I will add that all things considered, it’s very unlikely that wonderlander is lying.
For them to be lying, that would mean that they received two progressive policies.
That gives two scenarios :
- Three progressive policies were picked, and both wonderlander and blackrune lied. That both are randomly Grumpy Old Men combined with getting 3 progressive policies have like less than 0.002% of happening randomly. Even so, it’d be odd to have blackrune not lying about the one he discarded while getting into wonderlander’s lie. Probabilities too low for it to occur.
- Two progressive policies were picked, Blackrune passed both to Wonderlander, who then decided to lie saying he discarded a GOM policy, and Blackrune not only went on with the lie, but lied back in return to balance out the number of cards having been played. That is just very bizarre and random gameplay, and as thus I think 1) is actually more likely, while being extremely unlikely.
So, basically, I’m going to believe what wonderlander said.