Play or Pay
Players: 3-8
Ages: Kids, Teens, Adults
Note: Because this game involves some low-scale betting, it’s fun to use poker chips to play—or, if you don’t have poker chips, jelly beans or M&M’s® candies.
Objective: Complete the suits and be the first player to get rid of all your cards.
Rules:
Ages: Kids, Teens, Adults
Note: Because this game involves some low-scale betting, it’s fun to use poker chips to play—or, if you don’t have poker chips, jelly beans or M&M’s® candies.
Objective: Complete the suits and be the first player to get rid of all your cards.
Rules:
- Each player starts by putting one chip (or jelly bean) into the pot before each deal. Deal the cards one at a time clockwise, face down, beginning with the player on the left. If some players receive fewer cards than others, it is customary for each player to add one additional chip.
- Starting with the player left of the dealer, the first person lays a card. All cards played remain face up on the table, arranged in four rows of the four suits. The first player may play any card. The sequence in the suit must be built up until all thirteen cards are played, and the sequence in the suit is continuous.
- The player does not have to start with the first card in a suit (the Ace). He or she can start with any card, and then the rest of the players must add in that order to complete that suit before moving onto the next suit. For example, J, Q, K, A, 2, all the way to 10. Or, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, 2 and so on all the way to 6.
- The turn to play continues clockwise. If a person is unable to play in turn, he or she puts one chip in the pot. Whoever plays the thirteenth card of a suit may choose any card from his hand to begin the next series.
- The first person to get rid of all his or her cards wins the pot.