Card Gambling
Skill Roll: Most card gambling results can be quickly obtained by a Profession (Gambler) skill check roll.

Cardonians have a passion for gambling and card games. Cheating on any wager, if proven, is a death sentence in Wonderland. Any type of card game you can imagine is played in Wonderland. Decks of Illusion are often used in games like stud poker, blackjack, and gin rummy. Also in game similar to “faro”, this deck is used for illusionary combat between each card drawn from a player’s deck. The winner is the one who wins the most rounds of play. Faro is often played as a tournament with the winner of each duel advancing up a dueling pyramid. A very high stakes game is played by the nobility with a Deck of Many Things. Being challenged to such a game is the same as being challenged to a duel and play continues until one side can no longer draw.

Chess
Skill Roll: The game of chess can either be played by the player and DM or the skill check Knowledge (Chess) can be used.

Clockwork Chess: The pieces of this chessboard are controlled by a mechanical intelligence. Generally one side of the board is occupied by a mechanical construct solely devoted to chess play.

Tri-corner Chess: The most popular form of chess in Wonderland evolves a three sides board that allows three people to play at once. The usual colors of the pieces are red, black, and white. Two, Four, and Five player chess are less common.

Battle Chess: Most towns have a battle chess team that plays other teams in a Battle Chess League. The most common match ups are two opposing teams, but three team and four team match ups are common. Each chess piece is an actual person that must fight other pieces to win a square. Subduing or forcing your opponent out of a square is will win the battle and remove him from play.
The playing field is generally a checkerboard with each square measuring 10ftx10ft. Sometimes both teams are allowed to set up an equal number of magical traps in any unoccupied square at the beginning of the chess match. Anyone can play any piece but the traditional movements of each piece are strictly enforced. Generally the sponsor or coach of each team is the king and knights are mounted on a flying or leaping mount.

Death Chess or War Chess: This game is played the same as Battle Chess but almost always between two teams. Unlike battle chess this game is played to the death. Generally this game is used as a substitute for actual war and to settle legal feuds. As a rule, the pieces are limited to certain core classes. The Kings are the chief disputants or clan heads. The Queens are the only arcane magic users allowed in play. The bishops are the only divine magic users allowed. The knights are the only mounted troops allowed and are usually paladins, rangers, or fighters. Rooks can be armored fighter, rogues, or monks. The pawns are common warriors deigned the use of armor. Each team plays its pieces the same as normal chess. War chess is strictly monitored by a third party (usually the crown or deputy of the crown) and cheating will result in a forfeit and likely a death sentence for the offender.
Equipment for each piece can be anything that doesn't violate any of the above restrictions. The board can be any shape but checkerboards with each square measuring 5ftx5ft are most common. Unlike Battle Chess, the Queen can cast a spell on any single piece instead of moving for that turn; no area effect spells such as fireball are allowed.

Blood Sports

Wonderland has a variety of blood sports that are watched and played both legally and illegally by all races.

Polo: Both Water Polo and Mounted Polo are played by commoners and royalty. Injuries and fatalities are common in this game since no rules are applied to this game except for those agreed to by the competitors. Unusual Polo mounts include ponies, elephants, ostriches, dire beasts, dinosaurs, undead, giant sea horses, and construct mounts. Intelligent mounts such as giants and unicorns are uncommon and generally only perform in grand melees where the first team to score wins with the cash prize split between riders and the ridden.

Bloody Cricket: This is an utterly bizarre game with truly bewildering rules. No race or party admits to creating it since only the truly suicidal will play it. The deadliness of this game makes it a crowd pleaser even among the jaded Wonderland populous. A cricket playing field is an ellipse. The foci of the ellipse are two points called wickets that are 60ft apart. In this game a enchanted spheroid ball is thrown by a “bowler” to try to hit his opponent’s “wicket”. A batter defends his wicket and tries to hit the ball with a paddle shaped bat. If the ball hits a wicket it detonates the spell stored inside the wicket. The most common wicket spell is a fireball but any area effect spell can be used. In most versions each team assigns a batter to defend its wicket and any team player that catches a fly ball can throw it at the opponent’s wicket from no closer than 60ft. If the player crosses the bowler crease the ball will detonate releasing a shocking grasp or any other touch spell. If the ball hits the ground before the bowler’s team catches it, then the batter can attack his opponent’s batter. While outside the bowlers crease the batter is vulnerable to a hit from the ball which will inflict its touch spell on him. Most cricket teams consist of 11 players and game can last for days until one team is completely eliminated. Some mundane variants of cricket employ alchemy, use clockwork devices, or wield cast iron kits.

Carpe Cortina: All the mounted competitors are positioned at the bottom of a large hill or at the edge of a valley. The first to capture the brass ring in the center of the field is the winner of the race. The challenge is that the ring is very small and must be taken on the end of the rider’s lance. The armor class of the target ring is at least 15, and the ring is sometimes augmented by magic to be even more difficult to hit. If a rider is unhorsed before he captures the ring he is eliminated from the contest.

Crunch: The rules to crunch are very simple. If you or your mount leave the battle ring or if you lose your seat for any reason, you lose the match. The Crunch ring can be any size and hold any number of mounted contestants. Mounts can be animal, vegetable, or mineral. Exotic mounts include clockwork constructs, steam driven vehicles, and big mouth monsters. The gelatinous cube can be a Crunch mount but it requires special magic control reins, a necklace of adaptation, and a ring of acid resistance so the rider is not digested by his mount.