him anything
I couldn't react
For I was emotionless

What card am I?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #187 on: April 11, 2014, 10:13:26 pm »
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The measly urchin knocks on my door
So I react surprised
And don't give him anything
After that man left
Another urchin came
While I still didn't give him anything
I couldn't react
For I was emotionless

What card am I?

beggar?

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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #188 on: April 11, 2014, 10:17:54 pm »
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The measly urchin knocks on my door
So I react surprised
And don't give him anything
After that man left
Another urchin came
While I still didn't give him anything
I couldn't react
For I was emotionless

What card am I?
Horse Traders?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #189 on: April 12, 2014, 06:57:57 am »
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The measly urchin knocks on my door
So I react surprised
And don't give him anything
After that man left
Another urchin came
While I still didn't give him anything
I couldn't react
For I was emotionless

What card am I?
I think it has to be Tunnel
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #190 on: April 12, 2014, 08:50:06 am »
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awalcus got it, congrats
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #191 on: April 12, 2014, 08:56:57 am »
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awalcus got it, congrats

can you explain pls?

i mean you can potentially react a horse traders to the second urchin. Yes if you already put it aside at the first opportunity you can't again, but that is also true for Beggar as you discarted it. Tunnel on the other Hand can only be reacted to the first urchin as you can't discard a card again with the second play
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #192 on: April 12, 2014, 12:54:54 pm »
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awalcus got it, congrats

can you explain pls?

i mean you can potentially react a horse traders to the second urchin. Yes if you already put it aside at the first opportunity you can't again, but that is also true for Beggar as you discarted it. Tunnel on the other Hand can only be reacted to the first urchin as you can't discard a card again with the second play
I realize now that all of these could work. Horse traders was the one I intended, but all can work. So, on my behalf, I apologize that I didn't note your posts as the right answer.
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #193 on: April 12, 2014, 12:58:00 pm »
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awalcus got it, congrats

can you explain pls?

i mean you can potentially react a horse traders to the second urchin. Yes if you already put it aside at the first opportunity you can't again, but that is also true for Beggar as you discarted it. Tunnel on the other Hand can only be reacted to the first urchin as you can't discard a card again with the second play

Mechanically, all three of Horse Traders, Beggar and Tunnel seem like they should fit the riddle.   However, you can rule out Tunnel in two ways.  It technically does not react to the Urchin.  It reacts to being discarded, which is an effect of the Urchin.  Flavour-wise, it doesn't make sense for the story because a Tunnel is inanimate and thus cannot react in surprise.

Beggar is trickier to rule out.  Mechanically, it gets discarded so it technically isn't around for the second Urchin.  Horse Traders is still there, just in "set aside" land.  Flavour-wise, an Urchin probably wouldn't be asking for anything from a Beggar anyway, and many Beggars don't have doors upon which to knock (some do, of course).
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #194 on: April 12, 2014, 07:01:14 pm »
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awalcus got it, congrats

can you explain pls?

i mean you can potentially react a horse traders to the second urchin. Yes if you already put it aside at the first opportunity you can't again, but that is also true for Beggar as you discarted it. Tunnel on the other Hand can only be reacted to the first urchin as you can't discard a card again with the second play

Mechanically, all three of Horse Traders, Beggar and Tunnel seem like they should fit the riddle.   However, you can rule out Tunnel in two ways.  It technically does not react to the Urchin.  It reacts to being discarded, which is an effect of the Urchin.  Flavour-wise, it doesn't make sense for the story because a Tunnel is inanimate and thus cannot react in surprise.

Beggar is trickier to rule out.  Mechanically, it gets discarded so it technically isn't around for the second Urchin.  Horse Traders is still there, just in "set aside" land.  Flavour-wise, an Urchin probably wouldn't be asking for anything from a Beggar anyway, and many Beggars don't have doors upon which to knock (some do, of course).


the thing with these riddles is that you never know what you can take word by word and what you can also interpret in a different way:
in this case i took the "react surprised and dont give him anything" as not discart the tunnel =>not gain gold =>not give the urchung a gold because the first urchin came unexpected, then when the second urchin comes it is expected and you want to discart tunnel to give him a gold but now you can't anymore because of already 4 cards hand.
Tunnel does not react directly to urchin but the riddle does not strictly imply a reaction to urchin, just a reaction after the urchin comes

So with different interpretations of words different cards qualify for being the correct answer.
This interpretation might be a bit far-fetched but once you found something that fits one interpretation and that interpretation also disqualifies all other cards you don't think further into it.  ;D
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #195 on: April 13, 2014, 06:54:15 pm »
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A couple of hints for the ones still untouched.

And one more, for good measure:

Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.

What, in most games, is the greatest expanse of land?
What, in most games, is the most valuable of coin?
What might the foulest of words be? It's not Scout.
Why might a card care that you've done nothing, something, or everything?

And this one has clues for a few cards:
Have you been listening carefully?
Or are you trying to choose between us?
Or do you think I have nothing to give?
Or do you think I'm going to change?
Or maybe you just think I'm too strange?

Each line after the first is a clue to a different card.
Is anyone here a fan of cryptic crosswords?
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #196 on: April 13, 2014, 08:16:21 pm »
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A couple of hints for the ones still untouched.

And one more, for good measure:

Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.

What, in most games, is the greatest expanse of land?
What, in most games, is the most valuable of coin?
What might the foulest of words be? It's not Scout.
Why might a card care that you've done nothing, something, or everything?
It's peddler, like is in cost, doing is actions I feel dumb that I didn't see this before the clues.
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #197 on: April 14, 2014, 12:09:20 am »
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A couple of hints for the ones still untouched.

And one more, for good measure:

Do nothing, I am like a great expanse of land.
Do something, I am like a glistening coin.
Do everything, I am like the foulest of words.

What, in most games, is the greatest expanse of land?
What, in most games, is the most valuable of coin?
What might the foulest of words be? It's not Scout.
Why might a card care that you've done nothing, something, or everything?
It's peddler, like is in cost, doing is actions I feel dumb that I didn't see this before the clues.
Well, neither did anybody else, so well done!
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Re: What Card Am I?
« Reply #198 on: April 14, 2014, 05:32:53 am »
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And this one has clues for a few cards:
Have you been listening carefully?
Or are you trying to choose between us?
Or do you think I have nothing to give?
Or do you think I'm going to change?
Or maybe you just think I'm too strange?

"Have you been listening carefully" probably means easily confused cards. So I'm gonna guess Procession and Possession for the last two lines (Procession changes an action card into something better, Possession is just a weird card)
I'm still unsure for the first two though.
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« Reply #199 on: April 14, 2014, 07:06:30 pm »
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And this one has clues for a few cards:
Have you been listening carefully?
Or are you trying to choose between us?
Or do you think I have nothing to give?
Or do you think I'm going to change?
Or maybe you just think I'm too strange?

"Have you been listening carefully" probably means easily confused cards. So I'm gonna guess Procession and Possession for the last two lines (Procession changes an action card into something better, Possession is just a weird card)
I'm still unsure for the first two though.

A bit off track, but not completely. Unless you think quite heavily outside the box, this is probably one of those ones that will make more sense after it's explained.
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