Designer:
J. Kramer
RULES FOR JEDI TEMPLE
Jedi Temple is an in-universe variant of Pyramid Solitaire played with a 62' Card Sabacc deck.
GOAL
The goal is to discard all cards in your Temple into a Discard Pile and thereby obtain all the Sacred Texts. The game technically is won once the Temple is gone, so not all of the 62 cards will always need to make it to the discard pile for you to win.
Discarding cards may only be done in a combination that equals 0. You must discard a set of cards totalling 0 in value to uncover more cards in the pyramid.
THE SETUP
62 Card Sabacc Deck - Cards hold the same values as in Corellian Spike Sabacc, with negative -1 to -10 and positive 1 to 10. As in Sabacc, the Sylops are 0, but have different special properties. The suits don’t matter in this game.
Corellian Spike Dice - Standard Corellian-style Spike Dice with symbols and values of 1-6. A pair of standard D6 dice can be used instead.
The Temple - To set up the Temple, shuffle the 62 card deck. Start the temple by placing the first card face up.
To start the second row, place two more face-up cards slighting overlapping the bottom corners of the top card. This pattern is repeated until you reach the bottom/seventh row which will have 7 cards in it.
Sacred Texts - A balanced grouping of cards whose values cancel to 0.
The Stockpile - The remaining cards of your Sabacc deck form the Stockpile or draw deck.
The Discard Pile - Discard the top card of the Stockpile to begin the Discard Pile.
GAMEPLAY
The game is played by grouping cards to a total value of 0 points (indicating balance in the Force) and discarding these cards (obtaining the Sacred Texts). Only cards that are Available can be used to create these balanced lessons in the force.
To play, flip the top card of the Stockpile one card at a time. You may then pair the card with Available Cards in your Temple and Discard Pile (see below) to retrieve Sacred Texts (a group of Available Cards that cancels out to 0).
If you cannot make a group that cancels to 0 with the current draw card, place it face up on the Discard Pile. Only the tope card of the Discard Pile is available to pair.
Once you reach the end of the Stockpile, you can pick up the Discard Pile, turn it over (without shuffling), and use it again as a new draw deck. You may cycle the Stockpile in this way 2 times. Once you have cycled the Stockpile twice, you can no longer draw new cards.
Available Cards
At the start of the game, available cards include the bottom row of the pyramid, the top card from the stockpile, and the top card of the discard pile.
Any cards that are overlapped by another are Blocked and cannot be used to balance another card.
Available cards on the bottom row block the higher tier cards in the Temple at the game's outset - but you may also draw from the Stockpile and the top of the Discard.
To make a new card available in the Temple, both cards that overlap it must be removed. Once a card has no others overlapping it is available can be used to balance the Force (group to zero).
Removing a second card frees one of the cards above - it is now Available.
Removing one card still leaves the
two above Blocked.
SYLOPS AND USING THE FORCE
As the Sylop card already has a value of zero (is already balanced in the Force), it has special properties. When available, either in the Temple or from the Stockpile, you may discard it and roll the dice. The face will have a value from 1 to 6 and can be used as either positive or negative to balance the force in your grouping of cards you are trying to discard. The values on the dice become the equivalent of a card of that value, and join your available pool of cards. Each thrown symbol can be used once.
ENDING THE GAME
The game is over once there are no more balanced groups to be made legally or until all of the Sacred Texts have been collected from the Temple.
If all the Sacred Texts have been collected from the Temple, you have won the game. If the game ends without collecting all the sacred texts from the Temple, you have lost the game.