CYCLE

Harness the powers of nature. Attack and defend using fire, water and earth. Score the most points and you win the game. Draw a card for each player, and the person to draw a fire card decides to attack or block first. If players draw the same card or no fire card then draw again. After deciding who attacks first, draw 5 cards each. Each player chooses 3 cards to keep and discards the 2 remaining. Each player lays down the 3 cards and finds out how well the attack was. Just as a reminder a fire attack is blocked by water, a water attack is blocked by earth, and an earth attack is blocked by fire. Keep track of attacks that do not get blocked because those are official points. The attacker gets 1 point for a matching attack and 2 points for a clean attack. A clean attack is fire on earth, water on fire, and earth on water. After counting the points, discard used cards. Draw 5 more cards each. Now it is the other person's turn to attack. You can play to 5, 10, or 15 points if you want. You can also play to exhaustion.