Rage'n GlyphsRage'n Glyphs is a trick-taking descendant of Oh, Hell! and a cousin of Rage designed for the Glyph deck. Bid on tricks you will take in ever-increasing hand sizes as the Trump suit changes or disappears! Summary of PlayEach player will be dealt a number of cards for each Hand, starting with 1 card and increasing by 1 every Hand. Each player bids the number of Tricks he thinks he will win this Hand. Each player in turn then lays down a single card into each Trick. The player who played the highest ranking card of the led suit (or the Trump suit) wins the Trick and takes the cards. After each Hand, points are given for Tricks won, with bonus points given for correctly predicting the number of Tricks won. The game ends after the maximum Hand size is reached, and the player with the highest score wins the game! ________________________________________________ DefinitionsTrick = The cards on the table after each player has played a card. Trump = The trump suit card determines which suit Trump is. Trump cards win Tricks over cards of other suits. Follow Suit = Players must, if able, play a card that has the same suit as the first played card of the Trick. ________________________________________________ Rules of Play1) Setup A player is chosen as scorekeeper and writes the names of the players on the score sheet. He then shuffles the cards and deals 1 to each player, this is the first Hand. After each Hand, the player on the dealer's left becomes the new dealer. The stack of undealt cards are placed face down on the table, and the top card is flipped over and placed next to the pile. This is the Trump suit card, it determines the starting Trump suit for the current Hand. If a joker is turned over, continue turning over cards until a suited card is revealed. (In the extremely rare event all the undealt cards are jokers, hearts is the starting Trump suit.) 2) The Hands In the first Hand, each player is dealt 1 card, giving 1 Trick available to win the first Hand. When a Hand is over, the cards are reshuffled and dealt, with each subsequent Hand increasing by 1 card. So, in the second Hand, each player is dealt 2 cards, giving 2 Tricks available. In the third Hand, each player is dealt 3 cards, giving 3 Tricks available. The maximum number of cards that can be dealt evenly to the players (while leaving at least 4 undealt for the Trump suit pile) will be the final Hand. For example: With 9 players, the final Hand will have 10 cards apiece. There will also be 8 cards undealt, in a face down pile, to determine Trump. 3) Bidding After the players have sorted their cards by suit and rank, each player considers how many Tricks he will win this Hand. Beginning with the player to the left of the dealer and continuing clockwise, each player states their bid prediction for the Hand. The scorekeeper notes the bids on the score sheet. 4) The Tricks The player to the left of the dealer plays the first card in a Hand. Play continues clockwise, everyone playing a single card into the center of the table. If the led card has a suit, everyone must Follow Suit, if they can. If the first card (or cards) played is a joker, the first suited card played sets the suit and all remaining players must Follow Suit. If a player does not have a card of the suit led, he may play anything he likes, including a Trump card, or a joker. 5) Jokers When jokers are played, they modify the trump suit. Jokers cannot win a Trick, unless there is nothing but jokers in the Trick; in that case, the first played joker wins the Trick. There are two types of jokers—four with 2 dots and four with 4 dots. When a joker with 2 dots is played, the trump suit changes immediately. Flip over the top undealt card until a different suit is revealed; this is the new trump suit. (In the unlikely event that there is not a different suit in the undealt card pile, or if the whole pile is flipped o

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