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Twenty-eight is an Indian trick-taking card game for four players, in which the Jack and the nine are the highest cards in every suit, followed by ace and ten. It thought to be descended from the game 304, [1] along with similar Indian games known as "29", "40" and "56".
The game is first mentioned by name in a 1611 Spanish dictionary where, under the entry for "card" (carta), it mentions the game of veinte y uno ("twenty-one").[1] [2] Just two years later, the first brief description of the game is given in a novella by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, most famous for writing Don Quixote.
Klondike is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, [2] as well as one of the most challenging in widespread play. [3] It has spawned numerous variants including Batsford , Easthaven, King Albert , Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants ...
In the first phase of the game, each player must make a prediction about the card to be drawn on their turn. The dealer deals each player 4 cards face up but before dealing each card, the dealer asks the player a question about the card. If the player guesses correctly, they may "give" a drink (i.e. select a rival player who must drink). If ...
At the end of the game, the winner is decided in the same way as in the normal game of Thirty-One, although if a player has a hand of three cards of the same suit and is greater than 21, they may choose to restart the game making their hand the new face-up hand for the new game and re-dealing all hands for the other players and the face-down hand.
Once any grid contains only face-up cards, the game is immediately ended, there are no further turns, and all players must flip all their face-down cards to determine their scores. Scoring is the same as six-card golf, with players having to form a full three-of-a-kind column to have that column score zero.
If you are forced to play a high-value card, prefer to throw out a King in favor of keeping a 4 or 10 in reserve. Most valuable: 4. Playing 4 (reversal) when the score is 99 buys you the most number of turns until you have to confront the 99 score; Strategy for the bold move ("the short game" where you play a 99 value card on the first hand)
The four-player version of the game uses the entire 52-card deck (in which case the 2 is the lowest rank). Players are dealt the entire deck, one card at a time, with all cards face down. In the two-player version, the cards are dealt to the two players and also to a third pseudo-player called the "dummy".