Thirteen Cards

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Thirteen Cards

Score
6.2
Players
2-6
Time
10
Recommended Age
8+
Difficulty
easy
Official Website
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Type
game
mechanics
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Description

A simple game playing with just one suit of standard deck of playing cards, for instance all thirteen cards of Spades suit. This is a game for 2,3,4 or 6 players.

Game begins by dealing the 13 cards to the players, face down. The remaining one card will be placed face up on the table for all players to see.
Each card has exactly the same points as its face value. King card has 13 points, Queen card 12, Jack card 11 and Ace card 1 point.

Players take turns exchanging any card from their hand with the one in the table to achieve the exact amount of points known as Target Points. Target Points for the game is calculated by multiplying cards in hand per player with 7.
For example, for a 3 player game, cards per player will be 4. So Target Points to achieve will be 7 * 4 = 28.

A player with his total card value equal to Target Points wins the game immediately and is removed from the game. (A player cannot win if he exceeds the Target Points.) The game continues till one player remains.