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                      Dvorak Card Game: The Time Cube Deck
                                        
> Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank; players
> choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, then
> add further cards to the game as the game progresses. It provides you with
> enough rules to start a game, but leaves the theme and the depth up to you.
> 
> You can use it as a skeleton for making a solid and standalone card game,
> you can play it as an experimental or cut-throat Nomic, you can use it to
> kill half an hour drawing silly pictures and forcing your friends to make
> drinks, you can throw together an amusing card game based on your favourite
> film or sport or in-joke—it's blank cardboard, it's fairly multipurpose.
> 

“Dvorak—A Nomic Card Game [1]”

Sounds a lot like 1000 Blank White Cards [2] only there is a structure and
the decks [3] have a more coherent theme to them than your typical 1000 Blank
White Card deck (SEATTLE ELECTRIC GRIMMELDECK) [4] (well, as “typical” as a
1000 Blank White Card deck can ever be), but like all Nomic [5] based games,
the rules are fluid enough to change—if you so want.

The Time Cube Deck [6] looks fun, although it won't make much since unless
you read the site it's based on (NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME
CUBE) [7] (warning: Crank Dot Net [8] labels that site as “illucid [9]”—and
for good reason!).

[1] http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/02/20.2
[3] http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/decklist.cgi
[4] http://www.virelai.net/cards/
[5] http://www.nomic.net/
[6] http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?timecube
[7] http://www.timecube.com/
[8] http://www.crank.net/
[9] http://www.crank.net/timecube.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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