{"id":108,"date":"2026-04-09T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:47:55","slug":"new-game-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/new-game-mechanic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Game Mechanic!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Introducing the Blue Screen of Death. One of these is included with the black cards in each deck of Nerds Arrest Huge Manatees. The rules are fairly simple, as shown on the card. Each player, including the judge, must discard either three of the white cards in their hand or one of the black cards they have won so far. Then the judge draws another black card, and game continues as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, you can choose not to play with this card if you don&#8217;t want to. After all, it&#8217;s just a game! But sometimes it&#8217;s nice to throw in a little extra game mechanic, just to keep things interesting. If you have any ideas for future twists like this, say so in the comments or submit them via our mailto button at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the Blue Screen of Death. One of these is included with the black cards in each deck of Nerds Arrest Huge Manatees. The rules are fairly simple, as shown on the card. Each player, including the judge, must discard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurieneilsen.com\/nerdsarresthugemanatees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}