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Spite
Spite is a card game generally played with three or more players.

Needed to Play

 * At least one deck of cards are required to play but it is recommended that you use 3 or more decks to reduce card counting.
 * At least 3 players up to as many as want to play.

Object
The object of the game is to play all your cards in your hand. The person who achieves this first is the winner. Play continues until one person is left with cards in their hand, they are considered the loser.

Some Basic things to understand
The cards of hierarchy or order. The higher cards "beat" the lower cards. The card order from lowest to highest is...

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Q, K, A, J, 2

Suit also plays part of the hierarchy. From lowest to highest the suits are:

Spades, clubs, diamonds, hearts (you can remember this by black at the bottom and red at the top. Spades are at the very bottom pointing upwards and hearts are at the very top pointing downwards).

Dealing the cards
For the very first game anyone who is willing can deal the cards. For all future plays of the game the loser from the previous game will deal the cards.

The dealer has some privilege in dealing the cards. There are few rules to how the cards are dealt.

Cards can be...


 * dealt in any order
 * be of different quantities per player
 * shuffled or un-shuffled
 * dealt singularly or dealt in "slabs"

The only one defining rule for dealing is, there is a minimum amount of cards to be dealt. That minimum is defined by...


 * Minimum cards dealt = (number of players + 1) + (any twos left in the hand of the loser from the previous game)

Hands, rounds and games
A hand is a unit of the game that begins with the dealer shuffling and dealing the cards as described above. The game ends once all players have played their entire hand. The card or set of cards played is determined by the player who has the "lead". The player with the lead is the player who won the last round.

The lead may be a single card or multiple cards of the same type. Jokers can not be lead individually by can be used as a wild to add to other cards lead. The joker becomes an additional card to the set and has the same face value as the highest value card, i.e. the highest suit of the card(s) played. The hirarchy of suits are the same as dictated in poker. From the highest to lowest they are hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. The hirarch of the cards is "3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10, Q, K, A J 2" and Jokers are wild. The strength of the

Lowest in order

The player who has the lead plays his hand, they can play a single card or a set of cards with the same face value. If they play a single card then each player shall play a single card of higher value or pass. If the lead plays multiple cards then players must play the same number of cards but the must also be the same face value. Players are not obligated to play even if they have have a card of higher value. The rounds continue until all players have played the highest card(s) they wish to play. The player who played the highest card(s) is now the player with the lead and the next round begins.

The hand is over when the players have finished playing their hands. Most often this occurs when one player (or all) has no cards left. The player who sits after the dealer in the direction of play is known as eldest hand (or in two-player games as elder hand). A game round consists of as many hands as there are players. After each hand, the deal is passed on in the direction of play, i.e. the previous eldest hand becomes the new dealer. Normally players score points after each hand. A game may consist of a fixed number of rounds. Alternatively it can be played for a fixed number of points. In this case it is over with the hand in which a player reaches the target score.