Deck
working title — suggestions welcome
Every card game there is, explained properly.
Not a digital card game. You supply the cards.
A deck of cards costs about two euros, fits in a pocket, needs no charging, and can play several thousand different games. It is arguably the best piece of entertainment technology ever made. Most people know four or five games and then stop.
The information exists — it is just scattered across dead forum posts, inconsistent wikis and rulebooks written by people who assume you already know what a trick is.
What it actually is
- Every game, properly explained — not a summary, an actual teachable explanation you can read aloud to the table
- Filtered by what you have — how many people, how much time, how drunk
- Regional variants taken seriously, because the version your family plays is not wrong, it is just not the one in the book
What it refuses to be
You cannot play cards in it. It teaches you a game and then you go and play it with physical cards and physical people. If that sounds like a limitation, it is the same limitation as a cookbook.
On the name: “Deck” is a working title and almost certainly taken. Ideas welcome.