Kent Stop

Pick a dealer who shuffles a standard 52 card deck of playing cards, then deals 4 cards to each player. The remaining deck is placed face down and becomes the stock. Players look at their own cards but keep them hidden from others.

Once everyone is ready the dealer flips over the top 4 cards of the stock to a 2 by 2 face up grid on the table. There are no turns, all play happens simultaneously. Players may swap cards, one at a time, from the middle face up grid, trying to form a 4 of a kind in their hand. If no player wants to swap cards in the middle, then the dealer discards the pile and flips over 4 new cards. Once you have a four of a kind, you signal your teammate with your per-determined signal. Your teammate then says “Kent” and your team wins. If your teammate says “Kent” and you do not have a 4 of a kind, then you lose. The opposing team may say “STOP” when they believe you have a 4 of a kind. If they do before your team says “Kent”, and you do in fact have a four of a kind, then they win. If you don’t have a 4 of a kind, then they lose. After a round ends, collect all the cards and the role of dealer rotates clockwise and a new round is played. If the stock runs out of cards so you can’t draw new ones, then the round ends and no team wins.

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