by Antistone
I've been assuming that[o]Using the binoculars counts as discarding a card--just like the city card is worth 3, and other cards of the color are worth 1, the binoculars are just a search card that is worth 2, and so it's perfectly legal to do a search where the only card you discard is binoculars.[/o]
But I feel like the rules for that whole subsystem are not very clear.