A simple Snakes'n'Ladders style game, using cards.

Use one of the cards from your hand to select how many spaces you'll move. If you land on a Spike, turn it over to see what will happen. You'll either end up moving forwards or backwards, so lets hope that luck is on your side.
You can Find 'Board of Snakes' in the Board Games of the Shoebox.

Still on a bit of a go-slow, here.
It doesn't help that the weather's been absolutely gorgeous over the past few days, so much so that the need to sit and relax in the sunshine has taken precedence over standard coding duties.

Amazing how much a funeral hits you. I spent all day yesterday sitting about, playing Smash Bros, watching various YouTube things, and generally not really bothering to do any sort of coding whatsoever.
Maybe today will be more productive?

Meanwhile..

Over on the Testing the Width post..

Alan suggests

Just my opinion, but the individual cards could use a tiny bit more margin. I prefer the top picture. Not because of the aspect ratio of the cards themselves, but be...

Seems my head wasn't quite ready to get back into an all-day coding session like I was aiming for.

Issue : The cards take up a curious amount of space.
I'm currently trying to find the best way to display both the game board, and a hand of cards, without it being silly..

Right, I was halfway through the "Extra" card, wasn't I..
Maybe some kind of quick board game that makes use of those?
I had considered doing a Snakes and Ladders style game but with cards for movement, so .. Yeah, I think I might attempt something like that, today.

OK, I think I'm done playing with the cards, for today!!!
You can try the new cards in any of the Card Game games in the Shoebox.

Apparently the two card sizes are referred to as Bridge (the narrow kind) or Poker (the wider ones).
This page has a nice writeup about the two sizes. I'm learning a lot, writing these games!
I'll probably do a bit more tweaking to get the Poker size a bit more exact. At the minute my two ratios are 1.33 and 1.55, whilst they're "supposed" to be 1.4 for Poker, and 1.55 for Bridge.
All of my earlier coding was done with the Bridge numbers, so that's pretty much spot on, bu...

^ My cards

^ Cards redrawn at "Proper" card sizes.
I'm going to leave the cards at "My" size.

Spent all night thinking about the card width.
.. Ugh..
I think I know what today's plan is..

Testing cards, today, and .. I'm not happy with the landscape card.
It feels too tall, and yet that's the same size I'm using for all my other cards.
I don't want to have to redo all my card code, but..
At the same time..

Shoebox Stats
Cards : 3
Words : 3
Board : 2

Anonymous Jean-Michel Jarre Fan

says..
Suggestion: when the cards are shuffled, add a longer pause to give players a chance to learn the new config. As it stands the cards flip over way too quick to remember what was where.

Lots of comments, lately, as the Shoebox has essentially thrown any kind of regular AGameAWeek schedule well out of the window.
I should probably look into fixing that, and getting back to a more regular schedule.
Hmm..
Anyway..

Aaah, that brings back memories.
You can find Cardagain in the Shoebox under Misc games.

OK, I'll worry about Jack Change It another day.

If player plays an 8, the next player has to miss their turn.. Unless they also have an 8, in which case they can play that, then the next player has to miss their turn.
...
Currently trying to code that, and it is NOT easy!!

The "Jack Change It" game now more or less functions in a vague way..

Today's hopefully going to be the last little bits of the reusable "Hand of Cards" code.

This game is taking a little longer than I'd like, but for good reason.

Today's plan will be yesterday's plan.