Many of you may remember this game if you have read Dicken's "Great Expectation". Pip and Estella play this game early in the book when they are at Miss Havishams. The game plays as follows:
Shuffle the deck and deal the cards as evenly as possible. Your draw deck is placed face down. The player to the left of the dealer starts the game by turning up his top card and playing it in the middle of the table. If the card is a 2 to 10, play passes to the left and the next player does the same. When a face card or an Ace (known as "court cards" in this game) is turned up, the next player must pay the following dependent on which court card is played:
A=4
K=3
Q=2
J=1
If all of the cards in the middle are number cards, the player who played the court card collects all of the cards in the middle of the table. However, if one of the cards is a court card, the player paying stops immediately and the next player must pay based on the schedule above. If that is paid with only number cards, the cards in the middle of the table are collected by the last player who played a court card. This continues until one player wins the pile. That player then puts the pile at the bottom of his stack, face down. When a player runs out of cards, he's eliminated from the game and the other players continue to play.
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