How to play The Drunkard

What is "drunkard"

Drunkard is a card game designed for at least two people. It can unite an unlimited number of players, both even and odd. True, if more than 6 people gather at the table, it is better to take two decks of cards.

All cards are dealt equally to the players. Everyone places their pile face down. Clockwise, the participants lay out one card face down in the center of the table. The one whose card is the highest takes everything and puts it at the bottom of his pile. Such moves are repeated again and again.

The winner in the "Drunkard" is the one who collects the entire deck.

What do the cards in "The Drunkard" mean?

You can play with any classic deck of 36 or 52 cards. For a large company, you can take two at once.

As in the game of "The Fool", the cards in the "Drunkard" are distributed by seniority: 2 or 6 is the lowest card, the ace is the highest. True, there is one feature: 6 (or 2) beats an ace, although this rule is not considered mandatory. If you decide to implement it in your company, agree on this in advance so that there are no disputes and confusion during the game.

How to play The Drunkard

Determine the first dealer by lot or by convention. He needs to carefully shuffle the deck and clockwise distribute the cards to the players equally face down.

Participants do not look at their cards and put them in a pile next to them.

The dealer first takes the top card from his pile, reveals it and places it in the center of the table. Then the rest of the players do the same in turn in a clockwise direction.

The player whose card turned out to be the oldest takes all the others, turns them face down and puts them under his pile.

Then the turn passes clockwise to the next player after the first dealer. He reveals the top card, puts it on the table, the other participants do the same in turn.

When a participant is left empty-handed, he is out of the game. The process continues until one of the players collects the entire deck - he will be considered the winner.

How to argue properly

In the process, a situation may arise when two or more players have the highest identical cards at the same time. In this case, they must "bet" to determine who gets all the winnings on the table. To do this, the players put one more card on top: the one whose will be older takes everything.

Can be issued dispute and in a different way: first, the players put one shirt up on the “disputed” ones, and then another open one, and the winner is determined from it.

If the disputants have laid out the same cards again, they put one more (or one face down, the other face down) until someone is higher.

If the player has no cards to wager, he automatically takes all the cards. It happens that you need to argue with the “substrate” (one card face down, the other face down), but one of the disputants has only one card left. Then the dispute is carried out without a "substrate".