Card Games That Are As Solid As Armour

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   My personal game - a draft, alpha version. 

Knots 
Rules. 
Strictly for two players. 

Deck of 54 cards (13*4=52 cards plus Red joker and Black joker) is used. 

A game consists of a number of rounds (maximum - 8). 

The goal of the game is to reach the score of 1,000 points for one of the players. Once it is done, the game ends immediately. 

Every player is given 27 cards at the very beginning of the round. Therefore, every player knows exactly what cards the opponent has. So, there's no real special need to hide them somehow. 

The round consists of a number of turns - normally, 25 (unless, the game ends earlier in the last round). 

The player that starts the turn is called a goer. The one that puts a card in response to a goer, is called a beater. 

The player that has Red Joker, starts first, go first. 

There's no such concept as winning a trick, winning a turn. Simply, the player, or often both of them, gets some portion from the total of 10 points for each turn played. 

Discarding is made before the turns stage, at the beginning of the game. Every player puts all of his jokers on the table, the opponent must throw one card (not a joker!) for each of the opponent's jokers in response. 

All jokers must be put away at this stage. It means, after discarding, every player will have 25 cards. 
Then the trick taking, the turns begin. 

There are no trumps in the game. Ace is a senior card for each suit. 

The trick taking (I prefer to say in a more untricky manner, the turns playing go) works like this: 
If the beater puts the card of the same suit and greater in value than the goer's card: Beater gets 10 points, Goer - 0 points.
If the card is of the same color of the suit and greater in value: Beater gets 6, Goer gets 4 points. 
Other color of the suit, greater value: Beater - 5, Goer - 5. 
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Equal value, the same color: Beater - 3, Goer - 7. 
Equal value, other color: Beater - 2, Goer - 8. 
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Less in value, the same suit: Beater - 1, Goer - 9. 
Less in value, other suits: Beater - 0, Goer - 10. 

In short: 

The scoring always begins with the beater, so there're no draws even in theory. 

To make things more rational and foolproofy, the balls are added . 
At every turn, the played card of greater value (2 through 10 as they are, Jack - 11, Queen - 12, King - 13, Ace -14) gives to its (former) owner the ball score, which is the difference of values between two played cards. 

For example, if one player puts 4 of spades and the other responds with jack of hearts - both get 5 points and the latter one gets 11-4=7 balls. 

The winner gain is calculated thus: (twice the points of the loser) plus (five times the balls of the winner) minus (thrice the sum of the values of the cards of both players that remained unplayed in the last round). 

Then, speaking of (the) bridge... 
Four 54-card decks are used for the game. The first one after being shuffled, is used for the first round, the second one after being shuffled, is used for the second round. Then, the cards given to the players in the first round, are mirrored in the third one (that is, the second player gets the cards given to the first player in the first round, the first player gets the cards of the second player). The cards given to the players in the second round are mirrored in the fourth one. The same with next four rounds and next two decks. 

Ehm... there are no absolutely-just games in the whole universe. There's always a moment of psychology, nervousness. People get tired, and certainly they are more tired in the third round than in the first one. 
But still, I feel my game's weird but it may actually work. It definitely requires a lot of time and thinking and patience. My view was the one of the guys in their chairs in the evening slowly smoking Cafe Creme (at least) and slowly sipping De Kuyper Triple Sec (at least). 
I have an idea of writing a computer program that plays it all versus a user, and versus itself. 

Well, what are your opinions on this? Too sophisticated, too long, too boring, too nerdy, too silly? Or too great to be true? (well, that's my opinion). It's really interesting to me. 

P.S.: Sure, my English is rather poor and bad. I'm really sorry. 

Edited by Woon Deadn - May 19 2020 at 18:10