Fifty-one

Fifty-one is a simple card game for two to four players, mostly children.

The rules

The cards and their values

Fifty-one is played with a 32-hand pack of French cards . The cards count as follows

• an ace counts an eye,
• a king four eyes,
• a lady with three eyes,
• a boy two eyes,
• a ten minus an eye,
• a nine zero eyes,
• an eight eyes and
• a seventh one or seven eyes.

The colors don't matter at fifty-one.

The game

After shuffling, the dealer lets the dealer draw , deal five cards to each player and place one card face up on the table. The rest of the card pile is placed face down next to it as a talon .

Forehand takes the top card from the talon and then places any card face up on the card next to the talon. He states the value of his and the face-up card. If in addition to the shock z. For example, if a king is lying and the forehand places a jack on it, he says “six” (4 + 2 = 6).

In this way the game continues. The next player adds the value of the face up card to the value of the cards already face up. If he puts z. B. from an eight, he says "fourteen" (6 + 8 = 14).); if he were to discard a ten instead, he would have to announce “five” (6 - 1 = 5).

The game ends as soon as a player reaches or exceeds the value of fifty-one eyes with his discarded card and thus loses.

If the talon is used up in the course of a game, it can no longer be bought and the game continues from hand.

literature

• Rita Danyliuk: Multiplication tables for card games . Humboldt, 2003, ISBN 3-89994-823-8 , page 93
• David Parlett : The Oxford Dictionary of Card Games , Oxford University Press, Oxford NY 1992/96
• Rulebook from Piatnik , Vienna without a year