Mill Fool Card Game

An awesome family card game.

Mill Fool card game can be played with 2 to 6 players
using a single deck of 36 cards. 6 to Ace


The Goal
Be first person to get rid of all your cards.

The Deal
In the first game decide on a dealer at random. In the next games the dealer is the player who is “Fool”. The dealer gives 3 cards one-by-one. After dealing the dealer opens the card from the deck and puts it under it. This card defines a trump.

To Play Mill Fool
The dealer starts the game with the small card. The next player has to beat it with the higher card of the same suit or with the trump and take a trick.

The tricks make up future cards of the player so it is important to take good cards in tricks.

There is also a possibility to take the card or to put a card of a smaller rank so that the initial player took the trick.

For example, the player starts with 8 of Clubs; the opponent has 6 and 10 of Clubs. It is not reasonable to beat 8 with 10 (the ranks of these cards are too small), so the opponent throws 6, making the initial player to take two small cards.

The players should not keep the trumps, as they stay by the player if he or she takes a trick.

When all the cards are played in this way, each player takes his or her tricks that make up their cards. The dealer starts the game and it continues as ordinary Fool. The player can start the game with any card, the player on the left hand has to beat it with the higher card of the same suit or with the trump.

If the player cannot beat the card, he or she takes it. If the player beats the card, other players (including that who started the game) can throw cards of the same ranks that are already on the table.

The initial player has the advantage to throw additional cards, other members throw the cards clockwise. If the player successes to beat all the cards, they are all put away and are not played anymore.

If the player cannot beat at least one card, he or she takes all the cards. After that all the players take cards from the stock so that the number of cards in hand was always 6.

The initial player takes cards first, other players take cards clockwise. If the player has not beaten the cards, he or she passes the turn and the game continues clockwise until there is only one player with the cards left in his or her hands.

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