Golf

At Fun Party Games for Adults this is a classic game.  Our family plays it all the time, it's a great card game that doesn't take long and it's great for families because both kids and adults have fun with it.

Materials needed: deck of face cards, pen and paper to keep score
# of players: 3-7 (if you play w/ more people you might need to add a 2nd deck of cards)

Goal: The goal of the game is to have the least amount of points showing in your cards at the end. Card values are listed at the bottom.
How to Play: deal 9 cards, face down, to each player.  Players are not allowed to look at their cards.  Each player will lay their cards out in front of them, face down, in 3 rows of 3, like the picture below.

The rest of the cards go in a stack in the middle.

To start each player turns over 2 cards of their choice.  The top card in the middle stack is then turned over.  The 1st player can take that turned over card or reject it and take one blindly off the top of the deck in the middle.  If they take the top card and like it, they can replace it for one of their own (either turned over or not turned over). If they do not like the card that is turned over from the center stack they can reject it and just turn over a new card of their choice from their own 9 cards.  The 2nd player can then either decide to take the discarded card showing in the discard pile or can reject it and take their chances with the top of the center pile.  Play continues like this around the table.  The someone has all the cards in front of them turned over, all other players have one more turn.  Once the game is over everyone turns over all of their cards and points are counted.

If at any time you have 3 cards of the same number in a row either horizontally or vertically (not diagonally), you may remove and discard all 3 cards.

Points:
2-10 are face value
Jacks and Queens are worth 10 points
Kings and Jokers are worth 0 points
Aces are worth 1 point.

Have fun playing Golf!
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