Texas Hold'em is a card game inspired by Texas Hold'em Poker, reinterpreting the cards and trumps into a town-building and settling context.

The theme of the jam is "Wild West", and the prompt is "This town ain't big enough...", which made me think of poker games, particularly the "Full House", and stories of family feuds and old grudges.

Goal of the game

The goal is to build up a town, and ensure that your Townsfolk have the strongest presence in the town (ie. "This is our town!").

To this end, individual houses must first be constructed, before they can be Settled.

Victory Points are scored based on the Quality of the house, and the Townsfolk that reside inside the house.

Settled houses aren't completely safe, however. A stronger family can Evict the inhabitants, dirty tricks can kill Townsfolk, and (rarely) an entire house may be reappropriated!

Components

You will need:

• A standard 52-card deck of French-suited playing cards (ie. poker cards)
  • Jokers are optional, see the Strange Folk variant.
• A set of tokens for each player (poker chips are good)
• Table space (a bit more than regular Texas Hold'em)
• The full set of rules, which you can download as a pdf here!

Credits and acknowledgements

Thanks to all who helped playtest the game during the Jam!

Extra credit goes to Fabian Demeter.

These rules were written using Obsidian, with illustrations made using the Excalidraw plugin.

Card and poker chip images are from Kenney Vleugels Boardgame Pack V2, which can be found here: https://kenney.nl/assets/boardgame-pack