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Queen’s Scratch

A card game created by Mirabella Violet

 

This game takes a deck of forty-eight cards. Kings and Jokers are unneeded.

 

Each player (There can be two to four players) gets seven cards, which stay hidden from other players. The remaining cards get placed into the middle of the play area (a table, most often.)

 

The top four cards of the deck are set in an ‘X’ formation around the deck, the cards facing up.

 

The goal is to get rid of all your cards by placing them on the smaller piles. If there is a two of hearts (red) as the base of the small pile, then a three of clubs or spades (black) must be put on top.

 

It can continue only in this way.

 

A Queen can be placed in between the four stacks, beginning a new stack for more options. You continue as normal, but descend downwards. A Queen of Spades will can only have a Jester of hearts or diamonds placed on top, and so on.

 

Like most card games, bets can be made, but only before the first cards are handed out to each player.

 

The person with no cards (or the least when the players decide ends) wins!

 

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A painting of a group playing the game together!

 

 

Spoiler

This game is based off of Kings Corner, also known as Kings Cross! The rules are pretty similar, if more reference is needed.

https://bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/kings-corner/