最中限の英語での説明 revised

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What is Saichugen?

Saichugen(最中限; 'most mediocre' in English) is a card game for three players. It uses a deck of playing cards without jokers. Its rule characterized by the concept of median; the value which is equal or more than another value and equal or less than the other value. The objective of the game is to have the median score at the end of the game. There are 5 rounds in 1 game and 3 turns(tricks) in 1 round. Winner of a round and a trick is also determined in a median fashion.

Rule

Dealing

Shuffle a deck and deal 17 cards for 3 players. The last card of deck is not used in the game. Make its face down.

Turn(Trick)

Each player plays a card face down, and then opens it in same time. The most 'mediocre' card win the trick, neither the strongest nor the weakest. Aces are most weakest cards and kings are most strongest one. (Consider A, J, Q, K as 1, 11, 12, 13) In case there are cards of same number the suits of the cards are considered. Spades are strongest. "Spades > Hearts > Diamonds > Clovers" strongest to weakest. The winner get a temporal 'round score' same as the value of the played card. For example 3 players played 3 of spade, 7 of clover and 7 of heart, the second player win the trick and get 7 poits of score. To show this the defeated cards are let face down again.

Round

Repeat 3 turns. And then calculate the round score. That is total of values of your opened cards in the round. If you have no opened cards, your score is 0. If you have an opened card 7, your score is 7. If you have two opened cards 7 and 5, your score is 12. The median scored player win the round. The defeated players lost their 'round score.' To show this, the defeated players make their cards in the round face-down again. Winner's round score changes a permanent 'game score'.

Notice if there are two or three players of same round score, all of them are median and win the round. When only one player got round score (e.g. scores for each player are 0, 0, 23), the median is 0 and winners get 0 points. So nobody get game score.

Game

Deal cards and repeat 5 rounds. And then calculate the game score, that is total of round scores of all rounds. Winner of the game is the median scored player.

Appendix

To make the game zero-sum: When a number of winner is 1, winner get +2 points and loser get -1 points. When a number of winner is 2, winner get +1 points and loser get -2 points.