Spit in the ocean card game

If it's a new deck, the cards will slide all over the place and you won't be able to move them around as quickly. You set the game up in the same way as Double Solitaire, but with five piles in your tableau instead of seven see Double Solitaire using a card deck. Split the deck so that you each have 26 cards. You each then set up your own tableau by dealing out five piles in front of you—cards face-down. On the first pile you will have one card, on the second pile two cards, on the third pile three cards, and so on.

When you are done, turn up the top card on each of these piles. You will have 11 cards left in your hand stock pile. Begin to play as though you're playing Solitaire. The cards on the tableau are played by rank in descending order—alternating between red and black cards.

Suit is not relevant on the tableau. After the cards are dealt and your tableau is built, you may make any necessary moves on your tableau before turning a spit card.

When you play a face-up card on your tableau meaning you move it elsewhere , you then turn over the face-down card underneath it. If there is no card underneath it, you will be left with an empty space on your tableau. You can put any card in that space, it doesn't have to be a King as it does in Russian Solitaire. The players look at their hands. The dealer turns the table cards face up one at a time. After each card is turned up, there is a round of betting.

After the fifth and final betting round there is a showdown, won by the highest hand. A player's five-card hand may be made from any combination of hole cards and table cards. A popular variation is to specify that the holder of the highest card of the suit of a particular table card - often the last card turned over, or sometimes the third card turned over - splits the pot with the highest hand. Or the high hand may split the pot with the holder of the highest card of that suit if the table card is 8 or higher but with the lowest card of the suit if the table card is 7 or lower.

Alternatively, it may be specified that the last table card turned over and all the cards of the same rank are wild. Sometimes Low Hole Cincinnati is played, in which each player's lowest hole card is wild for that player, along with any others of the same rank.

This is similar to Cincinnati , but only four cards are dealt to each player and four cards to the table. The table cards are turned up one at a time with a betting round after each. Gameplay When both players are ready they take the top cards from their deck and place them face up in the middle of the table, next to each other. This forms two discard piles. The players are then supposed to put as many cards as they can, as fast as they can on top of the discard piles.

Both players can put cards onto both piles, the piles don't belong to a particular player. When you put a card on a discard pile it must be either one higher or one lower than the top card on the pile. There are a few moves you can make:. During this part of the game the important thing is to play as fast as you can, move cards around to open up as many of your cards as you can and get rid of them. At some point both players will be stuck and can't make any more moves.

When that happens the game will tell you to click on your deck, and then both you and the computer players will move one card from the top of your decks onto the discard piles. As soon as the new cards are there you can go back to getting rid of your cards as fast as you can until you're both stuck again or one of you has finished all his stacks.

When one player has finished all the cards in his stacks the round is finished. Then the player who finished first picks one of the discard piles and the other player gets the other pile. You should always pick the smaller pile, but it can sometimes be hard to see which one is smaller if they have roughly the same number of cards, and you can't count the cards. Now the players add the cards in their pile to their decks and create 5 new stacks, the same way as in the beginning.

The important part is that the discard piles are not shuffled. Now, the cards in the discard piles are already ordered, so the new stacks will have pretty well ordered cards which makes the game even more intense and lets you get rid of your cards even faster! This continues until at some point a player gets a discard pile that is so small that he can't make 5 full stacks, and won't have any deck.

He then creates as much of the stacks as he can, but since he has no deck there will now only be one discard pile on the table. The game continues as usual, except with only one discard pile, and if the player who didn't have any deck gets rid of all his cards first then he has won the whole game. This online version of Spit was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture.

I decided to make this game after it was suggested by a gentleman named Don. At first I didn't know what game it was, but when I looked at it online I realized that it was a game that I knew very well under the icelandic name "Kleppari". In fact I used to play it when I was a kid with my sister Alda, who always used to beat me at it! She was so good at it that I usually didn't want to play it with her, because I always lost! So, this game is dedicated to her, and that's why there's a new player called Alda, which is the hardest one to beat in the game :.

The excellent playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei , check out his site for some more examples of his work. This website uses cookies to store your preferences, and for advertising purposes. Read more in our Privacy Policy or manage your privacy settings. Pick your opponent. Spit There are no special options for Spit, speed is determined by selecting an opponent :. All games Spread cards. Interstitial ads. Use dark theme. Holiday themes.