Rules for the game of Ladder (a game we made up on the plane ride from the UK back to Nashville).
Before the Game
- Each player starts with 26 cards
- The two players choose who goes first (for the rest of these rules, the first player will be called player $A$ and the second player will be called player $B$)
- Before starting, either player can propose however many card swaps they would like (since both players’ hands are known to the other player)
First Round
- Player $A$ chooses 8 cards and player $B$ chooses 8 cards
- For each of their revealed card, player $A$ proposes a trade with a card that player $B$ has revealed
- Player $B$ can either accept the trade, in which case the cards are swapped, or reject the trade
- If the trade is rejected, player $B$ must propose another card which they would prefer over the proposed card. Player $B$ cannot propose a card which they have previously rejected
- Player $A$ continues to propose trades until there are no more trades that they would find favorable
Second Round
- Both players choose 8 new cards from their non-revealed cards
- The first round repeats, but with player $B$ proposing the trades, and player $A$ accepting or rejecting them
Final Round
- Of the remaining 10 unrevealed cards in both players hands, each player choooses 5 cards to pass to their opponent, and 5 to keep for themself
Scoring
- Same card:
- 3-of-a-kind: 3 points
- 4-of-a-kind: 10 points
- Same suit:
- 6 of the same suit: 1 point
- 7 of the same suit: 2 points
- 8 of the same suit: 3 points
- 9 of the same suit: 5 points
- 10 of the same suit: 8 points
- 11 of the same suit: 13 points
- 12 of the same suit: 21 points
- 13 of the same suit: 34 points
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