"The fish" is anti-fun

[_galaxy]

"Cards drawn face down after each hand played"

What?

[wilr]

i thought this was a nightmare at first, too ! but i discovered that this doesn't mean cards drawn after *discarding* are drawn face-down. so if you need to, you can discard some cards to draw some more face-up cards :]

[_galaxy]

Originally posted by wilr:

i thought this was a nightmare at first, too ! but i discovered that this doesn't mean cards drawn after *discarding* are drawn face-down. so if you need to, you can discard some cards to draw some more face-up cards :]

Yeah that mechanic was obvious but then again you start running outta discards

[Goblin]

The more non-face-down cards you have, the more information you can glean from the sort function. Therefore, playing smaller hands if possible makes this a lot easier. Plus, that also generally makes it easier to not waste all your discards up front to get that one hand, then bust because your hand wasn't quite enough to oneshot it or you got bad luck and didn't get the card you needed yet. Discard -> play some cards -> figure out which cards you got -> discard the ones you don't need -> repeat.
It also emphasises the importance of stacking your deck. A vanilla deck has a considerably bigger risk of not getting you the cards you need, while a trimmed deck can have you discarding through your entire deck sometimes, and a deck stacked with certain cards makes gleaning information with the sort functions a lot easier. Also remember, there's a +1 discard voucher, though it's not available this demo I think, and the +1 discard joker. Apparently the full game even has a second +1 discard voucher you can buy after the first.

And as has been noted in most threads exactly like this, using certain tarot cards on a face down card flips it over for a little bit. Might want to turn down game speed real quick if you want to rely on this, but it can save you big time.

[Starwisp]

One thing I noticed: Cards get turned around and revealed for a short moment when modified by a tarot card. And the cards can be sorted by rank and suits. This way you can kinda guess what's what. But it's still tricky. Edit: The fish is very luck based. You pick the cards and hope for the best. Got it once and the other time not. But so far it has come up very rarely.

[Prime_Evil]

Picked up the game today and this round has been the first one I have really disliked, way too random. I know there are ways to game it, but it's very anti-fun.

[malogoss]

Holy necro Batman!