New Card Game: Train Robber

Designed by Rey Alicea
3 or 4-player | 25 min | 7+

52 card standard deck.

Each player picks a suit.
Cards are ranked from A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A

The Object
Score the most points by taking the most cards in your suit, while trying to have the least number of cards in your hand at the end of the game.

The Deal
Shuffle the deck and deal out 5 cards to each player one at a time face up.

Next deal out six cards face up in a straight line along the long edges of the cards to the tableau. These cards are considered the train cars.

The remaining cards are placed facedown and adjacent to the 6 face-up cards on the tableau, this will be the draw deck. The draw deck is considered the engine of the train.

The Play
The player to the dealers left starts and the turn moves clockwise.

So on your turn you will take the following actions.

You may play any number of cards in front of you at the start of your turn to the end of the line of train cars, also...

• If the rank on the card last played is greater than the number of train cars in the line, no cards are taken.

• If the rank of the last card played is less than the number of train cars in the line you will do the following…moving towards the engine, skip that many train cars in the line equal in value to the last card played, leaving them behind and taking the cards that are left placing them in front of you.

• Any cards you’ve taken in your suit you keep in a face-down pile next to you, the rest of the cards stay in front of you face-up.

• If the number of cards in front of you is less than 5 then you will draw cards from the draw deck and raise your cards in front of you to 5.

When the draw deck is empty players take one last turn or pass, then the game ends.

The Score
The number cards in your suit are worth face value and the court cards are worth 10 points each. The cards left in front of you are worth -1 point each this includes any cards in your suit.

Highest score wins.