by mattscy
I have just done Haunt #50 for the first time, and I am unsure of some of the rules about the clues.For starters, the rules state that “you can search for treasure in any room that contains a face-down Clue token”. Then, after making the die roll to determine the search result, if the result is 4-12 you “take the clue token and turn it face up”. I assume that taking the token involves removing it from the room and placing it in front of you to gain its effects.
However, later in the instructions it states that “you can continue to search for treasure in a room even after the clue for that room has been found”. So does this mean that, even after someone has previously achieved the 4-12 result and taken the clue, you can still repeat the treasure roll indefinitely for the rest of your turns, and do nothing if you get another 4-12 result? One of the players who had received the 14th clue did this, and that clue allowed them to add their Sanity to the roll when searching the furnace room. Because of this, they had no incentive to leave the furnace room, and just repeatedly did the treasure roll until they won.
As well as this, we ran out of Clue tokens to fill all the rooms with symbols in the house, so that any newly discovered room did not have a Clue token. This meant that you could not search for treasure in those rooms. Because of this, we found it hard to distinguish between the rooms that began with the Clues inside which were removed by players, and the rooms which never had Clue tokens to begin with; we didn’t know which rooms we could “continue to search for treasure in” and which rooms we couldn’t. Do you just have to record all rooms that began with a Clue?
Thanks for any help.