Kings Reverse of the game Uno for play with regular cards . The jokers and their rules, and the rules for the Ace of spades were introduced in 2015. The game is played with 2 packs of regular playing cards plus the 2 jokers from each pack. To start a hand, ten cards are dealt to each player, and the top card of the pack is flipped over and set aside to begin the discard pile. The rest are placed face down as the drawing stack. The player to the dealer's left plays first, unless the first card on the discard pile
A Gamut of Games Abbott expanded his game Crossings, published here, into the more-refined title Epaminondas. Many of the games covered in the book were creations of Sid Sackson himself, who was a prolific game designer. The sections of the book and the games covered therein are as follows: "All of the games in this section use a standard pack of cards." "All of the games in this section use a checkerboard." "All of the games in this section are meant to be played with pencil and paper." A second edition of the book was published in 1982; Dover Publications released an unabridged reprint,