Hand and Foot
BGG rank
BGG #14,437
BGG rating
5.9

Hand and Foot

1982

Rules assistance for Hand and Foot

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

  • 2–6 players
  • 120 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 1.9/5

Rules assistant for Hand and Foot

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Hand and Foot is a board game released in 1982 for 2–6 players, 120 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. Its main mechanics are Hand Management, Set Collection, and Team-Based Game.

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About the game

Hand and Foot is a predominately a North American standard deck playing card game with many variations. It is a set building game, normally played with four people in two teams. It typically uses four or five regular poker decks including the jokers. Each player starts with two piles of eleven cards. One pile is their hand, the other, their foot. The players draw two cards a turn, playing some if they choose and then discarding one at the end of each of their turns, except if they want to go out, when they will have to play every card. Once a player has played all the cards in their hand they will pick up their foot. Sets are comprised of 7 cards of the same number. Sets may have wild cards in them, jokers and twos, but then the set is no longer clean, it would then be considered dirty. A team needs two clean sets and two or three dirty sets to go out. Hand and Foot is also commonly known as clean and dirty.

Categories

Publishers

  • (Public Domain)
  • Fame Products
  • Tranco Co.
  • Grey Dog Ventures, LLC
  • Gray Dog Games

Questions and answers

Hand and Foot supports 2–6 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.