Our family loves to play Tripoley when we are together. Homemade boards were created for the nieces and nephews. Each board had appliques cut out with our new Cricut Expressions machine. The chips are bingo chips and the cards were ordered from Zazzle with each persons name on them. The boards will cinch up into a satchel bag when the ties are pulled, storing the chips and cards inside.
Tripoley Rules
The Deal & the Stakes
- Before the cards are dealt, the players must place 8
tiles on the playing fields.
- Place a tile on each of the marked spaces: 8-9-10,
King-Queen of Hearts, Kitty, 10 of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of
Hearts, King of Hearts, Ace of Hearts.
- Some venues may have unclaimed chips from previous game
bets.
- Just add your own.
- Once the bets are placed, the dealer gives each player
a card at the same time. The dealer also deals a blind hand at the same
time.
- The dealer rotates to the left with each round.
- Some players may have more cards than others.
- If a player has any of the marked spaces 8-9-10,
King-Queen of Hearts, Kitty, 10 of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of
Hearts, King of Hearts, Ace of Hearts they can’t pick up the blind or bid
on it.
- If the dealer doesn’t like his hand, he can exchange it
for the blind and no bidding takes place for the blind.
- It is NOT allowed to examine the blind hand before
exchanging it.
- The dealer’s original hand then becomes dead and no
longer can be used this round.
- Hands cannot be combined.
- The dealer can auction the blind hand to the highest
bidder should they not pick it up. Bidding starts to the left of the
dealer.
- The hand cannot be seen on the stage.
- The player who buys it discards his hand and pays the
dealer his bid with his/her chips for the blind.
Rules for Play:
·
Whoever
has the two of clubs must play it first. If it is dead in the blind then the
lowest club is played first.
- The players follow suit until no
one can play that suit. A card
that cannot be followed is called a stop card.
- As soon as a stop card or an
ace is hit, the player who played the ace or stop card starts over. They
are to play the lowest red he has and players
follow that suit till no one can play.
·
Each
time the suit play comes to a stop the player that goes out then plays the
opposite lowest color of the suit last played.
- If the player that played the last
suit does not have the opposite color the person to their left can then
play their lowest opposite color card.
- If this player cannot get out either, he continues to
move to the left until someone can play.
- Players with ace, king, queen, jack or ten hearts take
the tiles from the corresponding fields as those cards are played.
- A player can have both the Queen and the King of
Hearts.
- He takes tokens/chips from the King and Queen spaces
and the corresponding space.
- King-Queen square must be hearts.
·
The 8-9-10 tiles can
be taken one after the other in any suit by players with 8-9-10. They are not necessarily
hearts.
- If two or more players meet this requirement. The
player that plays the 8-9-10 first claims the chips.
- If no one has the cards played for a marked space the
chips carry over each round until someone plays that marked space and then
claims all the chips for that space.
- The game continues like this until someone runs out of
cards.
- As soon as this happens, the game will stop
immediately.
- The player who played his entire hand wins all of the
chips in the Kitty field. In addition, the player that went out then
collects a chip for each card the players still have in their hand from
the players.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. For how long the game continues? The game carries on until the players choose
to quit. If they do, there will likely be some unclaimed chips.
2. Who is the winner? The player with the most chips is the winner of the game!
