Machiavelli
Italy’s free-for-all rummy. Every group in the middle is shared: pull them apart, rebuild them, and be first to play all your cards. 2–5 players.
How to play Machiavelli
- 1Two full decks are shuffled together (104 cards, no jokers). Everyone gets 15 cards and the rest are the stock. Get rid of all your cards first.
- 2Every group laid down in the middle belongs to everyone. A group is a set (three or four cards of one rank, all in different suits) or a run (three or more cards in a row in one suit). An ace goes below the 2 or above the king, but a run never wraps from king to ace to 2.
- 3On your turn, play at least one card from your hand. You may also take the groups apart and rebuild them any way you like: move cards between groups, split a long run, borrow a card to make a new group.
- 4To play, pick cards from your hand, then tap a group to add them to it, or New group to start one. To rearrange, pick cards in the middle and Pick up: they join your hand until you lay them down again, which you must do before your turn ends. Cards from the middle never stay in anyone's hand.
- 5When every group is a proper set or run, finish your turn. Take back puts everything back the way it was.
- 6If you can't or won't play, draw a card from the stock instead. Once the stock is empty, you pass; when everyone passes in a row, the round ends.
- 7The first player out wins the round. Everyone else scores the cards left in their hand: number cards count their number, jacks, queens and kings 10, aces 1. When anyone reaches 100 points, the lowest score wins.
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