LANDERCROSS | CROSSLANDER

A hushed group gathers around a table in a busy spaceport bar. Two people sit opposed, each with a deck of cards before them. With a roar from the crowd they begin. Cards are spread out, stacked and sorted as the shape of a spaceship forms. Cheers erupt as one player finds a way to fill their cargo hold without being forced to make any company deals. Meanwhile in a quiet corner a haggard figure uses the same deck to lay exactly six cards on the bench and reveal them one at a time. At the sight of each card they take a gulp of their drink and after seeing them all they rush out, their cheeks flooded with fresh tears. This free trifold pamphlet contains rules for 2 games that could be played in any science fiction setting using a standard deck of playing cards. LANDERCROSS is a solitaire scoring game where the player tries to fill their ship with valuable cargo while racking up as little risk and debt in the process. CROSSLANDER can be used as a divination or storytelling tool concerning an upcoming mission for a ship’s crew. You can play both games using a single standard 52-card deck of playing cards. I have also included purchasable image files for an entire deck of cards ( and tuckbox ) so that you can use them digitally or get a set printed like I did. These files include 55 cards ( 52 deck + 2 jokers + rules reference card ) containing interpretation text for each card with the face cards and jokers featuring artwork by Strega Wolf van den Berg licensed under the Creative Comrades License Agreement 1.0 .