Game length question

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You could go through and hand-craft Zombie and Hero decks that remove certain cards that can lengthen the game, like the new zombie spawning ones, and "Just A Scratch". For Escape in the Truck, that would also increase the rate at which the Keys and Gasoline would come up. Additionally, you could also make sure the Gas Station tile is always in play.

As an alternative, you could pull the Keys and Gasoline out of the pile altogether, and use them as part of a classroom setting modification to get them. A sub-goal to get them (that would be predictable rather than random in the deck), or perhaps correctly answering a verbal course material quiz item after killing 5 Zombies (and each Zombie thereafter to get another try).