🃏 Donkey (Kazhutha)
Trick-taking · 4 players · Escape before the Donkey tag finds you
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How to Play
🏃 Objective
Empty your hand before everyone else. The last player still holding cards is eliminated as the Donkey.
- 4 players, 13 cards each
- Survive rounds to win the tournament
- Last player standing wins
🃏 Setup
Cards are dealt evenly from a standard 52-card deck. The player holding the Ace of Spades leads first.
- Standard deck, no jokers
- Ace of Spades always leads round 1
- Cards are sorted by suit in your hand
🔄 Playing a Trick
The leader plays any card — that suit is the lead suit. Everyone else must follow the same suit if they can.
- Must follow the lead suit if you have it
- Highest lead-suit card wins the trick
- Winner leads the next trick
✂️ The Cut
If you have no cards of the lead suit, play any card. This is a cut — the trick ends immediately.
- The player with the highest lead-suit card picks up all played cards
- The pickup player leads the next trick
- Use cuts to force dangerous high cards onto opponents
🏆 Escaping & Scoring
Play your last card to escape the round. Points are awarded for order of escape.
- 1st to escape: +100 pts
- 2nd to escape: +60 pts
- 3rd to escape: +30 pts
- Donkey (last player): −50 pts, eliminated
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