Duck of Many Things

[omelette dabbler]

I love the poultry in this game.

The Duck of Many Things has a number of actions. The card mentions:

"Do the following, in this order:
* Randomly take a card from the hand of the player to your left.
* Give a card of your choice to the player to your right.
* Take the top discard from either deck.
* Sing a little song.
* Go up a level.
* Discard two cards.
* Discard this card."

Do all the actions need to be performed in order for this card to be legitimately played?
Tonight's game had the player of the card without 2 cards to discard, and so we were wondering.

[Enzzo]

Originally Posted by omelette dabbler

Tonight's game had the player of the card without 2 cards to discard, and so we were wondering.

You should do everything on the card to the best of your ability. Note you can discard from your hand or the table, so I'd be willing to bet that he could have discarded something. But if you have nothing on the table and nothing in your hand (except for the 1 card you picked off the discards) then just discard that and call it good.

Note you cannot play Duck of Many Things if you are level 9.

[Andrew Hackard]

Originally Posted by Enzzo

Note you cannot play Duck of Many Things if you are level 9.

Yes, you can. You just can't go up the level.

If we've said otherwise in the past, I'm overruling it, because this card is too weird to follow any mundane rules. And I don't want any argument outta you mooks, either.

[Clipper]

Not making an argument, but thought I could be of some help. I think this is the most prominent place where it was officially stated the Duck cannot be used at Level 9. It could use a follow-up post to ensure it doesn't trip up others. It was also brought up here, although not as strongly. Those threads are the reason why I didn't think the card could be used at Level 9 up until today, in any case.

And I'm glad for the new ruling as it no longer means figuring out whether you have enough cards to be able to handle all the various discards before figuring out whether you can play the Duck either.

[Andrew Hackard]

Crap. I'm agreeing with myself in the earlier thread. Rescinding my statement above: you cannot play this card at Level 9.

I hate this card. And I love it. #conflicted

(If I someday get to work on Munchkin, Second Edition, this card is one of the first up against the wall.)

[UncleBob]

Geesh - no wonder we can't figure out how this game works. :D :D :D :D :D

[DoomedDuck]

Originally Posted by omelette dabbler

I love the poultry in this game.

Did someone mention ducks?