Conquian LIVE: Cards

Conquian LIVE is a one-on-one card game played with a 40-card Spanish deck. Your hand and the exposed combinations on both sides make up the shared table, and every decision is readable at a glance: which card to take, which combination to lay down and which card to leave in the center. If you are looking for Conquian with Spanish cards, here you get two players, ten cards in hand and a clear goal from the very first move. FROM TEN TO ELEVEN IN CONQUIAN Each player starts with ten cards in hand. The goal in Conquian is to lay down eleven cards in valid combinations on the table. The winning total counts cards already laid down in those groups; having eleven cards spread between your hand and the table is different from completing that goal. That is why, in Conquian LIVE, every card you lay down brings you closer to winning, while every card still in your hand has yet to find its place in a combination. ONE CONQUIAN TURN, STEP BY STEP - The card in the center is face up, in view of both players. - If it works for a combination, you take it and lay it down on the table right away. - If it does not, you pass on it and a card from the stock is turned over. You can use it or leave it in the center. - Center cards never pass through your hand: they are played straight to the table or they stay where they are. THREE OF A KIND, FOUR OF A KIND OR A SEQUENCE Three cards of the same rank form a three-of-a-kind group, called a tercia. Four form a cuarteto. A sequence, called an escalera, contains at least three consecutive cards of one suit. Three fives of different suits are a tercia; the 3, 4 and 5 of cups form a sequence. These are two ways of combining the cards: by rank or by the order of cards in one suit. In Conquian it pays to keep both in mind, because the same card can fit a tercia or a sequence depending on what you already hold. AN OPEN TABLE The groups already laid down remain visible on both sides of the table. You can see which cards belong to each exposed combination and distinguish them from the cards still in your hand. In Conquian LIVE that open table lets you measure your rival's progress: how many cards are already down, which ranks they collect and which suits they are chasing. With that information you decide which card to leave in the center and which one to keep. THE CONQUIAN DECK: 40 SPANISH CARDS Cups, coins, swords and batons make up the deck. The card values run from 1 to 7, with court cards numbered 10, 11 and 12: the knave, the knight and the king. There are no 8s or 9s, and no jokers. This version of Conquian uses that forty-card Spanish deck, deals ten cards to each player and sets the target at eleven cards laid down. ONE ON ONE Every Conquian match pits two players against each other. There are no teams and no extra seats at the table: you and your rival share the same center, the same stock and the same table, and every card one player leaves in the center can be used by the other. WHEN THE STOCK RUNS OUT If the stock runs out before anyone lays down eleven cards, the Conquian match ends in a draw. TIPS FOR READING THE TABLE - Before leaving a card in the center, check which combinations your rival has laid down. - In Conquian, a loose card that fits nothing is the first one to let go. - If a card works for a tercia and for a sequence, think about which one brings you closer to eleven cards. - When you hold a combination that is half built, see whether the center offers the card you are missing. - Remember that in Conquian the cards in your hand do not count until they are laid down in a valid combination. AT A GLANCE - One-on-one Conquian, a card game for two players. - A 40-card Spanish deck: cups, coins, swords and batons. - Ten cards in hand and eleven cards to lay down to win. - Tercias, cuartetos and sequences on an open table. - Conquian LIVE: Spanish cards, combinations in view and decisions on every turn.

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