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| Type | Matching |
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| Players | 2+ |
| Cards | 54 |
| Deck | Anglo-American |
| Play | Clockwise Counter-clockwise |
| Card rank (highest to lowest) | A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 |
| Playing time | 5 min. |
| Random chance | Medium |
| Related games | |
| Switch Mau Mau | |
One-Card is a matching card game member of the shedding family of games. The general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family. It is played with an ordinary Poker deck and the objective is to get rid of all cards while preventing other players from getting rid of theirs. The game is commonly played in South Korea.
The dealer deals out seven cards for two players, or five cards for three or more players. When all players have been dealt their hands, one card is laid face-up in the middle of the table to form the discard pile, and the rest of the deck laid face-down beside it forming the stock pile. The Jokers are used.
The player to the dealer's right plays first by following the rank or suit of the first card led, or by playing a wild card. If the players can not follow the lead, they must draw a card from the stock. The players then take turns playing or drawing cards and the first player who plays all his of her cards out wins the game.
When an attack card is played, the next player must draw one or more cards, or play another attack card.
Damage adds up (a two, followed by an Ace of Spades has a total damage of seven). After drawing because of attack, it is still that players' turn, they may play one or more of the cards that they have just drawn.
When a player has only one card left, they must call out "One Card", the next player is then penalized by drawing a card. The player who has only one card is penalized in return if someone else calls out "One Card" first.
The stock pile is the stack of cards that have not yet gone into play. If this pile gets exhausted, and that frequently happens during the game, a player takes all but the last (top) card from the discard pile, shuffle them, to form a new stock of cards.