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What if you cannot carry out a fog card's instruction, such as drawing a clue from an empty deck?

The designer's reply and the rulebook's fog card option both say an impossible instruction loses the game.

  • JohnKean · Designer · 2018-06-21
  • mogust · Community · 2018-06-21
  • Black Sonata rulebook · Rulebook · Option C: Using a fog card

You lose the game. The fog card action is mandatory once you have chosen it, so if you cannot do what the card says, the game is lost. The designer says such a situation should not come up in practice, because you run out of fog cards or clues first.

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