The History of Card Tactics
A race across the board in which open move cards, not the pieces, decide how a stone may move.
Races to the other side
Bringing your own pieces across the board to the other side is an old goal in board games. Halma, invented in 1883 or 1884 by the American surgeon George Howard Monks, is won by the first player to move all their pieces into the camp in the opposite corner.
In Halma and in chess, every piece always moves the same way. In Card Tactics, a stone has no movement of its own: your own open cards decide which steps are possible, and every side has cards of its own.
This Version
PaperGames rewrote the rules in October 2026: a board of 7 rows by 6 columns, six identical stones per side, six cards of its own for each side (three open, three in a face-down pile), and the goal of bringing two stones home. The twelve cards, their arrows and their names are PaperGames' own.