Spit! Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Object
• Set Up
• Play
• Winning

Object

Be the fastest and be first to get rid of all of your cards.

Set Up

• Two players play at a time.
• Shuffle and deal the entire deck.
• Sit facing your opponent.
• Hold your cards in a pack, face-down, in one hand.
• Both of you place four of your cards face-up in a row in front of yourself, leaving 10 or 12 inches between your row and your opponent's.
• Brace yourselves for the fastest game in the whole wide world!

Play

• When you're both ready to go, one or both of you says, "Spit!" and you each place one card from your pack face-up between your rows. These cards will start the two discard piles.

Layout diagram: four cards in a row for Player 1 at the top and four for Player 2 at the bottom, with a centre pair of cards between the rows. The two centre cards are the discard piles. Player 1 says "Spit!" at the discard pile on the left of the centre pair and Player 2 at the discard pile on the right.

• You may play any of the cards in your row on either of the discard piles.
• Cards must be played in sequence, either up or down.
• Zeros may be played either high (on nines) or low (on ones).
• After you play cards from your row, replace them with cards from your pack. You can always have up to four cards face-up in your row.
• There may come a point when neither of you can play any cards. In this case, you both say "Spit!" and you each put one of the cards from your hand face-up on the same discard pile where you started.
• Resume play and continue until one of you wins.
• If you run out of cards in your hand and you need to "Spit!" in order to keep going, your opponent may "Spit!" on both discard piles.

Winning

If you're the first to play all your cards, you win! Sometimes you may not be able to play all of the cards. In this case, the player who has the least cards when no more cards are playable, wins. If you tie, play again to see who wins.

If there are more than two players, the winner plays somebody else next. The winner of that game will play somebody else, and so on, until everybody has played. The last player to win is the champ!