Weeeell. Your goal is to have the highest number by the time we run out of cards. You take turns putting cards in play, and each one you put down has to raise your total above your opponent's. You lose when you can't raise your score higher than theirs, whether you're totally out of cards or just don't have any good enough.
Here!
[Handing over half the deck! It's apparently got enough for two players. The cards look like this and some of them have special effects that Crow will explain but I won't because it'd take too long.]
[Sure is! Although actually it's not that crazy so--]
Yeah, a little! You get ten cards in your hand, then you draw your first in-play card from the deck and whoever has a lower number gets to go first. After that the number cards are pretty straight-forward, but these other ones spice it up. Bolt removes the last card your opponent put down, but you can use a 1 to restore it. Mirror switches your in-play cards with your opponent's, Force doubles your current total, and Blast lets you take an unplayed card out of your opponent's hand, but you can't look at what they've got so that's luck of the draw too.
To top it off, any time your numbers are the same you have to wipe the play area and draw new starting cards, but it doesn't add anything to your hand so it can either really help you or really fuck you over. Overall it's pretty simple but I think it's got just the right balance of luck and strategy to be really good for gambling, and that's what's matters.
[He cares so much about gambling! It makes him way happier than it should make anyone tbh.]
Ehehe, well... They were small, anyway. I don't think it was that long ago for me. But I was probably doing it when I was a kid, too, I just haven't remembered.
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[ She knows Go Fish!! ]
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[But that was actually really cute. He pulls a card deck out of his pocket that's different than the other one, and waves it.]
It's Blade. I've seen the other ones in books (he READS?), but this one is only from home.
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"Blade?" How do you play it, then?
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Here!
[Handing over half the deck! It's apparently got enough for two players. The cards look like this and some of them have special effects that Crow will explain but I won't because it'd take too long.]
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I see. So it's a game that involves mathematics?
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Yeah, a little! You get ten cards in your hand, then you draw your first in-play card from the deck and whoever has a lower number gets to go first. After that the number cards are pretty straight-forward, but these other ones spice it up. Bolt removes the last card your opponent put down, but you can use a 1 to restore it. Mirror switches your in-play cards with your opponent's, Force doubles your current total, and Blast lets you take an unplayed card out of your opponent's hand, but you can't look at what they've got so that's luck of the draw too.
To top it off, any time your numbers are the same you have to wipe the play area and draw new starting cards, but it doesn't add anything to your hand so it can either really help you or really fuck you over. Overall it's pretty simple but I think it's got just the right balance of luck and strategy to be really good for gambling, and that's what's matters.
[He cares so much about gambling! It makes him way happier than it should make anyone tbh.]
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You must really like this game a lot.
[ this is maybe the most enthusiastic she has ever seen you??? ]
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[And probably the happiest memory he's gotten so. Things.]
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Really?
[ maybe he hasn't gotten that many memories back yet? or maybe-- ]
Are you a professional player?
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Nah. It's just a hobby. I used to play it with kids for candy.
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It's hard to picture you small. That's kind of cute, though.
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Say, if you like teaching card games to children, you should teach Angel sometime. I think she really enjoys them.
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