Veto: 5 player card game
Introduction:
This is a fun, strategy card game for 5 players (no more, no less), that our group played addictively throughout the engineering years at VJTI, Mumbai, and ever since! Try it out and get hooked!
Get started:
- Veto Card is the Spade 2 card
- Remove two 2s from any other suits
- Distribute the remaining 50 cards equally amongst 5 players
- Dealer is rotated every round, in a circular pattern
Cards with points/value:All Aces, 10s: 10 points
All 5s: 5 points
Veto/Spade 2: 20 points
Total of 120 points
Bidding:- The person next to the dealer defaults to making 70 points.
- Ask others if they want to bid higher, by 5 points or more
- Highest bidder decides trump and “undisclosed” partner.
Partner Selection:- Bidder decides/asks based on any card but usually, the player with the veto card, point cards that may be mostly guaranteed depending on your cards, order of play etc.
- Everyone knows individually if they are a partner or not, but should not speak or mention it.
Play:- Highest bidder and partner have to make the bid points by the end of the game. The rest 3 players form the opposition, their goal is to make at least 5 more points than the bidder.
- Bidder starts play, play rounds with normal hand-making rules
- Keep point cards facing up in your completed hands, so everyone sees your total points
- All individuals try to gather/contribute points depending on their role (helping the bidder or opposition)
Veto power:Veto card can be put anytime and will win the hand, regardless of the trump.
Win/Lose:- If the bidder and their partner make the bid points, the bidder gets as many points as they bid, the partner gets half (one variation is where the partner gets nothing for helping).
- Otherwise both the bidder and partner get a negative amount of bid points
- Play as many rounds, total points at the end
- Highest points wins
Strategies:- Bid if you want to score high
- Don’t disclose the partner unless absolutely warranted
- Bidder should decide based on their cards strength and points calculations, when they may want to preempt the partner to disclose themselves. This is done by playing certain cards/hands, not verbally or with any other cues.
Enjoy!
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