Goal
The goal of the game is to be the first person whose score will be equal or lower than zero points. This means that you have to try to keep your score as low as possible.

Start a round
Every round one of the four players has to announce a suit. The first round this will be the person who opened the game (e.g. the person who set up his/her game as server). Every next round will be opened by the next player (clockwise).
After the suit has been announced the next player will have to open the game with this suit. Except the Ace and the King all cards of the requested suit might be played.

Playing a round
After the first card is played other cards can be played. A card can be played:

1. when it connects to another card which is already played. For example: The first card that is played is 5© . In this case 4© or 6© might be played. The following order of cards should be used:
   Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K.
1. when it connects to the opening card. For example: the game is opened with 9ª . In this case 9§ , 9¨ and 9© might be played.

It is not allowed to keep cards which can be played. The computer will wait till you play such cards. If you have no cards that connects to any other card you will have to pass.

Two strategies
In first all players will have to achieve a score as low as possible. This is done by having as less as possible cards left at the end of a round. The value of the cards which are left will be added to the score of each player.
After a determined amount of rounds (see the main menu: game - options) the value of the cards which are left will be subtracted of the score of each player. In this case you should have as much as possible cards left after each round. This way many points will be subtracted from your score.

Score
Your score is determined by the cards you still have after each round. The value of these cards will be added or subtracted from your score. The following values are used by Scout’s game: