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Games Discordians Play

Here’s a list of Discordian Games like 1000 blank cards.

1000 Blank White Cards is a card game, the purpose of which is to create the cards you’re playing with.

Not on the list is Cosmic Poker, or 5 Card Catma.

The object of Five-card Catma is to display the “truest” and most imaginative creation myth in the room, using only five cards to tell your story of how the universe came into being. As in poker, a dealer deals five [homemade Tarot] cards to each player. After receiving their initial five cards, each player can discard as many as three cards to risk obtaining a better” hand. When all hands are fixed and it is time to show,” one by one each player narrates his/her creation myth, utilizing the cards to animate the story. Players can also fold, forfeit the game, and watch. Those who play it out do so until one creation myth stands out as the best. This could be a funny, somber, erotic, oppressive or totally dull story; the nature of the myth seems incidental to its truth factor. As strange as this may sound, there’s never been any question about which story won as long as I’ve played this game.

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