Solo Saudi Hand

How to play

1. Two packs and two jokers, 106 cards. Each player gets 14; the player on the dealer's right gets 15 and starts by discarding without drawing. Four players, each for themselves.
2. Each turn you draw from the stock or take the last discard, meld if you wish, then discard. If you take the discard you must lay down a new meld that turn; the taken card need not be in it.
3. A meld is three or more cards: a run in one suit, with the ace below the 2 or above the king but never in the middle, or three or four of one rank in different suits. A joker stands for any card, at most one per meld.
4. Going down: new melds in one turn worth at least 51 for the round's first player to go down; every later player needs the last opening total plus one. The ace is 11, except 1 in A-2-3; J Q K are 10, and a joker is worth the card it stands for.
5. Once down, you may lay more melds of any value, add cards to any meld on the table, and take a joker from a meld by putting the card it stands for in its place; in a three-card set, only by adding both missing suits.
6. The round ends when a player gets rid of their cards and discards the last one.

Scoring and winning

• The player who goes out scores minus 30; laying down every card in one turn without having opened before and without adding to anyone else's melds (a hand) scores minus 60 and doubles everyone else's points.
• Each of the other three adds the cards left in hand: joker 15, ace 11, J Q K 10, the rest face value. A player who never went down adds 100.
• After five rounds the lowest total wins; if the lowest is shared, there is no winner.