Cheat is one of those really simple card games that even people who don't like cards can play. It involves dealing out all of the cards in the pack to however many players you have and then attempting to get rid of all the cards in their hands as quickly as possible. Discarding cards honestly is the best policy but those who cheat by claiming to discard cards they don't have often win. If cheating is suspected then Cheat must be loudly shouted and if proven the Cheat must pick up all cards in the middle and add them to their hand.

Sadly Cheat isn't much fun with only two players. The other player tends to know what cards you have by using a process of exclusion. If they don't have it then you must.

Hence the invention of Multiple Personality Cheat and the genesis of a UniSFA member's nickname. One day AndrewMcColl after finding only one other player for Cheat created the Multiple Personality version which allowed him and his Evil Twin Skippy to play at the same time. This provoked such amusement in the clubroom at the time that the nickname Skippy stuck. AndrewMcColl finding it to be the nicest nickname he'd ever had allowed it to continue.

Both Cheat and Bartok were often played with a huge deck made up of other decks with missing cards. This made it possible to win a hand of Cheat by playing nine actual Aces. When a player plays a suspicious number of cards like that, Cheat is bound to be called. Read 'em and weep!!

Multiple Deck Multiple Personality Cheat was often a very long game.

UniSFA: Cheat (last edited 2009-12-23 15:01:29 by localhost)