
They must describe what is happening in their own words.

So, personally, if Player B discarded the dead card really quickly and picked up the replacement card instantaneously, then Player A hasn't been given a reasonable chance to make his own pick up, and Player A should still be able to make his pickup. And step 3 is unusual, and hence may distract Player A. In this scenario, Player A only has step 3 to make his own pick up.

Player A had all of steps 3 and 4 to make his own pick up.

In normal (no dead card) play it would thus be: using speed to stop you picking up your card. Įspecially with that capitalised AND, the rules are stopping the next player from taking you by surprise, i.e. If you fail to take a card before the next player makes a move AND takes his/her card. Personally, I'd suggest the rules are written with the aim to allow adequate time to pick up a card: The rules, as per your quote, aren't explicit. Is this the correct interpretation or should player A have been allowed to draw a card? Otherwise the "Loss of Card" rule would have specified completing your turn. In my mind exchanging a dead card counts as a move for the purposes of the "Loss of Card" rule. If you fail to take a card before the next player makes a move AND takes his/her card, you lose the right to take a card and you must finish the game with less cards than the other players – a disadvantage.

Once you have taken your turn and placed your marker chip on the game board, you must take a card from the draw deck. You then proceed to play your normal turn. When it is your turn, place the dead card on your discard pile, announce that you are turning in a Dead Card and take a replacement card (one card per turn). If you hold a card in your hand which does not have an open space on the game board because both spaces representing that card are covered by a marker chip, you are holding a DEAD CARD and you may turn it in for a new card. Player A contended that since player B hadn't placed a token on the board yet they were still allowed to draw their card. At one point in the game a player (player B) discarded a dead card and drew a new card before the previous player (player A) remembered to draw a card. I was recently playing Sequence at a friend's house.
