Eck: A Solo Trick-taking Card Game

Fit

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but there is less emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

The game eck: a solo trick-taking card game has a high replayability score, offering a great degree of variability, strategic depth, and scalability. The presence of expansions adds to its replay value. While it may take some time to learn, the game offers a rewarding experience with room for improvement in strategy.

Luck profile

Eck: A Solo Trick-Taking Card Game has a moderate level of luck. While random elements like card draws can have a notable impact on the game outcome, players have substantial ability to mitigate luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game relies on a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with player decisions playing a significant role in determining the outcome. Overall, luck plays a minor role in the game, making it suitable for players who enjoy a combination of luck and strategy in their gameplay.

Overview

ECK (pronounced like “deck” without the ‘d’) is an abstract solo trick-taking game where the you play against the AI opponent ECK by attempting to collect trick cards by winning exactly the number of tricks shown on the available trick cards. The ranks are polygon shapes where increased complexity means increased trick value: line, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon. The suits are colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. So there are 6 ranks and 6 suits. There are also 6 circle cards, three white and three black, which act as trump cards. The player draws a hand of 13 cards and plays one trick for each card. The AI opponent ECK is the remaining cards, and in each trick the player plays one card and ECK plays one card based on the rules for following suit. There are 7 trick cards numbered 2,4,6,8,10,12, and 13/0. The player's goal is, at the end of each round, to have won exactly the number of tricks shown on one of the available trick cards, collecting that card if successful. Collecting 4 trick cards wins the game, though there are ways for ECK to win also.

Mechanism

2

Solo / Solitaire Game Trick-taking

Family

2

Contests: Solitaire Print & Play Players: Solitaire Only Games

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