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The opening-cards section had been dropped into the middle of the table setup list, stranding the discard pile and deck-count bullets after it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015qjfMiPUDshdKEUa6vxqzN
86 lines
3.2 KiB
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86 lines
3.2 KiB
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# Golf — implemented rules
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This is the ruleset the engine enforces. Anything marked **toggle** is in the
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game setup screen. Lowest score wins, as on a golf course.
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## Table
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- 2 to 6 players — **toggle**.
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- Each player gets a grid of face-down cards — **toggle**:
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| Cards | Layout |
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| --- | --- |
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| 4 | 2 rows of 2 |
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| 6 | 2 rows of 3 |
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| 8 | 2 rows of 4 |
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| 9 | 3 rows of 3 |
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- **Seen at the start — *toggle*.** How many of your own cards you turn over
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before play begins; two by default.
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- One card is turned up to start the discard pile; the rest is the stock.
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- Six players on the 9-card board needs more cards than a deck holds, so two
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decks are shuffled together whenever the deal would exceed 24 cards.
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## Choosing your openers
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Nothing is dealt face up. Each player in turn picks which of their own cards to
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turn over, up to the allowance above, and play begins once everyone has chosen.
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Spreading them across columns tells you more about the board than stacking two
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in the same column does.
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## A turn
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**Draw** one card, from either the stock or the top of the discard pile.
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Then **place** it, in one of two ways:
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- **Swap it in.** Put it into any grid slot, face up, and throw out whatever was
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there. That slot is now face up for the rest of the hole.
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- **Throw it away and turn one of your own over.** Only available for a card
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taken from the *stock* — a card picked up off the discard pile has to be used.
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- **Line up the final putt — *toggle*, off by default.** Throw the card away and
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turn *nothing* over. Only offered when you have exactly one card left face
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down, so it is the difference between closing the hole on a card you have not
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chosen and waiting for something better. If every player declines for two full
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laps the hole is called and scored where it stands, so a table cannot stall
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forever.
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## Ending a hole
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The first player to have their whole grid face up closes the hole, and everyone
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else gets exactly one more turn. Then every card is turned up and scored.
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If the stock runs out it is refilled by shuffling the discard pile, keeping its
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top card in play. If there is nothing left to recycle, the hole ends there.
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## Scoring
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| Card | Value |
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| --- | --- |
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| King | 0 |
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| Ace | 1 |
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| Two | −2 |
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| Jack, Queen | 10 |
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| 3 to 10 | face value |
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**A column of matching ranks cancels to nothing.** That is the whole tactical
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point: a pair of jacks in a column costs nothing instead of twenty.
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On the 3×3 board, matching **rows** cancel as well. On the shallower boards they
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do not — a "row" of three unrelated cards is not a line in a two-row grid.
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Scores accumulate over the holes — **toggle** for 3, 6 or 9 — and the lowest
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total wins.
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At the end of each hole a score card shows every player's strokes for that hole
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and their running total, lowest first. The next hole is not dealt until it is
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dismissed.
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## Known simplifications
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- **No jokers.** Some house rules add them as −5 or wild. Adding a joker means
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adding a rank to the shared card model, which every other game would then have
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to account for, so it is left out rather than bolted on.
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- No knocking, and no separate penalty for a failed knock.
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- Nothing is peeked at mid-hole; the only way to learn a card is to turn it over.
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