Skull & Roses Rules Reminder

1. Start of the hand

Each player chooses one card and places it face down on his mat.

2. Placement of cards: Place a card or challenge

Starting with the first player and going clockwise around the table, each player may either:
 Place another card face down on their mat
 Or they may challenge. A player with no cards in hand must challenge.

3. Challenge: Pass or raise the bid

The player who issued the challenge bids the number of cards he intends to flip.
Going clockwise, each player must then either:
 Raise the stakes by increasing the previous bid
 Or pass his turn and push in his game mat to the middle of the table
This continues until all players but one have passed. Remaining highest bidder called the “challenger.”

4. Revelation
The challenger must reveal the number of cards he bid.
 The challenger starts by revealing all the cards on his own mat.
 The challenger may then reveal any card from the top any other player’s stack.
 This challenger continues to flip cards one at a time.
 When a Skull is revealed, the challenger stops flipping cards. He has lost the bet.
 All players take their cards back into their hands.
 The challenger loses one card from the game.
 Opponent that revealed skull selects one of challenger’s face down shuffled
cards to be discarded face down to center of table. If challenger revealed own
skull, he looks at his cards and chooses one to discard face down.
 If the challenger loses their last card, they are eliminated from the game.
 If challenger flips number of Roses equal to his bid, the bet is won.
 Player flips his game mat to the Roses side.
 If a player has won his second bet, he wins the game!
 Challenger plays first next round. If challenger was eliminated, first player is the owner of the
revealed skull. Eliminated challenger chooses first player if he revealed own skull.

Lingo
 “Burn out”: A bet that would reveal all cards on the table.
 “Under the gun”: The second player to speak after a challenge is issued.
 “The cop”: The last player to speak before the highest bidder.
 “Stoned”: A player with only one card remaining.

Game aid by drasher25 at BoardGameGeek