2-4 player game using a standard 52 playing card deck.

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To win a game of Slapjack you will need to quickly slap the deck whenever a jack is played in order to win all of the cards.

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Set Up

Each player draws one card from a shuffled deck. The player with the lowest card is the dealer. The dealer shuffles the deck and deals out all the cards evenly and face down to each player in a clockwise direction.

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How to Play

The player to the left of the dealer starts by placing the top card of their deck into a centre pile. Play continues in a clockwise direction. Players must draw away from them so that everybody sees what the card is at the same time. If the card is a jack, players must slap the deck. The player who slaps it first wins all of the cards in that pile. The pile is shuffled and added to the winner’s pile. Then a new pile is started by the winner. The player who eventually gets all of the cards wins.

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When a person runs out of cards, they have one chance to win a slap. If a card is played on top of a jack before anyone can slap it, the jack is lost and play continues.