Card Golf

This card game simulates golf! Using a standard 52-card deck plus two Jokers, each player receives six face-down cards. The remaining cards form a draw pile, with the top card flipped to begin the discard pile.

The goal is to minimize your card values over nine rounds ("holes"). Players achieve this by exchanging their cards for lower-valued ones or creating pairs of equal-rank cards. The highest total score loses.

On their turn, players draw one card from either the draw or discard pile. They can swap this card with one of their six cards (leaving the swapped card face-up), or discard it (ending their turn). A round concludes when all a player's cards are face-up.

Card Values:

• Joker: -2 points
• Ace: 1 point
• King: 0 points
• Jack/Queen: 10 points
• Number cards: Face value