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The Check Deck is an expansion for Checkers released in 2015 for 2 players. It was designed by Eric Tollefson and its main mechanics are Hand Management.
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About the game
From the publisher: Have a Checkers board? When is the last time you played it? Renew the fun and enjoy-ability of Checkers with The Check Deck! The Check Deck is a card game that accompanies and enhances that dusty Checkers board in your closet and reawakens the excitement! It's fun for the whole family and easy to understand and play. The rules are simple. 1. Each player is dealt seven card. 2. A player can either play a card or make a normal checkers move. Examples of cards are: Move two pieces one space each: Switch one of your pieces with one of you opponents piece: Turn any of your pieces into a king. 3. As per checkers rules, a move is defined as moving a space, a jump, a double jump, etc. Each deck contains two each of 17 individual cards for a total of 34 playing cards and one rules card.
Editions
- The Check Decken(Self-Published)2015
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Questions and answers
The Check Deck supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
The Check Deck belongs to these categories: Abstract Strategy and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Hand Management. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of The Check Deck are: Eric Tollefson. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists The Check Deck as an expansion for Checkers. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Checkers to use it. Check that your edition of Checkers is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.