Knock out whist instructions Continue Equipment: Tutu of cards, table This is one of the few card games that will be covered in this book. Knockout whist follows the rules of the whist: after shuffling the deck each player receives seven cards, which they hold by the hand. Organize them in costumes, so that hearts, clubs, peaks and diamonds are held together in the hand in an ascendant order. In the first round, each cuts the remaining deck and the winner - that is, the person with the highest card, aces high, chooses the goats. Your strongest suit dictates your choice for goats. It will probably be the most numerous costume. Once the goats are picked the player to the right of the dealer leads. Cards are played as tricks at the table, where normal whist rules apply. That is, the dealer plays the card, followed by the person to the left of the table, until all unsetted one card. In Whist, the collection played cards after completing a round called a trick. The rules are this: if you can follow their example you should, if you can't follow suit you can play trump card to beat all non-trump cards, or give up a non-trump card that won't be a winner. Players can over trump or put a higher trump card on a lower trump card to win the trick provided they run out of lead suit. In the second round, the man with the most tricks in the first round picks the goat after the hands are dealt. This time each player receives six cards. If two players tie for the most trick these players have to cut in for whoever decides to trump. The winner of most tricks is the person who decides which suit trumps in the next round. The number of cards per person decreases by one each round. Thus, knockout whist hands have seven cards in the first round, then six cards in the second round, then five, then four, then three, two and finally everything is decided on the last card. The winner of the last card is the overall winner. The rule that is widely played, and played in our family, is that if a person does not win tricks they are reduced to one card in the next round, which they can play at any time. If they don't win this card, they can be reduced to a blind chance, which means they only get one card and they can't see it. If they fail to win their trick they are eliminated from the game. This is a good basic entry-level game for teens and older children as it teaches basic card skills. If you're going to love card games, this is a great entry point. Knockout Whist is a fun and fast-moving member of the Whist family. Due to the excitement of the game and the simplicity of the rules, Knockout Whist is often played by children, but the game is also popular with enterprising players of all ages. This game is also commonly known as Shorten Whist, Decline Whist or Trumps. Knockout Whist is played in a seven-episode series with players seeking to win as many tricks as possible every deal. The game is designed for 2 to 7 players using one standard deck of cards 52. The rating of cards in the deck is such (from high to low); Ace, King, queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Before the game starts, the seating position and the first dealer must be determined. The most common method used for this game is for all players to draw a map from a shuffled, face-down deck. The player, having drawn the highest card, takes the first place at the table, the player, drawing the next highest cards, takes the next choice of places and so on until each player does not censes. The player, having drawn the highest card, becomes the first dealer. If two or more players draw cards of the same rank, these equally marked cards can be additionally ranked by suit, in the following order (high to low); Peaks, Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs. For subsequent hands during the game, the deal revolves around the table from player to player clockwise. Once the player is removed, he will no longer participate in the current game deal, and the deal will switch to the next player as needed. Once the first dealer is determined, he must carefully shuffle the deck and offer it to the player on his right cut. After the cut, the dealer begins handing out cards to players, starting with the player in his immediate right. He is dealt cards one by one clockwise around the table, face down in a heap in front of each player. It continues to deal this way in the counterclockwise direction until each player has a hand consisting of seven cards. He then takes the next card from the remaining deck and puts it in the center of the table. The costume of this exposed card sets the trump card for the first hand. The player in the direct left dealer then leads the first card to start the first trick. He can play any card of his choice from his hand. Each other player in clockwise rotation then plays one trick card. If he has a suit card originally led to the trick, he should play it. If he doesn't have a suit card led to the trick, he can play any card from his hand, including a goat costume card. The highest card of a goat costume played on the trick wins the trick. If no trumps suit cards were played to the trick, the highest suit card originally led to the trick wins it. The winner of each trick plays any card of his choice from the remaining hand to start the next trick. The game continues this way until all seven cards are played. The player who won most of the tricks during the hand is said to have won the hand. This player then has the privilege of calling the suit trumps for the next hand (after he looks at his cards). If a player doesn't win tricks during any they are said to have knocked out. Usually this player drops out of the game without taking participate in the current game. However, the first player during the game to win no tricks is said to be Dog Life (see below). If no player has yet been knocked out and two or more players don't win tricks in the round each of these players earns a dog's life. With each successive hand, each surviving player who has not been knocked out receives one less card. Thus, on the other hand, each player receives six cards, and on the third party all active players receive five. This continues until the last hand, when each remaining active player receives only one card. If at any time during the hand all players were knocked out, but one remaining last player is declared the winner of the game. However, if each hand has at least two surviving players on each hand, the player who wins the last round (which consists of only one card per remaining player) is declared the winner of the game. After each hand the player, who win the previous hand, has the right to choose a goat costume for the next hand after the hands are surrendered, and that the player has the opportunity to examine his hand. If, on the one hand, two or more players bind for most of the tricks taken during the round, the deck is shuffled and all the tying players draw one card from the deck face down. The player among them, who draws the highest card using the same rules to rank these cards as in the draw for the first dealer, is considered the winner of that hand and gets the opportunity to choose the trump suit for the next hand. Dog Life: As mentioned earlier, the first player to be knocked out during the game is actually not yet excluded from the game. Instead, this player is said to have a dog's life. A player who earns a dog's life receives only one card on the next hand (no matter how many of them are handed out to other players in the same round). This player can choose to play this card, on his normal turn, on any trick during that hand. In turn, if he doesn't want to play cards he just points out that he passes by knocking on the table. However, if he prefers, he can play the card in his turn if he hasn't played the trick during his hand. If during this hand a player with a dog's life manages to win a trick with his card, he returns to the game, receiving the same number of cards as other normal players on the next hand. When a player with a dog's life wins the trick, the lead role in the next trick (if not the last hand trick) comes from the player to the immediate left player. However, if he can't win the trick with his single card, then he's then completely eliminated from the game. Variations and additional rules have expanded the life of the dog: In some games, players prefer to expand the rule of life of the dog.