The game

Triple Triad is a card game for 2 players. The goal is to get cards by playing against other player.
The board is constituted of a 3 x 3 grid. You play turn by turn and you have to put down a card on the board at each of your turn until the board is complete. Your card has a strength on each direction (top, right, bottom and left) and may have an element.
Strength goes from 1 to A (10). The elements are : storm, rock, ice, wind, poison, fire, water and sacred. There are no elements more powerful than an other, and you can decide to play without taking care of it (see Special rules).
When putting down a card on the board, if your card is adjacents to an opponent card then it's a battle, if the strength on the battle side or your card is greater than the opponent's strength of it's card's battle side, you win the battle and the card will flips to your color. If your strength is lesser or egal nothing happens. Everytime your win a battle you gain one point while your opponent loose one. At the beginning of the game, you have 5 points. At the end the player with the most points wins, in case of equality it is a draw.

The cards

A card in Triple Triad looks like that :

On the top left corner you can find the power of the card in every direction. For example, this card here has a power of 2 on top, 1 on the right, 4 on bottom and 4 on the left. On the top right corner, you find the card's element if it has one, here it's storm.

Point System

In TFFO you have two kinds of points, the points with which you can buy new cards () and your point value ().
Your point value represents the addition of all your card's cost, it reflects the power of your deck. When creating your account you have 10 cards of level 1, each of this card has a cost of 3 . So, your initial point value is 10 x 3 = 30 .
You receive at every game, even if you loose! You receive following this table :

Loose :	1
Draw :	2
Win :	3

This points will not be added to your point value unless you buy a new card with them.
When looking for a game, the point value of the game creator is displayed, thanks to that you can find players with a power corresponding to your's, and so try to win new powerful cards!

Gain modes

In Triple Triad you have 5 possible gain mode, this describes how and how many cards you'll win at the end of the game.

No gain :	No one win card, with this mode you can be sure that you'll not lose cards, but you'll not win new cards too!
One :	The winner of the game can select one card in the opponent's hand. This is the default gain mode.
Direct :	At the end of the game, you win every cards of your color.
Change :	The winner of the game can select a number egal to his points minus the opponent's points in the opponent's hand.
Total :	The winner win all the cards in the hand of the loosing player (hardcore!).

Special rules

Random Deck :	Your hand is choosed randomly in your deck.
Open :	You can see your opponent's hand!
Same :	This changes the rule for flipping a card, with this rule if your card strength is egal to at least 2 adjacents opponent card, you'll win the battle too.
Plus :	With this rule, if you put down a card that adds up to the same value on two or more adjacent cards of the opponent, then you'll win the battle too.
Elemental :	You want to play with the elements? At the beginning of the game elements will appear randomly on the board, if you put a card of the same element on it, it will gain +1 on all it's strengths. Otherwise it will suffer a -1, even if the card you put down has no elements.
Combo :	Using this rule everytime you flip a card with Same or Plus, it will be considered as if it was just put down, and so you can flip even more cards.
Same wall :	When using the Same rule. The grid border is considered as having a A strength.