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Hand and Foot

Hand and Foot

(Public Domain) · 1982
2–6120 min12+ yrs1.9/5 complexity5.9 BGG#14.079 BGG521
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How do you play Hand and Foot?

Hand and Foot is a predominately a North American standard deck playing card game with many variations. It is a set building game, normally played with four people in two teams.

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Hand and Foot is a predominately a North American standard deck playing card game with many variations. It is a set building game, normally played with four people in two teams. It typically uses four or five regular poker decks including the jokers. Each player starts with two piles of eleven cards. One pile is their hand, the other, their foot. The players draw two cards a turn, playing some if they choose and then discarding one at the end of each of their turns, except if they want to go out, when they will have to play every card. Once a player has played all the cards in their hand they will pick up their foot. Sets are comprised of 7 cards of the same number. Sets may have wild cards in them, jokers and twos, but then the set is no longer clean, it would then be considered dirty. A team needs two clean sets and two or three dirty sets to go out.

Hand and Foot is also commonly known as clean and dirty.

game anatomy
Complexity1.9 / 5
BGG rating5.9 / 10
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
120 min
Players
2–6
Recommended age
12+ yrs
BGG rank
#14.079
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Q3How do you play Hand and Foot?
Hand and Foot is a card game game, for 2–6 players, taking ~120 minutes, featuring set collection. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Hand and Foot — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Hand and Foot support?
Hand and Foot is played by 2–6 players.
Q5How long does a game of Hand and Foot take?
A game of Hand and Foot takes about 120 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Hand and Foot for?
Hand and Foot is recommended from age 12.
Q7How complex is Hand and Foot?
Hand and Foot has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.9 out of 5.
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