HOW TO PLAY - WORLDWISE EUROPEAN CARD GAME
- GAME RULES
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HOW TO PLAY - WORLDWISE EUROPEAN CARD
 
GAME RULES

The Deal:  The WorldWise™ Card Game begins with the deck being shuffled and with each player being dealt 10 cards.  The remaining cards in the deck are placed in the center of the table (as the "draw" deck) and the top card is removed and placed, "playing" side up, beside the deck (as the "play" deck).  (A single country is shown on the "playing" side of the card, as opposed to the "reference" side of the card which shows the featured country and all surrounding countries and seas.)

The Play:  Bluffing, the play of wild cards and the playing of cards in certain geographic locations are integral parts of the strategy of the game.  After the deal, the player to the left of the dealer must play an appropriate card from his/her hand on the card that the dealer has turned up.  An appropriate card is one that shares a common geographic boundary, or a wild or super wild card (see Wild Cards below).  If the player does not have such a card, he may bluff (see Bluffing below) or take the top card from the "draw" deck.  If the player draws a card that can be played on the "up" card, he may do so; if not, he passes and the play moves to the left.
      A player, at the request of any other player, must show the plaing side (the single country map side) of all his cards.  Play continues even after the deck is depleted.  At that point, each player continues by playing or passing.  The game is over when one player has played all of the cards in his or her hand, or when no one has a play left, in which case the player holding the fewest number of cards wins the game.

Bluffing:  When a player thinks that another player is bluffing, he or she may simply say "I question that".  If the questioner is incorrect, he/she must draw 2 cards from the deck, and allow the questioned player was bluffing, then he or she must retrieve the improperly played card, draw 2 additional cards from the deck and allow the questioner to take any card from their hand and place it at the bottom of the draw deck.  The play then proceeds to the left.

Wild Cards:  The playing of a wild card allows the next player to play any card in his hand.  When a super wild card is played, it is designated by the person who plays it to be any card in the WorldWise™ deck.  For example, if a player designated a super wild card to be "Portugal" then the appropriate cards to play on that super wild card would be North Atlantic Ocean, Spain, a wild or super wild card, or the actual Portugal card.

Note: For purposes of playing this game, the area map shown on the reference side of a card will be considered the geographic authority.  Any item shown in parentheses ( ) on a card is for information purposes only; there is not a card in the deck for that item.