Re: Fun Game / What Game Is This?
This game rules. I've never played it for money because it has enough strategy to be interesting without that aspect.
I learned it in high school from some Filipino friends (and thus learned it by its Tagalog name, "Pasoy Dos"(sp)). Since then, we have acquired numerous absurd variations:
2-killers: any 3 consecutive pair can be played on a single 2. That is, if an opponent plays 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (normally the highest single card), you can beat that by playing 334455.
Revolution: if you play a 4 of a kind, you may optionally declare a Revolution, in which case the rank order is reversed -- 2s are now the lowest card; 3s the highest. (We usually preserve suit order to keep from going insane.)
Taxation: At the end, the 1st place finisher gets to trade any 2 cards he wants for the highest 2 cards in the 4th place finisher's hand. 2nd and 3rd place similarly trade 1 card.
Also, we use bridge order for the suits, because that's easier, and we're all americans.
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