Caravan - Rules Clarification's Needed

Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:53 am

Get the values up to 21-26 if you go over you bust and have to restart under and you cant win jokers remove all cards of the same value and suit i think aces are 1 kings double the value of the card its placed on as it was said beofre queens allow you to change direction but i think that you can also put any card of the same suit as the queen on top jacks removes the card it is placed on you can place it on yours or thier cards

The goal is to get to 21-26 2 caravans before your opponent does but if he gets one that is in the same destination as you then yours must be higher all 3 must be ready to leave so if he has 2 ready to go try to knock it out with a jack or a king and dont fill up the last caravan
its best to try and start a theme with the caravans either start with high cards and try to get there fast or start with low cards and build up slowly

Hope this helps once you get the hang of it its pretty good i owned that stupid ringo guy in goodsprings after he got like 1.5k off me
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Madeleine Rose Walsh
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:53 am

Long post explaining the rules


Thank you for this. It was very helpful.


Who is the moron that decided to use a complex and obscure card game like Caravan to use as a mini game. Why not poker or blackjack for crying out loud. Because when I think Las Vegas, I think Caravan...not.


271 years from now we might have invented a different card game or two to play. And I haven't made it to The Strip yet, but I'm pretty sure Blackjack is in.

Further clarification.


Thank you too!
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:08 pm

It took me a few games to get the hang of it. Since it's brought up right inside of where it is, I played the game and lost about 4 straight (reloaded each time). My record now stands at 4-0 and I haven't had to reload to win a single one of those. When trying to place cards, just remember that you can move your cursor left, or right, as well as up and down, and your caravans need to either Ascend or Descend from 1 card to the next. In order to change the direction, you can play a queen. You can also play any card that's the same suit. (With the exception of the card that's already there. You can never play 1 rank onto a card of the same rank).

Aces just count as 1, nothing special.
Jacks remove the card they are played on along with any attached face cards.
(So if you play a 10, and then a King on top of it making 20, and you play a Jack on the 10, it will remove the 10 and the King)

Queens change the suit/order of the caravan. (So if you were playing smaller cards, i.e. you started with a 6, then played a 3, then an Ace, you can play a queen on the ace to make your caravan ascending so you can continue to play cards)

Kings add a value equal to what it's being played on. So if you've got a 6 with a 9 on top of it and you play the King onto the 9, your total would be 24. Or you could play the King onto the 6 for a total of 21 (Which would be handy if you had a 5 in your had that was the same suit as the 9... since the caravan is ascending you couldn't play a 5 onto the 9 unless the suits matched)

Jokers attached to a number remove all OTHER cards with the same number. So if you've got a single 9 in play and your opponent has 2 or 3 of them, you would play this onto YOUR OWN 9 in order to remove theirs. If you have 2 and they have 2 9's and you play it on one of yours, it will remove both of your opponents, and the 9 of yours that the Joker wasn't played on. (This can come in handy if one of your caravans is over 26... you can then do this to bring it under).
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:02 am

Honestly, i really wish that the "Caravan Rules" or whatever it was called, was a Holo-tape not a note. Would have made it so much easier to see a little instructional video.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:19 pm

The game is very simple once you realize you have to move cards up and down, not just left and right, to play them. Beyond that, if you're not understanding the rules from the manual's explanation then your schooling failed you.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:22 am

This, So much this. I play Spades, I play Hearts, I play 3 different kinds of Poker, but I can't understand the rules of Caravan or how to play it to save my life. I haven't seen a card game this complicated since Magic the Gathering.


Maybe, instead of Caravan, they should have included Tragic: The Garnering as a mini game :)
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:16 am

Hey fizzii have you gotten any of the gommarah or lux cards and if so have you used them and know what they do because i have some but have never been able to use them
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:43 pm

Its not that I do not know how to play, its not that hard once you figure it out. The problem is it seems to be bugged. I have screen shots I took with my phone (360 ver of the game) today that show the problems I am having. For whatever reason sometimes you will win with a certain hand and others you loose with the exact same cards and setup on the table. Hard to explain, but it seems that there is some bugs to work out in the program. Will post photos later. Again, i know how to play and get the rules (accept for the ones I posted here about they dont explain) its just that the game does not always follow the rules.
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