Gamehelpbouncers

GOAL

Each round, a heart card is revealed. The winner of the trick must take the card. Earn the lowest score by avoiding taking the trick and/or strategically winning the Bouncer cards. Bouncers let you negate the value of other cards you win...but are themselves the highest-valued cards in the game if they can't negate another heart card.

CARDS AND SETUP

All of the cards from the diamonds, spades and clubs suits are shuffled together. Then each player is dealt 13 cards from them.

Hearts are shuffled into a pile with the top card revealed.

Aces are high.

PLAY

Any card may lead the trick. On your turn, you must follow suit, if you can. If you can't follow suit, you may play any card. Be careful - the highest card played wins the trick, regardless of suit! Play continues until all hearts have been won.

SCORING

After the hearts pile is exhausted, all players total the value of the heart cards they won. Cards 2-10 are worth face value. Aces are worth 11. Bouncer rules are as follows:

Bouncers
The Jack, Queen and King of Hearts are bouncers. During the scoring phase, each bouncer you won negates the value of one ace or number card. If you have more bouncers than aces and number cards, you score 25 points for each bouncer that isn't able to negate a card. Bouncers cannot negate one another.

GAME END

Play continues until a player scores at least 100 points. Then the player with the lowest score wins.