One of the most fun and amazing card games of all times is the Screw your Neighbor Card. The main goal of this game is to not have the lowest rank card in every round. In case you have such cards, you can trade it with your neighbors and thus you screw them!
If this sounds fun and if you are into card games, this Screw your Neighbor Card can be a great option. Scroll down to know how to play Screw your Neighbor game and all that you should about the game.
- Aim of Screw your Neighbor – The objective of Screw Your Neighbor is to not have the lowest ranking card at the end of each round.
- Total Number of Players – 3+ Players
- Materials – One (or more) standard deck of cards, a flat surface, and a pen and paper to keep track of scores.
- Type – Strategy card game
- Audience – All Ages
Contents
Setup
The setup for this game is very easy and will hardly take a minute. This is played with a deck of 52 cards. A standard deck of playing cards is shuffled by the dealer. The dealer then deals one card faced down to each players. The players can look at their cards.
Card Ranking
Ace is low and King is high.
Here goes the ranking of cards in Screw your neighbor-
King (high), Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace (low).
The player with highest card from the deck is declared as the first leader while the one with lowest card loses a life. All the players sit in circle around a table where each player is dealt with one card. Every player gets three lives at the beginning of the game. Before starting the gamble, every player must draw a card from the shuffled deck.
Related keywords: First dealer, deck
How to Play Game?
To play Screw your neighbor players look at their cards. If their card is a king, they will flip it to reveal. This will lock their card and thus it will not be traded for. The rest of the cards are kept faced down.
The play starts with the player to the left of the dealer. That player can decide if they want to keep their card or trade with the player to their left.
If the player wants to trade, he will have the choice to switch the cards with the player to his left and then the next player will switch cards. This goes on till the dealer’s turn. The player to your left can’t refuse the switch.
Always remember, King card cannot be switched as it is the highest card.
If a player cannot trade, it is because the player to their left has a faced up King. At such times, the player with faced up king will skip his turn and the game continues with the player to the left of the player having King.
The play continues in a clockwise manner and stops on reaching the dealer. At the dealer’s turn, he can either keep or trade. If he wants to trade, he will pick up the top card from the remaining deck and put their earlier card to the side to the deck.
However, if they reveal a King, they will have to keep their other card and will not trade.
- Reveal – After the players are done trading their cards, or keeping them, then all the cards are revealed. The player having the lowest ranking card is the loser. The scores are then noted down after the end of every round and later on the dealer moves to the left.
- Ties – In case of a tie, the player who is the closes to the left of the dealer loses.
The player with the lowest card/score gets eliminated in each round.
Related keywords: Switch cards, highest card, top card, rules
Who Wins the Game?
The player who lost the least, or the player who has lowest score, wins the game. In short, the last player alive wins it. When the game will end, is decided by the players. This is played until there one player remaining.
Screw Your Neighbor Card Game Variations:
Just like any other game, Screw your Neighbor Card too comes with variations. The most common variations of screw your neighbor are –
1. Betting Game
For the betting variation of screw your neighbor, the players will put a particular number of bets at the start of the game and this will be the same for all. So if all players put 2 one-dollar bills, every time a player loses, they will have to put in one of their bets. The player with bets left with him Is the winner and wins all the money put in the pot.
2. Drinking Game
For the drinking variation of screw your neighbor, the entire game is just the same. The only difference is that the loser has to drink rather than keeping the score. So, the player with the lowest card takes a drink.
