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Easy Standard

High Card

The simplest card game — highest card wins.

👥 2–4 players · Easy difficulty

High Card is the perfect introduction to card games. Each round every player simultaneously reveals one card; the player with the highest card wins all cards played that round. Simple, fast, and endlessly replayable.

🎯 Objective

Collect the most cards by the time the deck runs out.

🃏 Setup

  1. Shuffle a standard 52-card deck.
  2. Deal all cards face-down equally among players.
  3. Each player holds their stack face-down without looking.

▶ How to Play

  1. All players simultaneously flip the top card of their stack to the centre.
  2. The player whose card has the highest rank wins all the cards played that turn.
  3. In a tie, all tied players flip one more card — highest of those wins everything.
  4. Won cards are added to the bottom of the winner's stack.
  5. Play continues until one player has all the cards or a set number of rounds is reached.

📊 Scoring

The player who collects the most cards wins.