Michigan

Chips ride on four boodle cards. Play runs up each suit, cash the boodles, and go out first. 3–8 players.

Also known as Boodle, Newmarket, and Stops.

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How to play Michigan

  1. 1Four boodle cards sit in the middle: the ace of hearts, king of clubs, queen of diamonds and jack of spades. At the start of each hand everyone puts a chip on each of them.
  2. 2All the cards are dealt out, including one spare hand that nobody plays. The dealer looks at their own cards and may swap them for the spare hand, sight unseen.
  3. 3The player left of the dealer starts a run with the lowest card they hold in any suit. Whoever holds the next card up in that suit must play it, and so on (aces are high). A run stops at the ace, or when the next card is in the spare hand or already played.
  4. 4Whoever played the stopping card starts a new run with their lowest card in a different suit. If they have no other suit, the next player to their left who does starts it.
  5. 5Play a boodle card and you collect the chips on it. Chips nobody wins stay on for the next hand.
  6. 6The hand ends when someone plays their last card. Each other player pays them a chip for every card left in their hand.
  7. 7Everyone deals once. In the last hand, whoever goes out also sweeps any chips left on the boodle cards. The most chips wins.

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