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How to play Skull King with the DIY Multideck

Skull King

Trick-taking on the high seas. Meet your bid to please the Skull King.

  • Compatibility: Perfect (5/5)
  • Required cards: 74
  • Required drawings: 0
  • Deck version: v2
  • Recommended game
  • Rating: 7.5/10
  • Players: 2-8
  • Time: 30 min
  • Complexity: 1.72/5
  • Mechanics:
    • Trick-taking
    • Predictive Bid
    • Hand Management
    • Rock-Paper-Scissors
Rules
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66
77
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Notes

💡Tip: To prepare the game faster, for the Mermaids, Loot, Kraken, White Whale, and Tigress, just pick any cards of their respecrive suits, the rank doesn't matter.

You can write down this notes on your phone, and send it to the players:

## Cards
⭐️☘️🍆: Normal suits
🕷️: Trump suit
🔥: Pirates
🔥0: Skull king
💧: Escape
🌈: Escape or Pirate
🌸: Mermaids
💎: Loot
💩: Kraken
💭: White Whale

## Pirates
🔥0: Beats all suits and Pirates.
🔥1: Choose any player, including yourself, to lead the next trick.
🔥2: Add 2 cards to your hand from the deck and then discard 2 cards.
🔥3: Bet 0, 10, or 20 points. Earn the points if you bid correct, lose them if you fail!
🔥4: Privately look through any cards not dealt that round to see which are not in play.
🔥5: You may choose to change your bid by plus or minus 1, or to leave it the same.