Players:
2-6
Ages:
5-10
Place:
Table or other flat surface
Equipment:
1 or 2 decks of VoWac Alphabet Playing Cards
This
version of the game War uses the vowel letter or saying cards combined
with pure luck. A player can
be down and out one minute and king of the cards the next!
To
begin, each player draws a card from the deck.
The player with the card closest to “a” is the dealer. The dealer shuffles the deck and deals out all the cards, one
at a time, facedown. It’s
fine if some players have more cards than others do.
If there are more than three players, the game is better with two
decks of cards mixed together.
Each
player arranges his cards in a neat stack, facedown, on the table and does
not look at the cards. The
player to the dealers left goes first by turning over the top card on her
pile and laying it face-up in the middle of the table. Play continues with
each player turning up his top card and putting it on top of the center
pile. The real action starts
as soon as a vowel card/saying is turned over.
The
player who turns over the vowel card stops turning over cards and demands
“payment” from the player on her left.
That player pays up by adding some of his cards, face up, one at a
time to the center pile: five cards
for an “a”, four cards for an “e”,
three cards for an “i”, two cards for an “o”, and
one card for a “u”. If
the paying player turns up a vowel card/saying as he’s paying up, he
stops and demands payment from the player on his left.
This goes on until a player fails to turn up a vowel card.
Then the center pile goes to whoever turned over the last vowel
card. That player adds the
center pile to the bottom of her facedown pile and starts a new round by
turning over the top card on her stack.
Any
player who loses all his cards is out of the game. Play goes on until one
player has collected all the cards in the deck.
The winner shuffles the cards and deals the next game.
Because
this game tends to go on so long, a time limit should be set so that the
person with the most cards at the end of that time, is the winner. |
