At any point during a round of attacks, if a defender is unwilling or unable to beat the most recent attack card, they may give up their defence and must pick up all the cards played during that round of attack (both defending and attacking). In addition the other players may choose to shed cards matching ranks of any card which have already been played in this round which the defender must also pick up. In this case the round of attacks end and the player to the defender's left starts the a new round of attacks.