Hey, had a lot of fun learning to play this today, nice work! I got a score of 33, but I think I prefer to play with a couple variant rules:
1) You're only allowed to look at the top 8 cards of the deck, no further
2) You can choose to order your hand in either direction, low-high or high-low
I'm curious about a couple rules questions and how you intended them to work:
Let's say I have a Queen which is the 3rd card from the top of my deck/hand. Can I discard a 5 to move that Queen all the way to the top, "wasting" the extra 2 movement? Or am I not allowed to use the 5 there if she can't move 5 spaces?
and secondly
If I've merged more than 2 cards into a stack (let's say I have three 7s adjacent to each other) when I choose to unmerge them, can I choose to only unmerge some of them? Can I leave two of the 7s stacked and separate one, in order to manipulate the spacing in my hand?
(PS: Big fan of Arcane Bakery Clash) :-)