How to play Time Tussle
Time Tussle is a history card game. Place events in chronological order on a shared timeline. Only the starting card shows its year; the years of placed cards stay hidden. Other players must decide whether to trust your move or call your bluff.
Start a game
You can practise on your own against the bot or enter a room with other people. Rooms hold 2 to 5 players. Guests can practise or join a room; you need an account to create one.
Each player starts with 7 cards showing real events. You can read the event, but its year stays hidden. Everyone builds the same timeline on the table. Your goal is to get rid of every card in your hand before anyone else does.
Place an event
On your turn, choose an event from your hand and pick where it belongs on the timeline. Place it before, after, or between the cards already on the table. Its year remains face down. Everyone can see the spot you chose, but nobody has the answer yet.
You do not need to remember every date. Knowing the general period of an event can be enough to narrow down its place. Watch how others play too: a confident placement might be right, or it might be a bluff.
Call a doubt
On your turn, you can call a doubt instead of placing a card. Every year is revealed and the order is checked. If the timeline was correct, you draw 2 cards. If it was wrong, whoever placed last draws 3. The timeline then resets for a new round.
Say someone puts an event between two cards and you think the sequence cannot be right. You can call a doubt. If the years prove the order wrong, the last player to place takes the penalty. If the order was right, you draw the extra cards instead.
Win the game
Your last card is always checked before you win. If the timeline is wrong, you draw 3 cards and play continues. If you start a round with just one card, you draw two more and must place all three. You can learn the pace of the turns against the bot.
