A creative card game where you make up the rules.
Work in progress as we play the game.
- Shuffle a deck of cards
- Deal 5 cards to each player
- Place the remaining pile face-down
- Turn the top card up and place it next to the face-down pile
In clockwise direction, for each player:
- Pick up card from the face-down pile
- Play a card onto the face-up pile
- Makes a change to the rules
If the next player can't play the game within the current rules, everyone loses.
If all the cards are face-up on the table.
- If a player plays a card of the same suit as the previous card played, then ...
- If a player plays a card with a rank that matches the rank of the previous card played, then ...
- If a player plays a card that is one rank higher or one rank lower than the previous card played, then ...
- If a player plays a face card (King, Queen, Jack), then ...
- If a player plays a number card that a multiple of X, then ...
- If ... , then the next player must draw X more cards on their turn.
- If ... , then all players except the player who played the card must draw a card.
- A player may use their card, regardless of the suit or number, as a "wild card" which means it can be played as any card the player wishes.
- If ..., then the player can discard all their cards and draw five new cards.
- After you play a card, you to tell a story about your card. Face cards are individuals and number cards are groups.
- Players must make an animal noise before playing any card on their turn.
- Players must say "X" before playing any card on their turn.
- Each player can play a card anywhere to create a new face-up pile.
- Each player can draw from any face-down pile of cards.
- Each player can draw from any other player's hand.
- A player can play a card by giving a card to another player's hand.
- If ... , then that face-up pile is "capped" and can no longer receive new cards.
- If a player plays a card that X, that player can take all the cards on that pile and add them to their hand.
- Each player has X health points.
- If ..., then next player loses 1 health point.
- If ..., then all players gain 1 health point.
- After drawing a card, there is a combat phase where ...
- At the beginning of a turn, a player must discard a card from their hand into a separate face-down discard pile.
- After drawing a card, there is a trading phase where ...
- If you play an odd card, that pile becomes cursed.
- If a player plays onto a cursed pile, then ...
- If a player does X, then the curse is broken.
- Any player is able to pass on making a rule.
- Once per game, ...
- If ..., then the player can play again immediately.
- If ..., then the next player must skip their turn.
- Whenever a player draws a card, they must reveal it to all players before adding it to their hand.
Made Up Game is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.