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Thanks to the wonderiffic magic of the Interweb, I’ve found some rules of a card game long played inside the family but hardly known outside of it: Kings in the Corner. (Index of Card Games (exhaustive), Wikipedia (uh, less exhaustive).)

The rules are very close to our rules, but in the interest of listing our own rules - as additions to the Index of Card Games page - here they are:

• Each player get six cards dealt in the beginning.

• You must play all cards that you are able to play. If you discover later that you could play something earlier, you must play those cards, and you’ll be charged 5 penalty points per card.

• Complementing the previous rule, you must only draw a card from the stock if you’re unable to play any cards, and drawing is always done at the start of the turn.

• In accordance with the earlier two rules, if you draw a King, you must play it and draw a new card.

• The scoring is more tiered, with 2→9 being 5 points, 10 10 points, J→K 15 points and A 20 points.

I don’t care a whole lot for card games, but a nice round of Kings in the Corner have never failed me. And what better time to try it out than now, holidays and all?