28

Goal: Get to exactly 28 points by playing combos of cards.

Any number of players can enjoy 28. You'll just need a standard deck of cards including 2 Jokers, for 54 cards in total. Deal 5 cards to each player to start. If the draw pile becomes depleted, then shuffle the discard pile to keep going.

On your turn: Draw once & Play once.

There are three ways to "Play", you can only choose one each turn.    • You can draw a second card.    • You can discard a combo of Target Cards to score points.    • You can use a Power Card on the discard pile for an effect.

Types of Cards: Target Cards & Power Cards.

Target Cards	You play these to the discard pile in combos for points
The 9's & 10's	are each counted as Rank 4.
The 7's & 8's	are each counted as Rank 3.
The 4's, 5's & 6's	are each counted as Rank 2.
The 2's & 3's	are each counted as Rank 1.

Power Cards	You play these to the discard pile for effects, not points.
Kings allow you to	draw 3 more cards.
Queens allow you to	have 2 more Plays.
Jacks allow you to	steal a card from your opponent's hand.
Aces allow you to	add any card from the discard pile to your hand.
Jokers allow you to	play them as any Rank, except without a suit.

Scoring points: When you play a combo you score points based on the number of suits in the combo you play, as shown below. For example, a Run of 4 cards that has only one suit in it scores the maximum 17 points.

Combo	1 suit	2 suits	3 suits	4 suits
Run of all 4 Ranks	17	13	12	9
Run of Ranks 1, 2, & 3	4	7	10	-
Run of Ranks 4, 3, & 2	3	6	8	-
Ranked Pair	0	1	-	-
Ranked Triple	1	2	4	-
Ranked Quad	2	5	9	12
Ranked Two-Pair	1	3	6	8

* If a player scores more than 28, the excess points are subtracted from 28 and that becomes the player's new score. Ie: If a player is at 24 and scores 10 points, then there are 6 excess points. Therefore the player's score is calculated as 28 - 6 = 22.