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Shichi Narabe is a fairly simple
Japanese
card game for 4 players. It is played with the
international 52-card deck. There appears to be several versions of
this game, so these rules are rather generic.
Aces are low.
How to play:
Shuffle the deck and deal 13 cards to each player. (There is a version
of this game using jokers, but I don't know the details.) Decide who goes
first somehow.
The players set up the layout by removing the sevens from their hands
and placing them in a column on the table, making sure that there is
enough room on each side of the column to eventually turn this into an
array of cards with 13 columns and 4 rows.
On your turn, you can either (a) place a card from your hand onto the
table or (b) no action. You may choose (b) a maximum of three times per
game.
You can play a card only if there is a card on the table which matches
it in suit and is adjacent to it in rank. For instance, at the beginning
of the game, since all the 7s are on the table, the first card played can
be any 6 or any 8. If it is 6♥, the second card played can be any of the 8
cards (5♥ 6♣ 6♦ 6♠ 8♥ 8♣ 8♦ 8♠). The cards on the table are arranged in
rows, one row to a suit, to make this rule easy to follow.
The game ends either when one player runs out of cards (in which case,
the remaining players receive penalty scoring for cards left in their
hands) or when all players run out of cards (in which case, the players
are ranked as first, second, third and fourth place, in the order in which
they ran out of cards).
This game is also sometimes referred to as "Fan Tan". (Is it? Is
Fan Tan the same game as this Shichi Narabe?)
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