![]() ![]() Whatever the ruse, as long as you play your role correctly, the Comte will win the hand. As your reputation grows, the Comte’s plans become more elaborate, until you’re turning up to a game in drag, using the mirror in your compact for nefarious ends. Soon, though, you’ll learn many underhand ways to shuffle, cut or deal a deck, mark cards, or even introduce a carefully arranged substitute pack to proceedings. To begin with, you don’t get a seat at the table, but act as a servant pouring wine for the patrons – a perfect opportunity to peer over their shoulders, then signal to the Comte what you’ve seen. You practice his latest scam on the carriage ride to each target, then pull it off for real, surrounded by heaving chandeliers, chirpy violins, and ladies with gowns so billowing they could conceal a roulette wheel, never mind a pack of cards. ![]() As his assistant and trainee, he’ll teach you a wealth of ploys and sleights of hand to help fleece the poshos. You play a young silent protagonist – literally mute – who’s taken under the wing of the Comte de Saint Germain, a mysterious aristocrat, adventurer and cheat. The unwitting victims of your schemes are 18th-century French nobility. READ MORE: ‘Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’ preview: more monsters, more hunting.Card Shark zooms in on your devious digits, pulling you right into the thrill of the con. So often that comes down to little feats of manual dexterity – the extension of an index finger, the tilt of a wine bottle, the way you lay a card on the table or couch it in your palm. Your aim is to win at cards, but it’s not deciding what to play next that matters, it’s the tricks you employ between rounds to stack the odds in your favour. In card game Card Shark, the movement of a hand is everything. ![]()
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