How to play

The goal

Get rid of your cards. You put them down on the table in groups, and when you throw away your very last card, you win the round.

Your turn, in 3 steps

1. Take a card from the stock (the face-down pile) or the discard pile (the face-up card on top).
2. Put down groups if you have any. You don't have to.
3. Throw one card away onto the discard pile. That ends your turn.

Two kinds of groups

A group of cards on the table is called a meld. There are two kinds:

The Ace can go at either end of a Run:

The Joker

A Joker stands in for any card you're missing. A meld needs at least one real card.

Your first melds need 51 points

The first time you put cards down, your melds together must be worth 51 points or more. This is called opening. Count them like this:

For example:

30 + 21 = 51, enough to open.

Once you've opened

• Put down more melds, worth any number of points.
• Add cards to any meld on the table, yours or anyone else's.
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• Take the discard into your hand, instead of a card from the stock.
• Swap for a Joker on the table: put down the exact card it stands for, and the Joker is yours.
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Before you've opened, you can only take the discard to open with it, in the same turn.

Winning

Throw away your last card and you win the round. So always keep one card to throw away: you can't put your last cards down.

Everyone else adds points to their score, and points are bad:

• Never opened: 100 points
• Opened: what the cards left in their hand are worth (a Joker is 25 points)

When someone reaches 151 points (or the number the table picked), the match ends, and the fewest points wins.

The game helps you

• On your turn, a note at the top tells you what to do next.
• Only the moves you can make light up. If something can't be done, the game tells you why.
• In games with other people, each turn has 60 seconds. If time runs out, a bot finishes your turn for you.