by Pelvidar
A couple things, some you might know, some you might not.Each mouse only gets one successful search per room. So t best, you get 4 search cards per tile using the kiting method. Still good, but just making sure you weren't doing infinite searches.
The rules state you can't explore a new tile with minions on the current one, so that's one that you might have been doing wrong.
Regarding difficult encounters (see above?)
You can only attack with 1 item per turn. If you have three weapons, you have to pick "1" of the ones you have equippped to attack with. They don't stack (unless a card tells you to).
Correct on the cheeses.
Hope that helps as a starter.
Edit: Beat to the punch on a couple items by speedy posters :)