>>1456poppycock, I actually created my own card games a while back. Had a gambling ring at work during breaks. Here's one of them:
Battalion:(Recommended number of players: 2-4)
How to Play:The deck is shuffled. The bet is placed. The player who places the bet may not shuffle the deck nor deal the hands. The dealer gives each player 4 cards. The players may look at their hands and arrange the four cards in any order they wish before starting the game. All players’s hands are then placed face-down. Next, the top card of every hand is flipped face up and the game begins.
Player’s turn:1. The player draws one card. The player may either discard the card or place it on his side of the table. Each player’s side may hold up to 4 face-up cards, and to fill these spots, players may either draw one card from the deck at the start of his or her own turn or slide the top card of their hand to the side and flip the next card up (This second method may only be used if there is a free spot to move to on that player’s side of the table). *If a player wishes to recheck the cards in his hand that are face down, he / she need only pick the hand up so that the top card if facing his / her opponents and the bottom cards are facing him.*
2. The player may then use each card to attack his or her opponent(s)’s cards. Each card holds one attack, which allows the player to take an opponent’s card of a lower value and either discard it or place it on his or her side of the table (referred to as “capturing” the card). Captured cards may not attack directly after being captured and must wait until that player’s next turn. If the top card of a player’s hand is attacked, the player must flip up the next card below it.
The order of cards’s values from highest to lowest is A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.
3. If a player loses all of the cards on his / her side of the table, then he / she is out of the game.
*Special Card Combinations:
Since Aces are the highest-valued cards, no single card – even another ace – can successfully attack an Ace. However, two cards of a kind may use both of their attacks as one attack instead and destroy one card of any value belonging to the player’s opponent. Four cards of consecutive ascending or descending order may use all of their attacks as one in order to attack all of the face-up cards on an opponent’s side of the table.