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- Find the single page PDF with rules here: roofkat.itch.io/royalexecution
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This was my draft for this thing! Since I'm horrible at actually using it, I'll just leave it here and maybe it'll help with tags or whatnot:
Hey there my name is Ramon and I'd like to present Royal Execution.
It’s a single player card game played with a standard deck of 52 cards + jokers.
The goal is to eliminate all royals, by playing combinations of three other cards against them. Before I get into it further I want to say that this game is based on the card game “Clear the dungeon” created by Mark from “Riffle, Shuffle & Roll”.
With that out the way, let’s set things up!
In order to execute the royals we’ll separate them from the deck first. The letters on these royals may seem a bit weird, that’s because I’m using a Dutch deck. The B here is a Jack, the V is a queen, and the H is a king. Now that we’ve separated them we’ll shuffle them, and then lay them out in three rows, all of them face down except for the last on each row.
The remaining pile is our draw pile. We’ll shuffle those too, and when we’re done we’ll grab the top 9 cards, lay them down underneath the rest of the pile rotated 90 degrees. I’ll explain why when we get to it!
Alright that’s the setup. Now, each turn you’ll grab the top three cards from your draw pile, laying them face-up in front of you. That’s your hand. You have to play all three of these before drawing new cards. You can either use them to attack the royals, or you can discard them to the top or the bottom of the discard pile. As we just started the discard pile doesn’t exist yet, so I’ll get to that later. First let’s talk about fighting royals. In order to defeat a royal, you need to place three cards on them. The first two need to have a combined value that is either the same or greater than the value of the royal. The Jack has a value of 11, the Queen has a value of 12, and the King has a value of 13. So to take out a jack you could place a 5 and a 6 on it, or a 4 and a 10. For these first two cards it doesn’t matter what suit you use, all that matters is the values. Now the third card has some more restrictions: This is the trigger card that makes the attack work, and it needs to have the same suit as the royal it’s attacking. So if you’re attacking a king of hearts, this third card needs to be a heart as well. On top of that it’s value needs to be higher than at least one of the first two cards. So if you played a 5 and a 6 to defeat a Jack of hearts, you’ll need to find a 6 of hearts or higher as a final card. This means it’s often useful to try combine a low and a high card as the first two in your combo. For example combining two eights means the value is high enough to defeat any royal, but you’ll make it hard for yourself to find a suitable trigger card.
Once you’ve executed a royal with a combo of three, you can choose which of the three cards you played you want to add to your discard pile, and the remainder goes into the graveyard along with the royal they just defeated. If there’s a face-down royal behind the one you just defeated, turn it around to face you. The card you just got out of the combo is added to the discard pile that you can also discard cards from your hand to. And same as when you discard from your hand, the card you got out of the combo can be added to the top or the bottom. The reason you get to decide that is because these cards aren’t out of the game: you can play the top card on the discard pile at any point. This means if you have a jack of hearts and a king of hearts both waiting for a high value trigger card, once you find one it can be used to take out the Jack, then added to your discard pile, and used it again for the king.
Those are the main rules, but as you might have realized we still have two special type of cards in the draw pile: Jokers and Aces. Jokers can be used as any value from 2 to 10, and as any suit: so they’re ideal cards to play if you put yourself in a tough situation. Aces have a value of 1, but they can always be used as a trigger card if they match the suit of the royal. These two, jokers and aces, cannot be retrieved when you defeat a royal though, after being used they will always go into the graveyard along with them.
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I would've called the game "Regicide." Anyway, awesome game. Thanks for sharing.
I like that this game is based on Clear the Dungeon which in turn uses elements from Gridcannon to create a community effort of lonely gamers that own a deck of playing cards.
Thank you for the shout out! Very glad to see you finished this project. I hope all is well, and I’d be happy to work together on future ideas.
Why not count the remaining cards and see what your "score" is, then try to beat your score by having more remaining cards the next time?
your english is crazy good. i was shocked when you said "i forgot what its called in english"
Since you get to keep a card, this seems like a hard game to lose. The fun part about Clear the Dungeon is that, in most cases, you don’t know if you’re going to win until you reach the final round. This one feels like the ‘keep a card’ acts as a fail safe.
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Hello, when you say we need to ‘play all three” of our draw pile cards, I’m assuming discarding is not considered ‘playing’? Is the game over if I’m not able to play my 3 face up cards? Also, once I play my first (or second) Royal defeating card, is it too late to discard that royal defeating card if I realize I’ve made a mistake? 😂 I’m pretty sure it’s game over with either scenario, but I thought I’d ask. Fun game, thanks to you and Ramon! Syma
nice game, but this rule for save a card turn on the game VERY, VERY easy. Maybe modify this rule for example you save the lowest card use to defeat royal turn on the game more challenging
Hi. Very nice design, some very interesting mechanics there. It seems a lot of people have issues with reusing the discards. May I suggest discarding to the bottom. That way if you keep a high card, you have to dig down to it. This should force players to use low cards more, and add some tactical choices.
I am addicted to this. Thank you very much for designing this game.
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I love the game so far and appreciate you showing it thank you
i do enjoy the thought process required for this game; seems very fun!
Very fun card game so far! It might be one of my favorite solitare games!
This is a great solo game, congratulations!
I am on the process of thinking some additional rules for giving the chance to the royals to fight back.The only thing is that you may need an extra deck of cards and two dices:
Nice for using Cartamundi decks, because I know from the Jokers.
Can a deck of those cards be purchased? Absolutely lovely.
Hi. I have an online implementation that let's you play a very close game to "royal execution". Minus the "choose an attack card after the execution". Also, cards are always discarded to the bottom. I can share the link by email, if you want.