Pairtree

Each face of the dice denotes a card in the 40-card Hollow Deck (The Tangible suits Sola and Siderea, Intangible suits Metric and Decima) 1 through 7, Space and Time and Zip (which in key situations counts as Zero)).

Each player writes down their own hand of choice, before the die is rolled thrice by the "dealer" and three further cards are "drawn" (the flop), then a fourth (the turn)by the player next to the dealer, then a fifth (the river) by the third player. Before and after each draw, players may (in clockwise order around the table) reveal a card in their hand identical to a "drawn" card, triggering a "collapse".

In a "collapse", the player who initiated may choose to either remove the duplicated card from the middle and leave a blank space (in which case the card in their hand is marked as a "ghost"), or strike off their own card from their hand and write down another secret card not already revealed in this round.

Cards in hands that have been revealed through a "collapse" may be subsequently "collapsed" by other players who have it in their hand.

Once all five shared cards have been revealed and/or collapsed, players then bet any number of cards that they can make the best hand from the remaining cards. At the reveal, if a card exists in more than one place, a penalty is noted for the controllers of the infringement (also the card explodes and no longer exists in the game, unless there is a Zip card in the shared card group which can then "zip" one of the infringers to the same suit as the Zip).

Winner takes the written-down cards people bet (meaning in the first round everyone has a maximum bet of two). "ghost" cards can no longer be "drawn" from the die, and if they appear in subsequent rounds the dice is re-rolled. The ultimate winner is whoever gets control of the most cards by the time everything's turned to paradox ghosts.


42 and 1 respectively do something heinous when rolled. I dunno what that is exactly.