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Sent in by Mellisa Bear
Requires: Standard 52 deck of playing cards
For 2 (or more) players, but best with 2.
Shuffle and deal out all the cards in a pack between the players, face down. Keeping their cards face down in front of them on the table players take it in turn to turn over their top card and then place it in the middle on to a discard pile. Whenever a Jack is turned up the first player to slap it wins.
[The way the game was described players have to slap the Jack card, but it may be more even if players only have to slap the discard pile on seeing the Jack, otherwise the player holding it may have the advantage.]
– Can play this to include all royal cards
– Winner of the jack can either get points or win the cards underneath.
11 comments
love that game
How does Slapjack Work?
why wont it let you play
The site was designed to provide the rules of how to play various games with friends and family. At some point in the future there might be the opportunity to play this type of card game with others online via this site, but don’t hold your breath 🙂
that boring it dosnt let you play
This is just the rules… Games listed here are for you to play with your friends.
charlotte don’t you have slap jack.and if you don’t jan.1 2020 i will make a app that has slap jack and you can play.
want is the app to slap jack?
want is the app to slap jack called slap jack app?
why can’t u play slap jack on here
Good question… but the answer has at least two components. 1) resources such as a developer to create the game and in a way it’s accessible by all internet users. 2) How would this be played online? It’s a reaction game. Computers are infinitely quicker at reacting than humans. Plus with the machine being the dealer it knows the card before you. So the question is how to implement it such that it’s fair to human players. Playing it as two human players against each other online is possible where the machine effectively deals the deck, but still restricted in fairness by needing both players to have relatively equal internet speeds.