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Beggar-my-neighbour, also known as strip jack naked, beat your neighbour out of doors, [1] or beat jack out of doors, [2] or beat your neighbour, [3] is a simple choice-free card game. It is somewhat similar in nature to the children's card game War , and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian ratscrew .
The pile is put down in the middle of the table, and its top card is turned over. The color of this card is the trump suit; a card of this color played to a trick will beat any other card played except a higher trump. If this top card is a Rage card, it is discarded and another card is turned over, until a color card is shown.
One deck of cards (minus jokers) is used. The deck is shuffled and twelve piles of four cards each are laid out, face down, in a circle. The remaining four cards are placed, also face down, in a pile in the center of the circle. The twelve positions around the circle represent the 12-hour clock and the pile in the middle represents the hands.
Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/"cutthroat" game. The object is to take the number of tricks that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a descendant of the whist family of card games, which also includes bridge, hearts, and oh hell.
The game will continue until one player has collected all of the cards. [1] Game designer Greg Costikyan has observed that since there are no choices in the game, and all outcomes are random, it cannot be considered a game by some definitions. [2] However, the rules often do not specify in which order the cards should be returned to the deck.
A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with international tournaments being held, but most are folk games whose rules may vary by region, culture, location or from circle to circle. Traditional card games are played with a deck or pack of playing cards which are
If neither player can move, then each turns over a Spit Card onto their Spit Pile and the game restarts. If a player runs out of Spit Cards then the top card in their Spit Pile is left on the table, and the rest are shuffled and used as Spit Cards. The game is won by the first player to get rid of their stock cards (and, in Speed, their hand).
The first player to the dealer's left who is still in the game starts by playing any card (with few exceptions); rules of play are as follows (a lower-numbered rule overrides any higher-numbered): You must play on-suit if possible, even if your highest on-suit card will not beat the highest card in play.