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Beggar My Neighbor, also known as Beat Your Neighbor Out of Doors and Strip Jack Naked, requires no strategy or planning at all, making it a great game for kids and for social situations. The objective of the game is to win all the cards from the other players.

To play Beggar My Neighbor, you need the following:

 Two to six players: You can play with more than six players in a pinch.

 A standard deck of 52 cards: With four or more players, add a second deck of cards. A great advantage of this game is that you don’t really need a complete deck of cards — a card or two gone missing is almost irrelevant. Don’t forget to remove the jokers!

To begin, one player deals out the whole deck in a clockwise rotation, dealing the cards face-down and one at a time so that each player gets about the same number of cards. You don’t look at your cards; you form them into a neat pile, face-down in front of you.

The player to the left of the dealer turns over the top card from their pile and places it in the center of the table (or floor, if you want to sprawl out).

Different things can happen now, depending on what card the first player turns over:

 If the value of the card is between 2 and 10, it has no special significance, and the play goes on to the next player.

 If the card is a court card (an ace, king, queen, or jack), the game becomes a little more exciting. The next player has to pay a forfeit, meaning that they has to turn over some of their cards and place them onto the central pile:If the first card up is an ace, the second player must turn over four cards one by one onto the middle pile.If the first card is a king, the next player has to pay three cards.If the first card is a queen, the second player must pay two cards.If the first card is a jack, the second player turns up only one card.

If all the cards the second player turns over are between 2 and 10, the first player who turned over the court card takes up the whole pile and puts it under their personal pile, face-down. If the second player turns over another court card during the course of the forfeit, they pay the debt off, and the second player doesn’t have to turn over any more cards. Instead, the third player must pay the forfeit dictated by the second court card and either turn over a court card in the process, or allow the second player to pick up the whole central pile if no court card comes.

When you have no more cards left, you’re out, and the game continues without you. If you run out of cards in the middle of paying a forfeit for an ace, king, or queen, you are out of the game. In games of more than two players, the previous player picks up the pile of cards, and the next player starts afresh. The last player in the game — the one who accumulates the whole deck — wins.

Your success at Beggar My Neighbor depends on the luck of the draw; if you get a good smattering of court cards, you have a good chance to win. If someone feels bad because they lost, you may want to remind them of the luck factor. But don’t forget to congratulate them if they win!

Because Beggar My Neighbor can go on for a long time — making it ideal for long car journeys, waiting for planes, or similar situations — you can agree that the player with the most cards at a certain predefined time is the winner.