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Card and Tile Games
From poker to schafkopf to Fluxx and Once Upon A Time - any card games.
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After play testing Starr Harold and I found it lacking, so we started playing with the rules and making a few modifications. What we ended up with is, I believe, a game based-on (and very similar to) War, but with a distinctive strategic component. The game also plays faster than War.
Objective
For one player to win all the cards.
Setup
The rules are for two people with a standard 52-card deck. Ranking of cards are A, K, Q, J, 10 through 2.
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Internecine is a card game I created as a response to my War Challenge. It's intended to be a much faster game with some tactical choices to make the game interesting, while representing something of the essential brutality of warfare. I liked Michael's format for his response so much that I'm emulating it here in this response. Note: I use the masculine pronoun in this article to be grammatically correct, not to suggest that women would not ever...
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In response to Harold's War Challenge, I present my updated rules for the classic children's game War. Since I can name the game whatever I want, I chose Starr. 5 points to whoever posts a comment correctly guessing the reason for the name. I dunno if these rules will make the game faster or slower to play, but at least there's some mental exercise and decision making involved.