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Name: Valkyrie  

Creator: Robert Chiu

Category: Card game

Player: 3 to 4 persons

Instructions: In a four-person game, for example, each player will be dealt 13 cards after well shuffled and cut by one player specified by the dealer. One who owns spade 7 initiates ‘the operation Valkyrie’: The initial player can lead the cards in the hand to outvalue others. One who has greater value or points, by show-hand rules, collect the cards led and followed. And the player who collects the most cards during each round wins the game. Also, the leading player of each round can decide, according to the cards distributed in the hand within a brief value condition estimation, the value of card ranking, that is, alternatively speaking, Ace and 2 can both be the first ranking at each round. When Ace is first, the order of value will be: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and vice versa if 2 is the boss. Besides, the leading player will have five ways as followed to conduct the round; one can lead:

1. a single card 
2. a pair, any two with identical card number, like 10+10
3. a triplet, any three of a kind, like 777, AAA, etc.
4. five cards, which may consist of a. two pair along with a duck, a valueless card, b. a triplet with two ducks, c. a flush, a row of five cards with sequent numbers from Ace to 2, with no running-on, that is, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 2, 3, A, K, Q, etc. are regarded as infraction, d. a fullhouse, e. a quartette with a duck, and f. a royal flush

Name origin: A Valkyrie, a figure in Norse mythology valkyrja, the chooser of the slain, is one of a flock of female fairies that can decide who will die in a battle. The valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god in Norse myth, Odin, where the deceased warriors become 'einherjar', the solitude fighters. There, when the einherjar are not yet prepared for the events of Ragnarök, the final destinies of the gods, the valkyries bring them mead. Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens, and sometimes connected to swans. In this game, as the leading player can choose how and what to play and the others will have to follow, I name the game so as figuratively to refer to each crucial decision each player has to make in the game, which can determine the consequence of it, just like an intelligent and elegant Valkyrie. One wrong decision, like the number of cards to be distributed, or a reversed value order, the round would be lost and so be the leading.

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