Tanj

How to play

1. Each player has a full 52-card pack: a 13-card reserve with only the top card showing, a face-down stock of 35, and a fire for turned cards they do not play. In the middle are eight shared houses, four dealt from each pack.
2. The player whose top reserve card is higher starts; the king is highest and the ace lowest.
3. Eight foundations sit in the middle: each starts with an ace and builds up in the same suit to the king. Nothing comes back off them.
4. Houses build down in alternating colours, such as a red 9 on a black 10. Only the outer card moves, and any card fills an empty house. You may also put a card on the top of your opponent's reserve or fire when it is the same suit and one higher or one lower.
5. You play from your reserve top, your turned card and the outer card of any house. Then turn a card from your stock; if you do not play it, put it on your fire, which ends your turn. When the stock runs out, the fire is turned over to make a new one.
6. Priority rules: a reserve card that can go to a foundation goes there before anything else, any card that can go to a foundation goes before any other move, and an empty house is filled from the reserve before a stock card is turned.
7. Tanj: if you see your opponent break a priority rule, tap Tanj! before their next move or yours. Their move is undone and the turn passes to you. A call when there was no break costs nothing, and your opponent can stop you the same way.

Winning and the end of the game

• The first player to have no cards left in reserve, stock, fire or turned card wins. Cards your opponent puts on your reserve or fire become yours.
• If play goes on too long with no card reaching a foundation, the game ends and fewer cards left wins; equal is a draw.