Suggested number of players: two to six.
The players have to discuss how many cards each one gets before dealing the cards. We suggest five to ten cards per person depending on the number of players. Before shuffling, each player draws a card. The person holding the card with the fewest strokes starts the game.
After dealing, the dealer takes four cards from the remaining pile and puts them face-up on the table. The first player uses any card in his/her hand and among those on the table to spell a Chinese character, then collects the cards to his/her side. If the player uses two cards from his/her hand, then he/she can draw two cards from the pile as a replacement. If all the cards on the table are used, the next player can draw another four cards from the pile and put them face-up on the table.
If a player cannot spell a character, he/she must first choose one card from his/her hand, then put it on the table face-up, and finally take one card from the pile as a replacement. If a player can add card(s) to the character spelled by the previous player, he/she may “grab” that character, thus obtaining the points.
The players have to discuss how many cards each one gets before dealing the cards. We suggest five to ten cards per person depending on the number of players. Before shuffling, each player draws a card. The person holding the card with the fewest strokes starts the game.
After dealing, the dealer takes four cards from the remaining pile and puts them face-up on the table. The first player uses any card in his/her hand and among those on the table to spell a Chinese character, then collects the cards to his/her side. If the player uses two cards from his/her hand, then he/she can draw two cards from the pile as a replacement. If all the cards on the table are used, the next player can draw another four cards from the pile and put them face-up on the table.
If a player cannot spell a character, he/she must first choose one card from his/her hand, then put it on the table face-up, and finally take one card from the pile as a replacement. If a player can add card(s) to the character spelled by the previous player, he/she may “grab” that character, thus obtaining the points.
There are four wild cards in the set, which players may designate as any other radical in the set. We strongly recommend that players consult a Chinese dictionary to verify that spellings are correct. There are thousands of Chinese characters; some of them are not familiar even to a native Mandarin speaker. When all the cards in the pile are used up, the game is over.
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