Ouija Board Broke Mid-Answer

[The Bored Chairman]

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I'm not sure why this happened, I asked it a question while I was holding and nothing happened, so I dropped it and it started answering.

Can someone explain this to me?

My theory is that the ghost initiated a hunt while it was answering, which broke the board.

[underscores222]

The board will break when you reach 0 sanity or if you get too far away without saying goodbye. When the board breaks, it will trigger a cursed hunt.

On the first breakage case, low sanity, the board will break immediately if you ask a question and cannot pay the sanity cost (where is your favorite room drains 50% sanity, for example). Since the board started to answer, you had enough sanity for the question.

That means you probably moved far enough away from the board to cause it to break by distance, and that triggered the hunt. Whenever you activate the board, it will drop the wooden pointer down. Don't forget to say goodbye before walking away and watch the pointer float away before you carry on hunting.

[Estellese]

Can confirm that hunts triggering do not break the board. I was using text instead of voice, I tried to ask a question and the hunt started while I had the board text up.

What followed was me panic-spamming the "goodbye" button, which wouldn't take until the ghost finished answering the first question. And then promptly dying. Board did not break though.

[The Bored Chairman]

Ok. What might've happened is that the game actually registered my first question and then counted my second one (which was a repeat of "Where are you?").

Given that that question takes 50 Sanity, I likely didn't have enough for the repeat.

[Jimmy Hunter]

You can carry the board with you and it won't shatter unless you ask it a question without having enough sanity. So if a hunt begins, you can take the board with you to your pre-determined hiding spot and wait for the hunt to end to say "goodbye".

[Watcher Rat]

There is an occasional glitch where the board will have a delayed reply (when it happens to me, keying up the radio a couple times usually jolts it into answering), and it is definitely easy to have it queue two responses in a row when that happens. Be careful with asking the same thing twice if it doesn't respond right away.