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Quick Start

Easy Peasy

Rules simplified

Number of Players

3-6 players

Deal

Deal one card to each player.
The first hand begins with 3 cards.
Number of cards dealt increases by one card for each hand until 9. Example: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
The deal passes clockwise to the next player.

Bidding

The player left of the dealer begins the bidding.
Review your hand and place your bid with the scorekeeper.
Each player bids the number of tricks they think they will win.

Play

You must follow suit.
The highest ranked card in a suit wins.
If you cannot follow suit, you have three choices: trump with a spade, play a non-trump card or HyJack the hand.
If one or more trump cards are played the highest trump wins.

Special Cards

HyJacker Cards

HyJackers

These two HyJack cards can take ANY hand. If both HyJack cards show up in the same hand, the last HyJack played takes the trick.

Beanie Jack

The player who wins a trick in which Beanie Jack is played loses all the points from their score for that hand.

Beanie Jack

Frilly Jack

The player who wins a trick in which Frilly Jack is played earns an extra 10 points for that hand.

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