Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
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Can a player hide cards from the other players, or keep their hand size secret?
The designer ruled that hand sizes are public and treated hiding cards as cheating.
- jgilmour · Designer · 2014-10-06
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- Negoc · Community · 2025-08-15disagrees
- pillinjer · Community · 2014-08-11disagrees
No. The designer said the number of cards in each hand is public knowledge, and that a player hiding cards off the table would get exiled; effects that take a random card from a hand also need the whole hand in play. You may stay vague, or lie, about what the cards are, but you may not show them.
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