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Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Rooting For The Underdog

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by PandaEskimo

We encountered this issue. From the reading of the card, I'm set to believe these answers.

1. The player gets the point EVERY turn, not just theirs.

(Reason: It doesn't say "your" or "the monster's" anywhere, it says, "a turn".)

2. Players tied for last still count as having the fewest. At the start of the game, all player's have 0 points, and all have the fewest and the most points. This could mean that the card actually puts the player in the lead when it's effect happens.

(Reason: Again, it doesn't specify anything about ties, so I'd have to assume we take the definition of the word which doesn't exclude ties as still meaning the number with the least. In statistics, mathematics, and sports (like racing), fewest, most, least, etc can all share ties.)

The caveat is that this reading doesn't really go with the naming of the card. A player tied for 1st or 2nd among a group of 3 or 4 isn't really an underdog.

Still, the card could have easily read, "If at the end of the (your) turn everyone else has more victory points than you, you get a victory point."

It does not say "your" or "everyone else has more", so I would go with my reading. "you have the fewest" is about the same length as "everyone else has more" so it's not as if they tried to keep the language terse.

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