Starting the game
Shuffle the cards and cut the deck. The person with the lowest card will be the first dealer.
The dealer does 1 more quick shuffle and then deals out 5 cards to each player. Then flips over the top card to and puts it beside the deck as the start of the discard player.
The player to the left of the dealer starts the round.
Game Play
A players turn consists of taking the card on top of the deck, the card on the top of the discard pile or taking all the cards from the discard pile If a player takes a card or cards from the discard pile they must be able to make at least 1 ten from it.
Then they use the cards they have to make even tens and put those cards to the side. Then they end their turn by discarding 1 card. The face cards in the deck have different abilities. Kings are Wild Cards, Queens- Reverse the order of the round and Jacks skip the next persons turn.
A round ends when a player no longer has any cards in their hand or there are no more cards in the discard pile. All players must get at least 1 turn in a round.
Card |
Value |
Power |
Kings |
20 |
Wild Card |
Queens |
10 |
Reverse |
Jacks |
10 |
Skip a turn. |
All other cards count as their number value. Aces count as 1 point. |
Scoring
At the end of each round a player’s score is made up of the total of their save pile take away what is left in their hand at the end of the round even if they have a wild card or cards that add up to 10 in their hand a player cannot add them to their save pile.
Winning
A player wins by being the first player to 500 points.