What it requires:
One deck of standard playing cards
Two people
The object of Spit is to get rid of all your cards. Simple, non?
The Rules:
1. You shuffle one deck of cards deal out the entire thing between you and the other player (I have thought about trying to play it with more than two players, but haven't come up with a good variation yet).
2. Each person places down their cards in five piles like in Klondike or Solitaire (top card face up, each pile with increasing numbers of cards). So, your first pile is one card face up, the next is one face down and one face up up to the fifth pile with is four face down and one face up. You should at this point have 11 cards left in your hand.
3. Each person can take the opportunity before the round starts to place all of their like cards on top of each other, so all 2s in one pile, 5s in another. This becomes more important later when you are more likely to have lots of duplicates.
4. Each player has their hand (the 11 cards) and turns it over into the space between the two players without looking at it. You then attempt to get out all of the cards on your five piles onto the two piles. Numbers can go up and down and the Aces wrap around. Thus you can do 2-3-2-A-K as a pile of cards you place down one at a time as fast as you can onto the pile. The first person If at any point you or the other player can't or doesn't want to play anything on the piles, then you each flip over another card from your hand onto the piles in the middle. The round is over when one of you is out of cards in your piles in front of you. At this point whoever won the round takes the pile they think has the lowest number of cards (no counting allowed!). And the next round starts.
5. After arranging your piles for the next round, count the cards left in your hands. If you have 11, then the two of you were pretty even. If you have less than 11 cards then you are winning. More than 11 cards and you are losing. But you're not necessarily out of the running yet!
6. The game usually ends when someone has so few cards that they can't make a pile in the middle. If they go out and there is only one pile in the middle, then they take that pile (the one with no cards in it) and they have won. However, if there is only one pile, you can start two. However, the second pile you start has to be after you can no longer do anything with the first pile and would have to flip over another card anyway.
Oops... sorry... wrong forum...
PS... Merry Christmas all and make it a safe one. Remember, Jesus is the reason for the season.
