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Spite and Malice

Empty your goal pile first

How many computer players?

Build the middle piles from ace up to queen, with kings wild. Get every card from your goal pile onto them first.

Not in the same room? Play online while you talk on a call, each on your own phone.

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How to play

Everyone has a goal pile with its top card face up: 20 cards with two players, 15 with three or four, 10 with five or six. The first to get every goal card out wins.

In the middle are four build piles that everyone shares. Each starts with an ace and goes up in order to the queen; suits don’t matter. Kings are wild and stand in for whatever a pile needs. A pile that reaches the queen is cleared away.

On your turn, draw up to five cards, then play as many as you like onto the build piles: from your hand, from the top of your goal pile, or from the top of any of your four discard piles. Play your whole hand and you draw five more. End your turn by putting one card from your hand onto one of your discard piles.

Tips

Your goal card is what matters: count how many cards a pile needs to reach it and look for them in your hand and discard tops. Watch the next player’s goal card too, and don’t build a pile up to one below it. Keep kings for the moment they get a goal card out. Stack your discard piles downward (a nine on a ten) so you can play them off in order later.