Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Ok last week Brad asked us to do a quick guide of how to play the game - I think he said the first round of gameplay but i cant remember so i shall continue until i can not think of anymore :)

As stated in the rules earlier the game consists of four rounds - for a two player game each player starts round twice, for four players each player starts a round once and for a three player game each player starts a round once, but on the last round, the player who is currently losing starts.

  • Firstly as any card game starts off with a good shuffle is needed!
  • Right, to start off the game the dealer should give each player 5 cards (face down) each, whilst the rest of the cards are placed face down in a pile - this will be the pickup pile for each round.
  • The cards are picked up by the respective player but must not be seen by any other players. The player right of the dealer goes first, and discards a card they do not wish to keep. This should be placed face down to create a new pile next to the pickup pile. This is known as the drop pile.
  • Once a card been discarded then the player picks up a card from the pickup pile so they have five cards in their hand once again. The next player (anticlockwise) then does the same and the play continues.
  • The players continue to dicard and pickup cards trying to reach their goal of getting J,U,K,E and/or search for symbols of the same colour for a larger point score. Special Play Cards (SPL's) can be used at any time by any player except for the JOKE card which can only be used once 'Juke' has been called.
  • The play continues until a player shouts out 'JUKE' and the round has come to end (barring that a special play card does not stop the JUKE).
  • Once a round has been completed each player counts the score of their cards to give a round total. This should be written down.

Bonuses for a round can include...

Double score: A players score is doubled if they called 'JUKE' and /or if they have 4 coloured symbol cards in a hand.

Triple Score : A players score is tripled if they have all five of their cards the same coloured symbol.

After four rounds each of the players round totals is added up to give a game total, the player who has the largest score wins!!!!!!!