DualPiecepacks

"Dual piecepacks" are eight piecepack "suits" with the following properties:

• The eight suits can be "easily" visually distinguished
• The eight suits can be "easily" visually split into two separate groups of four suits
• Each "suit" in a group can be "easily" visually linked with exactly one suit in the other group

This gives one the following nice properties:

• One can play games requiring one piecepack deck plus an expansion piecepack deck by treating the eight suits as separate suits
• One can play games requiring two piecepack decks by treating each pair of linked suits as the same suit
• One can play games that are "SixPack" friendly by taking three suits from each visually distinct group. One can scale this down to games that are "PlayingCardsExpansion" friendly or even scale up to four-grouped-suits versus four-grouped-suits friendly games (like Canadian checkers or Bughouse chess).
• One can play entirely new games provided by the extra layer of relationships. Proof-of-concept new game is DualPiecepacksPoker.

TrevorLDavis has created some proof of concept decks illustrating the concept:

1. One piecepack-suited piecepack paired with a latin-suited piecepack in an "inverted" color scheme
2. One (4-color) french-suited piecepack paired with another french-suited piecepack in a "light" color scheme (this should look familiar to fans of the the RainbowDeck).
3. One black swiss-suited piecepack paired with one white swiss-suited piecepack (this scheme could be improved by adding more suit symbols to the components, better color-blind-friendly piecepack designs are in progress).

It is possible to construct three piecepacks where each pair of piecepack decks are "dual piecepacks" (e.g. piecepack-suited + inverted latin-suited + light french-suited). This could be called a "trial HoardPack" (apparently "trial" is the proper "three" analogue to "dual").

Reviews

Innovative! Generated by Special Prize winner piecepackr. Literally adds a third (mathematical) dimension to the existing piecepack (for example, light vs. dark in addition to suits and values). This has a lot of potential and is really cool, but I'd probably be even more impressed if I weren't already aware of the three-dimensional card game Set or my own 10-dimensional game system the Kilodeck. I am impressed that Trevor submitted a game that uses the Dual Piecepacks expansion, namely DualPiecepacksPoker.

--RonHaleEvans, Where No One Has Gamed Before, October 2018