Each card in the deck shows a list of numerical data about a person, item or category.

All the cards are dealt among the players. There must be at least two players, and at least one card for each player. The starting player (normally the player to the dealer’s left) selects a category from their topmost card and reads out its value. Each other player then reads out the value of the same category from their cards. The best card is usually the largest, but not in all cases as sometimes the lower number is considered better, it is best to establish this before the game begins. The winner of the hand takes all the cards of and places them at the bottom of their pile. The winner then looks at their new topmost card, and chooses the category for the next round.

In the event of a draw the cards are placed in the centre and a new category is chosen from the next card by the same person as in the previous round. The winner of that round obtains all of the cards in the centre as well as the top card from each player.^[3]

Players are eliminated when they lose their last card, and the winner is the player who obtains the whole deck Some variants of the rules allow ‘three card pick’, whereby a player who has only 3 cards remaining is allowed to choose any of their three cards to play with. Typically, this lengthens the game considerably, but allows for exciting come backs.