Schwimmen (31)
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PLAYERS
3-7
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Indoor
MATERIALS
- Standard deck of cards
- Small tokens or chips to track remaining lives
HOW TO PLAY
1
Deal three cards to each player and place three more cards face up in the middle as the table hand.
2
On your turn, swap one card from your hand with one card from the table, or swap your whole hand with the whole table hand at once.
3
The goal is to collect three cards of the same suit with the highest possible combined value, or three cards of the same rank.
4
Any player who believes their hand is strong enough may knock on the table instead of swapping, which gives everyone else one final turn before hands are revealed.
5
After the final turn, all hands are compared; the player with the lowest-value hand loses one of their remaining lives.
6
Play continues across rounds until only one player still has lives remaining, who is declared the winner.