ORACLE MARKET

PREMISE SETUP

Oracle Market is a competitive investment/betting Each Player requires their own personal pool of 6d6.
game where one player at a time has advance Alternately, they could use pen and paper, for a less
knowledge of where to place advantageous bets. convenient experience.

It is a game about risk, cheating, and competitive

A truncated deck of traditional playing cards is used,
scrutiny.
with only the Diamonds Suit in play.

Each Player begins the game with 20 Points. The aim

of each Player is to reach 100 Points, or be the only
Player not eliminated from the game for running out
of Points.

At the start of the game one Player is selected to start

as Oracle. This should be the Player who most
recently spent money.

The Oracle starts with the Fortune Cards in their

possession.

Play then then begin once the Oracle has dealt the
Fortune Cards and observed their secret meanings.

GOOD LUCK

Investment 01 Investment 02 Investment 03 Investment 04 Investment 05 Investment 06

EVERY ROUND

1. Oracle deals 6 cards face down into the Events Field, privately observing the value each as they are placed.
These must clearly be placed in the order of drawing, as they each affect Investments from 01-06.
2. Investment Phase 1– All Players place a d6 of their chosen value into Investment Areas 01-06.
3. Oracle reveals the first three cards in the Events Field. Points gain/loss calculated for Investments 01-03.
Oracle can choose to privately observe the contents of the Fortune Cards for 04-06 at this time.
4. Investment Phase 2– All Players are free to change the values in Investment areas 04-06.
5. Oracle reveals the remaining cards in the Events Field. Points gain/loss calculated for Investments 04-06.
6. Dice returned to Players’ hands.
7. If a player has reached 100 or more points, they are declared victorious, and the game ends. If this happens
to multiple players simultaneously, they are each returned to 90 Points, with the subtracted Points being
placed in the Pool.
8. Any players with less than 1 Point Remaining are eliminated from the game.
9. Deck is reshuffled, passed clockwise onto the next Player, who becomes Oracle for the next Round.

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FORTUNE CARDS

Each Fortune card has a different effect on the

Investment it is applied to. See below:
2 - LOSE double value
3 - LOSE full value
4 - LOSE half value
5 - DRAIN to pool
6 - DRAIN to pool
7 - ABSORB value from pool
8 - ABSORB double value from pool SPECIAL RULES
9 - GAIN triple value DRAIN
Drain causes Players to lose points. The total value of
10 - REPEAT previous Event
these points are put in a special holding account called
Jack - NULL
the Pool, which is tracked separately from the Player
Queen GAIN half value
Points.
King GAIN full value
Ace - GAIN double value
THE POOL
The Pool is a special account which stores Points that
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Points in total. It cannot enter negative values. Keep
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track of this separate to any other Player Points
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An ABSORB event awards Points from The Pool.
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LINE GOES UP LINE GOES UP These are distributed starting with the first player anti-
clockwise from the Oracle, and then clockwise from
there (aka the Oracle benefits from Absorb after one
“Yeah I got a sure thing. I know a guy on the inside.”
“You know that’s illegal right? We could go away for a long time if we get caught.”
other player). If the Pool runs out of Points before all
“Ah hell, everybody’s doing it. Turnabout is fair play, man. Plus we ain’t gonna get players have received them, the Absorb event ends,
caught.” and remaining players miss out.
“You sure about that?”
“Yeah, this guy, he’s real smooth. Discreet. Calls himself the Oracle. And he’s never GAIN/LOSS Summary
wrong.”
LOSE and DRAIN events cause Points to decrease.
“Where’s he getting his information?”
GAIN and ABSORB events cause Points to increase
“I dunno. Works for a real big mover, something to do with birds I think. They got
fingers in every pie. Eyes on every trade. They know stuff before it even happens.”
Player Points are not spent or lost when they are
“I don’t know about this. Sounds too good to be true.” invested. The Points value only changes according to
“Look, it’s our turn to get paid, right? We’re doing this, stop complaining and suit up.” the Fortune Card effects.

TACTICS
 The Oracle has an obvious advantage in that they’re the only player
with reliable knowledge of the future.
 Other players may wish to observe the Oracle’s actions—High
investments are likely to be safe ones.
 The Oracle may conversely wish to manipulate the others by making
deliberate plays which could disadvantage players that copy them.
 As Absorb helps another player before the Oracle, they may be
reluctant to play high value Investments on this Fortune Card.
 In Investment Phase 2 the other players have some knowledge of
the future– the Fortune Cards of Investments 01-03 cannot take
effect again on this round. Adjust your Investments accordingly.

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