Barry Rigal - Card Games For Dummies

After the first round, the player who has the larger spit-card pile may have spit cards left to turn over, but their opponent doesn’t have any. In the case, the player must select a pile on which to put their spit cards, and they must go with that pile to put all their remaining spit cards on for the rest of this run. Of course, that may bring the other player back to life, because as new cards appear on the pile, they may find a way to get rid of some stock cards as a result.

Whenever one player has fewer than 15 spit cards left in their hand at the start of a new round, they deal out the cards into the five stock piles as best they can, starting with the single card and working up to the five-card pile, and then they turn over the top cards as before. But only one communal spit pile exists now because one player has no spit cards with which to make a pile. At this point, whoever gets rid of all the cards from their stock piles gets no additional cards at the end of the round. If that player is the one with no spit cards, they win the game. If the player with the spit cards wins the round, the other player picks up the central pile and their unused stock cards, and the hand continues.

Spit is a game of skill as well as speed. You have to manage about four or five tasks simultaneously with only one hand. You have to play your cards as quickly as possible, turn over new ones, create new piles, and prevent your opponent from playing. In addition, if you have time to plan, you must make your choice of actions that help you and not your rival. All this requires practice and excellent peripheral vision.

Part 2

IN THIS PART …

The first two games I discuss in Part II (Rummy and Canasta) all involve improving your hand by picking up cards (usually from a stock pile) and discarding those you don’t want. You, in effect, exchange your cards (or hope to) in order to get the best hand possible.

In games such as Eights and Fan Tan, you strive to go out as quickly as possible by matching cards. Each game has its own definition of what it means to match a card, and I explain the rules of each game in depth.

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