Nimcard

Nimcard is a two-player strategy game involving standard playing cards! The game is programmed with an optimal (yet beatable) AI.

• The goal of the game is to collect cards totalling the higher score
• Any number of cards are arranged into rows face up so the value is showing
• The Queen of Diamonds is always the last card on the last row
• Players take turns taking either one card or two cards from a single row
• The game ends once all cards have been claimed

For scoring, add up the values of all the cards you claimed.

• Numerical cards are worth their value
• Jacks, Queens, and Kings are worth 10 points
• Aces are worth 11 points
• The Queen of Diamonds, however, is worth -10 points!

Nimcard was a game I made as a puzzle for friends in our Dungeons and Dragons campaign. They were in a casino-based city and could only earn an audience with the so-called "King of Clubs" by winning this game.

In the meantime, from a skills point of view, I also used Nimcard to practice an immutable functional style and learn how to use Web Workers.