Golf

Rules of the card game "Golf" as taught to me by my Mom over the holidays:

A game for two or more players, although you could probably play it solo by trying to get a score below 100 points or something.

• Choose a dealer somehow.
  
• After each hand the person to the dealer's left becomes the next dealer.
  
• A game consists of 18 hands. The goal of the game is to get the lowest score. Scoring is as follows:
  Pairs of cards of the same rank count as zero points. Single cards are worth their rank value (ace=1, two=2, etc.) with the exception of Kings (0 points), Jacks and Queens (10 points), and fives (-5 points). Additionally, the Queen of Spades is worth 13 points unless paired with another queen.
  
• The dealer deals 4 cards, face down, to each player.
  
• Each player chooses two of their four cards to be "hidden" and they must not look at these cards. Players may look at the other two cards but only until they have taken their first turn. The play starts with all four cards face down.
  
• The remainder of the deck becomes the stock pile and is placed face down so that all players can reach it. The top card is turned face up to form the discard pile.
  

Play begins with the player to the dealer's left. On each turn a player may do one of the following:
(a) pick up a card from the discard pile and replace one of his face down cards with it. The new card is turned face up in front of the player and the old card is placed face up in the discard pile.
(b) pick a card from the stock pile and either discard it, or replace a face down card as in (a). If the stock card is discarded, then one of the player's face down cards must be turned up.

That's it. Quick to teach and play. Each hand consists of four turns of drawing/flipping/discarding a card and then you add up your score, low score winning. It's fun because there's a certain amount of strategy in the decisions you make in drawing and flipping cards, but there's also a strong element of chance. Try it.