The Lich's Card Table
Memory match puzzle
Deadly
By
Bookwyrm
Twenty cards dealt by a skeletal croupier. One mismatch too many and the house wins.
In the lich's gambling den a skeletal croupier deals twenty cards face down on the green baize with a click of finger bones. "The house forgives," it rasps, "but only just."
Twenty black-backed cards lie in four rows under the croupier's empty gaze.