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[ephesos]

Here's a simple puzzle: How can you get infinite
a) Actions
b) Cards
c) Buys
d) Money

Well if you get (d), you can get (b) through storyteller.

If you can get (d), you can get (c) through Traveling Fair

If you can get (a) you can get (d) through Diadem

So we just need to figure out how to get (a).

(d) can be obtained with Merchant Guild or Pirate Ship if it doesn't have to be done in one turn. (You can generate infinite coin tokens given infinite turns. If it must be bounded, these aren't valid.)

We define a Dominion puzzle H as INF-HARD if every puzzle in INF(the set of all infinite vanilla bonus puzzles) can be reduced to H.
Infinite actions is therefore in INF-HARD.

We define another set of Dominion puzzles, F, as the set of all puzzles that can be solved given a finite number of turns. Can you prove that INF is not in F?

[xyz123]

Whilst thinking about this I came up with a funny scenario where Dame Molly takes out a whole army.

1) Buy Lost Arts and put the action token on Knights.
2) Play Dame Molly which now gives you 3 actions.
3) A knight is hit, so both are trashed.
4) Play Graverobber to retrieve and top deck Dame Molly - 2 actions remaining.
5) Play Smithy to draw Dame Molly, Graverobber and Smithy - 1 action remaining.
6) Play Dame Molly again for 3 actions.
7) Repeat until Dame Molly has taken down all 9 other knights.

[ephesos]

Whilst thinking about this I came up with a funny scenario where Dame Molly takes out a whole army.

1) Buy Lost Arts and put the action token on Knights.
2) Play Dame Molly which now gives you 3 actions.
3) A knight is hit, so both are trashed.
4) Play Graverobber to retrieve and top deck Dame Molly - 2 actions remaining.
5) Play Smithy to draw Dame Molly, Graverobber and Smithy - 1 action remaining.
6) Play Dame Molly again for 3 actions.
7) Repeat until Dame Molly has taken down all 9 other knights.

So let me get this straight:
You used dark sorcery on Dame Molly, then sent her into battle.
She killed another knight, but was slain in the process, so they buried her.
Then you yanked her right back out, gave her a new set of armor, and sent her right back to fight again? 8 times? You cruel, cruel person.

[Awaclus]

Whilst thinking about this I came up with a funny scenario where Dame Molly takes out a whole army.

1) Buy Lost Arts and put the action token on Knights.
2) Play Dame Molly which now gives you 3 actions.
3) A knight is hit, so both are trashed.
4) Play Graverobber to retrieve and top deck Dame Molly - 2 actions remaining.
5) Play Smithy to draw Dame Molly, Graverobber and Smithy - 1 action remaining.
6) Play Dame Molly again for 3 actions.
7) Repeat until Dame Molly has taken down all 9 other knights.

So let me get this straight:
You used dark sorcery on Dame Molly, then sent her into battle.
She killed another knight, but was slain in the process, so they buried her.
Then you yanked her right back out, gave her a new set of armor, and sent her right back to fight again? 8 times? You cruel, cruel person.

At least he paid her $5 for it.

[scott_pilgrim]

What is the (non-trivial) common property of the following cards:

Bridge
Caravan
City
Copper
Count
Gold
Library
Market
Mine
Trader
Venture
Village
Witch

Honorable mentions:
Estate
Prince
Scout

[xyz123]

Each card's name is also part of another card. The honourable mentions are cards that are not in the supply or are events.


Bridge - Bridge Troll
Caravan - Caravan Guard
City - Lost City
Copper - Coppersmith
Count- Counting House
Gold - Fool's Gold
Library - Ruined Library
Market - Market Square, Ruined Market
Mine - Abandoned Mine
Trader - Horse Traders
Venture - Adventurer
Village - Various villages, e.g. Mining, Fishing, Ruined.
Witch - Young Witch

Honorable mentions:
Estate - Overgrown Estate
Prince - Princess
Scout - Scouting Party

[Dingan]

2 player game.  Opponent plays a Witch.  There is at least 1 Curse in the Curse pile.  I have a Moat which I do not 'react'.  I have no other on-gain reaction cards (e.g. Trader) in my hand.  But I still gain a Curse (from the Witch).  How?

No shenanigans (Possession, etc.).

[Seprix]

2 player game.  Opponent plays a Witch.  There is at least 1 Curse in the Curse pile.  I have a Moat which I do not 'react'.  I have no other on-gain reaction cards (e.g. Trader) in my hand.  But I still gain a Curse (from the Witch).  How?

No shenanigans (Possession, etc.).

You're up by two points and Curses are the 3rd pile.

[ConMan]

2 player game.  Opponent plays a Witch.  There is at least 1 Curse in the Curse pile.  I have a Moat which I do not 'react'.  I have no other on-gain reaction cards (e.g. Trader) in my hand.  But I still gain a Curse (from the Witch).  How?

No shenanigans (Possession, etc.).

... because that's what happens when your opponent plays a Witch?

If you mean you still *don't* gain a Curse, then ... Lighthouse?

Or do you mean you *choose* to gain the Curse, in which case I guess Seprix's answer?

[Seprix]

Wait, you're saying how do you gain a curse that you did NOT react a Moat to?

[DLloyd09]

Should that *how* be a *why*? Because the *how* seems obvious... you did nothing to stop the Curse.

Anyway, Curses are the third pile and you have 9 or 14 other unique cards in your deck, so the Curse boosts your Fairgrounds up enough to be worth more than your opponent could score this turn.

[Dingan]

Ahhh, sorry, I meant I do *not* gain the Curse.

And no Lighthouse in play (that's certainly a valid answer, but not what I had in mind).

[Mic Qsenoch]

You could just react a Secret Chamber and then get Trader/Watchtower into your hand.

[Awaclus]

Ahhh, sorry, I meant I do *not* gain the Curse.

And no Lighthouse in play (that's certainly a valid answer, but not what I had in mind).

Champion in play.

[Dingan]

You could just react a Secret Chamber and then get Trader/Watchtower into your hand.

I guess this would work, but not what I had in mind.  Not only do I not have any other 'on-gain' reactions in my hand now, I never do until it is my turn (or later).

Ahhh, sorry, I meant I do *not* gain the Curse.

And no Lighthouse in play (that's certainly a valid answer, but not what I had in mind).

Champion in play.

I don't know anything about Adventures, so this is not what I had in mind.

[xyz123]

You have two moats in your hand. The one you reacted and the one you didn't.

Caravan Guard drawing a Watchtower or Trader would also work.

[GendoIkari]

The Witch was Young, and you revealed the bane.

[ephesos]

You could just react a Secret Chamber and then get Trader/Watchtower into your hand.

I guess this would work, but not what I had in mind.  Not only do I not have any other 'on-gain' reactions in my hand now, I never do until it is my turn (or later).

Ahhh, sorry, I meant I do *not* gain the Curse.

And no Lighthouse in play (that's certainly a valid answer, but not what I had in mind).

Champion in play.

I don't know anything about Adventures, so this is not what I had in mind.

So you're saying there are a lot of ways not to gain this Curse, but you want us to guess the specific one you thought of?

List of applicable Reactions:
Moat, Secret Chamber, Caravan Guard, Watchtower, Trader

List of applicable Durations:
Lighthouse, Caravan Guard, Champion

[ephesos]

The Witch was Young, and you revealed the bane.

But a "Young Witch" is not a "Witch", no matter how you try and sell it. Similar to how Fool's Gold is not Gold, nor is Ruined Library a Library. They are two different cards with two different names that happen to be similar. Using the same method, I could say that the Witch was a Mountebank, so I discarded a Curse.

[GendoIkari]

The Witch was Young, and you revealed the bane.

But a "Young Witch" is not a "Witch", no matter how you try and sell it. Similar to how Fool's Gold is not Gold, nor is Ruined Library a Library. They are two different cards with two different names that happen to be similar. Using the same method, I could say that the Witch was a Mountebank, so I discarded a Curse.

It wasn't intended to be a serious guess. 

[ashersky]

The Witch was Young, and you revealed the bane.

But a "Young Witch" is not a "Witch", no matter how you try and sell it. Similar to how Fool's Gold is not Gold, nor is Ruined Library a Library. They are two different cards with two different names that happen to be similar. Using the same method, I could say that the Witch was a Mountebank, so I discarded a Curse.

Why isn't a young witch a witch?  I mean, she's just young, but she's still a witch.  It's like you are saying a green apple is not an apple, when clearly it is an apple, just one of green color.

[eHalcyon]

The Witch was Young, and you revealed the bane.

But a "Young Witch" is not a "Witch", no matter how you try and sell it. Similar to how Fool's Gold is not Gold, nor is Ruined Library a Library. They are two different cards with two different names that happen to be similar. Using the same method, I could say that the Witch was a Mountebank, so I discarded a Curse.

Why isn't a young witch a witch?  I mean, she's just young, but she's still a witch.  It's like you are saying a green apple is not an apple, when clearly it is an apple, just one of green color.

A young witch may be a witch but a Young Witch is not a Witch.

[Deadlock39]

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

[scott_pilgrim]

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

The young witch would switch the watch which the witch watched with the watch which the witch wouldn't watch to watch the watch which the witch watched.

[eHalcyon]

@Dingan it's been long enough that you should probably just provide your answer.