200 Word Game: Helping Hand

Helping Hand

"This game can play 2-4 players, and requires cooperation and playing cards, representing the unequal footing people have in life that they have no control over. The game begins by assigning a player to one type of card (Clubs, spades, etc). Each player draws 3 random cards from their deck. These numbers are removed from the game.


The goal is for each player to make a line of cards that totals 25-28 as closely as possible, and to get rid of all held cards. When placed between two cards, these cards have the following rules: Queens subtract two card numbers from the total, kings add them together, and aces divide (rounding down). If you have a joker card, it belongs to everyone and it multiplies a number. Cards may be shared, but suites to the original player.


A game is lost when a player has more or less than 11. Not all games are winners, the goal is to support and problem solve with each other."

 

 This game I'm less satisfied with, but not all creations are game winners. What I do like is the thematic behind it, about how people are less fortunate than others. You could be missing critical cards needed to reach your exact numbers, or lacking the cards to help someone else. I never thought I'd be able to speak monuments of a story with just 166 words.