Madison Hurst
The AlleyWay Pharmacy
Idea: The Alleyway Pharmacy is a card game in which the players are drug dealers competing against other drug dealers where they have to collect various drugs to resell. The kick to it is, the drug dealers have to make sure whether the drugs they collected are real and not candy. If they are caught using candy (x amount of times) then they will go to jail (lose).
Objective:
- Players are rival dealers that are fighting for the same street block. They are competing to make the most profit by reselling drugs while avoiding fake ones (candy). To win, the player must be the first to reach the profit goal ($20,000) or by the last one that didn’t get busted.
Materials needed:
- Deck of cards:
- Drug cards
- Candy cards
- Action cards
- Profit tracker (score pad)
- Busted disk trackers
- Rules sheet
- Your hand for your cards
- Stash (faced down pile on the table)
Setup:
- Shuffle cards into one deck which will become the draw pile
- Each player will draw 3 cards that will be their starting hand
- Give each player 3 busted tokens
- Have a space for the discard pile
- Discuss what the profit goal will be for this game (default is $20,000)
- The tallest player will go first
Insight:
- Hand: these are the cards you can see and choose from (max. Card limit is 5)
- Stash: cards you placed face down on the table (max card limit is 6)
- Profit tracker: how much money you are at
- Busted tokens: track how many times you had a candy drug (3=jail and you lost the game)
Turns:
- Draw 1 card from the draw pile
You will then move into your action part of your turn:
- You can choose one action play
- Options:
- Play a drug: place 1 card from your hand to you stash pile (face down)
- Play an action: use it immediately (sneak, inspect, etc)
- Slip a fake drug (sneak): Put a card from your hand (candy or real drug) to an opponents stash pile (face down)
- Pass (take no action)
- Resell (You can resell if you think you have 3 of the same cards in your stash)
- If you have all 3 of the same drug, then you will earn a profit based on the value of the drug type. After, you have collected your points you will discard this set
1 Candy drug:
If you have a 1 candy drug in your stash during RESELL, then your resell fails (even if you have 3 of the same drug) and the player will take a penalty.
Penalty: Lose ½ of the profit or discard 1 random hand card
- Discard the candy card after
2 or more Candy drug:
If the player has 2 or more candy drugs in their stash during resell then resell fails, and collect 1 bust token. Discard all candy cards
Check hand and stash number:
- If you have more than 5 cards in your hand, discard extras
- If you have more the 6 cards in your hand, discard extras
Out of turn options:
Players are able to play an action card during another players turn
- Inspect: peek at only one card in a players stash
- Steal: Force a player to reveal one of their stash cards
- Snitch: take one random card from an opponent’s hand
- Hideout: block a sabotage or inspection against you
Win/Lose:
- Be the first person to reach the profit goal
- Be the last person standing, if the other opponents went to jail
- Player is out of the game if they received 3 bust tokens
Card Meanings:
- Inspect: peek at only one card in a players stash
- Steal: Force a player to reveal one of their stash cards
- Snitch: take one random card from an opponent’s hand
- Hideout: block a sabotage or inspection against you
- Sneak: place 1 card from your hand to an opponent’s stash
- Swap: trade 1 card from your stash with 1 from an opponent’s stash (face down)
Drug Values:
- Weed set: $3,000
- Pill set: $5,000
- Coke set: $7,000
- Heroin set: $10,000