December 20, 2009

• Jian Hong Dian (edited, with pictures!)

  AKA my favorite childhood card game!
  (cards pictured in this post designed by my sister)

  Each person is dealt ten cards.
  Six cards are put face up on the table, the rest are in a stack.

  

  You have to match up the cards to add up to ten. Face cards are matched with the same face card, tens match with tens.

  Person who did not deal goes first.

  After you match a card, you take the pair and put it in front of you (you can separate the black and red cards if you want). Then you flip over a new card from the stack and place it on the table.
  

  If the new card matches with an existing card on the table to add up to ten, you take that pair as well.
  

  If you can’t make a pair that adds to ten, you put a card from your hand face up on the table, and then flip a card from the stack.
  

  If the card you flipped matches with an existing card on the table, you take the pair.
  

  When you run out of cards in your hand, you just flip from the stack.
  

  If the card you flip matches with an existing card on the table, you take the pair.
  

  Points are counted as the number on the red cards you have (face cards are ten points each).
  If you have both the ace and the 9, that counts as 20 points.

  
  The above hand is 86 points.

  Person with the most points wins.

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