Poker Hands Bullshit

Poker Hands ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is a very simple card game built around guessing, bluffing and knowing when to call someone out. I am given my own cards, but I cannot see what anyone else has, and the goal is to keep claiming stronger poker hands until someone decides the last claim is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The interesting part is that the hand can actually exist using cards spread across everyone, so I cannot just look at my own cards and know for certain what is possible. I have to make guesses and sometimes lie about what I think is there. The whole game is built around that one idea, and I think it works surprisingly well. I like how easy the rules are to pick up. Each turn I declare the best poker hand I think exists among all the cards in play, and the next person has to raise the claim or call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If the claim was real, the person who called it loses the round. If the claim was made up, the person who made the claim loses instead. That makes every decision feel like a small gamble. Sometimes I know I have a strong hand and can confidently raise the claim, while other times I am relying almost entirely on what has already been played and trying to work out whether someone is bluffin…