Caravan
Caravan is a card game invented for the video game Fallout: New Vegas. This is how you play it:Caravan is played with two players building three opposing piles (or "caravans") of numbered cards. The goal is to outbid your opponent's caravan with the highest value of numbered cards without being too light (under 21) or overburdened (over 26).
The game begins with each player taking eight cards from their deck and placing either one numerical card or ace on each caravan. Players may not discard during this initial round.
Once both players have started their three caravans, each player may do one of the following on their turn:
- Play one card and draw a new card from his or her deck to their hand
- Discard one card from their hand and draw a new card from his or her deck, or
- Discard one of their caravans by removing all cards from that pile
Caravans have a direction, either ascending or descending numerically, and a suit. The suit is determined with the first card placed on a caravan, the direction by the second. All subsequent cards must continue the numerical direction or match the suit of the previous card. Cards of the same numerical value cannot be played in sequence, regardless of suit. Face cards can be attached to numeric cards in any caravan and will affect them in various ways.
Card Actions
Note that all cards can be played on any of the 6 caravans on the table, by either player.- Ace - 10
- Face value. Aces are low.
- Jack
- Removes the card it is played against, including all face cards played on that card.
- Queen
- Reverses the direction of the caravan it is played on. Can be stacked.
- King
- Doubles the value of the card it's played on. Stacks multiplicitively.
- Joker
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Can be played on any number card, Ace through 10.
When played on an Ace , all other non-face cards of the Ace's suit are removed from the table.When placed on another number card , all other cards of that face value are removed from the table.