Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzle solutions

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzle solutions
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The Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzles feature in the Queen's Blood minigame at the Costa del Sol, where you're chasing down a Companion Card for Cloud and need to complete a sequence of challenges in order to unlock it. While your previous experiences of Queen's Blood have involved taking down another player, with the Shinra-8 tournament featured in the previous chapter of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth no doubt still fresh in your memory, this puzzle works little differently. Instead of trying to outwit an opponent, you'll need to play your cards strategically in the correct order to secure the victory.

If you continue to progress through the challenges then you'll unlock a set of new cards for your deck, including the Tonberry King after beating the devious round in which that card features. If you're struggling to figure out the perfect play, then refer to the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzle solutions below to beat every challenge faced in the Costa del Sol Queen's Blood event.

Where are the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzles?

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When you reach the Costa del Sol in Chapter 6, you'll need to complete various minigames around the island to unlock Companion Cards, which are used to purchase Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth beachwear outfits so you can progress with the storyline. For one of these, Cloud will team up with Regina to play Card Carnival in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which is basically a single-player puzzle version of Queen's Blood. Your opponent's cards are already laid out, so you need to play all of your own cards tactically against them in order to secure enough points for a victory.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzle solutions

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzle list

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Laid out below are the Final Fantasy 7 Card Carnival puzzle solutions that I have discovered by working my way through the challenges – note that more puzzles are unlocked after you've completed the initial three. There may be other solutions that also work, in terms of card placement and order, but the ones listed here have been verified as Victory plays. To use these solutions, simply select and play the cards from your deck in the indicated order onto the corresponding numbered tiles of the board.

Cards del Amor Challenge Round 1 (Three-Card Stud)

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  1. Fleetwing
  2. Zu
  3. Quetzalcoatl

First-Time Reward: Card #023 - Fleetwing (Standard)

Cards del Amor Challenge Round 2 (Go for Choco-Broke)

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  1. Fat Chocobo
  2. Posh Chocobo
  3. Chocobo & Moogle

First-Time Reward: Card #109 - Posh Chocobo (Legendary)

Cards del Amor Challenge Round 3 (Mischief-Making Moogles)

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  1. Moogle Trio (adds Moogle Mage and Moogle Bard)
  2. Moogle Mage
  3. Fleetwing
  4. Moogle Bard
  5. Grasslands Wolf

First-Time Reward: Card #110 - Moogle Trio (Legendary)

Once you've beaten the first three Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Carnival puzzles, you'll receive the Companion Card for Cloud and can move on with the story. However, there are more puzzles to solve and Queen's Blood cards to be won if you interact with the Card Carnival stand to carry on.

Spears and Needles

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  1. Spearhawk
  2. Spearhawk
  3. Cactuar
  4. Quetzalcoatl

First-Time Reward: Card #031 - Spearhawk (Standard)

Sea Devil by Night

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  1. Security Officer (gets destroyed)
  2. Sea Devil
  3. Sea Devil
  4. Mandragora (get destroyed, adds Mandragora Minion)
  5. Mandragora (get destroyed, adds Mandragora Minion)
  6. Mandragora Minion
  7. Mandragora Minion (gets destroyed)

First-Time Reward: Card #032 - Sea Devil (Standard)

A Kingly Clash

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  1. Zu
  2. Zu
  3. Tonberry King
  4. Deathwheel (destroys cards, strengthens Tonberry King)
  5. Deathwheel (destroys cards, strengthens Tonberry King)
  6. Mindflayer (destroys cards, strengthens Tonberry King)

First-Time Reward: Card #035 - Tonberry King (Standard)

Power-Down Practice

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  1. Archdragon (destroys card)
  2. Archdragon (destroys card)
  3. Quetzalcoatl

First-Time Reward: (none)

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