I know this sounds daft but can anyone explain this game in simple terms.
I've been looking but never tried a game like this before. It gets rave reviews and I wondered (what the hook is) if its simple to pick up for none poker game players.
You are dealt cards from a standard deck of 52, which you must play anywhere from 1 to 5 cards to create a strong hand made up from typical poker hands (pair, two pair, 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind etc). The aim is to achieve a certain number of chips (i.e. points) each round - the rarer the hand you play, the more points you get. If you beat the round, you get some gold. As the rounds go up, the number of chips you need to get increases.
That's the core gameplay loop. The complexity comes in between the rounds, where you can buy buffs in the form of enhanced cards to add to your deck, one-time use items, buffs to specific hands if you keep playing two pairs or straights etc., or semi-permanent joker cards (they stay with your once you buy, but you can sell them if you don't like/need one), which multiply the amount of chips you earn for a particular hand. For example, you might find a joker which gives you 2x chips for a straight hand, and another joker which replays the cards you play, which means your straight which gave you 100 chips in the 1st round, suddenly gives you 400 chips when played now.
Basically, if you like watching numbers get very big, you might enjoy this. It's part RNG, part strategy, part grind (not all the buff cards are immediately available, so the juicier ones need a bit of playtime to unlock), very easy to pick-up-and-play when you have a spare few mins (or hours...), but the gameplay and complexity scales very well as you understand the mechanics more, which is what makes it addictive.
