Paint Pursuit 🎨🏎️

Paint Pursuit is a 1v1 card game inspired by Paint Chase from UFO50. To play, you will need a standard deck of cards (minus jokers).

Start by splitting red and black cards between players. Your card color is your 🎨 color. Each player should also choose a face card of their choice to represent their car 🏎️ (e.g. Jack of Clubs, Queen of Hearts). Black ⚫ is Player One, and Red 🔴 is Player Two

🚥 Countdown Phase (Setup)

The race is about to begin! Players alternate placing initial paint cards in a grid pattern. 3-2-1...

• Player One ⚫ places three of their cards down onto a 2D grid. Cards must be adjacent to at least one other card
• Player Two 🔴 places three cards
• Player One ⚫ places two cards
• Player Two 🔴 places two cards
• Player One ⚫ places one card
• Player Two 🔴 places one card
• Player Two 🔴 places their car 🏎️ on any red card on the grid
• Player One ⚫ places their car 🏎️ on any black card on the grid

Each player should set aside two of their cards face down as special "Wall 🧱" cards

🏁 Go! (Gameplay)

Players alternate turns, starting with Player One. One a players turn, they can perform one action from a few options:

• 🏎️  Drive - Player moves their car in a straight line until it reaches the end of the grid, the other player's car, or a wall. 
  • If the player's car passes over any of the opposing player's cards, they must place one of their cards on top. Cool cars leave paint behind when they drive 🎨
  • Cars can not be on top of walls or each other, so the driving car should stop just before the other player or wall. For example, a before and after of the line the red player drives:
    • Before: 🏎️🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛⬛⬛🚙
    • After:     🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🏎️🚙
      
• 🎨 Build - Player places one of their cards down onto the grid. The new card must be adjacent to another card they own
• 🧱 Wall - Player places on of their "Wall" cards onto the grid, on top of any card not adjacent to either player

🏆 Winner (Ending conditions)

The game ends once either player has used all of their cards.

Each player should count the number of cards they have visible on the grid. Whoever has more wins!