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Card Games & Co. Time 🃏

I’m a huge lover of card games, and I know many of them, so people always ask me to teach them, so here it is on-chain! This one is particularly lovely so I wanted to share it. If people like this concept I will post more card games rules next!

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Today’s game is called Yaniv:

I learned Yaniv in a bar in Paris a long time ago. I was with a friend and we had a cards game on the table we didn’t open yet. Then a random drunk girl appears and insists rigorously that she teaches us this game. We followed through and it was a great decision! Thank you stranger for teaching me this wonderful gem of old school gaming!

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So in this game each player (3-5 players is optimal) is dealt 5 cards.

The goal is to announce that you’ve finished with the lowest sum of card values and a sum of card values under 7.

Card values rank from Ace being 1, to all figures counting for 10. No jokers are played.

All other values are ranked at face value.

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So the dealer changes turns, and turns go counter clockwise. First player is the first player on the right of the dealer. After dealing the dealer flips one card from the deck face up, in what would become a discard pile that is also a secondary draw pile.

A game is played in multiples of 100 points (100, 200 …).

When it’s your turn, you have to either: play a card or announce you’ve finished.

Playing a card: you have to throw a card you want to get rid of first (to have the lowest value that’s under 7, remember). Cards that you discard in the throw pile are face up. You can throw a single card, or a double or more of the same value (2 fours 🃔🂴, 3 kings 🂮🂮🂮 …), or with series of different or same colour (🂣 3 spades, 🂴 4 hearts and 🃕 5 clubs works fine). Once you have thrown your card, you have to draw a card. You can draw either from the draw deck, or from the throw pile. You can only take the last card thrown on the pile. So at the end of the cards swipe, your turn is over and it’s next player’s turn.

Announcing you’ve finished: In the beginning of your turn, without playing any card, if you estimate you have the lowest sum of card values in your hand and a score that amounts to 7 points or less, you can announce the end of this game by saying “Yaniv!”. This game is over. So now everyone has to show their hands face up, if you have less than 7 in your score, and you have the lowest score of all players, you win this game and you score 0. If any other player has less than 7 and less than your cards values, you get 10 points as a penalty, and the other player gets 0 instead. In case of a tie, the two players that have the lowest score get 0. All other players get the sum of their cards’ values as a score.

So that’s the game, when someone reaches the decided milestone (100, 200 etc). The game is over and the player with the smallest score wins.

So in Yaniv, there’s a special rule I love. When someone reaches an exact score that is multiple of 100 they get reduced by 50 points. You’d think that wouldn’t happen so frequently. But when you make it part of your strategy you can make it quite often!

Hope you enjoyed reading, and enjoy your game!

Ask me any questions if things aren’t so clear.