The Rules of Ruin

How to Play

One minute to learn. A lifetime to recover.
PlayersA gathering
Age18+
Moral FlexibilityRequired

How a Season Unfolds

Shuffle the Event Deck

Fifty cards of fortune and ruin. Shuffle until your hands ache and the deck no longer remembers who held it last.

Fate prefers a well-shuffled deck.

The Fortune Simulator

Draw a card. Read it aloud. Watch the points move.

Your ReputationIn Play
Points0

 

EXHIBIT A: THE RULES, IN FULL

  • This game is for adults who are at least 18 years old. If you are younger, you are a very naughty child and must put the game down at once.
  • On your turn, draw one card from the shuffled event deck and read it aloud.
  • Each player should keep track of their points, preferably with antique equipment such as a pen and paper.
  • The player with the most points wins once all cards are played.
  • TRUST NO ONE.

The inventors of the game are not at all responsible for any lives or reputations ruined through any confessions made before, during, or after the game.

Study the Deck

Fifty turns of fortune, each one read aloud.