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A brainstorming for more cards for Card Backgammon.
Recall:
- playing a card, you can expect to advance 8 pips.
- cards are "worth" 4 pips, and the ability "play a card" is also "worth" 4 pips.
New terminology: retreat You can advance pieces (normal mode of play). I'm adding retreat - you move your stone backwards using same rules as advancing (you can hit a blot, you can't land on an opponent's made point).
Expanding upon projects/gentle-games/2025-01-13-card-backgammon. New cards are ==highlighted==.
2 each of these:
- (1) (2) -OR- If you have a piece on the bar, play another card then advance (1) (2).
- (1) (3) -OR- Keep this in play. When your opponent finishes playing a card you may discard this to take that card into hand.
- (1) (4) ==-OR- If you have a piece on the bar, draw a card and choose one: advance (1) or advance (4).==
- (1) (5) ==-OR- Retreat (1) (5) then your opponent retreats (1) (5). Draw 2 cards.==
- (1) (6)
- (2) (3)
- (2) (4)
- (2) (5)
- (2) (6) -OR- Draw 2 Cards
- (3) (4) ==-OR- Keep this in play. When you send a piece to the bar, discard this to draw a card and play it.==
- (3) (5) ==-OR- Do this twice: retreat (2) then advance (5).==
- (3) (6) -OR- Discard a card to draw 3 cards.
- (4) (5) -OR- Play a card from your hand, returning it to hand when done.
- (4) (6) -OR- Leave this in play. After playing another card, you may discard this to play that card again.
- (5) (6) -OR- Send an opponent's blot in your home board to the bar.
And one each of these:
- (1) (1) (1) (1)
- (2) (2) (2) (2) ==-OR- Keep this in play. The first time you bear off a piece, play 2 cards.==
- (3) (3) (3) (3) -OR- Draw 3 Cards
- (4) (4) (4) (4) ==-OR- All stones on a point you control retreat (1). Draw a card for each stone that retreated.==
- (5) (5) (5) (5)
- (6) (6) (6) (6) -OR- Advance all your pieces on the bar to one empty space in your opponent's home board.