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The dealer shuffles the cards and gives 7 to each player,
then places the rest of the deck in a pile face down in the middle of the table,
turning up 4 cards around the pile as shown.
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Play begins with the player on the dealers left and continues clockwise.
Cards are played on the four turned up cards and in the corners
between them, but the corners must start with a picto card,
then piece cards in the order of the rainbow - purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.
Picto Card
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Piece Card
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So in the example above, the first player can move the picto card to a corner leaving an empty space he can then fill
with any card. If he forgets to fill it, the next player gets to fill that spot.
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When a player has played all the cards he can, he draws a card and the next player takes a turn.
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Let's suppose the next player fills that spot, then draws a card.
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The next player plays the umbrella picto card in upper right corner,
then has an opportunity to move two piece cards over to that corner to begin 'spelling'
the umbrella picto card in the order of the rainbow.
This leaves open two spaces which he should fill before drawing a card to end his turn. Every turn ends with drawing a card.
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So you see, cards are played from players hands and from the four original piles around the center deck.
When a picto-in-the-corner is complete (all the piece cards represented on the picto card have been played)
its cards are cleared away making room to play another picto card.
The first player to run out of cards is the winner.
You can also make-up new games by imitating other popular card games like Go-Fish, Poker, and many others.
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