Black Jack (21) Non-Betting

Black Jack (21) – Non-Betting

Use a standard 52 card deck
Two or more players
Goal: To achieve a hand whose points total nearer to 21 than the banker's hand, but without exceeding 21
Take turns being the dealer and re-shuffle after each hand
Cards 2 through 10 are worth their face value, face cards are 10 points, ace is worth 1 or 11 (player’s choice)
Player/s and Dealer receive 2 cards. Player’s cards are dealt face up. Dealer’s cards have one face down and one face up.
Player must declare if he wants to keep his hand (stand) or have the Dealer give him one additional card from the deck (hit). The player can then keep his hand or ask for another card (hit). The player can have as many hits as he likes. If the Player goes over 21 he is “bust” and looses the game.
When all of the players are have finished their actions, either decided to stand or busted, the Dealer turns over his hidden card. If the Dealer has 21 he won’t take any more cards. The Dealer can take an additional card (one at a time). The deal must hit if lower than a 17, otherwise the dealer will stand.
If the Dealer goes bust the player closest to 21 wins.

Crazy 8’s

Use a standard 52 card deck, can use 2 decks if there are a lot of players
Two or more players
Object: To get rid of the cards in your hand onto a discard pile by matching the number or suit of the previous discard
Dealer gives five cards to each player (7 if there are only 2 players)
The undealt stock is placed face down on the table, and the top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock to start the discard pile
Starting with the player to the dealer's left, and continuing clockwise, each player in turn must either play a legal card face up on top of the discard pile, or draw a card from the undealt stock. If the player picks a card from the pile and it is “legal” the person can play the card. If not, it moves to the next player. The following plays are legal:

If the top card of the discard pile is not an eight, you may play any card which matches the rank or suit of the previous card (for example if the top card was the king of hearts you could play any king or any heart);
An eight may be played on any card, and the player of the eight must nominate a suit, which must be played next;
If an eight is on top of the pile, you may play any card of the suit nominated by the person who played the eight.

The first player who gets rid of all his cards wins, and the other players score penalty points according to the cards they have left in their hands - 50 for an eight, 10 for a picture, and spot cards at face value (one point for an ace, two for a two and so on).

Go Fish

Use a standard 52 card deck
Best for 3-6 players, but it is possible for 2 to play
The dealer deals 5 cards to each player (7 each for 2 players)
The remaining cards are placed face down to form a stock
The player to dealer's left starts. A turn consists of asking a specific player for a specific rank. For example, if it is my turn I might say: “Mary, please give me your jacks.” The player who asks must already hold at least one card of the requested rank, so I must hold at least one jack to say this. If the player who was asked (Mary) has cards of the named rank (jacks in this case), she must give all her cards of this rank to the player who asked for them. That player then gets another turn and may again ask any player for any rank already held by the asker.
If the person asked does not have any cards of the named rank, they say “Go fish!” The asker must then draw the top card of the undealt stock. If the drawn card is the rank asked for, the asker shows it and gets another turn. If the drawn card is not the rank asked for, the asker keeps it, but the turn now passes to the player who said “Go fish!”
As soon as a player collects a book of 4 cards of the same rank, this must be shown and discarded face down. The game continues until either someone has no cards left in their hand or the stock runs out. The winner is the player who then has the most books.

Memory (AKA Concentration)

Use a standard 52 card deck
Two or more players
Shuffle cards and place them face down on the table in a pattern (e.g., rows and columns)
Players take turns choosing 2 cards and turning them face up. If the two cards match (number or face) then the player takes those two cards. If they do not match, the cards are turned face down again without changing their position. Try to remember where the cards are so you can get matches.
When all the cards have been matched the game is done
Each player receives one point for each pair taken
The player with the most points wins
Variation: Can reduce the number of cards used

Old Maid

Play with a standard 52 card deck
Two or more players
Remove one Queen, leaving 51 cards
Deal and play clockwise
Deal out all cards to all players, no one has to have the same amount
Look at your cards and discard any pairs that you have (e.g., 2 kings)
The dealer goes first
At your turn you must offer your cards spread face down to the player to your left. That player selects a card from your hand without seeing it, and adds it to her hand. If it makes a pair in her hand she discards the pair. The player who just took a card then offers her hand to the next player to her left, and so on.
If you get rid of all your cards you are safe - the turn passes to the next player and you take no further part. Eventually all the cards will have been discarded except one queen (the old maid) and the holder of this queen loses.

Rummy

Use a standard 52 card deck
The game is best played with two to four players, but up to six can take part. Either a fixed number of deals are played, or the game is played to a target score. The number of deals or the target score needs to be agreed before beginning to play.
Cards in each suit rank, from low to high: Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack Queen King
Choose a dealer
In a two player game, each player is dealt a hand of ten cards. Seven cards each are dealt if there are three or four players, and when five or six play each player gets six cards. The cards are dealt one at a time, and after the deal, the next card is placed face up on the table to start the discard pile, and the remainder of the deck is placed face down beside it to form the stock. The players look at and sort their cards.
Object of the Game: To dispose of all the cards in your hand. There are three ways to get rid of cards: melding, laying off, and discarding.
Melding is taking a combination of cards from your hand, and placing it face up in front of you on the table, where it stays. There are two kinds of combination which can be melded: sequences (also known as runs) and groups (also known as sets or books). Aces can be low or high.
A Sequence or run consists of three or more cards of the same suit in consecutive order, such as 4, 5, 6 or 8, 9, 10, J.
a group, set or book is three or four cards of the same rank, such as 7, 7, 7.
Laying off is adding a card or cards from your hand to a meld already on the table. The cards added to a meld must make another valid meld. For example to the 4, 5, 6 you could add the 3 or the 7. You are not permitted to rearrange the melds in the process. For example, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 3, 4, 5 have been melded, you are not permitted to move the 2 from the group to the sequence, so as to lay off the A.
Discarding is playing a card from your hand on top of the discard pile. You get rid of one card this way at the end of each turn.
Directions
Draw. You must begin by taking one card from either the top of the Stock pile or the top card on the discard pile, and adding it to your hand. The discard pile is face up, so you can see in advance what you are getting. The stock is face down, so if you choose to draw from the stock you do not see the card until after you have committed yourself to take it. If you draw from the stock, you add the card to your hand without showing it to the other players.
Meld. If you have a valid group or sequence in your hand, you may lay one such combination face up on the table in front of you. Melding is optional; you are not obliged to meld just because you can.
Lay off. This is also optional. If you wish, you may add cards to groups or sequences previously melded by yourself or others. There is no limit to the number of cards a player may lay off in one turn.
Discard. At the end of your turn, one card must be discarded from your hand and placed on top of the discard pile face up. If you began your turn by picking up the top card of the discard pile you are not allowed to end that turn by discarding the same card, leaving the pile unchanged - you must discard a different card. You may however pick up the discard on one turn and discard that same card at a later turn. If you draw a card from the stock, it can be discarded on the same turn if you wish.
If the stock pile has run out and the next player does not want to take the discard, the discard pile is turned over, without shuffling, to form a new stock, and play continues.
A player wins an individual hand by either melding, laying off, or discarding all of his or her cards. Getting rid of your last card in one of these ways is called going out. As soon as someone goes out, play ceases. There can be no further melding or laying off, even if the other players have valid combinations in their hands.
Scoring: When a player goes out, it is time to add up the value of the cards. Each player calculates the points she or he has earned:

Face cards (K,Q,J) are worth 10 points each
Aces are worth 1 point each
Number Cards are worth their face value - for example a six is worth 6 points, a

four is 4 points, and so on.

For those players who still have cards in their hands, the points in their hands are

deducted from the points earned. The game continues with further deals until a player

reaches the points target that was decided before the game began (e.g., 500 points), or

until the agreed number of deals has been played.

Solitaire

Use a standard 52 card deck
One person game

Instructions

1.Deal seven cards onto a table. Place the cards horizontally and turn the card farthest on the left up.

2.Continue dealing the cards until 28 cards have been placed on the table. Deal the cards left to right, starting with the row second from the left. Place the first card face-up and the next five cards face-down. Deal the next row, starting with the first pile that doesn't have a face-up card and deal the next four cards face-down. Continue dealing from the first pile without a turned-up card until you come to the last card, which you place face-up on the last pile.

3.Place the unused portion of the deck on the table, facing down.

4.Move all visible aces above the row of cards. Place the cards in a row, one for each suit.

5.Transfer cards from one column to the another in descending, opposite order. For example, one column shows a black king and another has a red queen facing-up. Move the queen onto the king's pile, placing it slightly below the king, so you can still see what card is there. The cards must go in alternating color order. If you have a red three on a black four, and a red five is showing, you can move the black four and red three on to the red five.

6.Take three cards from the unused pile and turn them over when you can't make any more moves. If the first of these cards can be used, place it on the relevant pile. You must start with the first card facing up. If that card can't be used, you can't use one of the cards underneath it, even if it will fit on a card in your columns. For example, if you have a two, place it on a three of the opposite color or on top of the ace that has the same suit. If the two can't be used, turn over another three cards. Repeat this step whenever you run out of moves, after checking to see if you can transfer any cards to another column.

7.Turn the next card in the column face-up whenever you have moved all the face-up cards from it. If you come across an ace, move it to the row with your other aces.

8.Move cards to the top row of aces in ascending order by suit whenever it is possible. This means the card that goes on top of the ace is a two, followed by a three, then four, until you have placed a king on the pile. Place hearts on the ace of hearts, spades on the ace of spades, clubs on the ace of clubs and diamonds on the ace of diamonds.

9.Empty columns can be filled with either a single king or a pile that begins with a king. That allows you to turn the next face-down card over that was under the king.

10.Turn your unused pile back to face-down when you have used all of it. Turn another three cards over when you can't make any moves and place the cards on the appropriate pile. Keep doing this until you have placed all the cards from the unused pile onto the relevant row.

11.Move the cards until you have used the entire deck or cannot move any more cards. When you have finished you will either have all the cards in ascending order on top of the ace, so you will have four kings showing, or you won't have any moves left. If you have all the cards placed on the ace, you have won. If you haven't put all the cards on the ace and run out of moves, you have lost.

Uno

Need a specialized “UNO” card deck (108 cards)
Minimum 2 players, maximum 10 players
Object: To get rid of all your cards first.
Choose a dealer by having each player pick one card. The person with the highest number is the dealer. Word cards count as zero.
Deal each player seven cards and place the remaining cards face down in the middle of the table. This is the draw pile.
Turn the top card of the draw pile over to form the discard pile.
Take turns beginning with the player to the dealer's left and go clockwise around the table.
Place one of your cards on the discard pile when it's your turn. Your card must have the same number, color or wording as the top card of the discard pile - or be a wild card.
Draw a card if you cannot discard. Play the drawn card if you can. If you can't, it's the next person's turn.
If you put down a Wild card or Draw Four card, announce the color of your choice. You can play a Wild card any time it's your turn.
Follow the directions of a word card that is played on the discard pile by the player preceding you. This may mean that you have to draw two cards, skip a turn or even draw four cards.
Say "UNO" when you have one card left in your hand. If you forget to say UNO and another player catches you, you must draw two cards.
Whoever is out of cards first, wins!

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