A downloadable game

This game was made for the PaperJam 2018 game jam.

Instructions as follows (they may also be found in the text file):

This game is played in 3 phases, using all of the cards shown in the pdf.

Phase 1 (Scour): Place cards face-up in the middle and take turns choosing one. Decide amongst yourselves who gets to choose first.
Phase 2 (Scheme): Select 5 cards from those you've chosen and arrange them in a face-down deck in front of you. The remaining cards are not used, but may not be shown.
Phase 3 (Scuffle): Flip cards over, one at a time, from the top-down. After each round, both cards that were flipped over are handed to the winner except in a tie, in which each player takes their played card. Whoever has the most cards after both decks are completed wins. Note that the order of your decks may not be swapped at any time during this phase.
Who wins?: The "rules" of the match are decided by rock-paper-scissors based on a card's alignment. A winning "regular" card declares rules to be based on conventional card values. A "reverse" card reverses the conventional values and plays by those rules. For example, if one player plays a Reverse Jack Rock and the other plays a Queen Scissors, the Reverse King Rock wins and thus sets the rules for the proceeding round. Since the card values are reversed, the Reverse Jack Rock wins. In the case of a Rock-Paper-Scissors tie, the players continue to play Rock-Paper-Scissors until a winner is decided, upon which the rules of that player's card are set.
Card values: J<Q<K. Reverse card values: K<Q<J

Cards included:
Jack Rock
Reverse Jack Rock
Jack Paper
Reverse Jack Paper
Jack Scissors
Queen Rock
Reverse Queen Rock
Queen Paper
Queen Scissors
Reverse Queen Scissors
King Rock
King Paper
Reverse King Paper
King Scissors
Reverse King Scissors

Download

Download
Rules.txt 1 kB
Download
PaperJam2018_Scuffle.pdf 2 MB

Install instructions

Please read the description of the text file for the rules first. Try to cut out the cards evenly to prevent recognition of certain cards.

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