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Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:29:11 +0000

Maybe it's just me, but I'm a little confused.

First, I'm going to call the 3 piles to be deciphered Deck 3, Deck 2, Deck 1, to correspond with the number of deciphered cards required for the "phrase."

As I understand it, we slide the top card (I'll call it the "slider") down letter-by-letter until the hidden card's title is completely revealed. That revealed ("deciphered) title card is then placed beside that deck until the required number of cards for a "phrase" (3, 2, or 1), When the phrase is fully deciphered, the player who completed it takes the slider card from that deck into his discard pile (to be shuffled and drawn as needed for our 3-card hand to begin each turn.)

If a phrase is partly deciphered, say only 2 of the 3 required cards are beside Deck 3, it is possible that the opponent may be able to claim the cards by finishing the reveal of the 3rd. Is this correct?

So player A might have revealed 3 of the four letters of the card's title, for example, but he has no cards left in his hand and his turn is over. Now Player B, on his turn, could reveal the final letter, and thus claim the phrase card(s) next to the deck. Is this correct?

I don't quite understand that "overshoot the phrase" business. If we play a 3, for example, but there are only 2 unrevealed letters on a card we're working on, what card(s) does the opponent get? Just the card that was overshot, or that card plus any other phrase cards which are next to that deck?

Sorry if I'm a little thick. I blame it on my age.

Granicus

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:25:40 +0000

When I first read the rule for primary scoring, I was unclear whether it compared the quantity of cards or the ranks of cards. But it's just the quantity of cards, right?

So it seems like card ranks only matter for the tiebreaker, which (as you note) doesn't really extend the strategic space of the game. Are ties common enough that there even needs to be a tiebreaker? If there does, you could just say that if there is a tie on points then the winner is the player who won the top-most Ace. If there was a tie on that Ace, then the player who won the second-highest Ace. And so on.

Suit symbol missing from wiki

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:23:28 +0000

The knots symbol graphics can't be found?

I double checked with the how-to-edit-pages page on decktet.wikidot.com and the image for knots can't be found. It just shows as a "broken image icon", but the other suit images can to found!?

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Having an idea about an area-control game

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:04:45 +0000

I'm now working on an idea about designing an 2-players area-control game, which is mostly inspired by the famous Twilight Struggle.
All the location cards and Aces will be used to form the map. Other cards will be used to control these locations. For example, play a card from you hand, and then add a token to a location whcih shares a same suit with it.
All the locations sharing the same suit make up an area, while the Excuse performs as a special area——then there will be 7 areas in total——and the goal of the game is to control more areas than your opponent.
In addition, there might be some special locations, such as the three double-type cards and the three triple-suit cards. But I don't want to add any extra texts one cards (or it'll be difficult to play the game by original Decktet cards), so there won't be something like the Events in TS.
It's still an idea, and I haven't began writing the rules yet. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

That's all, apologize for my poor English, and I hope I have made myself clear.

Bhargage

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 23:40:48 +0000

The rules were updated on February 23, 2021 to reflect further play testing and improvements. Specifically, Friends of the Chief are scored by both players, but only in the hand, not the bhargage; bhargs can be scored during play of the cards; 23 is not scored in hand or bhargage; and the points for more than one suit of shortage are increased.