The Raw Deal
A downloadable Card Game
The Raw Deal is a blackjack variant you can play with a standard deck of cards, but playing those cards is anything but standard: each one has it’s own special effect on the game, so you can never be sure what direction your fortunes will take. It's in the mould of Love Letter, since it plays quickly with short rounds and light bluffing strategies, but with a sweet, dark Noir flavour.
This is a trial of the idea for the card game: obviously, I'd prefer to publish this as a physical card game, but I'd like to get a feel of how it plays first to iron out any major flaws I may have overlooked. If you do play this, please let me know how it went for you.
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- A Card Game?!Feb 25, 2021
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I've updated the document now with a couple of minor changes:
- A chip is added to the pot at the start of every new round and also at the end of every turn if there are still players who have not made a bet yet; this means there is always something to play for and the value of the pot always increases the longer the round goes on.- The turn order has been clarified, so the player to the left of the dealer goes first and the dealer passes left each round.
A few things are missing. So I figured to ask a bit.
- The people who busts no longer contributes to the pot? So, nothing's really stopping people from just busting themselves until they get a good hand then?
- Who starts the next rounds outside of Queen of Diamonds holder?
Good questions:
- If you bust, you lose: you're out of the round, so you won't collect the pot this turn; I might deincentivise this by adding that the pot always starts with a chip in it.
- The first player rotates around the table as normal, but I'll clarify this in the text.
Thanks for the interest!