Burn

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How to Play

The aim

Get rid of all your cards. The last player still holding cards gets Burned.

Setup

Everyone gets 3 face-down cards, 3 face-up cards on top of them, and 3 in hand. Before play, swap hand cards with your face-ups to put strong cards face-up.

Your turn

• Play one card, or several of the same rank, equal to or higher than the top of the pile. Rank order: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K A 2.
• After playing from your hand, draw back up to 3 while the stock lasts.
• Can't play (or don't want to)? Pick Up the whole pile. The next player starts a new pile.
• When your hand and the stock are empty, play your face-ups one at a time. If none can be played, put one face-up on the pile and pick it all up.
• Then flip your face-down cards blind, one per turn. If the flip can't be played, you pick up the pile and the flipped card.

Special cards

2	Reset. Plays on anything; anything can follow it. It also answers a 4.
4	Force pick-up. Plays on anything. The next player must answer with one of the five answers: a 2, 4, 8, 10, or four of a kind, or else pick up the whole pile. A 4 passes the attack on to the next player, an 8 or a 2 ends it, and a 10 or four of a kind burns the pile.
7	Lower next. The next play must be 7 or lower. 2, 4 and 10 can still be played.
10	Burn. Plays on anything. The pile is removed from the game and you play again.
4×	Four of a kind burns. When the top four cards of the pile are the same rank, the pile burns and whoever completed it plays again.

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