Decktet Games and Tools
The Decktet is an alternative deck of cards created by P.D. Magnus and released under a CC license.
Online Games
I’ve implemented or updated a few solitaire games for the Decktet:
- Adaman, an update to the JavaScript implementation for Adaman by Felbrigg Herriot. Adaman is a unique solitaire game of controlling the Decktet personality cards by P.D. Magnus.
- Cascades, a solitaire card game for the Decktet by Joe Conard.
- Myrmex, my implementation of Greg James' Decktet version of the classic solitaire game Spider; all of his variants are supported.
- Aucteraden, a Decktet solitaire game by Jack Neal, includes a scoresheet, rules, and the game, including some variants invented, accidentally and otherwise, at BoardGameGeek. (The scoresheet doesn’t work in some older browsers, but the game itself does.)
I only dimly recall my reasons for updating Adaman; I think they were mainly stylistic. Myrmex I wanted to be able play without breaking out my double Decktet deck. Cascades was a little experiment with a lightweight JavaScript framework called mithril. Aucteraden was easy to play but hard to score.
Rules and Tools
I’ve put together some rules summaries, scoresheets, and/or rollers for existing Decktet games:
Aucteraden includes a scoresheet and rules summary.
Dectana Deciphered includes a player aid similar to the official one, but with more pretty pictures.
Magnate Roller is a tool I made to replace my missing D&D dice when playing the two-player Decktet game Magnate; it interprets resource and taxation results for you, shows the roll outcomes, and includes a rules summary.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a rules summary.
My Games
I’ve half-designed a few games for the Decktet based on other games, mostly as an intellectual exercise. They have not yet been fully playtested.
Buttle
Buttle is a two-player game based on the traditional(ish) card game Cuttle, inspired by a previous reimplementation of it for the Decktet by Oshojabe at Reddit.
The Badger on the Borderland
The Badger on the Borderland is based on The Fox in the Forest, a two-player trick taking game which you can also play with traditional playing cards.
Deck Town
Deck Town is based on Zark City, a Zarcana for the rest of us by Andrew Looney. I devised it in order to work my way up to actually playing Dectana (after having merely deciphered it).
Personimo
I’m also working on a game of my own for the Decktet. Personimo is a badgerized version of the popular board game Kingdomino. There is no implementation so far, only rules.
Sapphire Towers
Sapphire Towers is a variant of Steven Grady’s Belém, an adaptation of Sea(haven) Towers to the Decktet. Sapphire Towers uses the full expanded Myrmex deck, 9 columns, and 2 cells.
