User:Gereed

TO PLAY To start you decide who deals by cutting cards; low card deals. You are dealt five cards. The deal moves counter clockwise, the cards are dealt and played counter clockwise. The object is to go down having points in you hand adding up to five or less if two or three people are playing and ten or less if four or more are playing. When it is your turn you may lay down any individual card, pairs, three or four of a kind or a three, four or five card straight in the same suite. When it is your turn first lay down what you want then you either draw from the top of the deck or take any one of the cards that was just discarded by the previous player. If you are the first player of a new hand you have to take the top card on the deck which is face down. With three people playing the hand ends when someone goes down with five or less. You have to wait until it is your turn to go down; that is you may not draw and go down you have to wait until it's your turn again. When you go down every one show their cards in a counter clockwise direction; you win if your hand adds up to the lowest; if some one else has the same score the last person to show his cards wins the hand. If everyone had the same score then the person to the left of the person that went down first would win the hand. The cards are shuffled and cut by the person to the right of the dealer. TO SCORE Aces are low only and count one. Numbered cards count at face value. Face card count as follows: Jacks, 11; Queens, 12; Kings, 13. To score a hand all of the points in a persons hand is added up and added to his existing score except the person that won the hand; they get zero points. The first person to get to 101 points loses; the rest of the players continue until only one person remains below 101. The last player under 101 is the winner. STRATEGY The Nepalis discard low cards first. The trick is to figure out when to start saving low cards like aces. Near the end of a hand you could get stuck throwing down a five or less allowing the person to you right the opportunity of picking it up and be ready to go out when it is his turn again. When playing with four or more players you have to switch to holding lower cards sooner. The Nepalis will hold a five and seven of hearts and discard a 10 of spades hoping to draw a six of hearts. The cards in Nepal are thick so they do not shuffle by splitting the deck in half, laying it on the table and bending the corners to interleave the cards. They hold the deck in one hand pull a few card out with the other hand put them on top of the deck. They do this a few times, maybe five at the most. So if you remember the sequence of the cards you can predict what the next card on the deck.