Egyptian Ratscrew

Egyptian Ratscrew is a card accumulating game so you want end up with all the cards. It is also known as Egyptian War, Slap, and Bloodystump. To start off get a deck of cards (and more if you have a large amount of players). Shuffle and distribute the cards, if there any extra put them in a pile in the middle. Make sure no one looks at their cards!

A player starts the game off by placing a card face up in the center. Go clockwise and everyone follows suite.

There are two things that can happen.

Either face card or ace comes up or there is a slap.

When a face card or ace comes the next player has a certain amount of chances get another face card or ace.

The chances:

• Ace: four chances
• King: three chances
• Queen: two chances
• Jack: one chance (this makes the jack the most powerful)

Example...

Say player 1 puts down a Queen. Player 2 then has the opportunity to put two of his cards face up on the pile. If none of players 2's cards are a face card or ace then player 1 gets the entire pile.

But, if player 2 were to get a Jack then player 3 has one chance to place a face card or ace. If player 3 fails, then player 2 gets all the cards.

That's the first way of accumulating cards.

A slap can occur when there are two cards of the same value in a row. You can also slap if those two cards are only separated by one card (a sandwich). The person who slaps first gets all the cards in the pile.

If a person performs a false slap the penalty is to put a single card under the pile. This is called a one-under.

The game ends when someone holds all the cards!

Now, if you want make this game full-contact...

..whenever there is an opportunity to slap, the cards are open to everyone! The players get whatever they can grab. As you can imagine, things may get a little crazy. But, that's what makes it fun!
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