Shithead Guidelines & Etiquette

A Low-to-High card game, in which its all about not losing. The Cards:
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack of Spades Jack of Hearts Queen King Ace Joker Restarts the pack Just a 3 Just a 4 Just a 5 Just a 6 See through and Reverse Power Card 1 Nominate Higher-or-Lower Burns the pack The Ultimate Shit Card Power Card 2 Just a Queen Just a King Just an Ace Power Card 3 Equal or beat a 2 Equal or beat a 3 Equal or beat a 4 Equal or beat a 5 Equal or beat a 6 Equal or beat the card below the 7 & direction of play is reversed Beats anything but Jack of Hearts and Joker, 8s can be played on 8s Nominate any player to play higher-or-lower than a 9 Cannot be played on 8, Jack of Hearts or Joker Cannot be played up, if caught with the Jack of Spades, you must pick up all of the pack. The only way to banish the card, is to bluff (see below) Beats anything but Joker Equal or beat a Queen Equal or beat a King Equal or beat an Ace (Ace High) Beats anything, nominate any player in the room (playing or otherwise) to pick up (Jokers can be played on Jokers)

Directions: If the game involves down-cards, players can change the face-up cards before playing their first card. Once you play a card, you cannot change any of your cards (also see Jack of Spades below). Player with a 3 (red preferable black) starts, player who is sitting next to the starter and plays next card determines direction of play. Any number of cards can be played at one time. 4-Of-A-Kind when played face-up, the pack is burned and the player restarts play. 3-In-A-Row minimum of 3 cards in the same suit played in a row, with the first card having to beat the current card. Bluffing A player can choose to bluff their cards if they cannot beat the current card on the table, or even if they can. Bluffed cards are played face-down on the pack. If a bluff has been played, the next player can either; 1 - Play their own hand, by equalling/beating the last card facing up or bluffing their own cards. 2 - Call the bluff, by turning over the cards: - If the bluffed cards do not beat the card(s) underneath, the bluffer must pick up. - If the bluffed cards do beat the card(s) underneath, then the caller must pick up. If you are down to your down-cards and you decide to peek at the card you want to play next, you cannot then call the next players bluff, if they do indeed bluff.

Jack of Spades If the game involves down-cards, if you have a Jack of Spades facing up, then you cannot change any of your cards. If you get caught with the Jack of Spades as your very last card, the game ends immediately and you lose. Flip-Reverse-It Flip-Reverse-It applies when: - you are down to your down-cards, - you have no cards left in your hand, - you have a face-up down-card - you cannot equal or beat the current card To Flip-Reverse-It, pick up the column with the face-up card you want to switch. Then flip the cards, so that the card that was facing up, now faces down, and the card(s) that were facing down, now face up. The card that is now facing up is the card that you must play, you cannot bluff this card. Etiquette The player who loses must deal the next game. Shirking on forfeits in frowned upon. Enquire of unwritten rules. New suggestions to existing guidelines are welcomed.