Dutch Blitz rules

Dutch is a card game that combines memory and tactics and is very popular in the evening for 2 to 6 players. Played in several rounds, the aim is to get rid of the strongest cards to finish the game with the fewest points possible.

Material

• Packs of 52 cards, without jokers.

Set up

• Shuffle and mix the cards.
• Each player receives 4 cards; this is their deck.
• Be careful! Do not look at the cards.
• Line up your cards face down in front of you.
• At the beginning of the game, each player is allowed to look at and memorise 2 cards from their deck.
• The rest will form the deck.
• Discard the first card from the deck.
• Play clockwise.

How do you play?

• During his turn, the player is entitled to one of the following actions.
• Discard one or more cards
• Each player can discard one or more cards from their hand at any time.
• Any discarded card must be of the same value as the first card in the discard pile.
• If you make a mistake, you must draw a penalty card and add it to your hand, and drink 2 sips.

Drawing a card

• Draw a card.
• If it doesn’t suit you, you can discard it.

Draw a card and exchange it for a card from your deck

• Draw a card.
• Look at a card from your deck.
• You must keep the card you drew and discard the card you looked at.

Take the first card from the discard pile

• Take the first card from the discard pile.
• Swap it with one of the cards in your deck.

Special cards

• Some cards have a special effect.
• When they are discarded, their effect is applied.

End of a round

• As soon as a player feels that he has fewer points than his opponents, he announces “Dutch”.
• A final round is played and the cards are revealed.
• The points are counted and the player with the fewest points wins the round.
• The role of first player is passed to the player to the left of the winner.

The points

End of the game

• As soon as a player scores 100 points, the game ends.
• The player with the fewest points wins the game.