Each player is dealt a stockpile of 15 cards. The winner will be whoever manages to empty their stockpile first. Cards are played onto four shared building piles in numerical sequence from 1 to 12. On each turn, a player draws until they have five cards in their hand, and then plays cards from: their hand, a top card of their discard piles, or their stockpile, or they can use a coin in place of a card, or they can use a coin to take a card from their opponents stock pile or discard pile. Some cards require using coins to pay a toll. At the end of their turn, a player must discard onto one of their four personal discard piles. Strategy involves the organizing of cards into the discard piles and using your coins wisely, care in not setting up the next players for good plays, knowing when to play from which option, and especially the timing of playing a valuable "Skip-Bo" wildcard. Players still try and get rid of all the cards from their Stock Pile, but the coins can be used to help fill in a sequence of cards or even to buy a card from another player's Discard Pile or Stock Pile!

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