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Card game from my dream last night
Feb. 23rd, 2019 08:56 amEveryone is handed the same number of cards to start with. Every turn, you place a card on the pile or pick up from the deck. You can place a card on the previous one if it's the same suit or the next number in sequence. The winner is the first person to clear their hand.
The thing that makes it special is the deck, which is a combination of every card the group has: regular playing cards, tarot cards, business cards, cards from novelty games, whatever. And the way you match cards from differing decks is by convincing the rest of the group of your logic(*). There's obvious things like placing the seven of cups on the six of hearts. But then someone follows that with a business card for a winery because cups are the same suit as wine.
I think this would likely only work in a situation like my dream, where a group of friends aren't really trying to win. Also the people in my dream were artists of various sorts who had been playing this game for years, so had a variety of interesting cards to hand.
Since you can tell what deck cards come from by their back, you can use that to try to make things harder for the next player.
In my dream there wasn't anything like 'reverse the order"/"make the next person pick up" etc because it would be hard to make consistent. But on further thought, you could use those kinds of cards if they already existed in whatever decks you were using, and you'd just have to come up with an argument for what the effect was in this context, eg "this is a card from the Marrying Mr Darcy card game that says I should to discard my top reputation card, but I don't have any, so it has no effect".
Also probably some rule like...if a card is so hard to match that everyone ends up having to draw, it's replaced with the top card from the draw pile.
This game is heavily inspired by Bartok, which I played a lot in my uni's scifi club. Also maybe some story I'm not quite remembering...
(*)I never found out the failure condition for this in my dream, because everyone let even the flimsiest arguments slide and just laughed.
The thing that makes it special is the deck, which is a combination of every card the group has: regular playing cards, tarot cards, business cards, cards from novelty games, whatever. And the way you match cards from differing decks is by convincing the rest of the group of your logic(*). There's obvious things like placing the seven of cups on the six of hearts. But then someone follows that with a business card for a winery because cups are the same suit as wine.
I think this would likely only work in a situation like my dream, where a group of friends aren't really trying to win. Also the people in my dream were artists of various sorts who had been playing this game for years, so had a variety of interesting cards to hand.
Since you can tell what deck cards come from by their back, you can use that to try to make things harder for the next player.
In my dream there wasn't anything like 'reverse the order"/"make the next person pick up" etc because it would be hard to make consistent. But on further thought, you could use those kinds of cards if they already existed in whatever decks you were using, and you'd just have to come up with an argument for what the effect was in this context, eg "this is a card from the Marrying Mr Darcy card game that says I should to discard my top reputation card, but I don't have any, so it has no effect".
Also probably some rule like...if a card is so hard to match that everyone ends up having to draw, it's replaced with the top card from the draw pile.
This game is heavily inspired by Bartok, which I played a lot in my uni's scifi club. Also maybe some story I'm not quite remembering...
(*)I never found out the failure condition for this in my dream, because everyone let even the flimsiest arguments slide and just laughed.
