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Hand And Foot going national?

Altairan
07-07-2008, 05:23
The ACTGO(Altairan Card & Table Games Organization) Would like to create an international league of the card game Hand and Foot .
Outline: Two teams of two competitors use a large amount of cards to create sets of seven of the same card to win points and end the game by using their primary cards hand and secondary foot.

Rules
Each person gets one deck containing 112 cards with the Diamond Club Spade Heart suites
8 aces
8 2s-8 10s
8 Jacks Queens Kings
8 Jokers

Each player sits diagonal from their teammate.

The decks are shuffled by the official.
Each player takes two sets of 11 cards off the top, turning over the eleventh card face up.

They pass both sets clockwise.

The first player is chosen by each team picking their representative before the match. Each rep picks a number 1-6 and the referee of the game roles a six sided die to decide. The game proceeds clockwise from the winner of the roll.

Each player picks one of the set to use first, this is his hand. The other is his foot and when he depletes all cards in his/her hand he picks up the foot and uses those.

At the beginning of each turn the player draws 2 cards from the top of his/her deck.

To put a set of cards on the table they must either have three of the same card with the exceptions of 2s and jacks which are wild cards or 3s which are taboo cards or 2 of the same card and a wild card.

After all cards are played the player chooses 1 card to discard.

To complete a set you have to put down 7 cards in it. They will either be the same face(1 2 3 jack king queen) or wild cards. When the set is at 7 cards it is closed either red(no wilds) or black(at least one wild) Reds are worth 500 points and black are worth 300

Taboo cards(3s) are not able to be used in sets. If the game ends and a red three is either in your hand or foot it deducts 500 points. Black threes do nothing.

Conditions to end the game

1:Your team has at least 1 red set closed and 1 black set.
2:The other partner is into his foot.
3:The closer(player who is closing) will be out of cards if he completes the move
4:The other player in the team agrees to closing the game.

Point counting goes as follows also counting the cards in a players current card but not the foot if they have yet to open it.

Red Sets-500
Black Sets-300
Jokers-50
Kings Queens Jacks and Aces-30
8 9 and 10-20
2 4 5 6 7-10
Black 3-5
Red 3- -500