- Card Darts
- This game isn’t necessarily a card game, but it involves cards so not sure where to draw the line. This game involves using metal playing cards or trading cards, and throwing them at a block of styrofoam. It’s essentially darts but with cards. I plan on looking deeper into this one to see how you can spice it up, like involving a game of war and whoever wins each round gets to throw a card.
- 3 Card Poker Slots
- This game is a game in which revolves around luck mostly at the moment, but needs to be dug deeper into. The game involves a dealer giving you 3 cards at random, and if you hit a certain hand (2 of a Kind, 3 of a Kind, Straight, Straight Flush, Royal Flush) you get a payout depending on the rarity of the hand. It’s almost kind of like gambling… well it’s gambling
- Draw from the deck’s heart,
- Match pairs, discard with each turn—
- Count and claim your score.
- Match Maker
- The idea of this game is simple. You get a standard deck of cards and deal 5 cards to all 2-4 players. Your goal is to get matching cards and place them face up in front of you. The players will take turns drawing cards, and if you get a second number that you have (EX: you have a 2 and during your turn you draw a 2) you place it in from of you face up and say “Match”. At the end of each turn though, you must discard one of your cards in order to keep the game moving and to avoid people hoarding cards. The person with the most matches when the deck runs out is the winner.
- Low-Card Blackjack
- Ah, yet another way to gamble our points away. This game isn’t for the faint of heart. The idea of Low-Card Blackjack is pretty easy to understand. In this game, your goal is basically to be as close to 11 as possible, rather than 21. The uniqueness of this game is because it is designed to make people upset at their “points wagering” abilities. In a standard deck of cards, the most common card is a 10, whether it’s actually a 10 or a face card. So more than likely, you are going to bust when a hand is dealt to you. Instead of being dealt 2 cards, you are going to be dealt 1 card. That one card makes it interesting since if you happen to get a lowcard such as a 2 or 3, you basically have to hit since the dealer is most likely going to have a higher card than you, but at the same time you won’t want to hit since you are most likely going to go over 11. Just like Blackjack, if you get an ace and a 10, your payout is more. The game may seem complex in my description, but it is rather simple.
- Bobby Mo Go Fish
- First of all, who doesn’t enjoy a game of go fish. For this game, I would like to put a spin on go fish in some way but make the entire deck Robert Morris themed. I enjoyed designing cards last semester during my 4D Design class, so this would give me the chance to design more cards again. But alongside that I need to find a way to put a spin on Go Fish; a rather simple game.
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I agree with you-who doesn’t enjoy a game of Go Fish. Would your RMU-themed cards be of professors, campus locations, or something else?
I like the idea of updating go fish, there are a ton of alternative versions: https://www.howtoplaygofish.com/variations.php so I’d be curious how you might update it to make it more appealing to an adult audience / college students.
I sense a theme here, among your game ideas.
I think that the low-card blackjack is a cool idea, because it would make blackjack games faster, and the stakes would be higher. It would completely change people’s way of thinking/playing blackjack.