Boredom Buster Card Games: Speed
Bored? Grab a friend or family member and give this a try! This game is also recommended by experts to help improve your brain’s processing speed. Who knew??
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Speed is an exciting card game for 2 players. It is in the shedding category of card games and the object of speed is to be the first one to get rid of all your cards.
What you need to play speed:
Cards Dealt for Speed
A standard 52-card deck of playing cards
2 players
How to play Speed
Dealing: (refer also to the picture diagram)
When dealing for the game of speed, keep all cards faced down until the game begins.
In the center of the table, make 2 piles of 5 cards and separate them. In between those 2 piles, place 2 cards side-by-side.
Deal the rest of the cards so each player has a pile of 20 cards.
Each player can then take the top 5 cards off of their piles of 20 and prepare to begin the game.
Gameplay:
To begin the game, each player simultaneously grabs a card in the center of the table and flips it over. This is usually done at the same time by counting to 3 together, then flipping.
There are no turns in speed, so from there, players can quickly lay down cards from their hands (if possible), one after the other, on either of the faced up cards.
A card can only play if it is in sequential order (either increasing or decreasing) of the showing cards on either of the 2 piles. For example if you have a 5,6,6,7,J in your hand and the middle piles show a Queen and a 5, you could lay down your 6 on top of the 5. From there (if you are quicker than your opponent) you could lay down your 7, then your other 6, then your 5, and you could lay your Jack down on the other pile (because it is showing a Queen). Sequences can wrap around the horn (Queen to King to Ace to 2 to 3 for example).
After playing cards, you will need draw from your faced down stack of 15 cards to refill your hand. You can have no more than 5 cards in your hand at a time. Being able to quickly and continuously refill your hand is crucial to being a great speed player.
Sometimes gameplay stops because no one can play a card from their hand. Once both players admit their inability to play, they should each (at the same time) grab the top card from the outside piles and flip them over faced-up onto the inside piles. Gameplay continues on from there.
The first person to lay down all of their 20 cards wins the game.
Good Luck!
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