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Snakebite

By Elixir

Players: 2 Duration: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy

About This Game

A two-player strategy card game with dice.

Materials Needed

  • A 52-card standard deck
  • Two six-sided dice
  1. Shuffle the deck.
  2. Give each player 26 cards randomly, and 1 die.
  3. Players do not look at their cards yet.

How to Play

The mechanics are similar to War, but...

  1. Take six cards from the top of your pile into your hand.
  2. If you draw an Ace, you must play it.
    * Aces always lose to numbers
    * Aces always win to faces.

When a War occurs between two Aces, roll your dice until you get "Snakebite" (a 2 on the die). Snakebite wins (does not keep any cards). If both players roll a 2, play a number card. Lowest number card takes all of the cards.

Anytime you take cards from the center, separate the aces and non-aces. Non-aces go to the bottom of your deck. Aces go to your hand.

How to Win

When you have 4 aces in your hand, you **Lose**.

Print & Play

Print these rules, gather the components, and start playing!