easy print and play rules for NODDE KNAVE
The Game of Nodde: as Redacted By Lady Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry from Willughby, Francis, “A Volume of Plaies”
Object: To peg (score) 31 or greater before your opponent
Equipment used to play: a deck of 52 cards, a Nodde board or a tally board/sheet
Aces: 1 point
2-10: scored at face value. For example, a 3 card would
be worth 3 points.
Jacks, Queens, Kings: 10 points
The board is 2 to 4 tracks of holes that pegs for scoring will
fit. (Though score could be kept on a tally) There are 30 holes for scoring for
each player, then one more shared hole for the winners peg.
A board could have but doesn’t require two extra holes in
each track for the starting pegs to rest before scoring starts. The players
always move the hindmost peg and count from the foremost peg.
How to play:
Two to six players. If play is with four players, you can
play teams, then it is played as teams of two. Team players sit alternating
with opponents. Teams are on the same track.
Or with a 6 track board, you can each play separately. Otherwise, you can play as teams sitting across from one another and sharing your scores.
The Deal: Choose a dealer, however, one chooses one. Starting
clockwise from the dealer, one card from the top of the deck is dealt face down
at a time around till each player has 3 cards in hand.
The dealer then turns the top card on the deck face up. This card's suit is the Trump suit.
If Trump is a
Knave (Jack) then Dealer pegs 2 (scores). If a player or dealer has the knave
of the Trump suit in hand, they peg 1 (this is often referred to as his Heels
in modern Cribbage). This is done first. Before any other scoring is started.
Score Hand: Then each person declares their hand points
from the dealer's left (This is the elder player), scoring goes clockwise all the way
to the dealer without showing your cards.
Points are called before pegging them.
The trump card is included in the scoring of every player’s
hand. The trump card counts toward your hand while scoring.
Example: fifteen 2, fifteen 4, and pair
for 6. This is a set of cards that equal 15 and one pair being a total
score of 6. Now with three cards the combination could be 6,6,9 or 10,5,5. Both
will equal that point call. If the trump card is a 3, this would be of no point, helping either player. Whereas a face card would be a 10 and give a player who
has 10,5,5 another 10. For another fifteen, 4 making the total score pegged 10.
Play: Elder hand
plays first (player to the left of the dealer) by placing a card the table face
up; they announce the value of that card. The next player to the left plays a
card face up next to that card and announces the combined total of their card
with the previously played card. If at any time pairs three of a kind or four
of a kind, Runs, Flushes of three or more cards, combinations that equal 15, 25, or 31. Pegging point as they are called.
Runs can be built on as can flushes, making the new point
value of said collection the score that shall be pegged for the player.
Running value of
played cards is not to exceed 31, of the player busts and calls ‘GO” to
announce they can’t go, play proceeds to the next player in turn till 31 is
reached or the last player able to play a playable card within the 31 value has
gone. That player pegs 1 for “GO” (this is called the latter hand) or the
player who reached “31” pegs 2. The round ended, the cards are then shuffled and
passed to the next in line to deal.
Questions, indeterminable and variations, and creative
interpretation:
The Ace always being low, and King high. Ace is always 1
and may not be used to do wrap arounds as in a run of A, K, Q.
Game can be adapted to use different decks as long as you can declare a Knave, I suggest removing the Trumps from a Tarot
deck to use it.
Whether the deck is reshuffled after each deal. Is never
stated in any directions I can find that a game of two players can get 7 fair
hands without shuffling the deck each deal. This does however change the Odds
on hands the chances of getting Nave Nodde decrease. But game play does move
faster if you skip reshuffling each set. (only works for a game of 2 people)
Who scores the 2 points on the Knave Nodde. Some score it
to the Elder Player, some call it for the dealer, it seems to be a regional
thing.
The scoring of 25 is a regional variation of Italy as far
as I can tell, and players who learned to play from their rules use this
variation, as well as 31 made in hand.
Who Deals. Cutting the deck where low or high card deals
can be done, as can the persons who deck it can deal. Whoever deals first, then passes it to the left in turn.
Score is pegged by the players themselves on the board by
moving the rear-most peg the number of holes past the hole the forward-most peg
is currently in.
Strategy: Try to guess what cards can make up the player's score so that you can play cards that would not help them but might help you. You can also force them to play cards that could help you score points.
Scoring,
Pegging, Points:
Nodde
Knave as Trump = 2
Trump
Nodde Knave in hand = 1
2
or more cards totaling 15 = 2
3 or more cards totaling 25 = 4 (rule is regional)
4
or more cards totaling 31 = 2
Pair = 2
Pair
Royal = 6
Double
Pair Royal = 12
Run
of 3 = 2
Run
of 4 = 4
Run
of 5 = 6
15
in hand or play = 2
(25 in hand or play = 1 point per card) Regional
(31 in hand = 4) Regional
31
in play = 2
Card
Values Pipped cards = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Face cards Knave = 10, Queen = 10, King = 10
Scoring,
Pegging, Points:
Nodde
Knave as Trump = 2
Trump
Nodde Knave in hand = 1
2
or more cards totaling 15 = 2
3 or more cards totaling 25 = 4 (rule is regional)
4
or more cards totaling 31 = 2
Pair = 2
Pair
Royal = 6
Double
Pair Royal = 12
Run
of 3 = 2
Run
of 4 = 4
Run
of 5 = 6
15
in hand or play = 2
(25 in hand or play = 1 point per card) Regional
(31 in hand = 4) Regional
31
in play = 2
Card Values Pipped cards = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Face cards Knave = 10, Queen = 10, King = 10
Scoring,
Pegging, Points:
Nodde
Knave as Trump = 2
Trump
Nodde Knave in hand = 1
2
or more cards totaling 15 = 2
3 or more cards totaling 25 = 4 (rule is regional)
4
or more cards totaling 31 = 2
Pair = 2
Pair
Royal = 6
Double
Pair Royal = 12
Run
of 3 = 2
Run
of 4 = 4
Run
of 5 = 6
15
in hand or play = 2
(25 in hand or play = 1 point per card) Regional
(31 in hand = 4) Regional
31
in play = 2
Card Values Pipped cards = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Face cards Knave = 10, Queen = 10,
King = 10
Scoring,
Pegging, Points:
Nodde
Knave as Trump = 2
Trump
Nodde Knave in hand = 1
2
or more cards totaling 15 = 2
3 or more cards totaling 25 = 4 (rule is regional)
4
or more cards totaling 31 = 2
Pair = 2
Pair
Royal = 6
Double
Pair Royal = 12
Run
of 3 = 2
Run
of 4 = 4
Run
of 5 = 6
15
in hand or play = 2
(25 in hand or play = 1 point per card) Regional
(31 in hand = 4) Regional
31
in play = 2
Card Values Pipped cards = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Face cards Knave = 10, Queen = 10, King = 10
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