Gamehelprestinpeace

2022-10-26T01:04:48Z

Cgardner13: Added player deck distribution of cards

==Objective==
Play ghost cards to gain the majority of mansions, or forfeit them to gain powerful psychic assistants.

==Gameplay==
Ten cards are placed in a line, each one with a random mansion token (yellow for manor, pink for castle) on it. The first nine cards are psychics.

21 cards for each player, with the following distribution: 6 cards worth 1 / 5 cards worth 2 / 4 cards worth 3 / 3 cards worth 4 / 2 cards worth 5 / 1 card worth 6.
Even-numbered cards are marked with a bat.
Odd-numbered cards are marked with a serpent.

Each player starts with a hand of five cards.

The game is played over 10 rounds, each corresponding to one of the ten cards, left to right.

* On your turn, play any number of cards from your hand onto your side of that round's card. (Psychic card effects apply instantly.)
* At the end of your turn, if the total on your side of the value is higher than your opponent, it is your opponent's turn.
* If it is not the case, you must withdraw from the mansion and your opponent wins it.

At the end of each round:
* Whoever won the mansion takes the manor/castle token.
* Whoever withdrew takes that round's psychic card and adds it to their hand, and may play a card face-down to the 10th round card.
* Each player draws 2 ghost cards.

The 10th round isn't played like the others: instead, players reveal the face-down cards they have set aside there, to see who wins it.

==End of Game==
* You win instantly if you get 4 manors (yellow) or 3 castles (pink).
* If none of the winning conditions are met after the 10th round, the player who won the 10th round wins the game. (If tied, most mansions wins; if still tied, the game ends in a draw.)

==Psychic Cards==
'''NOTE: when a Psychic card applies to a group of cards, it includes the cards played beforehand and after that Psychic card.'''
===Level 0===
* ''You won't have it'': Get the psychic card of the round no matter what.
* ''Auntie, Are You There?'': Search your deck for any ghost card and immediately put it into play.
* ''Reveal Yourself!'': Works as a ghost card worth 1. Also you can look at opponent's hand until the end of the round.
* ''Lady in White'': Works as a ghost card worth 2.
* ''Sir Nicholas'': Works as a ghost card worth 3.
* ''Tripped'': The next card played by your opponent is randomly drawn from their hand.
* ''Postponed Wedding'': Works as a ghost card worth 3 but can only be played in the last round.
* ''Acro-bats'': All your even-numbered cards are +1 for this round.
* ''Ghosssssst'': All your odd-numbered cards are +1 for this round.

===Level 1===
* ''Poltergeist'': Name a value. All cards of that value are +2 for this round.
* ''Be Gone!'': Discard a card in play from the opponent.
* ''You Don't Scare Me'': All opponent's 1 and 2 are not counted for this round.
* ''Now or Never'': Works as a ghost card worth 4. However, it will be worth -2 in the last round.
* ''Two's More Fun'': Opponent cannot play cards 1 by 1 for this round.

===Level 2===
* ''Still Me'': If you win this round, you can transfer a card in play to the next round.
* ''Double Vision'': Copy a ghost card in this round.
* ''Wraith to the Bottom'': Name a value. Opponent's cards of that value are -2 (min 0) for this round.
* ''I'll Be Back'': Return a card in a previous round to your deck.
* ''Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come'': Put the first card in your deck to play.

===Level 3===
* ''Let's Meet at the End'': Choose a player to return a random card in the 10th round to their hand.
* ''Bloody Mary'': Works as a ghost card worth 6. However, you must discard 2 ghost cards from your hand.
* ''Playing Dead'': You immediately lose this round. However, you can take back a card played in this round.
* ''Ghostly Goldfish'': Works as 2 ghost cards worth 1.
* ''Private Lounge, Ghost Only'': Opponent cannot play any psychic cards in this round.

===Level 4===
* ''They Were Never Seen Again'': Name 2 values. Nobody can play ghost cards of these 2 values until the end of the round.
* ''I Pity the Ghoul!'': Name a value. All ghost cards of that value are +3 for this round.
* ''Creepy Lull'': The round ends immediately with a tie. The mansion is transferred to the next round. The psychic card is discarded.
* ''House Swap'': Switch 2 mansions from the following rounds.
* ''We're Worthless'': All other cards are now worth 1 and lose their effects.

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