Card Game: Compromise The Missionary
Compromise The Missionary To play Compromise The Missionary, hold out all 7’s. Shuffle three 7’s and place them in small draw pile face down. Hold 7 of spades face up. Deal five cards each. Assessing Red suits at positive integers, and Black suits as negative integers, use your cards to contrive the sum of seven as many ways as possible. Score each successful summation as 5 points on a graph of (potentially) Seven X’s. Represent the first two sums as the crossbars of the “X.” Score successive summations as a dot in a side of the “X.” So each completed X adds up to 30 points (like many domino games.) Cards used in the summation(s) go into a discard pile. Draw to fill a hand of five cards. If you choose, you can neglect to devise a summation. Discard at least one in the discard pile and draw to fill a hand of five cards. Whenever a player plays an Ace, he draws from the 7’s pile. If he plays the Ace of Spades, he automatically collects the 7 of Spades. The hand ends wit...