How to play Rack-O

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

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RULES:

The object of the game is to score 500 or more points. The object of each round is to arrange your rack in an ascending order. If playing with 2 players use cards 1 to 40, if player with 3 use 1 to 50. And for a four player game use all 60 cards. Pick one player to be the dealer who shuffles then deals 10 cards to each player. Players place their cards in their rack from back to front as they are dealt. Place the remainder of the deck face down as a stock and flip over the top card to form a discard pile. Beginning with the player left of the dealer then proceeding clockwise, players take turns drawing 1 card from either the stock or discard pile and exchanging it with a card in their rack then discarding it. If you draw from the stock you are allowed to discard the drawn card instead of exchanging it if you want.

You may not rearrange of the cards in your rack when exchanging a card, only the card being exchanged may be removed and the drawn card must go into that spot. The round ends once 1 player has all 10 cards in their rack ascending in progression from low to high from front to back. Making the lowest rank card in the #5 spot and the highest ranked card in the #50 spot. Cards to not need to be in exact sequential order, you are allowed to have numbers missing between cards so long as the progression is always getting higher. The numbers on the sides of the rack are for scoring purposes.

The first player to complete their rack goes RACK-O and scores 75 points and wins the round. All other players score 5 points for each card in a continuous ascending order until the succession of higher cards has been broken. For example, you would score 30 points because the card in the #35 spot is of lower rank than the #30 spot, even though the last 4 cards are arranged correctly. Is the stock runs out of cards, flip the bottom of the discard pile into a new stock. The first player to score 500 or more points is the winner.

If you are playing with 2 players, there is this added rule: A player may not go rack-o unless he has a run of at least 3 cards in exact sequence included in his rack. For example, 28, 29, 30. You can also play bonus rack-o where the player who goes rack-o can score bonus points for having runs in their rack. A 3 card run gives you 75 additional bonus points, down to a 6 card run which gives you 400 additional bonus points. Having multiple runs only yields a single bonus.

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