EntityMap: paipasix.click

How Paipasix Works in an Invented Card Game

Guide. Learn the paipasix move, a once-per-round swap with the discard stack in a homemade card game, plus common house rules and timing tips.

"In a casual card game invented by players rather than published by anyone, paipasix is the term for a special exchange. On your turn, you may hand over one card and take the visible card sitting on the discard stack, as long as both belong to the same suit."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

Paipasix

ProprietaryTerm. An invented name for a once-per-round move in a homemade card game: trade a card from hand for the top discard of the same suit and give up the normal draw.

• DEPENDS_ON: Discard pile
• REQUIRES: Same-suit rule
• PREVENTS: Normal draw
• DESCRIBED_BY: How Paipasix Works in an Invented Card Game

"Anyone who performs paipasix skips drawing from the deck that turn. That tradeoff is the heart of the move: you get a known card, but you lose the chance at an unknown one."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

"That small exchange shows the whole rhythm of paipasix: one public card in, one public card out, and a skipped draw as the fee."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

Discard pile

Concept. The face-up pile the swap trades with; the card given away becomes its new top card.

"Say the word, place your chosen card face up on the discard stack, and take the card that was showing. Your offered card now becomes the visible one for everyone else."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

"The dealer flips the first discard, the ten of diamonds. The player to the dealer's left holds the nine and jack of diamonds along with a lonely two of diamonds she has no use for."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

Same-suit rule

Concept. The rule that the card given and the card taken must share a suit.

"Players adjust the details to suit their table. A few additions show up again and again."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

"An illegal exchange, such as mismatched suits, is reversed and costs the player that turn."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

Normal draw

Concept. The regular draw from the deck that a player gives up on a turn when they swap.

"Her run of nine, ten, and jack is now complete, but she does not draw from the deck."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic

"The next player looks at the two of diamonds she surrendered and decides it is no help, so he draws normally. That small exchange shows the whole rhythm of paipasix: one public card in, one public card out, and a skipped draw as the fee."

How Paipasix Works in a Made-Up Card Game - published by Tenfold Traffic