(this is via a secret door that connects the new room
VERSION 7 back to an earlier room).
The RPG solitaire playing card
dungeon by Mark Ainsworth
Overview
This game is a door-kicking dungeon crawler with
treasure, stats, and lockpicks; its roguelike-gameplay
with playing cards. The game may be improved more
yet, but it's playable now!
Setup
You keep score of your treasure total (using coins or
buttons or pen-and-paper). You start with zero
treasure.
Take three decks of playing cards (you may use more
or less decks) and seperate the Aces, Js, Qs, Ks & one
Joker and place them in the room deck (discard any
other Jokers).
Rooms:
● the Js represent rooms with one door
● the Qs represent rooms with two doors
● the Ks represent rooms with three doors
● the Joker is the main end room with the
dungeon exit,where you face a dragon or boss
who guards the exit.
● the Aces are lockpick cards,
Seperate all the suits and place these in 4 piles. Each
suit represent stats:
● hearts = health
● diamonds = treasure
● spades = armor
● clubs = attack
Place one King card on the table as the dungeon
entrance.
The cards for rooms are laid out in a square grid
pattern: north, south, east, and west. As you place a
new room it has to connect to the previous room, but
as long as it connects to the previous room the new
room, if it has more possible doors, can become
adjacent to an earlier previously laid room on the grid
Your Turn
At the start of each turn you draw a room card.
Whenever you draw an Ace you add it to your
lockpicks pile and draw another room card. You need
a lockpick to try and exit the dungeon in the Jokers
room. It cost one lockpick to try and exit by a simple
high/low gamble: you draw a card for the boss and
then you draw a card for your attempt to pick the
lock; if your card is the same or higher you escape,
but if you fail you may use another lockpick and try
again. If you have no lockpicks you must find more
before you can come back and try again.
Enter the room by placing the card next to a room
card you've already played (but the room card you've
already played must have a spare door opening, Js
have one door, Qs have 2 doors, Ks have 3 doors.
Joker is the room that ends the game (after you have
picked the lock). You may instead move into rooms
next to the one you're in if no monster is in them.
When you enter any room for the first time or there is
already a monster in the room you draw a card from
two suits (not diamonds & not hearts ) decks. These
are for armor and weapons like shields and club you
pickup entering the room, you can replace any card in
your hand if the ones you draw are higher.
If you enter any room for the first time and there is no
monster you draw a card from each of the three suit's
decks (not diamonds) for the monster and place the
monster's three cards on the room card. The monster
remains in the room and has to be defeated (see
Combat) to pass through that room. You may leave
the room by the door you entered but do not redraw
stats cards. You can connect from the room you're in
to a room that has no doors available to connect from
if these are in the correct location (these are secret
doors). If you enter any room with a monster you
must resolve a combat round.
Combat
You attack with your attack stat (clubs card). Your
attack is compared to the monsters armor stat if it has
armor (spades card), if your attack is the same or
greater than the monsters armor then the attack gets
through (the monsters armor card is removed and not
used in future attacks). Now you can compare your
attack (clubs card) to the monster's health (hearts suit
- known as hit points). If your attack is the same or
greater than the monsters health stat, then you win the
monster's treasure: draw a diamonds suit card for
treasure and then you put the monsters heart card face
down to show you defeated the monster in this room.
You can also draw a hearts card for a health potion &
replace your health stat if its higher.
If your attack fails then the monster attacks you in the
same way. If the monster wins you draw a diamonds
suit card and your treasure is reduced by that amount
(diamonds card) and you must go back the way you
came! This is to show that you lose some treasure; by
throwing it to get away, or the monster gets the
treasure in your pockets but not your backpack, or the
monster could demand payment to let you go. You
must also draw a new health card, if its lower than
your current you must use it to replace the one in
your stats.
you draw 2 suit cards for armor (spades)
attack (clubs) these cards are optional and
represent things in the room like armor and
weapons.
3. If you lose a combat round, the monster takes
as much treasure as he can see or take easily
from your pockets or pouch, or you may throw
treasure to distract the monster while you get
away. or the monster may demand payment to
let you go, the treasure in your backpack is
harder to take,
4. You may be trapped in the dungeon by
powerful monsters in every direction
(although every time you enter a room with a
monster you get to draw new cards for armor
and attack, so it's likely you will eventually
draw a good attack, but you will be losing
treasure and health will possibly go lower after
each failed combat), or run out of collectable
lock picks so escape is impossible, but this is
the chance you take by entering the dungeon

After a combat you must also draw new cards from

two suits (not diamonds) decks and replace your stat
cards. This is because you may have grabbed new
shields or club etc. If you won, you get to draw a
hearts card and keep the higher (of your current card
and the new one), but if you lost you draw a hearts
card and keep the lower.

You may need at times to fight a monster in order to

get new stat cards, but lose some treasure; this
happens a lot as combat isn't always decisive but you
get the chance to find new health potions or shields
and clubs.

Notes
1. Keep track of your treasure, but you can only
count your gold if you get out of the dungeon
at the Joker's room where you will find the
exit door, your treasure is your final dungeon
score. If your treasure goes below zero, it is
set to zero
2. When you enter a room for the first time,or re-
entering a room with an undefeated monster,