I’ve been doing some work on the Sycarion Diversions site. Just as something to occupy my creative juices, I worked up a couple of card games. Skirmish is a variation of War! and I have playtested it with my wife. It takes longer than a traditional game of War! and the tables can turn *very* quickly. It can be disheartening to have all but 10 cards and suddenly start losing badly (which happened to me). She ended up winning two of the three games we played.

Dice Poker is not playtested yet and I would like to at some point in the future. As it has no flushes, it features quite a few hand usually seen in other varations of poker.

What I can tell you is that because of the ability to combine dice, determining the odds for every time of hand is quite difficult, mainly because I haven’t figured out how many possible hands exist. What I can say is that there are only 20 possible ways to get a six of a kind, and that makes it extremely rare. It also appears that a double barrell (two three-of-a-kinds) is really rare as well, but I’ll know more once I can figure the odds.

Anywho, game design is something of a hobby that I enjoy and have enjoyed for a long time. It is only recently that I decided to add other game design projects in addition to role-playing games. (They have a shorter production cycle.)

Feel free to look over at sycarion.pinakidion.org and try out a game or two.