This article contains everything you need to know about Arkadium’s Foon-o Game.
Use the list below to navigate specific topics about the Foon-o.
Foon-o is a fun variation of the popular card game that families love. You can have fun playing against the computer or online opponents in this game.
How to play
This is the game's starting screen. You will have several different options.
- Matchmaking allows you to start a new game against an opponent right away without any sort of complication. Simply press it, and you'll arrive at a room to play Foon-o against an online opponent.
- Vs Bot allows you to start a match against a computer opponent.
- New Room will create a brand new room, where you can await an opponent. This can be an online stranger should you decide to open your room's access, or should you like a private match, you can set one up with a friend.
- Rooms. These are the public rooms already created by other players. You can see the player count on the side. You can join a room to play a match, or to watch two players play their own match.
- Sound options allows you to control the sound of the music and game actions to your liking.
- Shop allows you to shop for different items for you to use in the game.
If you're in need, take a refresher on the rules by clicking on the information button.
The below values represent your Game Level, Account Level and Shop Credit. While the credit buys items in the Shop, your game level and account level work differently.
Your game level increases as you play more games. Clicking on it will take you to the level rewards page, where you can claim rewards as you gain more levels.
Your account level will also increase as you play more games. The rewards will differ from those in the level menu. Be sure to increase both for massive points.
The game's Shop has a large number of things to purchase. From brand new card backs, to cursors, to many others. Use earned credits to purchase these.
Matchmaking
By selecting Matchmaking, you will be matched with a human player from around the world. A small window will appear that notes the game is looking for an opponent for you. Once an opponent is found, you'll automatically enter the match.
Vs Bot
By selecting Vs Bot, you will open the bot menu. You will be placed with a computer opponent, called a "bot". You can pick out the bot's difficulty in the menu. Select Start Game to start. Choose between Public and Private on whether you want the match to be viewable by spectators. Select bot count as the number of players on the table.
The bot has a wide range of difficulty values to choose from for your amusement.
New Room
By selecting New Room, you'll be able to choose through a number of options to make your match to your liking. Selecting between Public or Private opens your room to other players or only to those of your liking. You can select "Bot Count" to choose the number of bots in the room.
By choosing between Presets and Advanced, you can choose whether you'd like the room to have particular match rules, or simply be the default. Presets such as Flip! and Last One Standing allow you to play with different rulesets.
Last One Standing: In this mode, you want to have the most cards! Players who empty out all their cards lose first, and the last one standing with cards in hand is the winner. Use your cards wisely with reverse logic and put down cards that will help you draw more cards in your next turn. Draw cards will take away cards from players in this mode.
Double-Sided Cards: Selecting this option will play the game normally, but causes all cards to have two playable sides. You won’t know what’s on the back of your cards, but you will be able to see everyone else’s card backs. Putting down the special ‘Flip’ card will cause everyone’s deck to flip to the back-side, forcing everyone to play with a completely new set of cards.
By choosing Advanced, you can pick between a few options. You can choose how many seconds a player has to play a card in the game, the maximum number of players allowed in a room, and you can choose options such as the stacking of pickup cards, flipping cards, playing until the end, or playing as the last one standing.
Selecting Save as Preset will save your preferences as an extra preset, so that you can choose it directly when creating a new room, to avoid having to set the rules each time. You'll be asked to name your preset if you choose to.
It will then be available from the Presets. You can delete it by pressing the trash can icon on the top right of it.
The game
In this game, the goal is to be the first to empty your hand of cards. Each player takes turns putting down a card on the discard stack that is of the same color, number, or symbol as the one that has been most recently played. If your deck has no available cards to play, you are forced to draw a new card from the stack and may play the drawn card if suitable to place down. The arrows around the cards at the center tell you in which direction the turns are played.
There are a few ways to help yourself and mess with your opponents to stop them from placing cards down as well as forcing them to draw additional cards. These come in the form of special action cards.
Skip: Skips the turn of the next person to play after you.
Draw: Begins a 'stack' where the next player must play down a Draw, Skip, or Reverse. If they fail to have any of these options, they must draw 2 to 4 cards per Draw card in the stack. That can be A LOT of cards.
Gray/Choose Color: Changes the color of the top card to any color you choose.
Reverse: Changes the turn order from clockwise to anti-clockwise or vice-versa. In a two player game it acts as a Skip card.
Tips
This chapter is about some strategies on how to perform better. You can consult these in the game's main menu.
- Pay close attention! Although Foon-o is an easy and fun game to play, you should think wisely when deciding which card to lay down if you have multiple options and avoid just picking whatever is available to put down in your deck. While paying attention to what’s in your hand is important, it is equally important to see what potential cards your opponents are holding as well as how many are left. For example, when they are forced to draw a card and don’t immediately put the drawn card down, it means that card could not be put into the discard pile either. Keep this in mind, as it typically means they cannot act on the current color being played. If another player plays a Gray/Choose Color card to a certain color, that most likely means they have an abundance of cards in that color and you should look to change it to another color! Knowing this, it’s good to change colors often. Theoretically you should have a near equal amount of each four colors and this will confuse your opponents on what your deck looks like.
- Save special action cards. If a player is nearing the end of their hand, you’ll probably want to use some Skip cards or Draw cards on them. It is better to save these special action cards than to use them at the start in case of one/two-card-left emergencies. Another great strategy is to save Gray/Choose Color cards for your last card, since it can be used at any time no matter what color or number is being played. This option can be disabled in advanced settings if you want a more competitive match!
- Which cards should I let go? So you should save special action cards, but how should you place your regular color and number cards? Although the amount of players varies with each person starting with 7 cards (this can be edited in advanced options), the amount of cards in the deck is infinite and random. Since this eliminates the logic of how many cards of each color and number exists in the deck, do your best to eliminate the color you have the least amount of cards in first when nearing a low amount of cards in your hand. We hope this helps you secure a win!
Scoring
The Foon-o game has no scoring system. There is no way to save score in the Foon-o game. This game is meant to be a fun game experience to play cards online with a variety of people, without a specific scoring system or leaderboard. The game is incompatible with the regular competitive Arkadium leaderboards, and it's meant for simple fun matches.