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The Emperor's Suit 2006

Design Dave Shapiro Publisher GAMES Magazine
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About the Game

The Emperor's Suit is a trick-taking game played with a standard 52-card deck.

Each hand the deck is dealt into a hand for each player plus an extra hand plus an extra hand; each player in turn has the option of trading their hand for the extra one. If anyone does this points for the round are doubled.

Card play is must-follow, but when someone cannot follow their suit becomes trump and also becomes the suit to follow. The trick winner is the player who played the highest card in the last-played suit. Won tricks must be stored with the lead card on top.

At the end of the hand a single-suited trick scores nothing; any other trick scores the number of cards in the lead suit multiplied by the number of suits. A player taking no tricks scores 12.

After a number of hands equal to the number of players the player with the lowest score wins.

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