After last call
The Night Board
Cuts on a slate, a series to two, a pack you pick against the House, three cloths in a row, two advanced lamps, a mirror of your own five, and an echo of the last deal. Weekly bounties pay the purse. Puzzle Night does not write your tavern record.
Laying out the board…
Same five · facing you
Mirror Cloth
You seat five. The House sits the same five. Combo is live. A study table — no new ink, just the same ranks staring back.
Last deal · same plaques
Echo
Replay the last cloth you sat — same hands, same modules. Also on any finished table as Same plaques.
First to two
Best of three
Same cloth, swap who sits first. Only the series is written. Calculating by default — cook the modules before you deal.
Twelve plaques
Open Draft
A pack hits the table. You pick, the House picks. Five each, then Combo plus one house call.
First cloth · Middle cloth · Last cloth
The Gauntlet
One pot, three seats: reckless, calculating, master. Lose a cloth and the line ends. Clear it for a heavy purse.
Sixteen chairs · eight each
Great Cloth
The same ranks, Same, Plus, Combo, Type, Clash — and Cursed if you light it — on a 4×4 cloth. Sit it here or light Great Cloth on any House, series, or live table.
Statuses · still 3×3
Cursed Cloth
Ward, Bind, Rot, Silence, Ember — printed from a plaque’s type. Stacks with Great Cloth. House tables can light it at setup.
New to the lamps? Sit the scripted lessons — Curses · Great Cloth. Off the record.
0 gp
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One or two seats on a set board. Find the cut the lesson names. First clear pays 22 gp. Wrong seating is a lesson, not a loss on your record.
- Open
01 · Basic rank
The Six
One empty chair. Two plaques in hand. Only the Giant’s South 6 beats the Goblin’s North 3. The Pixie is a leftover, not a weapon.
- Open
02 · Same
Same Faces
Same is live. Seat the Owlbear in the hole. Its North 5 matches the Knight’s South, its East 4 matches the Pixie’s West. Two exact faces. The Giant only takes the knight.
- Open
03 · Plus
Equal Sums
Plus is live. Seat the Archmage in the hole. North 3 + East 4 equals the Zombie’s South 4 + the Elemental’s West 3. The Flameskull can take one face. It cannot make the sum.
- Open
04 · Type
The Rotting Eye
Type is live. Sit east of the knight. Undead West gets +1 against Humanoid — Flameskull 6 becomes 7 against a 6. Rust Monster does not get the hymn.
- Open
05 · Combo
The Cut
Combo is live. Seat the Giant north of the Rust. South 6 beats North 3 — then the captured Rust checks east and eats the Goblin. The Pixie never starts the chain.
- Open
06 · Lair
The Held Breath
Lair is live. The Troll’s North 6 equals the Giant’s South. Check Declare Lair, then seat the Giant — that card is +1 on every face for the seating. Without the breath, the Troll stands.
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07 · Order
Two Chairs
Two empties. Seat Hill Giant north of the Owlbear first — South 6 beats North 5. Then plug the corner with the Mimic. Reverse it and the Owlbear walks. The slate names the first seating, not a lucky second.
- Open
08 · Combo chain
The Long Cut
Combo again. Giant north of the Rust — the Rust then eats the Zombie west and the Goblin east. Three flips from one seating. The Pixie still cannot start it.