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GAME PLAY
If you’re the oldest player, you start play by:
a. Flipping over the top card from the stack and deciding if you will:
i. Take the card and put it face-up in front of you (this means that
you collect the points on the card), or
ii. Say, “No Thanks!” and put a counter from your supply of
counters onto the card so you don’t have to take it.
Each card is worth the number of points shown on the card (but
remember, points are bad!). Counters are good – each one cancels out
one point from a card at the end of the game.
If you don’t take the card, the player on your left must make the same
choice: take the card or put a counter onto it. This continues until a
player takes the card, and all of the counters on it. Sometimes (typically
with cards that have high numbers), play will go around and around –
you’ll get multiple chances to put a counter onto the card before you or
someone else takes it. When you take a card, put it face-up in front of you
on the table and add the counters on the card to your supply of counters.
Every time you take a card, re-start play by flipping over the top card from
the stack. You can then either take that card or put a counter onto it. If
you keep taking cards, your turn continues and you flip over additional
cards. As soon as you put a counter onto a card instead of taking it, play
passes to the player on your left to decide whether to take the card or put
a counter onto it.
HINT: It’s a good idea to keep your counters hidden. Most people
hold them in their closed fists, but anywhere you hide them will work.
For example, Eli flips over the 11 and decides that he doesn’t
want it. He puts a counter onto it and says, “No Thanks!”
Play passes to Alani (who is sitting on his left).
