Objective
Be the first to play away every card of your 20-card pay-off pile onto the centre stacks.
Card ranking
Low to high: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q. Kings are wild.
Setup
- 1Shuffle both decks together. Deal 20 cards face down to each player's pay-off pile and 5 cards to each player's hand.
- 2Place the rest face down as a shared stock.
- 3Turn the top card of each pay-off pile face up. The player showing the higher card goes first (reshuffle and re-flip on a tie).
How to play
- Start your turn by drawing from the stock until your hand holds 5 cards.
- Centre stacks must begin with an Ace and build upward in sequence (2, 3, ... up to Queen), suit ignored; at most three centre stacks exist at once.
- You may play to the centre from your hand, the top of a side stack, or the top of your pay-off pile, making as many centre plays as you can.
- Kings are wild and take whatever value continues a centre stack.
- Playing a card onto one of your (up to four) side stacks ends your turn.
- If you empty your hand without ending your turn, immediately draw five new cards and continue.
- Completing a centre stack with a Queen removes it (shuffled back into stock), freeing space for a new one.
Special rules
- You may never move a pay-off card to a side stack, move cards between side stacks, or move cards off a centre stack.
- The whole point is to keep exposing and shedding your pay-off pile's top card.
Scoring
Scored in games won
Optional point scoring
- If you want a running score across games: the winner scores 5 points plus 1 for each card left in the opponent's pay-off pile.
- First to an agreed target (e.g. 50) wins the match.
Winning
You win the instant you play the last card of your pay-off pile to a centre stack. If the stock runs out first, it is a draw (or, by common option, the player with fewer pay-off cards wins).