House of Cards

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House of Cards
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Description:
Build a house of cards with the highest possible value!

How to play:
The first layer consists of 12 cards which form a roof per pair. You can only form a roof with two cards of the same value, or two cards of the same colour (hearts, diamonds, spades or clover). You may place any card horizontally on two roofs. This card is used as the floor between levels and therefore loses its value. The strength of the floor is equal to the roof below with the lowest value. Each roof can carry its own weight at most. For example: a queen of hearts in combination with a jack of hearts has a value of 20, the second roof has the same value. This roof can carry the maximum weight of 20 (i.e.: 2 kings, 2 queens, ace + 9). If the second roof has a value of 10, the floor can only carry roofs with a value of 10 or less. In the example below, 13 is the lowest value, in which case this construction can only carry the maximum value of 13.

An ace has a particular value in this game. If you use this card as a floor, the card can carry any value whatsoever. When you use the ace as an interim floor card, its value is not added to the score.

Within the pile of cards, there are 2 jokers. If you get a joker, all the cards on the highest floor will be blown off immediately.

By clicking on the symbol below any time during the game, you can replace the 5 open cards by 5 new ones. The value of the replaced cards will be lost.