How to Play the Card Mini-Game in Final Fantasy 8

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Play the Card Mini-Game in Final Fantasy 8

The eighth installment of the popular role-playing game Final Fantasy began a tradition of playing-card mini-games. The card game in Final Fantasy 8 is a strategy-based game called Triple Triad, in which you try to "flip" an opponent's cards by placing better cards on a grid. Triple Triad seems confusing at first, but as you play, the strategies of the game become more apparent.

Things You'll Need

  • PlayStation console
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Instructions

    • 1
      A card

      Leave the classroom where your main character starts the game and walk out into the hallway. Talk to the man standing near the elevator to receive your first set of Triple Triad game cards.

    • 2
      The Triple Triad board

      Find a Triple Triad player and press the "square" button next to him to initiate a game. You can find the first player just outside the entrance to the school.

    • 3
      Picking cards

      Choose the cards you want to use in the match. Examine the numbers of the four sides of the cards and pick cards that can be used well in tandem. You want cards with higher numbers on the sides, so they have a better chance of defeating your opponent's cards.

    • 4
      Laying a corner card

      Lay down cards with lower numbers pointed toward the corners, so your opponent is less likely to be able to defeat your cards.

    • 5
      Flipping a card

      Place a card with a higher number pointed toward an opponent's card with a lower number to "flip" that card. If at the end of the match you have more cards flipped than your opponent, you will be declared the victor and be allowed to take one of your opponent's cards.

Tips & Warnings

  • Some players will allow you to slightly change the parameters of Triple Triad to simulate local variances in the rules; however, these changes almost always work against you, so don't bother taking any of the different rules sets unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

  • If you lose a match, your opponent will take the best card you were playing with.

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