Introduction

Object of the game

Required material

Preparation of the game

Main rules

For the remainder of this text, the term treasure card will designate the bottom cards, and the term enemy card will designate the top cards placed over the treasure cards.

You are allowed to go to the next level of the Dungeon as soon as you've cleared half of the chambers on the current level.

Throughout the game, used cards (like defeated enemy cards, or treasure cards that have been used) must be placed under the Hand Deck.

Enemy cards

If you find an ace as enemy card, this means that the chamber is empty, and you can grab the unguarded treasure card immediately and continue your journey.

These characters are mercenary warriors working for Hebrac. You must fight them according to the rules described in the "Rules for battles" section.

These characters are warrior amazons. You must fight them according to the rules described in the "Rules for battles" section.

These characters are evil magicians who attack with offensive spells. You must fight them according to the rules described in the "Rules for battles" section.

These characters are demons summoned by Hebrac from another dimension. You must fight them according to the rules described in the "Rules for battles" section.

Jacks are fellow adventurers who are looking for the four legendary treasures (a.k.a. the four aces), just like you. When you face another adventurer, you have two choices:

1) You can attack him immediately (following the rules described in the "Rules for battles" section) in order to obtain his treasure card. All adventurers have 10 life points.

2) You can propose a trade with the adventurer. See the "Rules for trading with other adventurers" section to know more about trading.

Queens of spades and clubs are black magic priestesses. They're also incorrigible kleptomaniacs! At the speed of light, they use a Stealing Spirit spell (it's their specialty) to steal your most valuable treasure (among the treasure cards you have stored in your inventory) and disappear before you can draw your sword.

It is impossible to attack a black magic priestess. You can only drop your most valuable treasure card (see the "Value of treasure cards for a black magic priestess" section to know which card to drop), take the treasure card found in the chamber, and then continue your journey.

Queens of hearts and diamonds are white magic priestesses. To the opposite of most of the other characters, they are peaceful and generous. Hebrac must have found it amusing to put such characters in his otherwise dangerous Dungeon...

White magic priestesses give you two choices: They can cure your injuries (and restore your life points to their maximum) or they can give you the treasure card located in the chamber. You cannot attack a white magic priestess, nor can you use a spell on her. You can only choose between the full recovery or the treasure card. If you select the recovery, the priestess will restore all your life points, and then disappear with the treasure card (you must put the two cards under your Hand Deck).

Kings represent wandering merchants, who appear to be harmless. You can only ask yourself why these characters would roam the Dungeon, and it seems evident to you that they are not humans, but rather disguised creatures under Hebrac's command. Nevertheless, you cannot attack them.

Merchants can sell the chamber's treasure card to you, provided you can pay for it. Flip over the treasure card, and determine its price by looking it up in the "Treasure cards" section. If you wish to buy the treasure, you must pay the price using gems (a.k.a the cards of diamonds) stored in your inventory. If you refuse to buy the treasure, either because you're not interested or because you don't have enough gems, slip the enemy card and the treasure card immediately under your Hand Deck. If you don't have the exact number of gems required, you can give more gems than the merchant asks for, but as you can guess, he won't give you your change.

Note that you can also use a Stealing Spirit spell to grab the merchant's treasure without paying for it. If you do this, the merchant will simply disappear, so you can put him back under your Hand Deck.

SPECIAL CASE: If the treasure card of the merchant is a card of diamonds (in other words, a bag of gems), this means that the merchant has already sold his treasure to another adventurer. Unless you want to use a Stealing Spirit spell to grab the merchant's gems, you can't do anything else than putting the enemy card and the treasure card under your Hand Deck.

SPECIAL CASE: If the treasure card is a queen of spades or a queen of clubs, then no sale can take place, because you're not stupid enough to buy a black magic priestess. Just put both the enemy card and treasure card under your Hand Deck and move on to the next chamber.

The joker is none other than Hebrac himself! Appearing before you like a specter, he dares you to play a game as simple as it is dangerous: Take the card on top of your Hand Deck and turn it over. If it's a red-colored card (hearts or diamonds), you can take the treasure card located in the chamber. If it's a black-colored card (spades or clubs), you immediately loose 5 life points, and Hebrac disappears along with the treasure (place the joker and the treasure card under your Hand Deck).

Note that you can refuse to play Hebrac's game. In that case, you must put the joker, as well as the treasure card, under your Hand Deck, and move on.

Treasure Cards

This magic ruby increases your life point MAXIMUM by 5 points. Keep in mind that if a black magic priestess steals the ruby from you, you will have to subtract these 5 extra points from your maximum.

This magic bag contains an infinity of gems. As soon as you find it, you will be able to buy any treasure card from any merchant without spending your gems (in other words, your cards of diamonds) that you have in your inventory. You can also perform trades with other adventurers in the same way. For all practical purposes, your cards of diamonds become useless (but you should keep them in case a black magic priestess steals the Bag of Meres away from you).

This magic bracelet adds 3 points to all your attacks, while you are engaged in battle.

This scepter acts like a "magic magnet". It draws magic from all around you, and helps increase the power of your spells. While the scepter is in your possession, all your magic points are doubled. For example, a 5 of clubs, as a treasure card, is worth 10 magic points!

These treasure cards are life-restoring potions that heal your wounds. You can add the number of life points specified on the card to your current total of life points, without exceeding your maximum number of life points. For example, if you have 5 life points left and decide to use a 6 of hearts, you can raise your life points to 11 (5 + 6 = 11). You can use life potions at any time, even during a battle.

These treasure cards are gems. The number on the card specifies the number of gems. You can use these gems as currency to buy treasure cards from merchants, and also to do trading with other adventurers.

These treasure cards are strength potions that increase the power of your attacks during battle. You MUST use a strength potion BEFORE you execute your next attack. By drinking the potion, you can add the number of points specified on the card to the score printed on your next attack card. For example, if you use a potion of 4 magic points (a 4 of clubs) just before drawing a 6 of hearts from your Hand Deck as an attack card, you attack is worth 10 points (6 + 4 = 10).
You can only use a strength potion once, and its effect only last for one single round of battle. You must place the strength potion under your Hand Deck immediately after using it.

These treasure cards are magic potions. They allow you to perform all kinds of spells. Please refer to the "Spells" section for further details. (Reminder: you can only do one spell per battle.)

Jacks, as treasure cards, are adventurers who were captured by the Dungeon's creatures. These prisoners, to thank you for saving them, will agree to follow you and assist you during ONE of your upcoming battles. More precisely, when you ask for the prisoner's help during a fight, you'll be able to add 3 points to each of your attacks for the entire duration of a battle. After the battle, however, the prisoner will leave you and go his own way (you must place the prisoner's treasure card under your Hand Deck). You don't have to use your prisoners right away after finding them. You can keep them in your inventory until you meet a tough opponent.

Red queens (of hearts and diamonds), just like with enemy cards, are white magic priestesses. To thank you for setting them free, they heal your wounds before disappearing. You can therefore raise your total of life points to its maximum, and then continue your journey.

Black queens (of spades and clubs) are black magic priestesses, and they are kleptomaniacs, just like their enemy card counterparts. However, to "thank" you for setting them free, they steal the treasure card with the least value in your inventory.

Notice the difference: As black magic priestess, as an enemy card, will always steal the MOST valuable treasure card in your inventory. The same back magic priestess, as a treasure card, will always steal your LEAST valuable treasure card.

Please refer to the section titled "Value of treasure cards for a black magic priestess" to identify which treasure card you must drop. When this is done, place the treasure card - as well as the priestess' card - under your Hand Deck and continue your journey.

The king of hearts is a Genie of Life. He will add 2 points to your MAXIMUM of life points before disappearing. Nothing can take away these 2 extra points.

The king of diamonds is a Genie of Luck: Draw three cards from your Hand Deck, and add these cards to your inventory, as treasure cards!

SPECIAL CASE: If you find a queen (of any color) among the three cards that you draw, you cannot store them in your inventory. You must allow them to play their roles immediately, and then place them back into your Hand Deck.

SPECIAL CASE: If you find another king (a.k.a another genie) among the three cards that you draw, YOU CANNOT use this genie. You must place it immediately under your Hand Deck; this card must be regarded as lost.

SPECIAL CASE: If you find a joker (a.k.a Hebrac the sorcerer), you must IMMEDIATELY choose to play (or not to play) the sorcerer's game before you can continue your journey. (Refer to the paragraph relative to the joker, further down this section, to find out more about Hebrac's "game".)

The king of spades is a Genie of Death. He will destroy three enemy cards among those that lie in chambers you have not yet visited on the current level of the Dungeon. Select the three enemy cards and place them under your Hand Deck. THIS DOES NOT ALLOW YOU to collect the treasure cards left unguarded in the empty chambers. You must reach these chambers normally before you can take the treasures.

The king of clubs is a Genie of Destiny. He will perform a spell of God Vision before disappearing (Refer to the "Spells" section for more information about the God Vision spell.)

Here comes the sorcerer again, ready to torment you! Hebrac invites you to play the same game than when you find him as an enemy card: Take the card on top of your Hand Deck and flip it. If it's a red-colored card (hearts or diamonds), you can pick a card from your Hand Deck and place it in your inventory as a treasure card. If it's a black-colored card (spades or clubs), you immediately lose 5 life points, and Hebrac disappears.

You can always refuse to play Hebrac's game. In this case, you must place the joker under your Hand Deck and continue your journey.

Notice that if you win Hebrac's game, and obtain a queen or a king as a reward, you cannot store this treasure card in your inventory, since the action of kings (genies) and queens (priestesses) is immediate. The same rule applies if you get another joker as a reward: You then have the possibility to play Hebrac's game again.

Rules for battles

Spells

This spell allows you to peek into any chamber that you haven't explored yet, to see the dangers that await you: You can turn over any enemy card, but only long enough to identify the enemy. You must immediately turn over the card again, and it's up to you to memorize the enemy that you saw in the chamber.

Notice that this spell does NOT allow you to turn over the treasure card of any chamber. Furthermore, this type of spell can be repeated according to the number of magic points that you invest in it. For example, if you use a 3 of clubs, you can examine 3 different chambers at once.

This spell, which was taught to you by an old bohemian lady, allows you to perceive your own immediate future. In clear terms, it allows you to see the next few cards that you're about to draw from your Hand Deck. The number of cards that you are allowed to see depends on the number of magic points that you invest into the spell. For example, if you use a 4 of clubs, you can have a peek at the four cards on top of your Hand Deck.

This spell does NOT allow you to alter the order of cards in your Hand Deck. Also, once you're done peeking (and placed the used-up card(s) of clubs under your Hand Deck), you are not allowed to peek again, unless you perform another Future Perception spell.

This spell heals your wounds, and allows you to regain a few life points. You must invest 2 magic points per recuperated life point. Don't forget that you must not exceed your maximum number of life points.

This spells allows you to escape in the middle of a battle. You can use this spell as soon as you flip over the enemy card of a chamber. When you use this spell, you must flip the enemy card back to its original state, in other words face down. (This means that if you step into the same chamber again, you'll have to face the same enemy in battle all over again.)

SPECIAL CASE: You cannot use an Escape spell to avoid a black magic priestess.

SPECIAL CASE: You cannot use an Escape spell to avoid an encounter with a merchant.

SPECIAL CASE: You cannot use an Escape spell to avoid an encounter with Hebrac.

This spell can only be used while you're trading with another adventurer. With this spell, you persuade the adventurer that you're giving him an interesting object in exchange for his treasure card, but in reality, you're not giving him anything! (In clear terms, you're using 4 magic points to obtain the treasure card of the adventurer, no matter what this treasure is!).

SPECIAL CASE: This spell doesn't work if the other adventurer holds an ace.

Usable only during a battle, this spell freezes your opponent for the next two rounds of attacks. This means that if your next two attack cards show a score which is inferior to the opponent's life points, you will not receive any damage.

Usable only during a battle, you must cast this spell BEFORE engaging the next round of attack. It allows you to draw two attack cards from your Hand Deck within the same round. The sum of points from the two cards indicate the full score of your attack.

This spell doubles the score of all your attack cards that you draw during a battle.

After casting this spell, all the evil magicians (a.k.a the enemy cards of type clubs) that you will meet on the current level of the Dungeon will no longer be able to use magic to injure you. You must still fight them according to the regular combat rules, but you will receive no damage from any magicians. The effect of the spell wears off when you begin the next level of the Dungeon.

SPECIAL CASE: This spell is also effective against black magic priestesses, since they use a Stealing Spirit spell to grab your treasure cards, and the Anti-Magic spell also cancels the Stealing Spirit spell.

SPECIAL CASE: Since the Anti-Magic spell cancels all types of magic, white magic priestesses won't be able to cure you. However, genies (a.k.a kings) use powerful magic that is strong enough to resist the Anti-Magic spell.

This spell works exactly like an Escape spell, but in addition, it allows you to grab the opponent's treasure card just before escaping! Keep in mind that if you step into the same chamber again by mistake, you'll have to battle the same enemy again, even if there's no more treasure in the chamber!

SPECIAL CASE: If you use a Stealing Spirit spell to steal the treasure card of an adventurer, and then return to the chamber afterwards, the adventurer will automatically attack you.

This spell, which can be used at ANY time (even in the middle of a battle), allows you to replace an enemy card with the card on top of your Hand Deck.

When you draw the card from your Hand Deck, you can have a look at it, but if you're switching it with an enemy card with its face hidden (in other words, an enemy card in an unexplored chamber), you must place the new card with its face down as well.

In a combat situation, the card that you draw replaces the enemy that you are presently fighting against. Therefore, if the new card is another enemy, you must continue the battle with this new enemy, and you cannot use another spell until the fight is over.

This spell teleports you to any chamber on the current level of the Dungeon, or allows you to go directly to the next level. You can also execute this spell in the middle of a battle, but it may be preferable to use a simple Escape spell if all you want to do is escape from a losing battle.

This spell reveals all the enemies of the current level of the Dungeon. You can therefore turn over all the enemy cards of the level, and continue your journey with the knowledge of what awaits you in all the upcoming chambers.

Note that the Revelation spell does NOT give you the right to flip over the treasure cards. You must use a God Vision spell to do this.

This spell obliterates up to 5 enemy cards around you, using powerful fireballs.

More precisely, you must remove the enemies immediately to the north, south, east and west of your current position, in addition to the enemy in the current chamber, as presented below:



With all the enemies out of your way, you are free to pick up the treasure cards in all the chambers affected by the spell.

You can use this spell in the middle of a battle, or if you're not in a battle situation, you can move to an empty chamber (a chamber you've already explored, in other words) before casting the spell.

This spell inflicts a curse to all the enemy cards of the current level. From that point on, all your remaining enemies for that level of the Dungeon will have their life point total cut in half. The curse wears off when you move to the next level of the Dungeon.

Keep in mind that you must round the total to the highest point for enemies who have an odd number of life points. For example, a magician with 7 life points now has 4 life points after the Curse spell (7 divided by 2 = 3.5, rounded to 4).

This spell makes the Genie of Luck appear. He will give you 5 treasure cards before disappearing. You must pick these 5 cards from your Hand Deck. You can use this spell at any time, even during a fight.

Up to 6 enemy cards on the current level of the Dungeon get turned into stone statues by this powerful spell. You can select any 6 cards from those on the table, but you cannot take the treasure cards left unguarded until you set foot into the chambers.

NOTE: You are FORBIDDEN to use this spell during a battle.

This spell is identical to the Revelation spell, but in addition, you can turn over the treasure cards as well. You can use this spell at any time, but using it during a battle is not very smart, since you can only use one spell per battle...

Rules for trading with other adventurers

Value of treasure cards for a black magic priestess

Strategies