Citadels
Can the Blackmailer choose not to reveal the threat when the target does not pay, and so stop the target's turn?
The rulebook's Blackmailer section makes the reveal optional and only a flowered-lace reveal takes gold.
- Citadels rulebook · Rulebook · 2. Blackmailer
- a1bert · Community · 2025-02-19
- Matheus94 · Community · 2025-02-19disagrees
Probably not. The threatened player gathers resources and then resolves the threat. If the Blackmailer does not reveal the flowered lace, nothing is taken, the threat is resolved, and the threatened player's turn continues. The rulebook does not say outright that declining to reveal cannot hold up the turn, and one poster disagrees.