Flipjacks

'Flipjacks', also known as 'Jackflips' or 'Jack the Flipper', is a card game for 2-4 players. The objective of the game is to get rid of all your cards or have the least amount of cards at the end of the game.
Rules
* Players start with ten cards (2 players), eight cards (3 players) or six cards (4 players).
* The deck is placed in the middle of the players and one card is drawn and place face up beside the deck.
* Left of the dealer starts the game.
* Players must play a higher card than the previous player, in addition the card must be a different colour, e.g. if a player played a black six then the next player would have to play either a heart or a diamond which is higher than six.
* Aces can be played at any time which resets the pack meaning the next player can play any card, player who played the ace chooses which colour they would like to be.
* If you cannot play you must draw one card from the deck and the next player takes their turn.
* If no card can be played players continue to draw cards from the deck until either a player finds a card they can play, a player finds an ace and resets the pack or finally a player reaches ten cards (or eight or six depending on number of players) again. If the latter happens then the pack is reset and the player who is back to ten cards plays.
* As the name suggests "play any jack to flip the pack". This means that you flip the pack which is face down to face up and vice-versa and continue playing. You then remove that jack from play.
* While there is still jacks in the deck the game cannot end. If you run out of cards to pick up while there is still jacks in the deck then you must shuffle the deck and lay one card face up again and continue playing.
* Cards of the same number and colour can be played together.
* You must say "last card" when you have one card remaining before your opponent plays or you will have to pick up one card. If you try to play on without saying "last card" and not picking up the one card penalty then you will have to pick up nine cards and start again.
* Players win when they have no more cards in their hand. Alternatively if the deck runs out of cards when there is no jacks left in the deck the player with the least number of cards wins.

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