Duel West

Goal

The first player to win 2 rounds becomes the Sharpshooter and wins the game.

Within a round, the first player to collect 3 turn wins takes that round.

Components

• 40 Bullet Cards (5 colour sets — green, red, yellow, blue, purple; 8 cards per set: 1×2, 2×2, 3×2, 4×1, 5×1)
• 15 Target Cards
• 3 rulebooks (Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English)

Setup

• Shuffle all 15 Target Cards face-down into a Target Deck and place it in the centre of the table.
• Each player takes one set of 8 Bullet Cards in their colour, shuffles it, and places it face-down in front of themselves as their personal Magazine Deck.
• Important: you may not look at the order of your Magazine Deck at any point during the game.

Turn structure

Each turn proceeds through the following four phases in order:

• Phase 1 · Discover the Target: flip 1 card from the top of the Target Deck and place it in the centre of the table. Target Cards left unclaimed in earlier turns stay on the table and are still valid this turn.
• Phase 2 · Load Up: without looking at them, rearrange your Bullet Cards in any order — shuffling is also fine. Then place the deck face-down in front of you, ready to duel.
• Phase 3 · Duel: all players simultaneously flip Bullet Cards from their Magazine Deck, one at a time, calling out “Bang!” with each flip. Nobody waits for anyone; each player decides when to flip and when to stop.
• Phase 4 · Scoring & Cleanup: retrieve the bullets you flipped and reinsert them anywhere in your Magazine Deck; the winner draws 1 card at random from their own deck and sets it aside face-down as a scoring token (1 card per target achieved); discard any Target Cards that were achieved.

Hitting the target

When your flipped cards meet any active Target condition, immediately shout “Hit!” and all players stop flipping at once. The winner is then determined in this order:

• Meets the target condition
• Fewer cards flipped
• Called “Hit!” first
• Still tied — shared victory

Examples

The target is a sum exactly equal to 9. Amy flips 4, 2, 3 for a total of 9 and shouts “Hit!” — Amy wins.

The target is a sum that is a multiple of 4. Amy flips 1, 2, 3, 2 (total 8) and Brian flips 1, 1, 2 (total 4). Both meet the condition, but Brian used fewer cards, so Brian wins.

If two or more active Targets are on the table, resolve them one at a time after the first Hit — a player may win more than one target in the same turn.

Target Cards

There are 15 Target Cards in total, in four types, with multiple variants at different values for each type.

• Exact Hit (8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12): the player whose running total is exactly equal to the target value wins.
• Multiple Hit (3x / 4x / 5x / 6x / 7x): the player whose running total is exactly a multiple of the target number wins.
• Fixed Count — High (2 max / 3 max): flip the specified number of cards and stop; the highest total wins, ties are shared victories.
• Fixed Count — Low (2 min / 3 min / 4 min): flip the specified number of cards and stop; the lowest total wins, ties are shared victories.

End conditions

• End of a round: any player who accumulates 3 scoring tokens immediately ends the round.
• The winner stacks those 3 scoring Bullet Cards into a pile; they are removed from the game going forward, so that player enters the next round with a smaller Magazine Deck.
• All other players retrieve their scoring Bullet Cards and return them to their Magazine Deck. If the Target Deck is exhausted, reshuffle all discarded Target Cards into a new deck.
• End of the game: when any player wins 2 rounds, the game immediately ends and that player wins.

Special cases

• No winner: if no player completes any target, no one wins the turn and all Target Cards remain on the table for the next turn.
• False call: if a player shouts “Hit!” when the condition has not been met, the entire turn is replayed from the start and that player skips the next turn (they may not flip cards or participate in resolution).
• You may not look at cards used as scoring tokens.