I know it’d be a lot of work, but could you add a custom deck system with skills that affect the deck permanently (add cards, eat/remove cards, maybe change suit, etc. )? Here’s a list of skill/general ideas:
- Maybe a skill to directly take cookies from an opponent or force them to bet and/or increase the minimum bet amount
- Maybe extra points if all cards are of the same suit
- Maybe swap cards with your opponent
- Maybe a skill to randomly use two other skills for the cost of one
- Maybe a skill that makes the next skill used free
- Maybe allow you to use 2 skills next turn
- Maybe permanently increase/decrease the number of a card (similar to strength from Balatro)
- Maybe you can eat your cookies for buffs (they are delicious after all)
- Maybe a card to show you the odds that the next card wins (not sure how useful this is)
These are just some ideas; don’t feel obligated to add any of them. The last and probably hardest to implement would be a local 1v1 against a friend. It could as a sense of competition when otherwise it’s basically just betting. Feel free to add what you want from this list, or don’t. It’s your game, do what you think is good.