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Bomb depends on its number of cards. The smallest is a 4-bomb of 2s and the largest is an 8-bomb of aces. However, a 5-bomb of 2s is larger than a 4-bomb of aces. A bomb ranks above: single card, pair, triple, tube, plate, full house, straight. A straight flush is regarded as a bomb that ranks above
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For the first round, the deck is shuffled and placed face-down on the table. One of the players cuts the deck, draws a card and flips it face up. If it is not a joker, the players will decide who is going to draw cards first by counting counterclockwise from the player who draws the first card from
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Guandan is played by four players, who will sit around a square table. The two people who sit opposite to each other will form a team to beat the team formed by the other two. In other words, for a certain player, the two people who sit beside the player will be the player's opponents in this game.
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Players will play cards in counterclockwise order. The first player can play any type of cards in his or her hand. Then the others will choose to throw higher cards of the same type or a higher ranked combination. Otherwise, the players should say "Pass" and not throw any cards. If the other three
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The game is played by four players, sitting opposite each other in partnerships, and uses two decks of standard international playing cards (including the Jokers) for a total of 108 cards. The basic objective of the game is to play increasingly high combinations of cards, so as to empty your hand
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If the player whose turn it is to lead has no cards left, that player's partner leads. The first one to finish playing all 27 cards is called the Banker, and the game continues until three players finish. The second is called the
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The characters in
Guandan (摜蛋/掼蛋) literally mean "Throwing Eggs". The second character is a homophone of the character 弹, meaning bomb, which is also suggested as an origin for the game's name. An alternative name for the game is Huai'an Running Fast (淮安跑得快), referencing the city where the game
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Chinese) is the term given to a social trend among young people who are rejecting high-pressure jobs for an easier lifestyle, which has alarmed authorities.» The effectiveness of the move, though, remains unclear because of the widespread opposition to this governmental criticism of guandan.
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The normal comparison of the cards is from high to low in the order of red joker, black joker, A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. It applies when comparing with a single card, pair, triple, tube, plate, straight, bomb, and straight flush. Specially, full house compares the triple in the
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a 4 or 5-card bomb, except the joker bomb. A bomb with 6 or more cards ranks above a straight flush. Straight flushes rank according to their largest card regardless of suits. The joker bomb is the largest bomb in the game.
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The level number of the leading team determines the level cards. The level cards rank above aces but below jokers. For example, if the leading team is at level 6, then sixes are the level cards and rank above A.
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described guandan as intoxicating and “decadent”, warning that it was “time to control the trend of ‘laying flat’ among all guandan players”. Laying flat (
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in the 1990s. In 2020, it was estimated that there were over 20 million people who played this game in the
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833:[Official new rules teach u how to play Guandan! Reporting cards when left ten cards in hands].
713:["Guandan Exercise" publication conference and Chinese Guandan culture forum holds in Nanjing].
355:: Bomb represents a combination of 4 or more cards of the same number. For example, six 8s are a 6-bomb.
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806:[International! Jiangsu competition game Guandan publishes English version of rules].
331:: The plate is a combination of two consecutive triples. For example, three 4s and a three 5s.
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891:"'Decadent and passive': China cracks down on 'throwing eggs' card game"
858:"'Decadent and passive': China cracks down on 'throwing eggs' card game"
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743:[Huai'an Gudan rules has been officially published].
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711:"《掼蛋传习》新书发布会暨中国掼蛋文化高峰论坛在南京举行"
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772:"中国掼蛋研究院发布：《掼蛋娱乐规则（中英文）版》"
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831:"官方出台新规教你玩掼蛋！还剩10张就要报牌"
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89:shedding-type card game
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804:"洋气！江苏本土竞赛游戏掼蛋出英文版规则啦"
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231:淮安跑得快
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574:天王炸
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470:收牌区
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560:炸弹
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