Switch Your Flaws

A Card Game for 2 Players, by Snail Dream

Materials

• 1x Standard deck of playing cards
• 2x Pieces of paper and writing implements

Rules

1. Deal:
   • Remove the face cards from the deck, they will not be used.
   • Split the deck by color. Give one player all the red cards and the other all the black cards.
   • Each player shuffles their half of the deck and places it face down.
2. Draw:
   • Each player draws 5 cards and places them face-up in a row.
   • These cards are referred to as being in "slots" A/B/C/D/E, from their owner's left-to-right.
3. Choose:
   • Each player secretly chooses one of their opponent's slots to TAKE from.
   • Each player secretly chooses one of their own slots to PLAY from.
   • These choices must be written down or otherwise fixed in a way that cannot later be altered.
4. Take:
   • The TAKE choices are revealed, and the cards in those slots swap places.
5. Play:
   • The PLAY choices are revealed, and the cards in those slots (after swapping) are compared.
   • Whoever plays the higher-ranking card wins the round. Ace is ranked low, except against a 10.
   • In the event of a tie, both cards are set aside in the POT.
   • Otherwise, the winner collects both cards as well as any that had previously been added to the pot.
   • The winning player gains points equal to the total rank of any cards of the opponent's color they collected (A=1).
   • Cards of your own color earn zero points.
6. Repeat:
   • If cards still remain in the decks, each player draws a new card and places it face-up to refill the slot they played from.
   • Play repeats from the "Choose" phase above.
   • The game continues until players have no cards remaining in their decks and all but one slot is empty (19 rounds).
7. End:
   • The player with the highest number of points wins.
   • In the case of a tie, the player whose remaining card is higher-ranked wins. Again, Ace is low except against a 10.
   • If still tied, play again!