Keeping Score

Gather Around the Table... For family card games! While there are, without a doubt, so many things to value of the cards remaining as “points.” Whoever has look forward to this time of year, the most meaningful the most points by the last round wins! of them all is getting to spend time with friends and to get rid of all of the cards in your hand. Each player hand wins that round. The winner family. This year should remind us that it’s more than SOLITAIRE ever how important it is to savor that quality time. So, Solitaire starts by dealing the seven main piles, known after you finish you finish up your holiday meal, grab as tableau. Starting on the left, place the first card face your loved ones and a deck cards to try some of these up and the remaining six face down and to your right. family-fun card games! Happy holidays! For the next deal, place one card face up on the second pile and one card face down on piles three through POKER seven. For the third deal, place one card face up on To play poker, you’ll need a standard deck of cards (mi- pile three and one card each face down on piles four nus the jokers), at least two players and poker chips or through seven. Repeat this deal pattern until the last a substitution. Each player is dealt five cards and assess pile (pile seven) has one card facing up on top and six the strength of their hand. Based on their confidence cards facing down. Use the remaining cards to build in their hand, they will then wager a certain amount of the stockpile to the side. Your first objective will be to chips. The player that bets the most chips wins unless build of the foundation of each stack so that they are in another player is willing to match their bet. If two sequence and suit by transferring cards from the stock bets are equal, both players will show their cards and to the piles. To win the game however, you must build whoever has the best hand wins all the chips. the whole pack into the tableau. Although solitaire is CRAZY EIGHTS game by giving each player their own set of cards and The objective of crazy eights is to be the first player see who can win their round first! is dealt five cards, one at a time face down. Place the SLAPJACK remaining cards in the middle of the table and have If you’re looking for something fun and fast, slapjack is the dealer pick up the top card, laying it face down in a it! To get started, the dealer will deal out the entire deck separate stack. After that, each player, starting with the of cards face down, one card at a time to each player one on the dealer’s left, must place one card on the in a clockwise rotation. After each player has a pile starter pile. Each card, except eights, must match of face down cards, the player to the left of the dealer the card at the top of the pile in either suit or plays a card face up in the center of the table. Every number. If the player is unable to match the player will take a turn doing this until someone plays a card, they must draw from the stockpile jack. Whichever player slaps the jack first wins all the until they draw one that does. Eights cards in the middle of table and gets to add them to may be played at any time in any turn. their pile. The new pile will start with the player to the The first player to discard all of their winner’s left. only meant for one player, you can make this a family then collects from each player the RUMMY The whole game of rummy revolves around trying to

improve the hand you’re originally dealt. To get started, you’ll need a full deck (or two for more than six players) and something to keep score with. Start by dealing each player the same amount of cards. For two to four players, each person gets ten cards. For five players, each person gets six cards. With any game over five players, each person should be dealt seven cards. Use the leftover cards to create a stock pile face down, then take the first card on top and lay it face up in a new pile. This creates the discard pile. The player to the left of the dealer can either draw a card from the stock or pick up the top card from the discard pile. The players’ objective is to make your cards into two types of combinations: either a run (numeric sequence of three or more cards in matching suits) or a set (three or four cards in the same rank). The first person to do so with one card left to discard wins that round. The cards in your combination will determine your score based on their value.

SPADES Spades is played with four players with two players per team. The game begins with the dealer giving each player thirteen cards, face down in a clockwise rotation. Each player will then take a turn placing one card clockwise around the table. The card must be in whichever suit is played first. Four cards played in a unit create a trick. Before each round begins, players will say a random number, the total of which, combined with their partners number, becomes their guess of how many tricks will occur that round. The goal is to get as close to your guess or “bid” as possible. If your team hits your target number of tricks, you win points, and if you don’t your team is penalized. If you make more tricks then you bid, you are also penalized. You play rounds this way until someone wins what is known as the rubber, which is typically achieved by the first team to score 500 points. Land & Lots, First Time Home Buyers, Design & Custom Homes... Just plain Real Estate... It’s what I do!

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