notes/card_games/cambio.md

author, date, title, tags, uuid

author	date	title	tags	uuid
Akbar Rahman	\today	cambio	card_games	ea4b73ab-87e0-4436-bf87-ccf62009b838

cambio

requiremets

• standard deck of cards
• at least one mate

start

0. sit around table
1. each player gets 4 cards. do not look. arrange in 2x2 grid
2. place the remaining deck in the middle
3. at an agreed time, each player looks at their two closest cards. remember these

objective

have the fewest points at the end of the game

points and actions

when immediately discarding a card picked up from the deck, some cards require the player to perform an action

card	points	action
ace	0	none
2-6	2-6	none
7,8	7, 8	look at any card in own hand
9,10	9, 10	look at any card in another player's hand
jack	10	swap any two cards without looking
queen	10	swap any two cards without looking
black king	10	look at any two cards and swap any two cards*
red king	-1	none

*these cards do not have to be same

game

• in turns, draw a card from the deck or discard pile

  • if drawing from discard pile, swap with a card in your hand
  • if drawing from the deck, swap with a card in your hand or discard/play

• at any point, a player may snap by taking a card from any player's hand whose number/face matches the top of the discard pile

  • snapping reduces the number of cards in your hand
  • snapping incorrectly they must add a card to their hand. they cannot look at the card.
  • a player may snap multiple cards
  • a player may not snap on a card placed by another player's snapping
  • if snapping another player's card, the snapper chooses a card from their hand to replace the card they snapped

• a player may use their turn to end the game by calling Cambio. every other player gets one more turn before ending the game

tips

• you may want to minimise the number of unknown cards in your deck as soon as possible, even if that means swapping a big pointer in