California Jack

All Fours for two with a face-up stock. Win tricks to take the cards you want, then capture High, Low, Jack and Game. First to 10. 2 players.

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How to play California Jack

  1. 1A game for two from the All Fours family. Each player gets six cards. The other forty are stacked face up as the stock, so its top card is always in view. The suit of the stock's first top card is trump for the whole hand.
  2. 2The non-dealer leads. Follow suit if you can; if you can't, play anything. The highest trump wins the trick, or else the highest card of the suit led. Aces are high.
  3. 3After each trick, the winner takes the top card of the stock and the loser takes the card under it, both in plain sight. Then the winner leads. Once the stock is gone, the last six tricks are played from your hands.
  4. 4Only the cards you take in tricks score, one point each for: High, the ace of trump; Low, the two of trump; Jack, the jack of trump; and Game, for taking more card points (each 10 is worth 10, ace 4, king 3, queen 2, jack 1). If card points tie, nobody scores Game.
  5. 5The first to 10 points wins. Points are counted in the order High, Low, Jack, Game, so if you'd both get there in the same hand, whoever reaches 10 first wins. After 12 hands, the higher score wins.

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