Gamehelpbeasts

How to play

Setup

• Lay out the three spaces for the hundreds, tens, and ones digits on the table.
• Shuffle the "Beast" cards into the main deck, with the number of beasts determining the difficulty.
• Deal each player five cards.

Gameplay

• On your turn, choose one suit and play all the cards of that suit from your hand to the table.
• You can play the cards in any order you choose, but the number formed by the digits must be higher than the previous number.
  • For example, if the number is 275, you could play an 8 to make 278, 285, or 875.
• Cards have a suit (clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds) and a variety ("broken" or "whole"). Broken cards have a golden shape around their suit symbol and whole cards don't. Both suit and variety together form a card's type.
• Communication is limited. You can say things like "I can help," but you cannot show your cards or reveal their suit numbers or varieties.

Beasts

• When a "Beast" card is played, it is placed above the 1s place.
• The Beast blocks that type (suit + variety) from being played in the column directly beneath it.
• If the space beneath the Beast has a card of the same type as the Beast, the Beast is "startled" and moves to the next column to the left that does not contain a card of the same type as the Beast.
• If all cards are the same type as the Beast, it has been "defeated/captured" and is removed from play.

Tokens

• You can use one of your three discard tokens at any time during your turn to discard a non-Beast card from your hand.

Winning and Losing

• You win if the team plays all the cards from the deck.
• You lose if you cannot play a card and a player still has cards in their hand.