How to play hand and foot card game for two players

If the top card of pile is a red card then itРІР‚в„ўs a natural pile, Black card for dirty pile and wild pile for joker. When they are face up, entire pile is squared up for everyone else to see. Wild Meld made up completely with wild cards. (It will not have two or more than two unless there are at least six cards in the meld).Р”Р€. Dirty meld having more than one wild card. Natural Meld РІР‚вЂњ Clean Melds excluding all the wild cards.Р”Сћ. Players can also make a meld of twos and wild cards. Thus, there can be at most 1 wild card of three, four, five and at most 2 wild card of six or seven. There must be two or more than two real cards to use wild card. Wild card such as Jokers, Deuces cannot be melded in a normal way. Player can meld any cards of rank from Ace, King, QueenРІР‚В¦down to 4. After commencement of meld having three cards or more than it, players can soar up it to seven cards. Melds belong to the team, not an individual player. Melds are turned into books of seven cards. It is not permitted to make melds more than seven cards and less than three cards. Meld is a set of 3-7 cards having equivalent rank kept face up. Melding is the term which is used to get rid of all your hand. Players are permitted to pick their Hand and the game proceeds by the player sitting left to the one who has dealt the Hand.

The topmost card of the Stock is turned face up and if it is joker or a three red it is covered in the stock and another card is kept face up.Р”Р‡oots are kept face down till all the cards of the hands are played. Another teammate takes another deck and distributes 13 cards each to all the four players in clockwise order around the table known as Foot.Р”В¬ards remaining are kept face down in center of the table forming a Stock. One teammate will deal each player with 13 cards (11 cards in other variant) until all the four players have a stack from a deck. There are 4 players so five decks are used. Jokers are included making 54 cards per deck. Two teams having 2 players each are formed which sit opposite to each other. Each player is dealt with two hands the first set of cards dealt is Hand while the other set of cards dealt is Foot. There are no standard rules with various variant available. This game is widely famous in North America.

Usually, number of decks is one more than the player but it is not standard. Hand and Foot card games is played with 4 to 6 standard decks, and was ideally designed for 2 players but four to six players can also play it forming a team of two or three.

How to play hand and foot card game for two players