(Cards and Tarot) Multi-Player Games

Card games I invented (still in beta testing). You will need a Tarot deck, standard playing cards, and a 20-sided dice. Lots of house rules possible.

Love & War

This is a game for standard playing cards, essentially group (4-player) Solitaire.

• To win, a player must complete an Ace-King stack of his royal house
• A 20-sided dice is used to regulate play. 1-13 to reference each card and 14-20 reserved for up to 7 "Actions" moves
• A player can choose to move cards or roll, then move cards. If the roll fails, he can make a deal / contract with one other player

Dice rolls enable the following 6 Actions.

• Jail - card is turned sideways (deactivated) until release
• Tax - take a player's card(s)
• Fund - give another player your card(s)
• Fortify - exclusive rights to a player to move a cascade
• Marry - a cascade of cards may fork two cascades
• War - players are constrained from free movement of the cards

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Journey

This is a game for a Tarot deck of cards. There are only 3 main rules:

• 12 cards are laid out from out of the 4 categories: Personas, Values, Royals, and Numbers
• Up to 6 players use these cards to individually plan (on paper) a 12-stage start-to-finish goal for an adventure set by concensus
• Players have to explain why they progressed to their next stage or be held back in negotiation with the others

There can only be 3 negotiation outcomes. In all cases, a player must be dragged to the finish.

• Someone helps
• A stage goal is reworked
• A card is de-merited

At the end of the game there is a consolidation in 3 parts that carries on into the next adventure, this time, with magic!

• Memory – test each card and its history of negotiation against their negative cards
• Personality – test the overall sum of cards against a negative Persona card
• A player's persona grows his virtues in future games, onto his mastery of the minor arcana spell sequences. Each card has innate "magic" unlocked by specific virtue / persona (skill levels)

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Bolasso

This is a PHYSICAL SPORT employing a Bolas or specifically a Boleadora which is a three-cord lasso. Each player has one of these he makes for himself from comparatively light knotted paracord. These may be of custom design, labelled for owner's recognition.

• Teams have a "King" they must protect from being snared by low throws of the Boleadora to the legs. The King can only walk, not run
• A player who is snared is let off pitch. One who loses his Boleadora must not participate until he recovers or receives it back
• The round ends when a King is snared or when a side loses all its Boleadoras

FreeLunch.my, C. K. Yap, yapchenkuang@outlook.com