Book your moves ahead, read their colors, and push the line 14 your way. The ladder teaches the game: Fight 1 plays every card on its Face side, Fight 2 adds Face and Heel, and Fight 3 is the full game. Beat Fight 3 to win.

Goal

One shared line starts in the middle. A Drive pushes it toward your opponent. Push it 14 your way for the Pinfall.

Booking

When your stake runs out, book a new one: any number of cards, in order. It can't change. If you both run out together, you both book before either sees the other's.

Seeing

You see every turn they have booked, as a color only, with no borders between cards. Red Drives, yellow works the crowd, grey is bodywork.

Face and Heel

Whoever is behind on the line is the Heel; the other is the Face. Even means both Face. Each card plays the side for your role when its Active turn comes up.

Heat

Cards gain it. When your stake ends, your Heat becomes the number of turns in it, unless you ended it at 0. Getting Driven halves yours. A whiffed Reversal, a Counter that stops nothing, or a caught Drive sets it to 0.

Cold

At 0 Heat, every Drive against you counts double.

Round

A bell rings every 5 turns. ROUND starts at 1 and goes up with each bell.

Boo

Some Heel moves Book a Boo: a turn added to your stake right after, where you do nothing. A Drive that hits you on a Boo also costs you that much Heat.

Each turn

Both turns happen together. Every card checks Heat as it stood at the start of the turn. Card boxes: ▶ Setup, ● Active. A Lock-up catches a ▶ Setup turn; a Reversal or Counter catches the hit.