aeongate took a good broad look at this card, so I want to highlight an even more niche use for this card... Drinking your problems away!

This card is the first* player card that can LITERALLY DISCARD WEAKNESSES out of your hand because its discard effect is random. Preston can forget his "Debts". Winifred can't discard Arrogance (since it will be automatically committed), but it sure is an easy test to fail!

It can't discard any of the various Hidden weaknesses, due to the additional rules for Hidden cards, but there are other non-Rogue specific weaknesses that you may want to drink away.

Probably the best weakness you'd want to discard is The Tower • XVI or Dark Memory, but good luck getting Agnes to fail a test! Dreams of the Deep should be easy enough for Silas to handle on his own.

Finally, there is at least one campaign specific weakness this can discard that I won't name here, but they exist.

*OKay, so aeongate is right, the level 0 version did it already, but no you're also healing 2 horror in the action, so it is efficient even when unsuccessful.

No reviews yet, for this shiny new Wini card? Let me add my thoughts!

Mechcanically, this card is straightforward. Spend one action, 4 resources, and use your agility to look for 3 clues instead of the usual 1. Keep in mind, it's not to be overlooked that this has the Trick attribute, so Rita Young can grab it despite it being a card rather than . Another high-ish agility survivor would be Wendy Adams, who could choose to take this as well.

Inside the Rogue pool, there any many who could take this, and of course it fits nicely with our intended aviatrix, Winifred Habbamock, as she has a base 5 agility.

As far as click compression goes, this card feels in line with the usual suspects like "Look what I found!" (here you get more clues, for arguably the same number of actions), Deduction (quite a bit more cost here, but we're not in the class so things can't be that easy to get extra clues), or Scene of the Crime (again, higher cost and an investigate action instead of a freebie, but a chance at getting 1-2 more clues).

The hard pill to swallow here might be the cost of 4 just to take an Investigate action, which may auto-fail on you. If you're playing games with low player counts, you also might not have a need for 3 clues from one location, which makes this card situational and less valuable. However, if you're like me, and play in many 2-4 player games, this card feels like a solid fit for your high-agility characters, especially if you can synergize with it.

In a four-player game, it's not unlikely for a location to have 8 clues on it, so why not Double or Nothing when you've already placed The Skeleton Key. In that case, you are attaching the key for 1 action and playing this event for 1 action, plus the 7 resources to get both out. That's hefty. But with double or nothing, you're now nearly guaranteed to get 6 clues off the location, which feels like a win. Maybe you even use Gregory Gry to get you some resources back at the same time? Then let's say you only spent 5 resources because you used Sleight of Hand to get the key out? Now we're talking.

Is it a perfect card? No, and I wouldn't throw it in a solo deck most of the time. But in multiplayer, particular with 3-4 players, I think it helps if you're building a flexible rogue who can help grab clues for the team.

I... don't know about this. I mean, it's less flexible than Inquiring Mind (at least early in the scenario). If you overplay it, you can get 2 cards, but you are better off playing Preposterous Sketches (2) if you want cards. Maybe Amanda Sharpe likes this, or for the higher-difficulty Chaos Bags,

It's 2 XP. but it's better than Working a Hunch (except in Joe) and less complicated than either version of Extensive Research. The ability to grab clues from more than one location is gold in Solo. It's cheaper than Working a Hunch, and will find a comfortable home in Roland, assuming he isn't spending all his XP on weapons.....

Like the 0-level version, this is a bit situational, but the extra may be worth it, as a protection for high combat enemies (plus the 2 vs 3 Resources cost). It's a possible replacement for Strange Solution, although it's a bit more expensive, resource-wise, and only one-use. On the other hand, 8 XP for the the Solution is also a lot that could be spent elsewhere, if you only need a hit or two.