Objective

End the game with more points than your opponent based on the cards you have acquired.

Players

2

Materials

30 cards from a regular deck of playing cards.
​Include A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Spades, Hearts, and Clubs.
Exclude all diamonds and all Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Jokers.

​Setup

Shuffle the deck and place the cards face-up in a grid of 5x6. Do not re-orient any cards. Cards should be placed vertically between the two players.

Gameplay

Each turn, players may re-orient one card 180 degrees, then claim one adjacent card (no diagonals). When claiming a card, the orientation must be preserved as you remove the card from the grid and collect it. Players must perform both actions (re-orient and claim), not just one or the other. Once a player has re-oriented a card and claimed an adjacent card, it is the other player's turn. When no more cards can be claimed (no two adjacent cards remain), the game is over.

Scoring

Points are based on the cards claimed as well as their orientation.

On the 6 of Spades, four of the symbols are pointed up, and two of the symbols are pointed down. If you claim the card with four of the suit symbols pointed at you, it will be worth four points for you, but two for your opponent since two of the symbols point at them, for a net value of two. If you claim the 6 of Spades when it is oriented in your opponent's favor, that card will be a net value of negative two for you. Even though 10 is the highest number card, it is worth net zero because five of its suit symbols point up and five point down.

Net point values for cards:
7s: ±3
6s and 8s: ±2
As, 3s, 5s, 9s: ±1
2s, 4s, 10s: 0