How to play Skyjo

Learn the rules to the card game Skyjo quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.

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RULES:
The object of the game is to have the fewest points at the end. The game ends once 1 player gets 100 or more points. Shuffle the deck and deal 12 cards to each player, which they keep in a 3 by 4 facedown grid in front of them, without looking at them. Place the remainder of the deck face down in the middle of the table as a draw deck. Discard the top card to form a discard pile. Each player flips over any 2 cards in their grid.

Players add their 2 cards together and the player with highest sum goes first, then play proceeds clockwise. On your turn, draw the top card from either the draw deck or discard pile. If you take the card from the discard, then you must swap it for any card in your grid. Whenever you swap a card in your grid, you place the new card faceup in its place and discard the swapped card. You may not look at a facedown card before swapping it.

If you draw a card from the draw deck, then you may swap it for a card in your grid, if you want, or you may discard it. If you discard the drawn card, then you must then flip 1 card in your grid faceup. If ever a column of 3 cards has 3 identical cards, it is called a triplet. You must immediately discard the entire column of the triplet to the discard pile. The triplet is discarded on top of your discarded or swapped card. You must always discard a revealed triplet, even if you don’t want to.

Once one player has all 12 of the cards in their grid faceup, then every other player gets 1 final turn then the round ends. Now, all players flip any remaining facedown cards in their grid faceup, removing any revealed triplets, then adds all their remaining faceup cards together. If the player who ended the round doesn’t have the lowest sum, then they receive double their total points they would have normally received, unless their total is zero or below, then they do not double them.

Each player’s sums are added to their score on a scoresheet, and if a player has 100 or more points, then the game ends and the player with the fewest points wins. If not, then play another round with the player who ended the previous round going first in the next round. Repeat this process until there is a winner.