Re: First time playing Badugi... UGH!
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There's pretty well nothing written about the game including a consistent set of rules.
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The core rule of this game is that 4-suited unpaired hands (called "padookis") beat all other hands. But there's no consensus on how to rank non-padooki hands, and I've seen three different ways of doing it:
1. If no one has a 4-card padooki, you rank the hands by their best 3-card padooki. If no one has a 3-card padooki, then you rank the hands by their best 2-card padooki.
2. If no one has a 4-card padooki, you rank the hands by standard lowball rankings.
3. Padookis don't have to be unpaired. A 4-suited hand with a pair beats all hands that don't have four different suits.
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