Card Golf

It’s a simulation of Golf game played with a standard 52-card deck plus 2 Jokers. Each player is dealt 6 cards face down from the deck, the rest of the cards are placed face down and the top card is turned up to start the discard deck next to it.

The object is for players to reduce the value of the cards in front of them by either swapping them for lesser value cards or by pairing them up in columns with cards of equal rank and trying to get the lowest score. The highest score loses the game and the lowest score wins the game. A total of 9 rounds are played.

Beginning at dealer's left, players take turns drawing single cards from either the stock or discard piles. The drawn card may either be swapped for one of that player's 6 cards, or discarded. If the card is swapped for one of the face down cards, the card swapped in remains face up. If the card drawn is discarded, the players turn is passed. The round ends when all of a player's cards are face-up.

Game is nine "holes" (rounds), and the player with the lowest total score is declared winner.

Points for Cards

Cards

Joker is -2

Ace is 1

King is 0

Jack and Queen are 10

Other cards have face value