Two Souls

A pair of souls, lost in the world, until one day, the find each other.

Two Souls is a simple card game made for the KBGames 18 Card Strategy Jam '22. The objective of the game's development was to create a game that was simple, elegant, that could convey meaning while using very little. 

The rules are very simple.

Take a standard playing card deck and remove all cards except the 3's , 4's, 5's, 6's and the two Jokers (if you don't have any Jokers you can use any Face Card.

At the start of the game, each player is dealt 2 cards from the deck. Determine a turn order by any means each player agrees to.

During each players turn, they can perform one of the following actions:

• Draw a card from the deck (if there are any).
• Discard a matching pair from their hand if they have the same numerical value. The jokers cannot be discarded this way.
• Choose a random card from another player's hand and add it to your hand.

The game ends when one player, at any time, has both Jokers in their hand and no other cards. That player is the winner.

If you end up in a situation where the only two remaining cards are the Jokers and they are in different players hands, shuffle the discard pile and deal each player one new card, then continue as normal.

The winner is the one who, at any time, has the two Jokers in their hand an no other cards.