Triad Cards Online — Complete Game Guide
The board is a 3×3 grid (9 cells). Players place cards alternately. The first player is randomly determined by a coin flip.
When you place a card, it compares its values with adjacent opponent cards. If your value is higher, you capture the opponent's card (it changes color). Comparison is side-to-side: your top vs the bottom of the card above, your right vs the left of the card to the right, etc.
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Rules
- See opponent's hand — Both players can see each other's cards face up during the entire game. Reduces luck, favors strategy.
- 2+ identical values = capture — If a placed card has at least 2 identical values to adjacent cards (even opponent's), it captures them all. Raw values are used (no elemental modifier).
- Borders = A for Same — Extension of the Same rule. Board edges count as value A (10). Requires the Same rule to be active.
- 2+ equal sums = capture — If the sum of your card's value + the adjacent card is identical for at least 2 sides, the opponent cards involved are captured.
- Auto cascade if Same or Plus active — When Same or Plus captures cards, those cards automatically trigger normal comparisons with their neighbors, creating capture cascades.
- Elements on the board — Some board cells have a random element. If your card's element matches the cell, all 4 values get +1. If different, -1. Max 10, min 0.
- Random Hand — Your hand is randomly composed from your collection — Your hand of 5 cards is randomly drawn from your collection. You don't choose your cards!