 Hey everyone today. We're doing something different I am going to show you how to play a card game called swoop and I'm betting that you have never heard of it And if you have let me know down in the comments because I searched the internet couldn't find a single thing about it Anyway, I'm showing you this card game today because I just learned how to play and I really enjoyed it and I think it's a great way to get together with some family and friends and Just spend some time having some fun And of course you're going to need some food to go with that and of course I got you covered with lots of appetizers and Dessert recipes on my channel that you can use This is a fun card game pretty easy to play just a few rules and things, but once you see it You'll get it. It's pretty simple. I'm actually going to show you You know explain it to you a little bit and then actually deal out some cards so you can actually see how it works In action, let's get started and go over those Instructions and I'll show you how to play the game So the object of the game is to Go out by getting rid of all of your cards Now all of the cards are worth a certain number of points And so if you have cards left in your hand when someone goes out those points are going to count against you so what we tend to do is we like to play we'll say well We'll play to five hundred points and then you know whoever gets there first ends the game and then the low score wins the game Now we're going to need three decks of cards including the jokers You want to keep those in there now you'll notice here that I have three decks and they're of different colors That just makes it easier for me at the end of the game when we want to put the cards away It's easier to sort them by color instead of having to go through and you know match up all the suits So if you have that it works great, but you can play with you know Three decks of cards that are all the same color if yet if that's all you have now here's how the scoring works Aces are worth one point Face cards are worth ten points and then all the other cards are You know the value that they are okay, so a nine is worth nine points Etc. Now the tens and the jokers are worth 50 points And they're also called swoop cards and we'll explain that a little bit more a little bit later So along with your three decks of cards you'll also want to have a piece of paper and somebody will be the scorekeeper and So what we'll do is we'll take our three decks of cards and we're going to just mix them all together And what we do is we just throw them on the table and everybody helps to kind of mix them up like this Okay, and we want to keep them all face down So once we have all the cards mixed up on the table each player will draw out 19 cards and keep them face down so you can't see them. Okay, so you're going to count out eight like I said each player is going to take out 19 cards Once all the players have their 19 cards Have everybody go through and just pick a card to see who goes first high card goes first So I picked a 10 a swoop card That person got a two and that person got a three so I get to go first I get to start the game so we'll take all these cards and we are going to just push them aside On the side of the table. They are no longer in play All right, so now each player takes their their little pack of cards and they place four of them face down Then you're going to place a card on top of each pile face up So now you want to take the rest of your cards and place them in numerical order so you can see here. I've got the swoop cards the two 10s and the Joker over here and Then I got a couple of kings and then I'll put my queen and my jack You know you get the idea. I've got a couple of nines there Let's see. I think that's pretty good and Then we're ready to play and so since I'm the first person to play I'm going to want to play a high card So my options here I would probably play these two kings and I would take them and say two kings and place them out on the table All right, so I played two kings right player number two is now Gonna play their hand and they need to play either a king or several kings You can play you know as many kings as you have that would be a good thing to get rid of as more the most you can And that would be a called a swoop So if you play any four or more of a card that's called a swoop That's a good thing the cards will then be pushed out of play Okay, and then that player that same player gets to start a new set Okay, they can play whatever they want from their hand and Then the next turn after that will then have to play either at it or below it Let's say they play two nines All right, then the next player would have to play some more nines Maybe make a swoop out of it to get rid of it or they play under it If you can't play under it Then you have to play Whatever you have and then that means that you have to take the pile and put it in your hand So I'm going to go through a few rounds of the other hands here So you can see how the game is played and some strategies, but I'm not going to play the whole game because it'll take too long Okay, so let's just follow the play here. I've got my two kings that the player number one played. That's me And this is what we have in our hand now You also want to take into account these cards up here as well Now they're all pretty low and the highest card that I have I don't have any kings or queens or anything like that is nine Okay, so I have two nines so I would play two nines and I would call Oh wait, I have three nines. I would call out three nines and then it would be player number three's turn So let's go over there. Now. Let's look at player number three's hand Everybody got them all lined up here. Oh Okay, so you can see here that player number three has a bunch of kings and queens, right? But we can't play those because we have to play under the nines Now if we had one nine that would be great because then we could call that a swoop because then there would be four nines And we could swoop it away and then start over But we don't have that so we simply here in this case Well, you could play your swoop card the ten right here. You could play that. That's an option But I think I would hang on to it for a while. There's some strategy here I would probably go with my next highest card. You see the five here and You see the five down here. So that's two five. So I would play two fives Now let's look at player number one's cards Alright, so what's played late last was two fives. I Only have one five here. So that's an option. I also have a lot of swoop cards I've got three swoop cards in my hand and I've got one up here You don't want to get stuck with those if somebody else goes out then you're stuck with either worth 50 points each So that's not a good thing But we're still early in the game. So What to do what to do I? Might play I think in this case I'm gonna just you know just for the heck of it I'm gonna play my swoop card, but I'm gonna play this swoop card so that I can start working on these piles So I'm gonna play this swoop card just to show you I play swoop and the cards go away They are no longer in play you just say swoop and they're gone now Since I swooped it now I get to play a card Okay, so what would I play I could play this because these are unknowns And if you get stuck with these sometimes that can be not a good thing So just for the heck of it. I'm gonna play it It's an eight now if I have any other hate eights in my hand I can add that to it and say two eights or three eights, but I don't so I'm gonna play one eight Here is player two's hand and he has one eight So I'm gonna play that and I'll say two eights because now there's two eights up there Now player number three is gonna look for some eights to see if maybe they can swoop it if he gets if he has two eights Then he could swoop it. What do you think player three is gonna do here? You got two eights up there. We have one swoop card here We have one card that we could play but it wouldn't be a good time to play it because You don't know if it's higher than an eight then you have to take the eights So that's a gamble So I would play under the eight and I would take the fours and look at I can play three I can get rid of three fours So that's what you call out three fours now. It goes back to player one So player one has three fours Facing him so he has to play another four or more or he has to play under it or play a swoop card I think that what I'll do on this particular occasion is I'm gonna play one two And the reason for that is I just I have a lot of soup cards yet And I want to hang on to him because everybody has a lot of cards and I just want to expose some of those cards that are Hidden his player twos options. He's got one two facing him So I would play Two more twos that's three twos So with three twos facing player three His best option is to play his one two Which will make four twos right up here and that is a swoop So now when he gets rid of all those cards to the discard pile, they're out of play and now he can play whatever he wants Now I would get rid of the two kings Okay, so player one now has two kings facing him has lots of options Now could play this card here not knowing what it is because chances are well It's going to be like a freebie right because you're going to play under it no matter what or Equal to it. So I think that's the best move in this case. Oh It's a swoop card. Look at that That means this pile goes away and it's still player number one's turn that being the case I would take a queen and play the next highest card one queen player two has some options Player two here can play. What's his next highest card a seven? You could play a seven you could play a couple sixes Or you could play one of these because it's a queen It's kind of high chances are better that you you'll be able to play under it I'm going to go ahead and take that chance It's a six. Okay, if you have any other sixes and we do We can play those as well. So there's three sixes Keep in mind that you always want to keep track of the other cards that the players have how many they have You know at the top this player here. It doesn't have too many their cards are a little bit lower Just keep that in mind So for player number three, there's two sixes presented to them I would probably take The two threes and play that We'll play under that So I hope that going through a game for you and showing you how it's played And maybe just some ideas on strategy of when to play certain cards helps you out Helps you to understand how to play the game better. I'm also going to include Some written instructions in the description of the video Click down there. You could copy and paste it print it out And then that way would it would be a guide for you But it's pretty simple once you start playing and getting the hang of it It really comes together pretty pretty easily. So I hope you enjoyed that I hope you try this it's a lot of fun get together with family and friends and just have some real good quality time Enjoy playing a game and you know having some food make some of my appetizers and desserts and you'll have a great time Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you next time