Castle Raid
Needed:
- 1 deck of playing cards.
- it is adviced to have something to make notes (pen + paper)
WINCONDITION
In order to win the game, you need to succesfully finish 3 rounds.
GAME SETUP
You form 2 decks.
1. A playing deck
2. An opponents deck.
3. There will also be a discard pile
4. There will be a reserves deck. (see rules on opponents deck).
1. A playing deck consistent of K, Q and 2 of all 4 suits, also add 1 joker. (13 cards)
- Put the deck beside you and draw 7 cards.
2. An opponents deck consistent of A, J and 10 of all suits. (12 cards)
- You shuffle them and remove 1 card from the game facedown and 1 card from the game face-up.
- lay out 6 cards facedown in front of you in the form of a castle, 1 at the top, 2 in the middle, 3 at
the bottom.
- lay the rest (4) facedown aside to be used later. This will be called the reserves deck.
3. Remove the cards 3-9 and rest of the jokers from the game. They will not be used in the game.
(28 cards +jokers).
TURNSTRUCTURE
A round consists of 6 turns.
A turn looks like this:
1. Pick one facedown card in the castle at the most bottom row and turn it face-up. This is the
enemy for this turn.
2. Defeat this enemy in combat or lose the game.
- You may discard 1 card in hand to draw a new card, you may repeat this as long as there are cards
in the playing deck.
3. After defeating the enemy you start the next turn.
When all 6 enemies are defeated, you complete the current round.
COMBAT
In order to defeat an enemy, you have to play 1 card with the same suit ánd a higher value than
the value on the enemy shown.
The played card will remain on the table and can not be used again until the next round.
Values:
Joker - 15 and any suit.
Ace - 14
King - 13
Queen - 12
Jack - 11
10 - 10
2 - 2, but has the special ability of defeating the Ace!
ROUNDSTRUCTURE
The game consists of 3 rounds.
1. You start the first round as mentioned above.
2. When the first round is finished, you take all playing cards (K, Q, 2 and Joker) including the
discard pile and shuffle them back into the playing deck.
You take the 6 opponents cards in the castle, shuffle them and remove 2 cards from the game
facedown.
Then you add 2 cards from the reserves deck and rebuild a new castle.
Draw 7 cards again and start the second round.
3. For the third round collect all playing cards, then remove the joker from the game and shuffle the
rest into the playing deck.
You take the 6 opponents cards in the castle, shuffle them and remove 2 cards from the game
facedown.
Then you add 2 cards from the reserves deck. Rebuild the final castle.
Draw 7 cards again and start the third round.
When this round is won, you have won the game.
Good raiding!
EASYMODE
If you really want to play on easy mode, add the following rule.
During any turn, discard 2 cards to return 1 card from your discard pile to your hand.
