Marriage Royals

In Marriage Royals a round cannot end until at least one player has a marriage.  Each marriage partner adds the positive scores of the other to their own score.  Marriages can be converted by "ransoming" one spouse for a card of the same denomination.  This makes for some interesting maneuvering before the game ends.


Marriage Royals was developed by Devin Carroll in 2013.  The rules to Royals can be found on the Official Royals Card Game website.

Alliance Royals

Alliance Royals has 4 players in two teams, or "alliances".  Team members have a combined score, trade cards in "gift exchanges", form "marriages", and generally help each other. 

Alliance Royals was developed by Devin Carroll in 2010.  The rules to Royals can be found on the Official Royals Card Game website.

Royals Rules

The rules to Royals can be found on the Official Royals Card Game website.

Competition for the name

There is another "Royals Card Game". See the rules here
http://glastyn.com/rules/Royals.pdf

I'm not sure how the copyright rules go, but our game was invented in 1973, so I bet we were first. They got on the web first.

In any case, ours is better, so it should be able to overwhelm.

The most interesting two-person card game.

Hello Royals masters and novices,

At this posting, there are a guestimated 30-50 people in the world who play Royals. Most consider this game to be the most interesting two-person card game in their world.

Post your comments and questions about Royals here.

Happy playing.

Devin Carroll