Parade Rules

It looks like you're collecting cards, but really you want to avoid collecting. Slip a card onto the parade so that as little as possible falls back to you.

• Shuffle the 66 cards (6 colors × 0-10).
• Deal 5 cards to each player.
• Lay 6 cards face up in a row to form the parade.
• The remaining cards form the draw deck.

1. Step 1. Pick a card from your hand and place it at the end of the parade.
2. Step 2. If your card has value V, the last V+1 cards (including your own) are safe.
3. Step 3. Among the remaining cards, take any with (a) the same color as yours or (b) value ≤ V to your own pile.
4. Step 4. Sort your pile by color so others can see your counts.
5. Step 5. Draw one card from the deck to refill your hand.

• Trigger A. A player has cards of all 6 colors in their pile (the triggering turn finishes normally).
• Trigger B. The draw deck is empty.
• Final round. After the trigger, every player takes one more turn — but no one draws anymore.
• Wrap-up. Once everyone has 4 cards in hand, each player picks 2 to add to their pile and discards the other 2.

• For each color, whoever owns the most cards of that color counts each as 1 point.
• Other players count the face value of each card of that color.
• 2-player variant: must own at least 2 more than your opponent to claim majority. Otherwise both score face value.
• Ties: every tied owner uses the 1-point-each rule for that color.
• Sum across all colors. Lowest score wins.
• If tied, the player with fewer total collected cards wins.

• High-value cards have wider safe zones, but if collected they hurt by face value.
• Feeding a color to whoever already has the most often pins that color to the 1-point rule.
• Look at what's near the front of the parade — simulate which cards would fall before you commit.