How to Play Sevens Card Game

Rules

1. Deal the full deck evenly, including the two jokers.
2. The player with the 7♠ starts by placing it on the board.
3. On your turn, play one legal card that extends the same suit upward or downward from a card already on the table.
4. Spades control the open rank range. Other suits cannot go beyond the ranks that spades have already unlocked.
5. Jokers can stand in for one missing card during the round. If you still have a joker when the round ends, it counts toward your score like any other card in hand.
6. If you cannot play, use Need One to take a card from the player on your left, then continue the round.
7. When a player empties their hand, the round ends. That player scores zero for the round and everyone else scores the cards left in hand.
8. After five rounds, the lowest total score wins the match.

Sample Board

This layout mirrors the live game board. Solid cards are already on the table. Green cards mark legal next plays.