Grand Military Parade

The game of self love.

Needed: deck of cards

Players: 1-5

Object: collect the most cards

Players begin with a shuffled deck and hands of 7 cards each. The player with the lowest card goes first by placing the card face up in the center of the playing surface which will develop through the course of play into 4 rows of 13 columns (the four suits of the 13 numbers)

Play proceeds with each player laying cards in the pattern. Suit orientation is not important; however, players may only expand columns adjoining to preceding numbers, e.g players may only play 8s if a 7 has been played. The player that completes a column (plays the last card of that number), collects all cards in that column. Player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

• players may play as many cards as they can during their turn.

• players replenish their hands from the deck at the conclusion of their turn.

• players that cannot go during their turn, shuffle their hand into the deck, deal a new hand, and skip their turn.

Mulling over ideas for incorporating functions/abilities for face cards, but haven't come up with anything beyond a few rough ideas -- maybe face cards are not to be played in orderly fashion but utilized as wilds/player skips/ hand resuffles.