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Do you have a game number for that game? If not, could you send me your in-game name (maybe via direct message here), then I can have a look myself.

The behviour you saw was correct.

Ultimately it boils down to the fact that when you play any Reaction card that draws you cards (like Mapmaker oder Diplomat) in then physical card game, any opponent has generally no way of knowing if the second copy was in your hand initially or if you just drew it.

It could be handled as you suggest in a digital game, but since the digital is supposed to run using the pyhsical card game's rules, it follows those.

It's a very longstanding rule/ruling, going back to a card from Intrigue's first edition, Secret Chamber:

You may reveal the same Secret Chamber multiple times when reacting to an Attack; for example, in response to an attack, you could reveal Secret Chamber, draw a Moat and a Copper off the top of your deck, put back two coppers, reveal the Moat to be unaffected by the attack, and then reveal Secret Chamber again to put either the Moat or the Secret Chamber back on top of your deck.

This is from the dominion wiki at https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Secret_Chamber

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I sent you a direct message with some questions. With the answers I can change your account name, no need to make a new one :-)

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Is this a new computer or (guessing from your modem descriptions) a new network setup? On a new computer, using Chrome may work better than Firefox.

The relevant part of Animal Fair reads:

Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand.

You cannot pay a card's cost at any time just because you want to. In fact, the only time you pay a card's cost is when you are buying it. So what you suggested as a rewording is already true, the only time the quoted part is relevant is when you are in the process of buying Animal Fair.

That means what you did was buying an Animal Fair (not paying the card's cost but doing something else instead), so the game saw you buying a card, which correctly made opponent's Haunted Woods trigger.

Yes, if a bot has Coffers, they'll "choke" on the question if to convert Coffers before executing Fortune.

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Much of ongoing strategy discussion has moved to discord. You can find a lively community at

https://discord.gg/dominiongame

There are many topics discussed, for example under the category Analysis there is a statistics channel. If you repeat your request there, you have a very good chance to get data or get explained how to get this data.

What do you want help with?

Thanks for the info, I'll pass this on.

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Stef is looking into this on the payment provider side (Mollie). For another player, with the same problem, the bank itself was marking it suspicious (and ultimately did not send it through). I'm not sure why there is no relevant error message to you. Shuffle iT (the company running the game which ultimately should get the payment), only gets an "it failed". This is obviously a bad situation, where you don't know why nothing happens and we don't know why it failed (it could have been a clerical error in any number of ways, or the card was old, or something).

I guess you could ask your crefit card issuing institution or Paypal what happened (that's what the other player did, the info about "suspicious" reached us not via our end of the payment provider but via them from their bank.

Again, I understand that this is a bad situation for both sides. Credit card institutions update their handling of payments over time based on reports. For example, one player bought a subscription, their spouse flagged the payment as suspicious, not knowing it was genunine. It was ultimately resolved, but if more if this happens, a payment that was OK'ed by the bank a year ago need not be OK'ed now.

If there is anything during the payment process that could be an error message, please post it here, as the payment provider on out end ("Mollie") is also a bit at a loss what happened.

Stef is in contact with them, but to them it looks equally strange :-(

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It happens to others as well. I think it has to do with the certificate chain to validate the website is who it says it is. It often happens when devices are changed and then goes away after a while (e.g. I had this for 2 days when I switched to a new PC). But others have reported it with no device changes, so it is, unfortunately, not totally clear where the reasons are.