Gloomy Bear Dead Giveaway: The Card Game

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Gloomy Bear Dead Giveaway: The Card Game is a darkly funny push-your-luck card game where players pass an ever-growing
hand around the table, trying to avoid making a pair before the gift turns deadly. It is a fast, interactive card game where players secretly add cards to a shared hand and pass it around the table, bluffing that it’s safe. If a pair appears, the hand becomes deadly and someone takes the penalty. Easy to learn, quick to play, and full of tension and laughs.

The first player draws one card from the deck, looks at it but keeps it secret from the other players, and adds one card from her hand to create the gift hand.

The gift hand will now pass around the table to the left, growing by one card at a time, until someone decides to reject it. The gift hand is safe unless it has a pair, which is any two cards with the same value. If the gift hand has a pair, it becomes dead.

When the gift hand is rejected, the players must determine if the hand is safe or dead: the player who passed it is penalized if the hand is dead, but the receiving player is penalized if the hand is safe. The penalties are as follows:

The gift hand is dead if it includes at least one pair (at least two cards with the same value). The player who passed the hand loses the round and must take one copy of each duplicated value for her board.

If the receiver rejects a gift that does not include a pair, then they lose the round and must take the single highest card for her board. As above, if this creates a pair in her board, they also lose the hand.

The hand is over when any player gets a pair in their board, or when the deck is empty, or at the end of any round when a player’s hand is empty. If you receive the gift hand but you can’t add a card to it, the hand also ends immediately.

Play until one player collects three Death tokens. That player loses the game. There is no single winner, though you could decide this is the player with the fewest Deaths.