The Great Dalmuti Card Game

Life isn't fair...and neither is The Great Dalmuti! One turn you can be a king, the next a servant. Fight for the highest social class and crown yourself The Great Dalmuti!!!

Eighty playing cards must be played out as quickly as possible. If you manage to get rid of your cards first, you will be The Great Dalmuti in the next round. However, if you finish last, you will be the Great Servant of The Great Dalmuti in the next round and you must always collect, shuffle and deal out all the cards... As Great Dalmuti, beware of the Fool's Revolution and the cunning of your subjects: you could be dethroned again! The deck of cards is shuffled and distributed among the players.

In each round, The Great Dalmuti starts with the first trick. He plays a random card or multiple cards of the same rank. Clockwise, the players must now play a higher card or a higher set of cards (with the same number of cards) or pass. A set consists of 2 or more cards of the same rank. During a trick, a player can play cards or pass multiple times. The trick ends when all players have passed. The player who played the highest card or the highest set starts the next trick. As soon as a player has played his last card, he wins the round. He is The Great Dalmuti in the next round. The player who played his cards second becomes the Little Dalmuti and so on.

After each round, The Great Dalmuti gets one point for each of his subjects. In a game with 5 players, he gets 4 points. The new Little Dalmuti gets 3 points for his subjects, and so on. Only the Great Servant always gets 0 points. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner!

Contents: 80 playing cards and game rules.