How to Play

Setup

The Deck: 6 decks of cards shuffled together, Jokers included.

Players: 4 players (2 teams of 2, partners seated across from each other).

Dealing: Each round, 3 of the 4 players deal a pile to every player at the table:

Rotation: Roles rotate every round. Over all 4 rounds, each player deals Hand once, Foot once, Toe once, and sits pretty once.

Wild Cards

2's and Jokers are wild and can stand in for any rank when melding.

Red 3's & Black 3's

• Red 3's are bonus cards — set aside face up when drawn, and always scored at the end of the round: 100 points each on their own, or 1,500 points total if you complete a full book of 7.
• Black 3's can't be melded — they can only be discarded, and are worth 5 points if left in hand at the end of the round.

Turns

Draw 3 cards from the stock or pick up the entire discard pile (if unfrozen), then discard just 1 card to end your turn.

Picking up the pile: If the pile isn't frozen, show two natural (non-wild) cards from your hand matching the rank of the top card, and take the whole discard pile — not just the top card.

Freezing the pile: Discarding a black 3 or a wild card freezes the pile — no one can pick it up while a frozen card sits on top, regardless of what they hold. Players must draw from the stock instead until the freeze clears.

Melds (Books)

A meld, or book, is built from 7 cards of the same rank, 4 through Ace.

Your team needs one of each of these five books before anyone can go out.

Book size rules:

• The five required books above are capped at exactly 7 cards each.
• Beyond the required five, your team can build any number of additional Clean/"Red" or Dirty/"Black" books, plus additional books of 5's, 7's, Wilds, or Red 3's — as long as your five required books are already complete.
• Extra Clean or Dirty books can grow past 7 cards — keep adding matching cards to them. Extra 5's, 7's, Wilds, and Red 3's books stay capped at 7 cards each, same as the required versions.
• Any Dirty book (required or extra) always needs more natural cards than wild cards, even as it grows.

Clean and Dirty books are sometimes called "Red books" and "Black books" at the table — same books, just nicknames.

Foot Pickup

The first time either player on a team completes a book — whether it's the Clean, Dirty, Wilds, 7's, or 5's book — both players on that team immediately pick up their Foot pile and add those cards to what's currently in their hand. The player who completed the meld continues playing.

Going Out

A player may go out by either discarding out (their last card is discarded as normal) or playing out (their last card goes into a meld, with no discard) — either is allowed. Going out means a player has played every card from their Hand, Foot, and Toe piles. The team must have completed all five required books before anyone goes out. First team to go out earns a +200 bonus.

End of Round

The round ends when someone goes out, or the stock runs out.

Scoring extra books ("Base"): Assuming your team completed all five required books, count up any additional books you built beyond those — any number of extra Clean/"Red" books (500 each), extra Dirty/"Black" books (300 each), extra Books of 5's (2,500 each), extra Books of 7's, extra Books of Wilds (2,500 each), or Books of Red 3's (1,500 if a full 7, or 100 each if not). For each of these extra books, add its flat book value, then also add the individual point value of every card inside it, using the chart below. Total it all up and enter it as the "Base" score for the round.

Cards left in hand: Any cards still in a player's Hand, Foot, or Toe pile when the round ends count against that team, using the same chart:

Enter the leftover-card total as a negative number in "Final Count."

Winning

Play four rounds. Add up each team's score across all four rounds — highest total wins.