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The Corrupting Deck

distributed as 52-Card Pickup Survival Edition

The party game you already own. Any deck. Any room. Any number of players, including none.

★ ★ ★ Family Fun Night! ♣ ♦ ♠ ♥
A 1950s family enjoying a game of cards A 1950s family enjoying a game of cards

Grab your friends! Scrounge some junk from the room, deal yourself three lives, and see if you can make it to the end of the deck.All you have to do is not lose.

HOW TO PLAY. Flip a card. It's a threat. Survive it by paying its cost out of your pool of scavenged objects, or take the hit and lose a life instead. Some threats are hunters, and hunters can be sealed for good: that scores a seal and the room gives two objects back. Seal three and walk out clean. Two Aces or three lost lives and you don't. Your top life card is your patron, and threats of its suit cost you one less.
Pool
10
Seals
0 / 3
Aces
0 / 2
Pile
51
Lives◆ patron
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the pile is face-down
flip the top card
Scrounge once. Deal three lives. Brace yourself against the one on top.
Flip the first threat.