Piggy (card game)

Piggy is a card game for three to six players, in which the aim is to put down your cards as quickly as possible.

The rules

It is played with a French or Altenburg card game with 32 cards.

Course of the game

At the beginning each player receives four cards, the dealer five, the remaining cards are placed face down as a talon (pile).

Now you have to try to collect four cards of one value, e.g. B. four 7s or four 9s. The dealer now begins by handing the card he cannot use to his neighbor on the right, face down. Now he can choose from five cards and push one card further, etc. If a card reaches the person who put it into circulation, he may place it next to the pile and draw a new card from the talon.

If you get the fourth card that you missed to win in your hand, you throw the four cards very quickly on the table and loudly shout "piggy". The other players do this too, and whoever throws the cards on the table last loses the game.

punishment

The winner shuffles the cards until the loser calls "stop" or "halt" and chooses any card, e.g. B. King of Spades. He also chooses whether the cards should be counted from above or from below until the card that the "loser" had chosen comes up. Is the king of spades z. B. the sixteenth card from above or from below, the "loser" is scratched sixteen times with the number of sixteen inclined cards over the protruding bones of the fist.