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Jigsaw takes five (or four) rounds. In each round every player gets 15 cards. At the beginning of a round every player has to choose one card which determines his/her 'misery color'. This is done by clicking on the card, followed by clicking on the 'Enercolor wahl' button. Next 14 tricks are played. All colors except the color of the card that is played first are trump. You don't have to follow suite, unlike in most other card games! You can play any card you like.




The winner of a trick is determined as follows.

Example Game

TORBEN starts with a red 4. dynamicse plays a red 1. On this moment the trick is still for TORBEN. Now Niknase plays a red 7 and overtakes the trick. Romario can win the trick with every none-red card, that is not a 0. If he doesn't want the trick he has to play a 0 or a red card with value below 7. Note that the card next to the name displays the misery color; TORBEN and Romario have misery color yellow, dynamicse has brown and Niknase has blue.

Speedy starts with a yellow 3. dynamice trumps with a green 3. Now Excalibur can win the trick if he plays a none-yellow card higher than 3. He doesn't get it if he plays a yellow card or a card below 4.

Scoring

A round is over if all 14 tricks are played. Then the points scored in the round are calculated. A player becomes +1 point for every card that has not the player's misery color. All cards with the misery color give negative points equal to the value of the card.

Example: as your misery colour you selected (1and you win the following tricks:

3 - 6 - 2 - 8

0 - 3 - 8 - 9

1 - 7 - 5 - 4

2 - 4 - 9 - 8

You have 13 taken non-red cards. They score +13 points. So you have the red 0.2 and 8 as well as the red 1 which you elaborate the round with. You therefore score -11 for these red cards. This gives a net score of +2 points.

Ending the Game

The game ends after 5 rounds. The points of all rounds are summed up. The person with the most points wins the game.

Tips and hints for beginners

Even experienced card players have to get used to tricks. Below are given some examples to help new players.

Misery color: It's best to choose a color in which you have many low cards. You should choose a card with a low value, because the value of this card counts as negative points. If you have a color with cards like 1, 2, 5, 7 then this would be a good misery color, and you could pick the 1 at the beginning of the round.

Speedy-start with a brown 5. dynamice so plays brown because then he knows for sure that he cannot get negative points for this trick. If he would play an other color (and no 0) the next players could play green cards which would count negative for dynamice if he would win the trick. Excalibur's misery color is brown so he for sure doesn't want to get this trick. That's why he plays the brown 3. Madmax trumps with the blue 7, because no red is inside the trick yet. He chooses blue because he expects that TORBEN then doesn't want to steal the trick; TORBEN would get -7 for the blue 7 (and +3 for the brown 3, 5 and 8). TORBEN should play a red 7 or a red card with a lower value to give Madmax some minus points.

Madmax starts with the brown 4. with the green 3. In this way he hopes that no one else will take this trick because the others all have brown or green as misery color. Speedy plays the brown 13 (it's always good to get rid of high cards in your misery color), and dynamicse plays the green 2. Because Excalibur doesn't want to get the brown 4 and 13, he plays a brown card, namely the 11. TORBEN wins the trick and becomes 5 points for it since there is no blue card inside.

It can be dangerous to start a trick with a high card in your misery color. Here TORBEN starts with the blue 13. All other players duck and play a lower blue card. So if Madmax plays a lower blue or a 0 then TORBEN wants to get at least 30 minus points!

The examples show that it is an advantage if you remember which cards in your misery color are played. You then know how high you can trump a trick without getting minus points.

It's important to keep some low cards in your misery color as long as possible. So this holds for the 0's. In that way you can defend yourself if someone attacks you by playing a card in your misery color. For instance, if the person in front of you starts with the 6 in your misery color, then it would be good if you could play a lower card in that color, or a 0.

• With 3 players the game is played with 5 colors with the cards 0-8.
• With 4 players the game is played with 5 colors with the cards 0-11.
• With 5 players the game is played with 5 colors with the cards 0-14.
• With 6 players the game is played with 6 colors with the cards 0-14.

Game Options

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Only 4 rounds are played instead of 5.