Gielinor Games/Head-to-Head

Head-to-Head is an event available during the Gielinor Games, released 24 July 2012. One may access it through the portal in Varrock Square. It's a race with a twist, each move determined by ability cards. The aim of the game is to complete the race in the shortest amount of cards possible. Agility experience is received upon completion of the race, aswell as contribution points.

The player is against a werewolf, a human, a goblin, and a gnome. One starts with 3 random cards, and gain a random replacement after you use one each turn.

A card will be one of six colours, each colour affects different opponents. Altogether there are 90 abilities available, but duplicate cards occur, and you can only play one card per turn. Hover over each card to see what effect it has.



If the player and other athlete(s) reach the finish line in the same move, the player wins.

A tactic to use, if possible, is get as many of your opponents "struggling" as you can. Then if the "Cramp" ability is used twice, it removes them from the race and lowers the amount competitors you need to beat. However, this may not be practical as Cramp is too rare.

If an athlete is removed from the game, cards of that colour still appear. Cards that affect their adjacent opponents, like Stepping stone, still take effect.

Trivia

 * When the player loses, they do an unique emote which involves kicking at air and slapping a hand onto their face.
 * There is currently a glitch where if the player uses the players "Taunt" card as the first card played it makes duplicates of all the characters. The duplicate characters stay at the starting line. Another graphical glitch can be preformed when one starts the race by clicking one ability card and then clicking the "Return to Varrock Portal." The player appears to be running backwards.
 * Another glitch causes athletes to be affected by cards even when they should be unaffected. For example, the player may use a Prayer protection card, which prevents them from being affected by effects for 2 rounds, but in fact they are still affected.