Overview
Since there is no in-game tutorial or any other tutorial, I thought new players might be interested in finding out how the card game works before they play. I’ve only played a few hours so this is based only on observation. Please post comments if you have feedback or tips.
Tips and trump suits
The trump suit is the card poking out of the deck. It will be randomly assigned one of the four suits. A card of this suit will always trump any value card of a non-trump suit.
Aces appear to be high
If you win, you get to play again.
Since you can’t get more cards until you have used all 3 from the previous deal, you can strategically take chances based on the likelihood of your opponent having cards of a certain suit left
The cards in this game seem to be 5s/6s, and higher, I can’t recall getting many (any?) 2s, 3s, or 4s
Playing the game
You win with any card that is:
a) higher than the opponent’s card but of the same suit
b) of the trump suit (if the opponent does not play a card in the trump suit)
c) (if you go first) if your opponent has no cards of the trump suit and no cards higher than yours in your suit
a) If your opponent goes first,
1. you play any card that isn’t of the opponent’s suit or the trump suit
2. you play a card lower than the opponent’s
b) If you go first
1. Your opponent plays a card of the same suit but a higher number
2. You play a card of a non-trump suit and your opponent plays any card of the trump suit
The trump suit is hearts
You go first
Your hand is a 6 of spades, 10 of hearts, and queen of diamonds
You play the highest card you have of the non-trump suit (in this case, queen of diamonds)
Your opponent will most likely play any card they have of diamond suit (which is likely to be lower than your queen) – if they have no diamonds they seem to move on to playing the highest card of non-trump suit (in this case spades or clubs) Tip: This means that if they play something other than diamonds, you can guess they have no diamonds in their hand and have used their highest card of spades or clubs
You will win the turn and get to go first again
Since your 10 of hearts is fairly high and in the trump suit, you should play this one next (under ten save it for the third play) and your opponent at this point has a good chance of playing the highest card they have of the trump suit (probably lower than 10) – if they have no cards of the trump suit they will play the highest card they have of another suit
Achievements
You will get most of them in the process of playing all three characters through each of the battles. There are 15 battles and three possible characters. Do each of the battles with each character and you will get all except the Master achievement. The descriptions on the achievements are straight-forward.
At this point you will be at approximately level 10. Then, you must grind until level 20 to get the Master achievement.