<p>After reaching out to Pressman Toy regarding the ruling I received the following:</p>

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  <p>In the Oregon Trail narrative, players throw supplies overboard to help cross the river. But, even though the wagon may become empty and technically it would be easier to float, they are stuck. Players must continue to follow the instructions until someone finally does roll an even number!</p>
</blockquote>

<p>So unless you are dealing with a river where players die when rolling a one, nothing bad happens, but you do have to spend a little time rolling.</p>

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2017-11-07T16:50:34.823Z
2017-11-07T16:50:34.823Z
Devin Rodriguez
<p>We just played and ran into the same problem. We assume that we all die because in the computer game, when you run out of supplies....you die.</p>

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2017-11-05T21:59:31.023Z
2017-11-05T21:59:31.023Z
Sarah
<p>So I was playing with my friends the other night and we ran into an issue: We ran out of supply cards in our hands and then came to a river. By the rules of the card, we had to roll an even number to cross or discard a supply card, but we had no supply cards to discard. After scouring the manual we couldn't find an answer to this scenario. Clearly something bad should be happening to us here, but because we couldn't find a ruling we just decided to call it good and forded the river with no consequences. We assume we probably should have died there, but is there a proper ruling to this that we missed somewhere?</p>

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Oregon Trail Card Game: What happens when you run out of supply cards?
Devin Rodriguez
# Oregon Trail Card Game: What happens when you run out of supply cards?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-17)

So I was playing with my friends the other night and we ran into an issue: We ran out of supply cards in our hands and then came to a river. By the rules of the card, we had to roll an even number to cross or discard a supply card, but we had no supply cards to discard. After scouring the manual we couldn't find an answer to this scenario. Clearly something bad should be happening to us here, but because we couldn't find a ruling we just decided to call it good and forded the river with no consequences. We assume we probably should have died there, but is there a proper ruling to this that we missed somewhere?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-11-07. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

After reaching out to Pressman Toy regarding the ruling I received the following:

> In the Oregon Trail narrative, players throw supplies overboard to help cross the river. But, even though the wagon may become empty and technically it would be easier to float, they are stuck. Players must continue to follow the instructions until someone finally does roll an even number!

So unless you are dealing with a river where players die when rolling a one, nothing bad happens, but you do have to spend a little time rolling.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-05. Score: 0

We just played and ran into the same problem. We assume that we all die because in the computer game, when you run out of supplies....you die.


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