Hand of Fate

Choose a game story mission farther down the list, I prefer King Of Plague.

Cards to have in deck:
Encounter cards

RIVER (A must have)
Wheel of the gods(optional, but extremely helpful)

Equipment

Clairvoyant Helm (optional, but extremely helpful)
Ring of engorging(optional, but extremely helpful)
Guild ring(optional, but extremely helpful)
Any heavy armor(optional, but extremely helpful)

The clairvoyant helm will highlight a failure card every time...so no need to guess or hope...if you can get the helm you can choose correct 12 times in a row.

The ring of engorging will double all food when bought, this makes it 30 gold for 20 food!

The guild ring takes 20% off food price, that makes 20 food only 24 gold!

The heavy armor makes you loose a success attempt from river and is replace by a fail.

Wheel of the gods will sometimes give you the food value equivalent to your health, but you must pull a huge success!

Now you will need at least 24 food once you find the river...so buy food at all times possible, the shop sells 10 food for 30 gold.

Now if you have all this equipment and or a lot of food find the river card and move to it....try to pick a fail card, now move to the next card and then back to the river.... REPEAT this until the achievement pops!


Good luck, questions or concerns? Please post below. Thank you!

So I just found the easiest way to unlock both " Very Lucky" and "Very Unlucky" in a single session, but it requires the Wildcards DLC.
So you set up a game (I did it on Jack of Skulls) while using the "Explorer's Gift" wildcard from the DLC and having the "River" encounter in your deck. The other encounter cards and items you choose don't really matter. Start the session and try to find the "River".
Once you did, simply hop onto the card and pick whatever you like. The wildcard allows you to hop onto the card again and again without you ever having to worry about food or health. Just repeat it until both achievements are yours. 😎

NOT ACHIEVABLE ON apprentice

I completed this achievement without purchasing the DLC.

After finishing the Kraken Quest you unlock a card called [b]Sunken Treasure,, I scored 6 failures and two Huge failures on this one encounter card alone,

My deck was stacked with encounter cards that offered draw opportunities so after this I aimed for failure and got it.

Also Huge Failures count towards the total you do not need either 12 failures or 12 Huge as the description suggests, as long as 12 cards in total are not successful you will get this achievement.

Personally I obtained 8 failures and 4 Huge failures, so the title is a little misleading

All of the other solutions are great, but the easiest way I found to do this is to play the Queen of Scales level, which includes the card "Lost in Swamp."

Make sure before attempting this that you have the Clairvoyant helm equipped and at least 12 food, and step onto this card.

This way you can just pick the red highlighted failure card 12 times in a row with no consequences other than losing one food each time. There is no jumping back and forth between cards as you will stay on the card as long as you continually choose failure.