Deuce
BGG rank
BGG #27,082
BGG rating
5.4

Deuce

1985

Rules assistance for Deuce

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–4 players
  • 20 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.0/5

Rules assistant for Deuce

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Deuce is a board game released in 1985 for 2–4 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. Its main mechanics are Pattern Recognition and Open Drafting.

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About the game

These 52 cards, 11 cards (0 through 10) in each of 4 colour suits plus 6 Rainbow cards and 2 X cards. You try to go out (empty your hand) during each hand; score is kept and the first player to reach 100 wins. Each player is dealt 6 cards. You begin by placing two cards of your choice in front of you, face up, to create two discard piles. The two cards played must match either by colour or by number. In turn, you play one card from your hand onto any of the discard piles. To play onto a pile, the card played must match the other pile's card in number or colour. If you can't or don't wish to play a card, you must draw cards until you can play one. Should the draw be exhausted, a new deck is made from the discard piles, keeping only the topmost cards. To go out, your discard piles must at least tie all the others in number value. Score is 10 points for the player who went out, plus the combined values of the cards left in the other players' hands. The discards aren't scored. Rainbow cards are wild, being of all four colours at once --they match any card. The card value is zero, which may be handy to reduce an opponent's discard piles value. X cards (also worth zero), on the other hand, can only be matched by Rainbow or X cards.

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Publishers

  • Milton Bradley
  • MB Spellen
  • MB Spiele

Questions and answers

Deuce supports 2–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.