Ambush - You ward off any attacking card againt you except ASSASSINATION.

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Creators best advice.
Hold this card for when someone tries using a Burglary card to steal a Lock Box. 

Assassination - Recieving Player turns in all their cards (except your played lock boxes and cards inside said lock boxes ) for 8 new ones! 

Assassination card cannot be duplicated or counterfieted. Shuffle both piles of cards together once played. 

This card must be played before the dealers deck gets to ZERO cards or you will lose all your cards including LOCK BOXES !

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FAQs

Yes, we know the card is spelled wrong (Doh!), So if you have one of the first 250 cards cherish them because it will be corrected on the next printing. 

No, an assassination card does not mean a person loses their cherished Lock Boxes if played against them.

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Creators best advice

Hold this card till you see someone has at least 2 lock boxes or their hand is getting quite full of cards. Then take them out of the game temporarily. 

Pay the other player 25 Gold coins or whatever you have in your hand or inside your Lock Boxes.

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Creators best advice

Use this card when you see someone has a Lock Box, this takes away their ability to win for a few turns with gold. 

Steal any card in the hands of two different players and switch those cards.

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FAQs

This is a blind steal, you are not allowed to look at the other players hands. Just take one card out of one players hand and one out of a another players hand and switch them. 

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Creators best advice

Use this card whenever you want, You never know if you might have just switched a Assassination card for a one gold coin card.

Steal a LOCK BOX from a player of your choice. If they do not have one, You get to (BLIND) steal a card of your choice. 

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FAQs
When you steal a Lock Box you get it and all it's contents.

A AMBUSH card will stop a Burglary card. 

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Creators best advice

Hold this card till you are close to winning the game with gold coin cards. Then spring this on your opponent and hope they dont have a AMBUSH card. 

Counterfeit - This has the same value and function of any other card except the Assassination or Relic cards.

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Creators best advice

This card is basically the 2nd best card in the deck in my estimation. I have used it to Ambush, Burglary and created a Lock Box out of it. This is one of the last cards I would throw down. I have also used it on opponent as a BackStab. 

Ditch the Goods - Player may ditch as many cards as they want. Player must draw cards till they have a maximum of 8 cards in thier hand if they fall below the minimum 8 cards in thier hand rule.  

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Creators best advice

When your get dealt a bad hand from the beginning sometimes you just need to toss everything away and start over again.
I have used this card to ditch everything in my hand on the hopes of drawing one relic card to win the game and I was sucessful. 

Forgery - Turn this card in with 2 others and select 3 new cards. 

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Creators best advice

When your get dealt a bad hand or have some garbage cards accumulating this card comes in handy to put new life in your hand. 

Lock Box -  Your laid down coin cards are safe from anything except a Burglary card or a Counterfiet card. You may switch out the coin cards during your turn. These cards are set aside under the upturned lock box card. 

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FAQs
A Lock Box can only contain a maximum of 3 coin cards. 

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Creators best advice

Lock Boxes are a key to most wins in this game. Whomever has the most of them has the most coins. Test players sometimes stash low value coins in these boxes to fool other players into using Burglary cards for little gain. 

Poisoned -  You have been Poisoned sit out the next round. 

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Creators best advice

This is a creative use card, I've seen it used out of spite and sometimes very strategically. I personally like to hold on to it for the end of the game and try to keep a player from drawing a card to win. 

Slight of Hand  -  Take 2 of your cards and switch them with someone else. 

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Creators best advice

If you got some garbage in your hand, why not make room and take a couple cards that will hopefully be better then what you gave away.