- WEEK 40 -
- This is a single player game about defeating as many monsters as you can while protecting your three royal subjects by building and maintaining towers.
- SETup -
- TO PLAY: You will need a deck of cards.
- - Separate cards into two piles:
- - Monster Cards: Red cards A-10
- - Player Cards: Black cards A-9, one King, one Queen, and one Jack.
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- Place the King, Queen, and Jack face-up in front of you in a row as show above - these are the three cards (royal subjects) that you will be protecting via building up your towers. Place your player deck face-down to the left of your tower slots, this is your player draw deck.
Place the monster deck face-down to the left of the row in front of your towers - this is your monster draw deck.
- turnACTIONS -
- ON EACH TURN
- 1) Draw the top three cards from the monster draw deck and place them face-down on the top of each active monster spot (there is one monster spot in front of each of the three towers as shown above).
- 2*) Draw the top card of your player draw deck, look at it, and place it on the top of the tower of your choice.
- 3**) Repeat step 2.
- 4) Determine if your tower will be used offensively or defensively. Defence is denoted by rotating the tower horizontally (in the 'tapped' position) and Offense is denoted by placing the tower veritcally (in the 'untapped' position).
- 5) Flip over the face-down card on the top of each of the three monster piles.
- 6) Attack from each of your offensive towers.
- 7) Defend from a monster attack with each of your defensive towers.
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- FIRST TURN EXCEPTION
- *2) Take the top three cards from the player deck and place them face-up one infont of each of your three royal subjects from left to right (you do NOT get to determine which tower these three cards are placed on). These are you starter tower cards.
- **3) Draw the top card of your player draw deck, look at it, and place it on the top of the tower of your choice.
- OFFENSIVEmode -
- 1) Compare the value from the top of the tower and the top of the monster pile it is attacking.
- 2a) If the value of the player card is greater than the monster card, the monster card is moved to defensive mode ('tapped' position). The monster's total defense value is now a combined value of all defensive monster cards and the current non-defensive monster card.
- 2b) If the value of the player card is less than the monster card, the player attack card has been defeated and is discarded.
- 3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have exhausted either all of the player attack cards or the cards in the tower's monster slot. Remove all monsters you have defeated (those that have been moved to defensive mode) and add them to the discarded monster pile.
- 4) If you exhaust all of your player attack cards and there is a monster remaining undefeated, it will perform a counter attack to your tower's respective royal subject card.
- DEFENSIVEmode -
- 1) Compare the value from the top of the monster pile and the top of the tower that it is attacking.
- 2a) If the value of the monster card is greater than the top tower card's value, the tower is defeated but remains in play purely as part of cumulative defense of the tower (i.e. the card is moved to 'defensive only mode'). The tower's total defense value is now a combined value of all defense-only tower cards and the current non-defensive tower card.
- 2b) If the value of the monster card is less than the tower's defensive value, the monster is defeated and added the monster discard pile.
- 3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have exhausted either all of the monster attack cards, or the tower has been defeated.
- 4) If the tower has been exhausted entirely and the monster pile has a remaining attack, it will attack the royal subject that the tower was protecting. Royal subjects have a value of 0 and are defeated immediately when attacked by a monster. The slot on the board is no longer active if its royal subject has been defeated. Turn over the royal subject that has been defeated (either the Jack, Queen, or King) to denoted that it has been defeated.
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- Note: Monster cards that successfully defeated a royal subject (Jack, Queen, or King) stay in their monster slot and are not added to the defeated monster discard pile.
- ENDgame -
- The game ends either when the monster draw deck is empty or when you no longer have any royal subjects left alive. Score is calculated by adding the face values of each monster card that has been defeated (i.e. is in the monster discard pile) and then multiplied by the number of remaining royal subjects that you have at the end. If you have no royal subjects alive at the end, your final score is multiplied by 0.
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