Kingless FAQ

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Two19 is based in the beautiful city of Hobart in Tasmania. Our founders from the UK and Australia, uphold a deep passion for design, technology and attention to detail. Two19 practices a broad range of skills, from Branding and app development, to game design.

Over the past 2 years, we have been focused on designing and building our first card game, Kingless. Kingless originated from our desire to build a game that was fast to play, easy to learn and most importantly, fun.

Towards the end of 2020 we started working on our second project, dubbed "Project2"

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Yes, the Kingless Rules can be viewed and downloaded from our website.

The Rules

Take the card specified, if held by a player, either from their hand or play area. Move the claimed card into your play area. The claimed card’s action text does not take place.-Kingless Rules

Tip & Tricks

Claim can also be used to claim a card from your own hand.

FAQ

How do I know other players aren’t cheating and not providing claimed cards from their hands?

You can’t know if they are being honest or not. If you can’t trust a player not to cheat they probably aren’t the sort of person you should be playing with. 

Absolutely. Kingless should still be great fun with 7 or 8 players however our hard work to balance Kingless was for 2-6 players so if you decide to venture off the beaten trail you are responsible for your own experience. 

The Rules

Specifies Actions, Events or both that this card or the card’s owner is not affected by.- Kingless Rules

FAQ

Does Zattar Godbotherer make all cards in my play area or hand Immune?

No Zattar Godbotherer is immune to all actions. He does not convey this immunity on the player’s hand or play area.

The Rules

Check the top card of the discard pile, if it is a Dwarf or Item place it in your play area, its action text does not apply.- Kingless Rules

Tips & Tricks

- This is a great way to surprise people and trigger the end game. 

- While the cards action text does not apply when a card is obtained through second wind passive effects still apply. For example if interrupted, Ragstad Iron Pumper will still be Immune to Gutter while Thrombold Ashenbeard will not have the Recruit effect.

The Rules

Play the specified type of card from your hand to your play area, its action text does not take place.- Kingless Rules

Tips & Tricks

This is a great way to surprise people and trigger the end game. 

The Rules

The specified player must select a card or cards to discard from their hand.- Kingless Rules

Tips & Tricks

Blossy the Bossy has you discard one of your own cards. This can be a good way to get your hand below 3 cards to fish for other cards. 

The Rules

Reveal the top two cards of the deck to all players. If a Dwarf or Item is revealed you may place one into your play area, its action text does not apply. Discard the other card or cards.- Kingless Rules

Tips & Tricks

This is a great way to surprise people and trigger the end game. 

The Rules

Discard the specified card or card type from a person’s play area to the gutter.- Kingless Rules

Tips & Tricks

Combo this with Second Wind to get a high influence dwarf or a powerful item.

The Rules

Draw the specified number of cards from the deck.- Kingless Rules

The Rules

Pick an opponent and randomly select a card from their hand. Place this card into your hand.- Kingless Rules

The Rules

Creates a constant effect on either a card, play area or hand. The effect remains in place while the card is in your play area.- Kingless Rules

- For your first round, remove the King’sCrown and Fool’s Hat cards from the deck. Place them aside.

- Shuffle the deck and deal all players 5 cards. Place the remaining deck facedown at the centre of your playing surface; this is the draw deck for all players.

- If there are players with the Fool’s Hat and King’s Crown cards (awarded from a previous round) resolve their action text.

- The player with the King’s Crown takes the first turn. If no player has the King’s Crown, the shortest player takes the first turn in honour of their dwarven heritage.

FAQ

Does the effect on the Kings Crown card rewarding the player that won the last round skew the game towards them winning again? 

In short no. While receiving the Fool players highest influence card is a small advantage we found that the outcome of a game depends on other factors. You will see the Fool become the King and the King become the Fool more than a few times as you play Kingless.

- At the start of your turn, draw a card.

- During your turn, you may play any number of Event cards unless the Event card tells you to ‘End turn.’

- When an Event card is played, place it face up in in the discard pile, referred to as ‘the gutter’ in Kingless. Resolve its action text.

- When a Dwarf or Item card is played, place it face up in front of you, complete its action text, then end your turn.

- You can elect to end your turn and draw a card.

- At the end of every turn check how many cards are in your hand.

- If you have less than 3 cards draw up to 3.

- If you have more than 8 cards discard your choice of cards to reduce your cards to 8.

- You can play Stop and Halt cards at any time to cancel the action text of any card.

- Play continues in a clockwise direction with players taking their turn until the end-game is triggered.

- The end-game of Kingless can be triggered in two ways: 

One way is by having a combination of 5 or more Dwarf or Item cards in your play area. The first player to do this will trigger the end game. 

The other is by running out of cards in the draw pile; the player who tries to draw a card when there are none left will trigger the end-game.

- Upon the end-game being triggered, all players get one more turn. The player who triggered the end-game takes the last turn.

The Rules

Interrupt the action of the last card played. This card can be used at any time and can override a Stop card.- Kingless Rules

FAQ

How does using Halt on a dwarf/item work does it still go into the play area?

You can interrupt the action of a dwarf or item card but only that card's effect is interrupted; the card itself will still be placed in the play area and passive lasting effects will persist. For example if interrupted, Ragstad Iron Pumper will still be Immune to Gutter while Thrombold Ashenbeard will not have the Recruit effect. 

Tips & Tricks

A Halt card can be used to interrupt another Halt card. 

- Card Type: There are 3 types of cards in Kingless –Dwarf,Item, andEvent. The card type is shown in the top left of each card. Events have no icon.

- Influence: the influence score is the number in the top right of the card.

- Card Name: The name can be found in the banner at the top of the card.

- Action Text: The action text is at the bottom middle of the card.

- Upon completing the last turn, all players tally up their influence totals from cards in their play area. The player who has the highest influence is crowned King and receives the King’s Crown card.

- The player with the lowest influence total becomes the Fool and receives the Fool’s Hat card.

- If there is a tie for first or last place it can be broken by the dwarven game of Sword-Hammer-Axe. Humans typically play it as the less exciting Rock-Paper- Scissors.

The Rules

Interrupt the action of the last card played. This card can be played at any time but cannot be used on a Halt card.- Kingless Rules

FAQ

How does using Stop on a dwarf/item work does it still go into the play area? 

You can interrupt the action of a dwarf or item card but only that card's effect is interrupted; the card itself will still be placed in the play area and passive lasting effects will persist. For example if interrupted, Ragstad Iron Pumper will still be Immune to Gutter while Thrombold Ashenbeard will not have the Recruit effect. 

Tips & Tricks

You can use Stop to interrupt another Stop card.