Please take a minute to read through the instructions
below and choose your card set and player names.
Top Trumps is a 1 or 2 player game consisting of
a number of cards, each containing five items of information
relating to the subject of the card, for example with
a set of cards relating to performance cars you might
have top speed, acceleration, power etc.
First of all you need to choose whether you want
to play against the computer or against a friend.
Enter your player names where prompted below, or to
play the computer enter just the name of Player 1.
Choose to play the game with two players or against
the computer using the options provided.
Play begins with each player being dealt an equal
share of the available cards. The current player will
see their card face up, and their opponents card face
down. The current players name is also highlighted.
The current player must then choose an item of information
that they think will beat their opponent, for example
using the set of performance car related cards, if
the current player has a top speed of 250mph, it is
unlikely that the opponents card will have a faster
top speed. If so then that hand is won. It is not
always the higher figure that wins however, for if
you consider the cars again, if one car is lighter
than another then it wins.
The winner of each hand gets to keep their winning
card but also get to keep their opponents losing card.
The winner continues to play further hands until a
hand is lost, at which point control of the game is
passed to opponent. If a hand is drawn both cards
remain in the hands of their owners and are drawn
again later on.
The winner of each hand is indicated and the number
of cards in each players possession is also shown.
The game goes on until a player has won all of their
opponents cards.
