There must be two or more than two real cards to use wild card. Wild card such as Jokers, Deuces cannot be melded in a normal way. Player can meld any cards of rank from Ace, King, Queen…down to 4. After commencement of meld having three cards or more than it, players can soar up it to seven cards. Melds belong to the team, not an individual player. Melds are turned into books of seven cards. It is not permitted to make melds more than seven cards and less than three cards. Meld is a set of 3-7 cards having equivalent rank kept face up.

Melding is the term which is used to get rid of all your hand. Players are permitted to pick their Hand and the game proceeds by the player sitting left to the one who has dealt the Hand. The topmost card of the Stock is turned face up and if it is joker or a three red it is covered in the stock and another card is kept face up.įoots are kept face down till all the cards of the hands are played. Another teammate takes another deck and distributes 13 cards each to all the four players in clockwise order around the table known as Foot.Ĭards remaining are kept face down in center of the table forming a Stock. One teammate will deal each player with 13 cards (11 cards in other variant) until all the four players have a stack from a deck. There are 4 players so five decks are used. Jokers are included making 54 cards per deck. Two teams having 2 players each are formed which sit opposite to each other. Each player is dealt with two hands the first set of cards dealt is Hand while the other set of cards dealt is Foot. There are no standard rules with various variant available. This game is widely famous in North America. Usually, number of decks is one more than the player but it is not standard.

Hand and Foot card games is played with 4 to 6 standard decks, and was ideally designed for 2 players but four to six players can also play it forming a team of two or three.

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