Firstoff, my computer is fixed and files retrieved. Wewt!


SECONDLY, New card game! The official rules and name:

"Crab Fishing"

Basic rules:

1. Remove all face, joker, and ace cards from the deck
2. Once the deck is only number-cards, shuffle the deck twice. Do the same for the face deck.
3. Place both decks face down.
4. The dealer will then pick up the number-cards deck and distribute face-up five to ten cards per player, including himself if there are less than four players.
5. Each player will record on paper what cards they received.
6. All cards are returned to the dealer and re-shuffled, with the face-cards added back to the deck.
7. All cards are redistributed amongst the players until everyone has the largest possible equal ammount. Extra cards are set to the side.
.. a. For four players, each player will get thirteen cards at this stage, with two cards discarded.
8. Each player will tally up the cards they have regained, and every face card.
.. a. For every card regained, add five points.
.. b. For every jack received, add two points.
.. c. For every queen received, add three points.
.. d. For every king received, add four points.
.. e. For every ace or joker received, add five points.
9. Patterns are worth extra points:
.. a. If you have 2 cards of the same number/face and color, add five points.
.. b. If you have all four cards of a number or face, add ten points.
.. c. If you have four cards in a row from the same color and suite, add five points.
...... Example: Black Spades 2, 3, 4, 5 or Red Hearts 6, 7, 8, 9, et cetera
........ For every extra card in the row, add another point.
........ The official order of cards for this game is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, Ace, Joker.
10. The winner shall be the first person that wins (ie, has highest score).

Extra Rules (Optional):
11. If the lowest score is more than five points below the highest score, The person with the lowest score will retain one ace and the deck split and reshuffled.
12. Each person with a deficit of more than five points below the winner will retain an ace for the next round.
-in replacement of the above rules, should aces be desired to be put back in the face deck-
13. The discarded cards may be added to the score of the person with the lowest score if there are less than four discarded cards. Each card will add one point,
unless it is a face-card. Face-cards will follow the above rules.

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