@thisishandlenumber2048

5 months ago

There's one clarification that I would like to make which is that at 3:10 you say that if there are no pairs listed you go off of who has the fewest x's and this actually isn't true. First it goes by who has the rarest card (who has a single card with the fewest number of x's) and then if there's a tie it's which pair has the fewest x's. As someone who also made this mistake when I first played the game this actually makes a huge difference with how you play the game because if there are no pairs by the end of the round (which there usually aren't) then whoever is holding the spy wins. This makes the last few turns super fun but also super stressful because as the deck winds down there's a greater and greater chance of someone hiding the spy. Also because the round ends when the deck runs out you have to keep count of the cards and calculate what extra turn abilities are still out there to calculate your chances of getting another turn after your current one. I think the main mistake that this game makes is how it advertises winning the game because all of the pair combos make you think that you're trying to find the best pair when in reality it's more about trying to get the spy and keep him without being discovered. From time to time pairs do happen but the vast majority of the time the winner is the person who can steal the spy out from under everyone else's nose at the eleventh hour. When you start playing with that mindset things make a lot more sense and you start to have way more fun with it. Also there is no greater joy in this game than discarding the spy face down early in the game and then watching everyone else panic trying to find it while you sit back holding an assassin. If they steal your assassin they die and if they let you keep it you win because you have the next rarest card, win-win either way.

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