A game where you hold your hand as a “deck” (like a wall or building) in front of you, facing outward.
So, only the other players can see your top most card—and you can see the top card of everyone else.
You basically press the deck into the table, vertically, which should be quite stable.
- Firstly, a really cool idea, never saw that before. Should be able to make that really thematic.
- Secondly, others can easily add something to the front/back/middle of that deck this way.
- Thirdly, a simple mechanic might be that you also rotate the back card of that deck. (Would also neatly hide all other cards, making it impossible to see them for you.) On your turn, you can either play the front or the back one.
The game would need to be somewhat fast, though, because this is not a position people want to/can hold for a long time.
So gameplay for a team-based version would be something like …
Setup
Divide the players into 2 teams on opposite sides of the table.
Deal all players X cards: their deck. Throughout the entire game, hold your deck vertically, creating a wall of decks side by side (alternating between teams).
Objective
The game ends when someone’s deck runs out ( = a gap appears in the wall). Check the strength of each side by looking at the wall from the different sides. The team which has the biggest strength on the opposing side (where the enemy team sits/views) wins.
Gameplay
Turns consist of
- Asking the enemy information. (“I guess my wall shows X” or “I attack with my wall’s strength, assuming it’s 5 or higher”)
- And actually playing/shedding cards on the different sides.
As a side-effect, things may move around within the wall (most actions are target, happening only on direct neighbors or depending on position in the wall!), and bigger parts of decks may be destroyed in one action.
Alternative Names: Double-Edged Sword (or just “Dubble” or “Coinflip” or “Dubble Koin” or “The Great Wall”)