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Next player 3 takes the top 4 tiles of stack 'j', player 4 the last tile of 'j' and three from 'k', and player 1 two from 'k' and two from 'l'. All the players should arrange their tiles so that they can see their faces but the other players cannot. Wooden racks are often used for this. The remaining tiles are left for the players to draw from during the game. They are moved to the middle of the table, without looking at them or disturbing their order.

Before the play begins, if any player holds the tile that matches the face up tile on top of the last stack of six tiles, the player may show that tile, and score one point. Now the player to the dealer's right begins the play by discarding one tile, face up. After this, each player in turn may either take the tile just discarded by the previous player, or draw the next tile from the supply in the centre of the table, and must then discard one unwanted tile.

This continues in anticlockwise rotation until a player forms a winning hand and exposes it, ending the play. Discarded tiles are placed to the right of the player who discarded them, in a stack, so that only the most recent discard in the stack is visible.

The usual rule is that you are allowed to look through all the tiles in the discard stacks to your right the tiles you discarded and to your left the tiles you had an opportunity to take , but you can only see the exposed top tiles of the two discard stacks on the other side of the table. A winning hand consists of 14 tiles formed entirely into sets and runs - for example two sets of 3 and two runs of 4, or a run of 6 plus a run of 3 plus a set of 4.

No tile can be used as part of more than one combination set or run at the same time. Another type of winning hand consists seven pairs. Each pair must consist of two identical tiles for example two black 9's. Two tiles of the same number and different colours do not make a pair - the colours must be the same as well. If you have a winning hand, then you can end the play by exposing all 14 of your tiles after discarding.

Apart from the discards and the face up tile on top of the six-tile stack, no tiles are exposed until a player shows a winning hand: no sets or runs are exposed during the game. Tiles are always drawn from the top of the next available stack.

When only the final stack of 6 tiles remains, the exposed tile is removed from the top of this stack and the other five tiles are drawn in order. The exposed tile the red 4 in the example diagrams can never be drawn. When there are no tiles left in the centre except the single exposed tile, if the next player to play does not want to take the previous player's discard, the play ends because there are no cards left to draw.

As already explained, the two tiles that are the same colour as the face up tile and one greater in number are the jokers. These tiles can be used to represent any tile the holder desires, in order to complete a set or run. For example, if the red 4 is face up, the red 5's are jokers. The two false jokers - the tiles without numbers - are used only to represent the joker tiles.

It would seem to be logically equivalent to use the false jokers as jokers and every tile to be what it appears to be. A possible reason may be that if through any defect in the tiles, some players learn to recognise the false jokers from the back, that would give them an unfair advantage.

If a different tile is used as the joker in each game, recognising a joker from the back becomes much more difficult. If you have a winning hand of groups and runs using at least one joker, you do not have to expose it immediately. If you wish, you can continue playing in the hope of forming a winning hand plus a joker.

If you are able to end the game by discarding a joker and exposing your remaining 14 tiles as a winning hand, your win is worth twice as much as an ordinary win. Note that by continuing to play instead of exposing your ordinary win, you run the risk that another player may complete a winning hand and expose it before you can achieve your double win, in which case you gain nothing for your concealed winning hand.

Each player begins the game with 20 points and loses points each time another player wins a game, as follows:. Also, if at the start of the play, a player shows the tile that matches the face up tile on the six-tile stack, each of the other players loses 1 point. If the game ends without any player exposing a winning hand because there are no tiles left to draw, and the player whose turn it is cannot win by taking the previous discard , then there is no score. This game is deceptively simple, with a basic concept of getting rid of all white blocks, but taking it, and perfecting it.

It slowly adds new concepts and gives you one or two levels to get used to them. In these intro levels you can test methods and figure out what the concepts are, and how to beat the level with them. Speaking of the levels, each level is one screen, giving you all the pieces to complete it, just not giving you the way to order the pieces.

This makes each completed level giving a sense of satisfaction, and a sense of the incoming challenge. Getting stuck is a usual thing in puzzle games, but in Okay? Most levels have a few ways of completing them, so replaying the game is fun and rewarding. I love this game. I have seen many aiming games in my time as an avid app user.

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One player is randomly selected for each round to play the killer, then everyone else has to work together to escape the camp. There are numerous weapons and items to discover and side missions to fulfil, and it all adds up to a tense, exciting experience.

Dead By Daylight offers a similar experience with a wider range of monstrous homicidal enemies. Or a casino? This is probably the safest way to find out.

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