Things You'll Need:
- A deck of cards
- Two players
- Playing surface such as a table
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Step 1
Shuffle the deck seven times for optimum variation. Make a stack of four cards face-down, place one card face-down to the right of the stack, another card face-down to the right of the first card, and a second stack of four cards face-down to the right of the second card.
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Step 2
Deal the remaining cards equally between the two players. The players should be sitting across from each other with the face-down cards in the middle. At this point, each player takes the first five cards off their own pile to make a hand.
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Step 3
Now you're ready to start. Each player flips one of the single cards in the middle over and begins to play their hands. The way the play works is to lay a card that is either one more or one less than the number in the middle. For example, if the card on the table is a seven, either player may play a six or an eight on it. Each player may play on either of the cards in the middle.
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Step 4
The game is played quickly as it is a race to lay the cards down. Each player must replenish their hand when they can to ensure that there are five cards in the hand. A player does this by adding cards from his pile to his hand.
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Step 5
If at any point in the game neither player can play a card, they then simultaneously flip one of the cards from the middle piles onto the face-up cards in the middle and continue playing. Once these piles have been used up, there will be two piles of face-up cards in the middle. The top cards of each pile stay in the middle, while the remaining cards are flipped over to create two face-down piles that will feed the middle cards once neither player can play anymore.
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Step 6
The game ends when one player plays all his cards.
