Game Design 1 - Card Game
Rules Page can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XIBOK2Dr9lsmKus_4dObKGmaaZ-4GHpr3XucU2Q58fM/
Stack 200 is a simple mathematics card game made for all ages. The game consists of only 2 players and can have an undetermined amount of rounds. The goal of the game is to meet the score of 200 or more. If one wishes for the game to continue on even longer you could do a higher score or if you wish for it to be shorter it can be 100 points. The game itself is flexible.
In order to properly play the game you will need 52 cards plus 2 Joker cards. The Joker cards are required to make the game a little more difficult. There will also be a scoring sheet so you can keep track of how many points you have.
Above is a set up of how the game looks(Though each hand will be hidden instead of shown like above). The top face down deck is the “Discard pile,” the bottom face down deck is the “Pick-up pile.” After each round you will discard your hands into the Discard pile and at the start of each round the dealer will deal 5 cards each from the Pick-up pile. The left hand is my hand and the right hand is my friend Jazzy’s hand. In my hand I have a total score of 34. This is because there is a 10, 2 face cards, a 5 and an Ace. (Face cards = 10 and Aces = -1) So I would add 34 to my score.
Jazzy here has a score of 36 because of 1 face card, 2 eights, a seven and a three. Jazzy would then add 36 to her score as shown below.
Uh oh, Jazzy is winning with a 70 and I’m 10 points behind! After we discard our hands to the Discard pile. Jazzy shuffles and deals this next hand so that means I can pick up a card from the Pick-up pile and decide to keep it or not. But I picked up a two...Which isn’t all that great. So I decide to discard my two to the Discard pile. Now that’s done we both look at our hands. Before we show each hand off we each choose a random card from each other’s hand to add to our own.
Here’s our hands
Oh ... The card I got was a Joker. The Joker card is the worst! Even though I could have points the Joker card takes all my points and even takes 5 points away from my overall score. Meanwhile Jazzy’s hand gets a total of 27 points added to her score.
Maaaybe I could turn it around. but perhaps you should try it out, see if you can get to 200 first and win!