Water War (Card Game)

Tagged as: Gaming, Idea, Seen-Around Feb 15

Inspired by war, here is a fun little game that was concocted by yours truly. In keeping with finding out the origin of things, this took place at the winter retreat of the Hi Koi fellowship in December 2007. Anyways, the game adds the mindlessness of war with punishments and randomness that will amuse you to no end. It is good clean fun! And it happens to be good for you!

Equipment

• At least 1 deck of cards
• 2+ players
• 1 cup for each player

Gameplay
Deal all of the cards to each player (as in war). Players are not to look at their cards. Play occurs in rounds (“battles”) with each player revealing the top card in their pile. The highest card (ace is high) is the winner. All players with cards lower than the highest relinquish their card to the player with the highest card as well as drink an arbitrarily small amount of water (i.e., a sip). If the 2 players have equally high cards, they are now to engage in a “war” with each player placing their top 3 cards facedown and revealing the 4th card. This continues until one of the players engaged in the “war” has a higher card. The loser of the war must relinquish all cards as well as drink the rest of the water in their cup. Once a player has lost all of their cards, they are eliminated. Each loser must drink the number of cups of water relative to their standing (i.e., the first person eliminated with 6 players has a standing of 6th and will then drink 6 cups of water).

Alternate Versions:

• Winner must drink the water
• Use food instead of water

Gaming Is Always Fun

Tagged as: Contests, Gaming, Review Aug 10

I like games. Some games I like more than others. I’m particularly a fan of word games even though I don’t get to play them all too much nowadays. I like games that involve decision making because that increases the possibility of losing. I like some card games, but I’m no gambling bo. (Why bo? Why not?)

Over at Ramblings From The Marginalized, Steve has just created Quartile. Yes that’s right, he made the game. That is pretty amazing, I think.

So looking at the game, it seems pretty interesting, even if the concept is a bit simple. It seems to me to be a mix of Scrabble and dominos where instead of piecing together words with letters, you place seemingly domino pieces in arithmetically corresponding spaces. I must admit that it even seems simple when I write that, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t also look enjoyable! Just look at the Wii, it’s doing so well because it purports to be a simple to use gaming system that focuses on fun rather than complexity!

In any case, he has this pretty cool offer to give away one of his prototype marble sets. (The retail sets are made of wood as that is obviously cheaper to produce.) So check out his site for more information on the whole shebang.