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ABIDE BY THE RULES, [INSERT INSULT HERE] A card game playable with a 52-card deck for 2-5 people. The object is to discard all of your cards. The first to discard all of their cards wins. Each player chooses a rule in secret. Determine who goes first by drawing a card open faced from the deck. Whoever draws the highest card goes first, 2 being lowest and Ace being highest. In the event of a tie, the tied players draw to determine order. Reshuffle these cards into the deck. Each player draws 5 cards. Each player then takes their turn, playing a single card into the discard pile, starting with the player who won the draw, and then following in a clockwise fashion. If another player breaks your rule, you deal them 2 cards. Do not state the rule they broke. Simply state "ABIDE BY THE RULES, ____. You may use their name, or a Victorian-styled insult. We recommend You   Cur, or something sillier and anachronistic like Straight to Video Nic Cage movie . Play then passes to

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