Starlight cards

[marnanel]

The Starlight cards are a set of sixty-four cards developed within my family, largely by me, in the late 1980s, when Mark, Mandy and I were teenagers and Andrew and Lucy were small children. The cards were designed before any of the games which are played with them. There are three such games known:

Starlight

a complicated board game which was never perfected;

Sunlight

a trick-taking game which was played very often for years; and

Candlelight

a game of patience ("solitaire").

The rules for Candlelight and Sunlight may be posted at some point.  (I may also make a JavaScript game of Candlelight.)

All the games share the feature of totem cards: that is, each player may choose a card to represent themselves within the game. Such a card cannot be used against the player it represents. A player is expected to stay with the same totem card indefinitely over as many games as they may play. For example, my totem card was Alchemist (shown right).

Three packs of these cards are currently known to exist. Please get in touch if you would like one of your own, especially if you would like to play any of the games or make up new games. We always welcome the invention of new games played with the cards.

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Comments

[desh]

These might work really well with the rules of Dixit.