spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: Cards

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Rob Speer:
> [[ Here goes. I'm making a big huge proposal which would add a whole new
> category of rules to the game. ]]
> 
> \begin{proposal}
> \title{cards}
> 
> 1. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Properties" with the following text:
> 
> There exist objects in the game known as Cards. Cards are only transferrable
> under conditions stated by the rules.
> 
> Each Card has 3 properties that distinguish it from all other Cards in the
> game: Suit, Rank, and Back.
> 
> The possible Suits are Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades.
> The possible Ranks are Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, and King
> .
> The possible Backs are described elsewhere.
> 
> 2. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Packs" with the following text:
> 
> A Pack of Cards is a set of 52 Cards which all have the same Back. The 52 Car
> ds
> represent every possible combination of Suit and Rank.
> 
> The following Packs of Cards are in play:
> 
> * The Red Pack
>   (The Backs of these cards are primarily Red. They are decorated with the
>   traditional card design featuring the twisty lines surrounding circles whic
> h
>   appear to contain cherubs on pogo sticks.)
> * The Blue Pack
>   (The Backs of these cards are primarily Blue. Other than the color, they ar
> e
>   decorated the same way as the Red Pack.)
> * The Fish Pack
>   (The Backs of these cards contain colorful drawings of tropical fish.)
> * The Corporate Pack
>   (The Backs of these cards contain a message urging you to fly the friendly
>   skies with United.)
> 
> 4. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Dealer" with the following text:
> 
> The Dealer is the player who owns all the cards in the Deck and is responsibl
> e
> for taking the necessary actions to Deal a card to a Player.
> The Dealer is an Elected Officer. The original Dealer is PurpleBob.
> 
> 5. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Dealing" with the following text:
> 
> On certain occasions the Dealer will be required to Deal a Card to a Player.
> The Dealer does this by assigning a unique number from 1 to 52*(the number of
> Packs) to each Card, and asking the Nomic's dice server to roll one die with
> that many sides. If the number returned is the number of a Card that is not
> currently in the Deck, the Dealer keeps rolling until e gets the number of a
> Card that is in the Deck. The Dealer then transfers this Card from the Deck t
> o
> the Hand of the player who should recieve the card, and notifies that Player 
> of
> what the Card is. The Player is then considered to own that Card.
> 
> However, if the Deck contains no Cards, the Dealer cannot Deal a Card. This
> takes precedence over rules that state when a Card should be Dealt.
> 
> The method used to assign numbers to cards is this:
> 
> The packs are numbered from 0 to (N-1), where N is the number of packs, in th
> e
> order which they are originally described.
> 
> The suits are numbered as such: Diamonds = 0, Spades = 1, Hearts = 2. Clubs =
> 3.
> 
> The ranks are numbered as such: Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12, King = 13, an
> d
> all other ranks are numbered as themselves.
> 
> The number of a card is: (pack number)*52 + (suit number)*13 + (rank number)
> 
> 6. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Hands" with the following text:
> 
> A Hand is the collection of all cards which a player besides the Dealer owns.
> 
> 7. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Deck" with the following text:
> 
> The Deck is the collection of all cards which are owned by the Dealer.
> Originally, all the Cards in all the Packs that are in play are in the Deck.
> 
> 8. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Dealer's Report" with the following text:
> 
> Each nweek, the Dealer make a report of who recieved Cards in that nweek, and
> what the Back of each Card was. No other information about the Cards should b
> e
> given by the Dealer.
> 
> 9. Create a rule entitled "Cards for Votes" with the following text:
> 
> At the beginning of each nweek, the Dealer deals a Card to each Player who
> voted in the previous nweek.
> 
> \end{proposal}
> --
> Rob Speer

This sounds really neat. What about Jokers? Shouldn't each deck have 2 
Jokers?

-- 
J.