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What does the Hiding Place card do against an encounter?

Several players agree on this; there is no official ruling.

  • Shadrach · Community · 2017-07-05
  • Desiderata · Community · 2025-07-23
  • the pete · Community · 2019-03-31
  • Desiderata · Community · 2021-04-01
  • YepJustFine · Community · 2019-11-25

It lets you avoid the Residents encounter from a Noise roll: discard it, no Residents card is drawn, and Noise still resets to 1. It does not work against encounters that are not a Noise roll, such as the I Think I Saw Something card. Replies differ on whether the Residents card is drawn first when the card is used.

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