PANGUINGUE

Hey there! Ever heard of Panguingue? It’s a super fun game, kinda like Rummy, that you can play with up to fifteen of your friends. That’s right, it’s perfect for those big get-togethers! All you need are regular playing cards and some scoring chips to have a blast. Oh, and did I mention that it’s a total favorite in gambling halls? Ready to test your luck and have a wild time? Let’s dive in!

SETUP

To get the game started, we need to choose a dealer. Here’s how we do it: one player shuffles the deck and everyone draws a card. The person who pulls the lowest card gets to be the first dealer. Cool, right? Now, each player antes one chip to get ten cards. The rest of the deck is placed facedown on the table – that’s called the “stock.” And just like that, we’re all set up to start playing!

GAMEPLAY

Every time we sit down to play a game of cards, we get a chance to decide if we’re going to participate or not. If we choose not to play, we have to pay two chips, and those chips will eventually go to the winner. But if we do decide to play, we each get to draw one card.

Now, here’s the thing about drawing cards: if we draw one from the pile of untouched cards, we can use it however we want. We can either add it to our existing melds or discard it. But if we draw the top card from the discard pile, we have to use it right away. We can’t add it to our hand, it has to be melded or discarded. And speaking of melding, we can meld as many cards as we want during our turn. It’s all up to us. At the end of our turn, we’ll just have to discard one card from our hand.

So, let’s talk about hands in a card game. The goal is to get rid of all the cards in your hand, including the last one you draw. You can do this by creating melds. Melds can be sets or sequences. A set is when you have at least three cards of the same rank, either in the same suit or different suits. Aces and Kings can form sets with cards of any suit. On the other hand, sequences are when you have at least three cards of the same suit in consecutive order.

Now, here’s where it gets interesting. Some sets or sequences are called “conditions,” and they earn you chips from other players. Valle cards are the threes, fives, and sevens. If you have a set of these cards with different suits, you get one chip from the other players. But if you have a set of these cards with the same suit, you get two chips from the other players. And if you have a set of these cards, specifically spades, you get four chips from the other players.

When you have a set of cards that aren’t worth anything individually, but they all belong to the same suit, you can earn a chip from each player. If the cards are all spades, you get two chips instead of one.

If you play a sequence of cards that starts with an ace or ends with a King, you can collect one chip from each player.

The player who manages to meld all eleven cards first wins the hand and receives one chip from each player, as well as the chips that were contributed by the players who passed. They also get to start the next round.

END OF GAME

The game ends when a player has played all of their cards, including the last one drawn. After each hand, points are calculated. Once the agreed number of hands have been played, all of the points are added up. The player with the highest score is declared the winner!