Travelers Fool

by Nancy

The Pack.
Use a single deck of 36 cards.

The players.
2 to 6.

The Goal of Fool.
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 all cards one-by-one. The last card is opened – it defined a trump. This card is left by the dealer.

The Play.
The player who sits on the left hand of the dealer, starts the game. The player leads a card, the next player has to beat it with the higher card of the same suit or with the trump. The next player has to beat the upper card (the card thrown by the second player). Then the game moves clockwise until the number of the cards on table equals the number of players. The cards are put away.
If the player cannot beat upper card, he or she takes bottom card. In this case the player passes his or her turn to the next player. If all cards in the middle of the table are taken, the player who is on the left from the player, who took the last card, leads the next card.
The game continues clockwise until there is only one player with the cards left in his or her hands.