On a fine Monday afternoon, six players of outstanding wit and alacrity came together. The reason? A mighty battle upon the misty peaks of Milton Keynes, to determine the natural order of things.

The rules were simple - draw one, play one, and a duel to the death if need be. The following is based on true events.

The game started... well, it certainly didn't start at the start of the game I can tell you that. The first thing we did (after sorting out the essentials: crisps, music, brine/olive-flavoured beer) was to set up the cards for play. We had cut out 200 cards to start with (knowing fullwell we'd never get through 1000 cards), and each of us took five from the deck to write as premade cards. Shuffle them back into the top half of the deck and we were good to go! Of course, the beauty of this game is there are no rules, so these cards had no relation to each other or any part of the game - unless you deemed they had. As the world-famous adage goes, "You know what to do"...

Deal.

Once the game started, we fell into our natural roles of play - having known each other for a while, we all had played many different card games together, from Pokemon to Magic: The Gathering to Fluxx over the years. These came up in the cards a fair bit, but I feel we made the game our own...

The game that followed was a game of CUNNING, ROMANCE, DECEPTION, and SHEER BRUTE FORCE. We shall let the pictures do the talking. (I was gonna write up a blow-by-blow account of the game, but that was too wordy even for me!)




 Lankin won by losing vast amounts of points on a technicality, but who cares? As with most good things, the journey to the end really was the worthier part, and we're gonna have to play this game again some day!