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Duncan’s Game…...also known as 2500 A card game for 2-8 people. Rules of play:

1.	Two decks of cards are used for 2-4 players and 3 decks for 6-8 players. Remove the 2’s and jokers. 2.	Shuffle the deck and deal out 1 card face up to each player, keep going around until the first Jack shows. The player that gets the first Jack is the dealer. The deal moves clockwise after this. 3.	The dealer then starts dealing from the left. The dealer deals one card face up to the first player and then counts backwards to 1. So if the card flipped up is a 10, then you would deal that player the next 9 cards face down for their hand. This process is repeated for each player. The card that is flipped up for the dealer is the “wild card” for that hand. The Ace is always high and is the card that gets you the largest hand to play with. The lowest card in the deck is a 3 as this is the minimum number of cards to create a set. 4.	The object of the game is to create sets, with a minimum of 3 cards. You can create a set with any 3 cards of the same value, or 2 cards and a wild card. The number of wild cards can not exceed the number of natural cards. Once a player has played their own set to start, they can play other sets to try and run out of cards. You can also play on the other players sets once your first set is played. You can also add to your own sets to make the larger. Cards played on another players set are played in front of you as they will count towards your points total. You can not move cards once they are played, and you can not replace wild cards with naturals to play elsewhere. If you pick up a wild card from the discard pile it must be played with the other two wild cards in your hand as a “set”. 5.	The first player is the one directly to the left of the dealer and play moves clockwise. Each player must pick up either one card from the deck of unplayed cards, or if you have 2 natural cards in your hand you can pick up a matching 3rd card for your set from the discard pile. If you pick from the discard pile you must take all the other cards that were played after the card you are picking up. It is useful to keep the discard pile spread out so all players can see what is in the pile. A player must ALWAYS DISCARD. Once you have played the cards you want to play on each turn then you must discard one card in to the discard pile. You must also always discard if you are running out of cards to complete the hand. 6.	Scoring is as follows. The player that runs out of cards first gets to count all played cards as positive points. All other players will have to deduct any cards left in their hand, against cards that they have played. You only score positive points with cards that have been played in sets. If you have not played any sets before someone goes out then your score for that round will be negative. Hint: Be careful how long you hang on to wild cards or aces, if someone goes out while they are in your hand you will have a large negative score, and you can’t win with negatives! a.	Ace = 100 b.	Wild card = 100 (remember this changes with every new dealer) c.	9 and above = 10 d.	8 and below = 5

7.	The winner is the first player to hit 2,500 points. If the scoring is close, then the player on the left of the dealer counts first and then clockwise around the players and the dealer counts last. First player to 2,500 wins!