Qirsyllvian Games & Sports

There are many games, sports, and contests prevalent on Patria. Some are similar to Earth's, others are Patrian specific.

Anagyrizo
Anagyrizo is a Patrian board game for two-to-four players that requires skill, strategy, and a bit of luck. The board 20x20 squares, and each player has sixteen round tiles, either black, white, red, or blue. There are four different symbols, two of which go on either face of the sixteen tiles. Four of them have the same symbol on each face, while all the rest have different symbols on each face with twelve different combinations.

Rules
The objective is to capture all the opponents pieces. The players take turns moving a single piece within one or three squares horizontal, vertical, or diagonal directions. As the player moves, they turn the piece they move over, switching them between one of the two symbols on either side. When a player's piece lands in a square, if an opposing piece is in an adjacent adjacent square with the same symbol facing up, the player who's current turn it is captures that piece. A player can only take a piece this way.

Players need to be careful and memorize which symbols are on which tiles as they move. If they need to, a player can lift a piece up to check what symbol is on the opposite side before moving it, so long as the tile does not lose contact with the board; if it does lose contact, the player must move that piece.

The game can end with neither player having tiles that can take the remaining tiles of the opponent; in that case... the player with the most remaining tiles is the winner, or it can be a draw if the the players are even.

Cards & Card Games
Patrians have playing cards just like Earth, but there is a big difference; the suits are different, there are five suits in five different colors, and a few more face cards and Jokers.

Like the real world, there are ten number cards for each suit, from Ace to 10.

The face cards, from highest to lowest value, are Emperor, King, Queen, Pope, and Knight, which may look differenly depending on where they're made. There are also four Jokers.

With five suits and fifteen cards per suit, plus four Jokers, the total number of cards in a Patrian playing card deck is seventy-nine.

Patrian poker
Save for the difference in decks, Patrian poker rules are basically identical to real-world poker. The main difference is that the rules allow for six-card hands.

Since a Patrian deck has twenty-seven more cards than real-world decks, Patrian poker has even more possible hand combinations and relies even more on skill and luck.

Trivia

 * Anagyrízo (αναγυρίζω) is a Greek word that means "turn over," which describes the main way players move their pieces.
 * Anagyrizo is the Greek word for "turn over," as separate words. As one word, "turnover," the word would be tzíros (τζίρος).
 * Like real world playing cards, the Ace is still the highest value card in the deck.