
SALTLINE ATLAS
Layered tile matching with a survey deck. Chart the drowned coast one matched pair at a time before the tide takes it back.

Layered tile matching with a survey deck. Chart the drowned coast one matched pair at a time before the tide takes it back.

Scopa, the Italian fishing card game, at a round café table. Take cards that add up to yours, but only a run of cards sitting side by side around the table. When you can't take, choose the empty place for your card: link two runs, split one, or set up your next take. Ten Riviera rivals.

A poker-hand card game on a botanical card table. Play hands for chips x mult, and climb: every hand that outranks your last one grows the vine and raises the chain multiplier, the same rank holds it, a lower one resets it. Eight antes of rising targets.

A quick duel of masters and pupils on a five-by-five patio. Move by the patterns on your lotería cards, and the card you use passes to your rival. Encore: capture a piece and you move again at once with the card you were just dealt. Ten rivals in Mexican folk-art style.

Patience with a fan. Every draw turns up three cards and you may play any one of them; the others go to the back of the stock and come back in the order the queue shows. Draws are limited, so plan around the queue. Thirty deals.

Gin Rummy against ten card sharps, where every card back is printed in its suit's colour. You see which suits they hold, and they see yours. Read their runs, don't feed them, bluff with your suits and knock first.