User:Zaibon/sandbox

Yarnoush or Yarnouch, is an variation of the Yaniv car game. The main difference is it introduce the possibility to bluff and allow player to law down when they do not have a good hand.

Game play
Yarnoush is played with a 54-card deck composed of standards playing card and 2 jokers.

Objective
The game is divided into multiple rounds. At the end of each rounds each player receives some points. When a player points exceed 150, the player is eliminated, he is know as being "out".

The last player to stands wins the game.

Dealing
At the beginning of a round, each player in the game is dealt five cards face down, rotating clockwise from the dealer's left. The remaining cards are placed in a draw pile in the center face down. The top card from the stack is turned face up. It is then placed to the side to begin the discard pile.

If a mistake is made by the dealer during the distribution of the cards like, too many cards are given to a player, a cards is slipped face up or any other faults. The round is cancelled, all the cards are given back to the dealer, the dealers takes one blame and must start to deal from scratch. If a dealer accumulate 3 blames, he receives a 34 points penalty.

Play
The game proceeds clockwise. To choose the first player of the first round, the players plays a game of rock-paper-scissors, the last sanding is the first to start the round. In subsequent rounds, the winner of the previous round becomes the starting player.

Players have two options for their turn: They may either play one or more cards or call "Yarnoush!" When playing cards, the player may discard a single card or a single set of cards, placing them into the discard pile. The player must then draw a card from the draw pile. Alternatively, the player may choose to take the card played by the previous player from the discard pile. However, if the previous player played a multi-card set, only the first or the last card in the set may be chosen. Note that the two jokers in the deck are taken into consideration.

If the drawing deck is empty and no one has yet called "Yarnoush!", then all cards of the free stack, excluding the last player's drop, are shuffled and placed face down as a new deck.

Special moves: Asaf
The "Asaf" is a special move where a player can play the card he just draw in the case the card can complete a set by using the last played card.

For example, a player plays a 5 of heart on the discard pile, then draw a 5 of spade, he can shout "Asaf" and immediately play the 5 of spade. This only works if the next player has not yet play its own card which mean this is a special move that requires reflexes and speed.

This special moves creates a possible special end of round. If the player succeed to play an "Asaf" and it was its last card, he now does not have any more cards in his hands. At this point, the round is stopped, everyone takes 34 points plus the points in its own hands except the player without cards which gets 0 points. This moves is called an "Royal Asaf".

The "Royal Asaf" also introduce another special move. Imagine a player managed to do a "Royal Asaf" during it's first round, this is called "Gods hands". The points distributed to everyone are the same are a regular "Royal Asaf". Example: the player has 1,2,3,4,5 of heart in its hands, plays this suit in its first round, and draw the 6 of heart, then "Asaf". He now has win the round in one single move. This is the best play anyone can do in "Yarnoush".

Sets
A player may discard any of the following sets of cards:


 * A single card
 * Two or more cards of the same rank
 * Three or more cards of consecutive ranks in the same suit. Note that aces are considered low for the purposes of sequences (i.e., an ace can be used before a 2, but not after a king)