- 1). Reduce the size of your deck by removing the 5 through the 2 of all suits. For the game of Drunkard, you’ll be using a deck of 36 cards—A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6 in ranking order from high to low.
- 2). Deal out the deck so that each player has an equal number of cards. For a two-player game of Drunkard, each player should have a total of 18 cards in her hand. For a three-player or four-player game, each player will have 12 or 9 cards in her hand, respectively.
- 3). Stack your cards in an orderly pile in front of you, but do not look or arrange them in any fashion. Though Drunkard is a trick-taking game, you will play without actually looking at your cards.
- 4). Turn up the top card of your own personal deck, starting with the person to the left of the dealer, and place it towards the center of the table.
- 5). Win the trick by having the highest ranking card played at the table. The only exception to this rule is when one of the players turns over a 6 while an ace is in play. The 6 now becomes the highest card in play, and will inevitably take the trick. Suits are irrelevant in the game of Drunkard; you’re simply looking at the rank of the cards played in each trick.
- 6). Swipe those cards played for the trick and place them face down under your own personal deck when you win that trick.
- 7). Continue to play the game until only one player has cards in his or her personal deck. This player is considered the winner of Drunkard.
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