Nice Games Jam: "Palace of Versailles"

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• PlayThinker Deck

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  The Game Crafter

Prompt

We used Ellen's PlayThinker Deck to make this game! Goal card was "Efficiency", interaction cards were "Combination", "Approach", and "Exploration".

Game type

Card game

Player count

2-4

Materials

Basic 52 card deck (no jokers)

4 Meeples

12 Powerup tokens (3 different colors)

Setup

Shuffle deck and place cards in a 4 by 4 grid.

Give each player one meeple to represent them.

Rules

• Player can move onto any card on their side of the grid as their first turn.
• On their turn each player moves one card and reveals it, potentially giving you an ability
• Revealing a face card gives you an item, which gives you one of the following abilities:
  • One gives the ability to move one more space.
  • One gives the ability to peek at one more card.
  • One gives the ability to move diagonally.
• Getting three items allows you to take one turn to bank three items, losing those three abilities but giving you one point.
• Revealing an Ace removes all items that player’s have not banked. Bank your items to prevent losing a point!
• Revealing the four corners refresh all unrevealed cards except cards that a player is on.
• When the deck runs out, the game ends when all the board is revealed (no more refreshes, fill out the rest of the board with a shuffled discarded deck).
• Whoever has the most points after that last round wins the game!