“no Flags (except a Valuable flag)” would seem to mean that only Valuable Items can have Clues.

It seems an interesting enough dilemma as to whether to make an Item valuable, or keep it around so that you might get a clue out of it. Maybe we should just tweak the Clue rule to give less of an obvious incentive to throw every Clue Item overboard when you’ve examined it. (Perhaps Clues only count while the object is still around, so that you can present the evidence when you get back to civilisation.)

In a hurry to win? ;-)

I like Kevan’s idea of giving a reason not to throw Clues overboard, though.

Okay, perhaps I’m misreading the rules, but do you not need to have the three clue items /in your possession/ to win?

The rules are actually hopelessly ambiguous about this and ought to be up-cleared.

Seems okay to me. “No Survivor may make a Declaration of Victory unless he or she has at least three different Items in his or her Clues list. ” - if you’re carrying a Clue Item you can pay 2 Sanity to “[add] the name of that Item to his or her Clues”.

Kevan: Is it “possesses three different Items, each of which happens to be in the Clues list”, or “has a Clues list containing at least three different Items”? If the former, other rules need to respect this.

I’ve always clearly read it as the latter. Though perhaps giving people too many options for getting clues is silly. People can always salvage non-valuable items to get more options for clues.

s/k then

It was intended as the latter, but I can see that “has” is very slightly ambiguous.

In particular, you don’t add Items to your Clues list. You add their names.

I’ll propose a fix when the queue clears.