Skull & roses

Preparation

  • each player has 1 skull and 3 roses cards

Game

  1. Each player play 1 card in front of him/her

  2. (first) player:
    • Play 1 card => next player turn OR
    • Bid => start bidding phase
  3. Bidding phase
    • Bid 1..N (total cards played on table) OR
    • Pass other players try to overbid (by order or by speed) Highest bid => Challenger (-> first player of next game)
  4. Revealing phase Challenger reveals:
    • all own cards
    • any top cards until count of his bid.
  5. Resulting phase
    • All roses => Challenger wins (1 point) OR
    • Skull => Challenger loose 1 card, randomly chosen by skull player (or selectively if own skull)

If challernger is eliminated (no cards left) => skull player becomes first player OR challenger choose first player of next round (variant: next player in order)

End

Player with 2 points wins!