learn how to play hand and foot card game

Players can accomplish this as they wish. For the first meld, it is usually 50 points. If a team has not melded, then they have to meld card which fulfill the minimum meld requirements. The top card along with the two you are holding should be promptly melded.Ī player has completed his turn by drawing card from the pile and melding it by discarding a card. There should be at least two cards of the same rank a player must hold of the top card of discarded pile.ģ. (The topmost card of the discarded pile)Ģ. For replacing the card from the stock file, a player has to fulfill some requirements.ġ. Player cannot take more than seven cards. You can draw up to seven cards from the pile but if the pile contains less than seven cards, player is permitted to take entire pile. You have to replace your card from the stock pile if you draw a red three. Discard the top most card from the discard pile. Either Meld cards or add melds to your partnership.ģ. Draw the first two cards from the top of the stock.Ģ. Player draw card for his first turn which consist of:ġ. Players after having their first turn must replace any red three they hold face up with equivalent number of cards from the stock pile. 50-90-120-150Īfter the hands are dealt, player sitting left to the one who has dealt the cards starts the game in clockwise order till someone gets rid of all the Hand and the Foot. This game is played with two variations as follows. If red threes are placed face up with melds, you will score +100 points but -100 points if an opponent goes out first. Teams who “Go Out” first are scoring bonus points too. Cardsīonus Points are awarded for making entire piles and degree of hands within the pile. A team can melds all their cards or melds except the last one and discards it. An individual player is not allowed to go out. A team should agree to meld all the cards. A teammate must have picked “Foot” and lays some part from it.ģ. A team must accomplish at least two Natural Melds, two wild meld and two dirty melds. To get rid of cards, players have to do this:ġ. The game end terminates if any team get rid of all the Hand and the Foot either by melding or discarding them. Players are awarded with points depending on the degree of their melds and lose points for the cards left. If the top card of pile is a red card then it’s a natural pile, Black card for dirty pile and wild pile for joker. When they are face up, entire pile is squared up for everyone else to see. Wild Meld made up completely with wild cards.

(It will not have two or more than two unless there are at least six cards in the meld).ģ. Dirty meld having more than one wild card. Natural Meld – Clean Melds excluding all the wild cards.Ģ. Players can also make a meld of twos and wild cards. Thus, there can be at most 1 wild card of three, four, five and at most 2 wild card of six or seven. There must be two or more than two real cards to use wild card. Wild card such as Jokers, Deuces cannot be melded in a normal way. Player can meld any cards of rank from Ace, King, Queen…down to 4. After commencement of meld having three cards or more than it, players can soar up it to seven cards. Melds belong to the team, not an individual player. Melds are turned into books of seven cards. It is not permitted to make melds more than seven cards and less than three cards. Meld is a set of 3-7 cards having equivalent rank kept face up. Melding is the term which is used to get rid of all your hand. Players are permitted to pick their Hand and the game proceeds by the player sitting left to the one who has dealt the Hand. The topmost card of the Stock is turned face up and if it is joker or a three red it is covered in the stock and another card is kept face up.įoots are kept face down till all the cards of the hands are played. Another teammate takes another deck and distributes 13 cards each to all the four players in clockwise order around the table known as Foot.Ĭards remaining are kept face down in center of the table forming a Stock. One teammate will deal each player with 13 cards (11 cards in other variant) until all the four players have a stack from a deck. There are 4 players so five decks are used. Jokers are included making 54 cards per deck. Two teams having 2 players each are formed which sit opposite to each other. Each player is dealt with two hands the first set of cards dealt is Hand while the other set of cards dealt is Foot. There are no standard rules with various variant available. This game is widely famous in North America. Usually, number of decks is one more than the player but it is not standard. Hand and Foot card games is played with 4 to 6 standard decks, and was ideally designed for 2 players but four to six players can also play it forming a team of two or three.

Learn how to play hand and foot card game