Haggish

¶ Special Rules

• Shuffle the pip cards (2-10) and deal 14 to each player.
• Also give each player one Jack, one Queen, and one King face up. These are wild.
• Before cards are played, a player can make a bet for 0, 15, or 30 points. They will win the bet if they are the one to play out all their cards.
• If a bomb tops a trick, then the other player captures the cards.
  • The person who played the bomb still gets to start the next trick.
  • They just don’t capture the cards from the trick.
• Once one player has played all their cards, score.

¶ Scoring

• 5 points for each card left in your opponent’s hand.
• Points for cards captured from tricks:
  • Odds (3,5,7,9) score 1 points each.
  • Jacks score 2 points.
  • Queens score 3.
  • Kings score 5.
• If you won your bet, you get that many points. If you lost, then your opponent gets those points.

Multiple rounds may be played. Suggested winning total is 250.

¶ Special Patterns

• Sets: A group of of cards of the same rank.
  • Single: A, Double: AA, Triple: AAA, Quadruple: AAAA … (Up to 7 of a kind using the wild cards.)
• Runs of sets.
  • Runs must have at least 3 cards. (3+ singles, 2+ pairs, etc.)
  • Each set in the run must be composed of the same suit(s).
• Wild cards (JQK) may be used to stand in for any suit and any lower rank.
• Bombs: Ranked from lowest to highest:
  • 3579 in different suits (no wilds)
  • JQ
  • JK
  • QK
  • JQK
  • 3579 in one suit (no wilds)

Individual Cards are ranked KQJT98765432, highest-to-lowest.

Adapted from Haggis, by Sean Ross