What are the rules of Top Trumps?
What are the rules of Top Trumps?
HOW TO PLAY TOP TRUMPS
- Shuffle and deal the cards face down.
- Players pick up their cards and look at their top cards only.
- Player 1 (left of dealer) chooses and calls out their best stat (e.g. ‘Dark Side – 6’).
- The other players see if they can beat this stat (Highest number wins).
How does the top trump card work?
Top Trumps® is a card game traditionally played between two or more people. Each card lists numerical data that players compare with the aim of ‘trumping’ their opponent by having a greater value. The winner gains the opponents card(s) with the game continuing until only one player holds all the cards.
What does a top trump card mean?
Top Trumps is a card game first published in 1978. Each card contains a list of numerical data, and the aim of the game is to compare these values to try to trump and win an opponent’s card. A wide variety of different packs of Top Trumps has been published.
How many cards are in a top trump pack?
Each pack of Top Trumps consists of a number of cards (usually 30 or 32), each of which features in-game characters based on related subject matter which are full of stats, pictures and educational and interesting facts. The game is multiplayer and fits handily in the pocket so it can be played anywhere.
What happens if you draw in Top Trumps?
The rules state: If two or more cards share the top value or data is not available for that particular subject then all the cards are placed in the middle and the same player chooses again from the next card. The winner of the hand takes the cards in the middle as well.
Are Top Trumps educational?
Because Top Trumps is educational, we make sure thousands of packs go into schools across the country, every year. Sign your school up for the Top Trumps School Club and you will get 6 FREE PACKS as well as everything to run a Top Trumps Tournament.
How do you play trumps with a deck of cards?
Each player places 1 of their cards face down in front of them off to their right to denote which suit they will be allowed to call as trump later. They can later call trump by turning over this hidden card to reveal that suit as their trump. For 3 or 4 player/teams, each player chooses 3 cards to pass to a neighbor.
How do you make a Top Trumps game?
Here’s how to do it :
- Choose your subject – for e.g. Trains, Animals, Cars, Continents, Capital Cities, Places of interest in America/England etc.
- Decide your categories.
- Then create a card (see picture above) for each item, with it’s categories.
- To play the game, you then :
How many cards are in a top Trump pack?
How can I get free Top Trumps?
Collect 5 – Top Trumps. Collect any FIVE barcode cards from your Top Trumps packs to claim a FREE pack of Top Trumps. There are hundreds of packs out there – so get collecting!
What if you draw in Top Trumps?
What are the rules for three card pick?
Some variants of the rules allow ‘three card pick’, whereby a player who has only three cards remaining is allowed to choose any of their three cards to play with. Typically, this lengthens the game considerably.
Who is given the top card in the game?
The player who has the yellow card as the next playable card is given free the top card from all other players. The player who has the red card then receives the top 2 cards from all players. Once this card has been used it is then removed from the game, played only once.
What are the rules of a card game?
The game is played as follows. All the cards are dealt as equally as possible to the players and the players hold their cards in a face up stack so that they can see their first card only and the other players cannot see their card. The starting player – normally the player to the left of the dealer – chooses one attribute – for example length.
What happens if you put your top card in the middle?
All players place their top card in the middle and the same player chooses again. It is unlikely, but theoretically possible that after a tie the player whose turn it is to choose might have no more cards. This could happen for example in a three-player game, if you win with your last card and then cause three successive ties.
