Oghlan

How to play

1. Four cards go face up on the floor and each player gets four. Whenever the hands are empty, four more are dealt to each player until the stock runs out; nothing more goes to the floor. With four players, partners sit opposite.
2. On your turn you play one card. A card that can take always takes when you play it; you may lay a card that takes nothing on the floor, even when another card in your hand could take.
3. A number card (ace as 1, then 2 to 10) takes a group of floor number cards that adds up to 11 with it: a 6 takes a 2 and a 3, an ace takes a 2, a 3 and a 5. If several groups fit, you choose one.
4. A queen takes only one other queen and a king only one other king; they never count towards 11.
5. The jack (the oghlan) takes every floor card except queens and kings. On an empty floor, or one with only queens and kings, it stays there.
6. When all 52 cards have been played, whatever is left on the floor goes to the last player to take.

Scoring and winning

• Each round gives 5 points: 2 for taking 27 cards or more, 1 for the 2 of clubs, 1 for the 10 of diamonds and 1 for more clubs. At 26 cards each, the 2 points go to nobody.
• The first to 21 points wins, or 11 if you choose it. If both sides reach the target in the same round, the side that scored more that round wins.