Five Card Spud

The table fills up with cards and everyone is hunting for the best combination. In Five Card Spud it is all about building sets of five cards to score points. You start with four cards in your hand and share a community potato field with the other players. That is where you find the pieces for your next move. The fun lies in the choices you make. You can discard smaller sets to refresh your cards, and you may save cards for later in your own potato field. Just remember: whatever you store, everyone can see. So you keep a close eye on each other and try to play just a little better than the rest. You score with five of a kind, a flush, a straight, all suits together or a full house. You combine cards from your hand, your own field and the shared field. Five Card Spud is for 2 to 6 players aged 8 and up, and a game takes about 30 minutes.