1000 Blank White Cards

[Blank Cards 1000-Count] [1]

Spring [2], Gregory and I played our very first game of 1000 Blank White Cards [3] today. I've been interested in the game for quite some time [4], but it wasn't until Spring found a reference [5] to the game and bought a box of 1000 blank white cards that we got a chance to try out this game.

I suspect that not only is this the first deck in South Florida, but the first deck to actually use official 1000 Blank White Cards [6], at a very narrow dimension of 3½″×1½″.

[Surf ARKANSAS / +100 points (GP)] [7] [This is the title / your arms are wavy +200 (SLS)] [8] [STEAL THIS CARD / +100 FOR PLAYING CARD / +200 FOR STEALING FROM DISCARD PILE (SPC)] [9]

There are no real “official” rules to 1000 Blank White Cards (1KBWC); in fact, Spring and I have found three different sets of rules, so we adapted what we liked, and discarded what we didn't like. We played by the following rules (more or less):

• Obtain a box of Blank Cards—1000-Count and a Pilot Roller-Ball pen for each player.
• Each player starts with 10 blank card. Each player then fills up each card.
• * ## Obligatory Sidebar Links

• 1000 Blank White Cards [10]…* Cards [11]…* I want my 1000 Blank White Cards [12]…* 1000 blank white cards [13]…* Seattle Electric Grimmeldeck [14]…* The Blank Card Game [15]…*
• * * The cards can be used in either portrait orientation or landscape orientation.
• * Each card has a title across the top.
• * Each card as a picture.
• * Each card has a description of what the card does, or a point value, or both.
• * The point value can be any value, positive, zero, or negative, and is usually in multiples of 100, but it doesn't have to be.
• * Each card is also initialed by the player so we know who is responsible for each card.

• Once all the cards are created, they are collected and shuffled.
• The dealer deals out five cards to each player. The remaining cards are placed face down in the middle of the table to form the … um … draw deck (as you'll see, the term “draw” has several meanings in this game).
• The dealer also hands out five blank cards to each player.
• Player starts with the person to the dealer's left and proceeds clockwise (unless a card states otherwise).
• During a turn:
• * * Play either selects a card from his hand to play, or creates a new one from the blank cards in her possession.
• * The player may elect to play the card on herself, another player or everyone playing the game.
• * If the card affects the gameplay in some way, it will remain on the table, visible at all times until such time it is removed from the game (as a result of another card removing it).
• * Cards played go to a discard pile.
• * The score of any affected players is updated.
• * The player then selects another card from the draw pile, if there are cards still available in the draw pile.
• * Players can create new cards at any time, as long as they have a blank card upon which to create a new card.

• The game ends when no more cards can be played, enough people lose interest in continuing the game, the cops arrive, or everyone falls asleep.
• The player with the most positive points wins (unless a card changes the winning conditions, which is possible … I guess).

The game is actually fun, despite how it might sound in the rules presented above. And now I need to scan cards and create webpages for the “Blank Cards—1000-Count Deck” (although naming it the “Surf Arkansas Deck” is appealing to me … )

[Dig the sample card shown!] [16]

[1] /boston/2003/02/20/okbwc.front.jpg

[2] http://www.springdew.com/

[3] http://steaky.dhs.org/chorus/cards.html

[4] /boston/2002/01/18.1

[5] http://www.springdew.com/mimosa/m15.htm

[6] http://www.vis-ed.com/catalog/081-4.html

[7] /boston/2003/02/20/gcp-0001m.jpg

[8] /boston/2003/02/20/sls-0001m.jpg

[9] /boston/2003/02/20/spc-0001m.jpg

[10] http://www.geocities.com/nconner23/bwcards.html

[11] http://steaky.dhs.org/chorus/cards.html

[12] http://www.gamegrene.com/game_material/i_want_my_1000_blank_white_cards.shtml

[13] http://www.trouserarousal.nu/cards/

[14] http://www.virelai.net/cards/

[15] http://www.stormwerks.net/cards/

[16] /boston/2003/02/20/okbwc.back.jpg

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