Game rules

Each player is dealt 4 face-down cards, laid out in a 2x2 grid in front of them. At the start of the round you pick which 2 of your 4 cards to look at, and you see them privately for a few seconds - memorize them well, because they flip back over and from then on you have to trust your memory. The other 2 are a mystery until they get swapped, peeked at with a power, or revealed at the end.

You draw a face-down card from the deck and see it privately. The discard pile is only for matching cards (see below) - you can never draw from it on your normal turn.

With the card you drew, you decide: discard it directly (triggering its power if it has one), or place it in one of your grid slots, sending whatever card was there to the discard pile face up (that card never triggers its power, even if it's a power card). To place it you can drag it onto the grid card you want to replace, or simply click it; to discard it, drag it onto the discard pile.

At any time, whether it's your turn or not, if you think one of your cards matches the rank of the top discard card, you can try to play it: select it with a click and then drag it onto the discard pile (or, after selecting it, tap the discard pile directly to confirm). A single click doesn't discard it by itself - that second step of moving it to the pile is required.

If you're right, you're rid of that card (the slot stays empty for the rest of the round, and counts as 0 points). If you're wrong, or you're too late because someone beat you to it, you take a face-down card from the deck as a penalty: you choose where to place it in your grid, in an empty slot or as a new card.

Also at any time, if you remember (or think you remember) that a specific opponent's card matches the discard, you can call it out and play it yourself: select it and drag it onto the discard pile, or select it and then tap the discard pile to confirm.

If you're right, that opponent's card gets discarded (good for them!), but then you choose one of your own cards to hand them to fill the slot (bad for them). If you're wrong, you take a card from the deck as a penalty (choosing where to place it), just like getting it wrong with your own card.

5: briefly see one of your own cards (then it flips back over - you have to memorize it).

6: briefly see an opponent's card (it doesn't stay visible either).

Jack: no power, but it's worth 0 points in the final score.

Queen: swap one of your cards for an opponent's, blind (neither of you sees either card before the swap).

King: pick one of your cards and one of an opponent's, see both for a moment, then decide whether to swap them or leave them as they are.

These powers always trigger when one of these cards ends up in the discard pile: by drawing it and discarding it directly, or by using it to replace a card in your grid (in that case, the power is triggered by the card that comes out of your grid, not the one you just drew). Playing it to match a pair, on the other hand, never triggers any power.

Ace = 1 point · 2 through 10 = face value · Jack = 0 points · Queen = 20 points · King = 20 points. Empty slots score 0.

Instead of drawing, you can call "Cut!" if you think you have the lowest score. Every other player then gets one final turn.

At the end, every grid is revealed. If you really did have the lowest score (alone, no ties), nothing special happens; if you're wrong, you take a 10-point penalty.

Each round's score adds to a running total. Once someone reaches 100 points, the game ends and whoever has the lowest total wins.