Example: Eights (card game)

Eights uses personal and shared boards: hands (hidden from others), discard, stock (hidden from all), and score. Cards are dealt from stock into hands; players play or draw.

Entities

• score — perPlayer, displayProperties: ["value"], state value: 0.
• hand — type: Space, perPlayer, contentsHiddenFrom: "Others".
• discard — type: Space, shared.
• stock — type: Space, contentsHiddenFrom: "All".
• card — Many entries with value and suit (e.g. 1–13, clubs/hearts/spades/diamonds), displayProperties: ["value", "suit"].

sharedBoard: stock, discard. personalBoard: hand, score.

Setup

initialMoves: PlaceNew (matchMultiple) entities matching card into destination matching hand, with a ForEach or similar over players so each player gets a hand. Stock is filled with the remaining cards (often via TakeFrom or placement from bank).

Moves

Typical moves: TakeFrom stock → hand (draw), or PlaceNew from hand to discard (play). Legal play is usually expressed with conditions (e.g. match suit or value with top of discard). Shuffle can be used when stock is empty and discard is reshuffled.

Full definition: server/examples/eights.json, server/eights2.json.