The game uses a uniquely created custom made deck of proprietary cards. There are two kinds of cards in the deck. The main category of cards are "Suit"cards, comprising 115 cards. There are also 19 supplementary "Action" cards for a total of 134 cards in the deck. The suit cards have number values ranging from 1 to 100, 
the lower the number value the more numerous the card count, the higher the number value the lower the card count. The "suit" cards are similar to those in a standard deck of 52 cards (American) in that there are four "suits", the suits are distinguished by four colors --- red, blue, black and green. All suit cards are symbolized by a hierarchy 
of different style "hats" with corresponding ascending number values --- the only suit card that does not depict a "hat" is the Dark Horse card. The various hat "styles" have name designations such as Mayor, Senator, Governor, etc. Not surprisingly, some fans of the game refer to the "suit" cards as "hat" cards.
| As pointed out previously the "Suit" cards in this games unique deck of cards are similar to those in a standard deck to the extent that "KingMaker" suit cards are also composed of four different suits. However "KingMaker" game suit cards provide several additonal, and even more appealing and exciting dimensions other than merely employing the games' snappy four different color suits of red, blue, green, and black (the American standard 52 card deck uses only two colors, red and black). Those extra new and fascinating features of the KingMaker card deck include the following:
Card game players, board game players, and "all other" game player fans, strategists, tacticians, philosphers, scientists, creators, inventors, politicians, sociologists, teachers, professors, mensa freaks, enthusiasts, and collectors MUST have this game to make their lives the most enjoyable and complete! No question about it! Moreover the game becomes much more interesting and "zestfully juicy" as you comtemplate the mix of "suit" cards and "action" cards in your hand and how you can use them most effectively, separately or in combination, as you survey the cards already played on the game board. It makes for a game that can be simply a "ton of fun" for the average player, or it can be either "a ton of exhilerating fun" versus "a ton of exacerbating fun" (depending on whether their "strategy" is working) for the more studious and serious gamesters. But perhaps the best thing about the game is that anybody who can add and subtract can play. Some have called the creative simplicity in the concept of the game ingenious. Others have said plainly "it's a 'helluva' game". |