A Typographic Word Variant

NIFFNAFF.

The strategic energy of classic shedding card games, reimagined through linguistic frameworks. Match colors or intersecting character nodes to empty your hand.


Deck: 40 cards
Rule: Match First or Last Letter
Hand: 7 cards
Match the card or draw from the deck!
Draw Pile
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Discard Pile

Your Hand

"Language is a system of choices. Niffnaff constraints mimic the tactical paralysis of holding a hand full of vowels with nowhere to spend them."

How to Play

You start with 7 cards. To legally play a word card from your hand onto the discard pile, it must share either the Color, the First Letter, or the Last Letter of the top card.

Look out for structural modification shifts: