cuttle

ur field. The first player to reach the goal wins immediately. One player (traditionally the dealer) is dealt 6 cards, and their opponent is dealt 5. The player with 5 cards goes first. ### Play On your turn you must perform exactly one of the following actions: - *Draw:* Take one card from the Deck. You may not draw past the 8-card hand limit - *Points:* Play a number card from your hand. Worth its rank in points, lasts until scrapped - *Scuttle:* Scrap an opponent’s point card with a bigger one from your hand - If two number cards have the same rank, the suit breaks the tie - Suit order is (high) Spades ♠ > Hearts ♥ > Diamonds ♦> Clubs ♣ (low) - *Royal:* Play a face card for a persistent benefit based on rank (lasts until scrapped) - *Glasses:* Play an Eight to reveal your opponent’s hand (lasts until scrapped) - *One-Off:* Scrap a number card for an effect based on the rank of the card. ## Royals Royals (Kings, Queens, and Jacks) may be played to the field for a persistent benefit that remains in effect until the card is scrapped. Each Royal gives a different effect. *King:* Reduce the number of points you need to win (21, 14, 10, 5, 0 points with 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 kings) *Queen:* Protects your other cards from being targeted by the effects of other cards. This protects your cards against 2’s (both effects), 9’s, and Jacks, but not scuttling. *Jack:* Play on an opponent’s point card to steal it. Point card returns to opponent if the jack is scrapped or if another jack is used to steal it back. ### One-Offs Number cards (except 8’s and 10’s) can be played for a One-Off effect, which scraps the card for an effect based on the rank of the card played. Whenever a one-off is played, the other player may counter it using a two to cancel the effect. - *Ace:* Scrap all point cards on the field - *Two:* Twos have two alternative one-off effects: - Counter target One-Off Effect (Played immediately in response to a one-off) - Scrap target Royal - *Three:* Choose a card in the scrap pile and put it in your hand - *Four:* Your opponent discards two cards of their choice - *Five:* Discard one card and then draw three cards - *Six:* Scrap all Royals and Glasses Eights on the field - *Seven:* Choose one of the top two cards from the deck and play it however you choose. - *Nine:* Return a card from your opponent’s field to their hand. They cannot play it next turn.

s for anyone who’d like to learn more: We have open play sessions on the site every Wednesday at 8:30pm EST and every Thursday at 12pm EST. Beginners are always welcome and it’s the best time to find games. We have an active discord (https://discord.gg/tPWm6kpbmb) where you can chat with other players, find games, and dive into strategy. Here is a printable cheat sheet you can use to make learning (and teaching) the rules easier: https://www.cuttle.cards/img/cuttle_rules.pdf We also live stream the Cuttle tournaments on twitch: https://twitch.tv/cuttle_cards And then upload the VODs to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cuttle-cards2245?si=lHbXNsQX54KjLtxk Lastly as someone else mentioned, the whole project is open source, so if you’re interested in the technical side of things, you can check out the repo here: https://github.com/cuttle-cards/cuttle It’s very much under active development and we’re always happy to work with new contributors, so if you’re interested in contributing to a full stack pvp card game, I’ve got just the thing for you. The app is a nodejs backend built with the sailsjs backend framework and a Vue 3 SPA frontend. We use cypress for e2e testing and vitest for unit testing. The test setup is something I’m particularly proud of and I’ve found the card game context to be an enormously fruitful one for testing automation since it saves so much time developing for multi user flows. All that is to say that Cuttle is a blast and that if playing the game or contributing to the open source application interests you, I’d be happy to answer any questions about either. I hope y’all enjoy!