Pickle

A good card game that mixes a little strategy with a little good luck.

# of players: 2-4 (For more players add another deck of cards)
Materials needed: A deck of face cards

How to Play: The point of this game is to get rid of all of your cards first.  To start deal out 3 face down cards in a row to each player, no one is allowed to look at the 3 face down cards.  Then deal 3 cards face up to each player, place the 3 face up cards on top of the 3 face down cards.  Then deal each player a hand of 5 cards.  The players may look at the 5 cards in their hand.  After all the cards are dealt but before play starts players may switch out any of the 3 face up cards for cards in their hand.  Once play has started trading cards is not allowed.  The players will then start play. The first person to go will put any card from their hand they want face up in the center of the table and replace it with one from the center deck so that they have always have 5 cards.  The next person will then play a card in the center, but their card must be equal to or higher than the card the previous player played.  Each player after that must play a card equal to or higher than the one before.  If you have 2, 3 or 4 of the same number you may play multiples, just make sure you draw thee same amount of cards from the draw pile so you always have 5 in your hand. If at any time you don't have a card equal to or higher than the card on top of the discard pile you must pick up the entire discard pile.  Once the draw pile is gone you will no longer draw a card after you play.  After the draw pile is gone and you have player all the cards in your hand you will play the 3 face up cards in front of you.  After all 3 of the face up cards have been played you will blindly play the 3 face down cards in front of you.  If a face card down you try to play is lower than the card played before it you must pick up the draw pile and play those cards before continuing onto the rest of the face down cards.

Card Values:

Just like in normal card playing a 4 beats a 3 a queen beats a jack and so forth, but there are a couple of exceptions: 2's can be played at any time and takes the value back down to 0 so that the next player can play any card.  10's can be played at any time and clear the discard pile so those cards are out of the game.  If at any time you play the 4th of any one number that also clears the discard pile.  Any time you clear the discard pile you get to go again.  If you are playing with Jokers, they can be played anytime.  They hold the value of the card played right before it and they reverse the direction of play.

Have fun!
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