Psychic War

Title: Psychic War

Creator: George Steuby

Platform: Physical Card Game

Genre: Versus

Rating: E

Target Market: Casual

Game Overview:  A card game focusing on mind games.

                A card is revealed from a middle stack and each player puts a card face down and the player with the closer card wins a point.

Published/Updated Date: 2/22/2021

Instructions:   

Split a shuffled deck of 52 cards into three even piles and discard the one extra card face down. Each of the two players takes one of the stacks and can look through their cards.   To  start the game flip over the top card from the third pile. Each player lays down a card secretly and when they are both placed,  reveal them. The player with the card that is closer to the revealed  card in the order of A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A wins a point. In the event of a tie,  the order to break ties is first if one of the cards matches the suit of the revealed cards and the other does not then that player gets a point. If that does not break the tie, then if one of the cards matches the same color for the suit of the card and the other does not that player gets a point. Otherwise neither player gets a point. After the revealed cards are discarded and a new card is flipped over