Aquaman

A card game for 2-4 players with an Aquaman Theme.

Players share a common deck of 8 suites: Aquaman (A), Companion (C), Sea Creature (X), Plot (P), Foe (F), Power (O), Strangeness (S) and Location (L). Each suite comprises 16 cards ranked from 1 to 16.

The board is an 8x8 grid. Each square must be big enough to easily hold 1 card. 1 card is randomly dealt face up to each space on the board. Each player places their pawn on a different corner space (each pawn represents a different manifestation of Aquaman).

Each player draws 3 cards to start.

Players take turns with each turn comprising five phases:

1. Power Phase

• If you have at least 5 cards in your hand, you may discard 1 card from your hand to activate its special ability:
• Aquaman: Draw 2 cards from the deck & put them in your hand. If the sum of the ranks of the 2 cards is less than the rank of the Aquaman card, draw and keep a third card.
• Companion: Look at the next 4 cards in the deck. Keep one and discard the other 3. The one you keep must be of a lower rank than the Companion Card.
• Sea Creature: Take the top card of discard and put it in your hand. It must be of a lower rank than the Sea Creature card.
• Plot: You may move your pawn to any target, non-occupied space this turn in Swim phase (do not bother rolling the dice). The card in the target space must be of a lower Rank than the Plot card.
• Foe: Target opponent who is adjacent to you must reveal one random card from his hand; if it is lower in rank than the Foe card it is discarded.
• Power: Discard X cards and draw X replacement cards. The cards you discard may not be of a higher Rank than the Power card.
• Strangeness: Put 1 target adjacent card on the board in your hand. It must be of a lower rank than the Strangeness card. Immediately draw a card to replace it with on the Board.
• Location: Look at the next X cards in the deck where X = the rank of the Location card.

2. Swim Phase

   Roll two dice. Move your pawn on the board orthogonally first the distance of one of the dice, and then the distance of the other. For example, you roll a 2 and a 5. You decide to first move him to your left 5 spaces and then forward 2 spaces.

3. Action Phase

   If you land on a space not occupied by another pawn, take the card there and put it in your hand. Immediately replace the card you took with the top card of the deck. If the space is occupied by another player’s pawn, there will be a fight: Both players reveal 1 card from their hand. High card wins. If tied, players reveal a second card. Discard all revealed cards. The winner gets to look at the loser’s hand and steal 1 card.

4. Mission Phase

   You may complete a Mission. To do this play (discard) 8 cards from your hand, one from each of the eight suites.

5. Rest Phase

   Max hand size is 10 cards. Discard excess cards.

The first player to complete 3 Missions is the winner.