Cuttle

How to play Cuttle

1. 1A duel for two. Be the first to have point cards worth 21 or more in front of you. The player who starts gets five cards, the other six, and the rest make the deck.
2. 2On your turn, do one thing: draw a card (you may hold eight at most), lay an ace to ten face up for its number in points, scuttle, or play a card for its power.
3. 3To scuttle, play an ace to ten onto one of your opponent's point cards with a lower number, or the same number in a higher suit (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, from low to high). Both cards go to the scrap pile.
4. 4These cards can be played once, for an effect, and then go to the scrap pile. Ace: scrap every point card. Two: scrap a royal or eight in front of your opponent. Three: take any card from the scrap pile. Four: your opponent discards two cards of their choice. Five: draw two cards. Six: scrap every royal and eight. Seven: turn over the top card of the deck and play it at once. Nine: send a royal or eight in front of your opponent back to their hand.
5. 5When a card is played for its effect, the other player may cancel it by playing a two. That two can be cancelled by another two, and so on.
6. 6Royals stay in front of you. A king lowers the points you need: 14 with one king, 10 with two, 5 with three and none with four. A queen protects your other cards from twos, nines and jacks. A jack goes on one of your opponent's point cards and takes it over, points and all, until the jack leaves. An eight can be laid as glasses instead of points: while you have them, you see your opponent's hand.
7. 7When the deck runs out you may pass, and three passes in a row end the hand with no winner. The first to win three hands wins the game.

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