Little quiz
Posted: 18 Dec 2003, 16:55
I posted this to rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad, but for those of you who don't read there:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
For your amusement, I've devised a Quiz.
I was going to have everyone send in their best efforts, but due to
the open nature of the medium, I'll just post the questions, and let
you have a crack at them.
I think I have the 'best' answers to the questions, of course, but if
someone figures out something better, more power to you. I've tried to
make sure the questions are not to open-ended.
1. Using any card in the game, and with aid from the rest of the
table,
how many inner circle members could you possibly move from your
uncontrolled region to your controlled region in your first turn? (And
how?)
For all further questions: Using just cards in your own (wierd) deck
(no Succubus club trading or help from other methuselahs):
2. Methuselah A has one minion (Minion A, with several cards on it).
Methuselah B (prey of A) has a tapped Selma, at full capacity, with
one master card on her. Both methuselah's have no further cards, nor
the edge.
- Minion A bleeds for 1 and plays 1 action modifier.
- Selma plays a forced awakening and attempts to block.
- Minion A plays an action modifier giving it +1 stealth.
- Selma, having top-decked a 2nd, plays it as if tapped, so she
untaps and tries to block.
- Minion A plays an action modifier, and the block fails.
- Methuselah B is bled for one.
- Methuselah A ends his turn
- During Methuselah B's untap, no cards are played, no pool or blood
is moved. Selma burns.
- How did this happen?
2. It's been a loooong, loong game.
Your prey has just acted really agressively against your grandprey,
hurting them lots and gaining the edge in the process. Your
grandprey's vision became clouded with red, and he went upstream,
burning all your prey's vampires in one fell swoop (except for one,
which he just sent to torpor). In the process, your prey played his
last card. No more cards in hand. And nothing else on the table.
Your turn comes up. You look over to the left, and you see he's only
got 7 pool left. And the Edge. Problem is: you only have 5 more cards
in hand. And one vampire. And nothing else. Solution: That vampire is
Gloria Giovanni, and you happily bleed with Govern the Unaligned,
Command of the Beast, and Conditioning - for 7.
Nobody plays a card. No-one blocks. But, somehow, your bleed fails.
How?
3. your predator has a Muddled Vampire hunter with a flak jacket.
Muddles sucesfully rushes one of your vampires, who is at 2 blood,
with no equipment or retainers on the vampire. You only have minions
in play (no locations, etc.).
- Muddles makes his regular strike, since the combat is at close
range.
- Your vampire plays only one combat card during this whole combat.
- Your vampire survives the combat. So does muddles.
- Muddles dies immediately after the combat.
- How many (significantly distinct) methods can you devise for this
scenario to be true?
(This one's open ended - I'm searching as well. If I've missed an
obivous angle that allows thousands of solutions - my apologies)
4. There's a Tension in the Ranks on the Table that's seriously been
upsetting everyone. It's down to a 3 player game. You're in your
discard phase, and you've got 1 blood doll in your hand (and no other
masters). You're considering what to discard, in the hope to cycle to
a master card. Suddenly you realise that your deck only contains 12
masters. You've played or discarded 11 of them already. Your prey
offers you 3 pool from a parity shift if you promise to remove the
Tension in your upcoming master phase.
You agree - and you keep your deal. How?
5. The only things you have are 6 plain minions (at full capacity),
besides your hand of 7 cards. Even your library is empty. Your hand
contains only 1 card that enhances bleed - a Conditioning. You're in a
1-on-1 situation with your last enemy. He has nothing in play, and no
cards in hand. What's the maximum amount you could bleed for?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
For your amusement, I've devised a Quiz.
I was going to have everyone send in their best efforts, but due to
the open nature of the medium, I'll just post the questions, and let
you have a crack at them.
I think I have the 'best' answers to the questions, of course, but if
someone figures out something better, more power to you. I've tried to
make sure the questions are not to open-ended.
1. Using any card in the game, and with aid from the rest of the
table,
how many inner circle members could you possibly move from your
uncontrolled region to your controlled region in your first turn? (And
how?)
For all further questions: Using just cards in your own (wierd) deck
(no Succubus club trading or help from other methuselahs):
2. Methuselah A has one minion (Minion A, with several cards on it).
Methuselah B (prey of A) has a tapped Selma, at full capacity, with
one master card on her. Both methuselah's have no further cards, nor
the edge.
- Minion A bleeds for 1 and plays 1 action modifier.
- Selma plays a forced awakening and attempts to block.
- Minion A plays an action modifier giving it +1 stealth.
- Selma, having top-decked a 2nd, plays it as if tapped, so she
untaps and tries to block.
- Minion A plays an action modifier, and the block fails.
- Methuselah B is bled for one.
- Methuselah A ends his turn
- During Methuselah B's untap, no cards are played, no pool or blood
is moved. Selma burns.
- How did this happen?
2. It's been a loooong, loong game.
Your prey has just acted really agressively against your grandprey,
hurting them lots and gaining the edge in the process. Your
grandprey's vision became clouded with red, and he went upstream,
burning all your prey's vampires in one fell swoop (except for one,
which he just sent to torpor). In the process, your prey played his
last card. No more cards in hand. And nothing else on the table.
Your turn comes up. You look over to the left, and you see he's only
got 7 pool left. And the Edge. Problem is: you only have 5 more cards
in hand. And one vampire. And nothing else. Solution: That vampire is
Gloria Giovanni, and you happily bleed with Govern the Unaligned,
Command of the Beast, and Conditioning - for 7.
Nobody plays a card. No-one blocks. But, somehow, your bleed fails.
How?
3. your predator has a Muddled Vampire hunter with a flak jacket.
Muddles sucesfully rushes one of your vampires, who is at 2 blood,
with no equipment or retainers on the vampire. You only have minions
in play (no locations, etc.).
- Muddles makes his regular strike, since the combat is at close
range.
- Your vampire plays only one combat card during this whole combat.
- Your vampire survives the combat. So does muddles.
- Muddles dies immediately after the combat.
- How many (significantly distinct) methods can you devise for this
scenario to be true?
(This one's open ended - I'm searching as well. If I've missed an
obivous angle that allows thousands of solutions - my apologies)
4. There's a Tension in the Ranks on the Table that's seriously been
upsetting everyone. It's down to a 3 player game. You're in your
discard phase, and you've got 1 blood doll in your hand (and no other
masters). You're considering what to discard, in the hope to cycle to
a master card. Suddenly you realise that your deck only contains 12
masters. You've played or discarded 11 of them already. Your prey
offers you 3 pool from a parity shift if you promise to remove the
Tension in your upcoming master phase.
You agree - and you keep your deal. How?
5. The only things you have are 6 plain minions (at full capacity),
besides your hand of 7 cards. Even your library is empty. Your hand
contains only 1 card that enhances bleed - a Conditioning. You're in a
1-on-1 situation with your last enemy. He has nothing in play, and no
cards in hand. What's the maximum amount you could bleed for?
