Alternative rules will be suggested for standalone or scoreless games.īench: the face-down lineup of cards in front of each player Deck: the face-down deck placed in the middle Discard Pile: the face-up pile started with a single card from the deck at the beginning of the game Either a fixed number of rounds are played or a fixed elimination total is set. A cumulative point total is kept, to which penalty points and round-end points are added. Ideally, multiple games should be played in one sitting. The objective of the game is to have the lowest card total, with Aces worth 1 and Jacks, Queens and Kings worth 11, 12 and 13 respectively. At this point each player may look at any two of their cards (only once). The deck is placed face-down in the middle and one card is placed face-up to start a new face-up pile. GandalfĪ strategic shredding card game best played with 3-6 players.Įach player is dealt 4 cards face down in a line. I've formatted them as markdown so here they are. I literally wrote the rules up for it last night and was coming here to post them. It was taught to the uncle of a friend of ours in a pub in Nepal. We've been playing this game for a year now.
