Правила игры Дворак

Dvorak rules

:''The rules to Dvorak are also available in [[Pravidlá|Slovak]] and in [[Règles|French]].''

:''An older version of this page is archived [[Rules/Old|here]].''

This is how a game of Dvorak works. You can either start with a deck of cards that somebody else has

made (we've got lots of them [[:Category:Decks|archived]] on this site), or you can start with a pile of blank cards and build a new deck from scratch.

==Basic rules==

Dvorak is played entirely with cards, and there are just two types of card -

'''Things''' and '''Actions'''. When you play a Thing card, it goes onto

the table in front of you and stays there, usually having a useful effect

while it remains in play; when you play an Action card, it does whatever it

does and goes to a discard pile.

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Take the deck of cards, shuffle it, and deal five cards to each player

(which they hold in their hand where other players can't see). The rest

of the cards go in the middle of the table as a face-down draw pile, and whenever

a card is discarded or destroyed, it goes into a face-up discard pile.

Starting with a random player, you take turns in order. A turn consists

of:-

* Drawing the top card from the draw pile. (If the draw pile's empty, shuffle the discard pile and turn it over to make a new draw pile.)

* Playing up to two cards from your hand. You can play one Thing and one Action per turn (or just one of those, or no cards at all).

* Checking your hand size; if you have more than five cards, discard down to five.

The game continues until somebody meets whatever victory condition the

deck has. (Some decks have fixed victory conditions, while others have

them written on a card - ''"when you play this card, you win the game if..."'')

==Making a deck==

If you're making a new deck from scratch, you need to prepare an initial set cards before the game begins. Take a pile of about forty blank cards (more if you have a lot of players), and distribute it amongst the players.