Nugget is a card game about building the best poker hand. Played over multiple rounds. Each round, the deck is shuffled and each player is dealt one card. The rest of the cards are placed in the middle of the table in a face down stack. On a turn, a player draws either the top card from the deck or a card from the center (if any). When they draw a card from the deck, they may keep it or they may discard it to the center of the table. If they discard it, they must draw another card from the deck, which they must keep. This occurs until everyone has seven cards in hand. From those seven cards, each player builds their best five-card poker hand and is awarded points based on the strength of that poker hand. Whoever has the most points after multiple rounds wins. Nugget is in the same family as Sacramento and Bonanza. Played with a standard deck of cards, published in Reiner Knizia's book Blazing Aces!: A Fistful of Family Card Games.

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