Battle!
Easy to learn. Short games. Have fun taking your opponents' cards. Suits matter most in this game, but rank can be a deciding factor too. It also helps to be good at Roshambo!
The Five of Scissors is the winning card of these three.
- Players
- 2 or 3
- Deck Build
- 45 Cards: all 14 ranks in each of the 3 suits, and all 3 Jokers
- Setup
- Shuffle the deck. Deal each player an about-equal stack of the deck. Do not look at the cards.
- Objective
- To take as many cards as possible. When an opponent runs out of cards, the player with the most cards wins!
- Play
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Each player flips the top card of her stack at the same time. The winner of the flip takes these cards, and adds them to the bottom of her stack.
- With 2 different suits, the superior suit wins, regardless of rank.
- With cards of the same suit, the highest ranked wins.
- If a joker appears, or if you have 3 players and each throws a different suit, play Roshambo (rock-paper-scissors) via hand signs. The winner takes the top 3 cards of each opponent's stack, and puts these on the bottom of her stack.
Keep flipping until a player runs out of cards.