Pairs -Professor Elemental

The Professor Elemental deck is a collaboration between artist Cheyenne Wright and real-life chap-hop artist Professor Elemental.

The deck features the Professor and his many friends and enemies, including Sadie Bell, Geoffrey his orangutan butler, and the terrifying Badgermingo. This deck also contains the absurd bidding game Venture.

Pairs is a simple press-your-luck game. Players take turns taking cards, trying not to get a pair. If you get a pair, you score points (and points are bad). You can also choose to fold, instead of taking a card, and score the lowest card in play. Folding gets you some points, but catching a pair could get you even more. Pairs doesn’t have a winner, just a loser. The first player to reach a target score loses, and the target score depends on the number of players. For example, with 4 players, the loser is the first player to 16 points.