{"id":14880,"date":"2025-10-17T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:17:00","slug":"game-play-observations-to-improve-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=14880","title":{"rendered":"Game Play Observations to Improve &#8211; Trick or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once out of the muster deck and discard deck, you can only steal and put down, not pick up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only put down your Keep cards at the beginning of the turn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If not enough cards to complete an action roll, you forfeit your turn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use physical coins for TP.<br>\u2192 Use TP when you&#8217;re out of cards\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use TP to freeze other players from taking your cards&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjust the game if there are fewer than 4 players<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roll 4 needs to change to 3 of the same suit instead<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make it clearer to shuffle the deck and have something that allows players to know that when picking characters, you can&#8217;t choose those of the same element<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They need to know when to pick up their cheat sheet cards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Change the treat Point paper with actual coins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;make known the cheat sheet cards in the directions, and the cards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make clear what cards get pulled specifically<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Make it clear in the directions that when allowed to be back, you would peek at the cards after you picked up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Pick up a card based on Roll, then if you have left over, discard to five for your hand limit. Specifically, picking up after your turn is completed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;The hand limit no longer applies when both the discard and mustard decks are empty. Make sure to replenish your hands to keep a consistent five cards in your hand until both decks die out, then it is a free-for-all<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After the mustard deck is emptied and there is a discard deck left, make sure to shuffle the deck and use that as the new mustard deck until all cards are fully given out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Three of one to be used and add more points to them, as far as what you can buy with treat points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Make clear the order in which a player must play the game, with the first step being the roll and the last step being replenishing their hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,150],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-14880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-prototype","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}