Thanks so much for playing and giving suck detailed feedback. Some lesson were certainly learned on this one.
As you identified I discovered 5 secs was a little to brutal, but only after I had it pretty cooked in. With this I had to simplify the mini games I intended as well as due to my other snags I hit getting it working lol.
The cards were supposed to be a big part of the game and add some variation, horror and further narrative I suppose they will have to go under the oveescoped umbrella...