Pass

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PASS is a ladder-climbing game in which each card has a potentially upgraded side with another value. Players may pass their turn to take a PASS token and use it in a later round to turn a card to its upgraded side.

More specifically, cards are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 65 cards having possible combinations of the numbers A-K. During set-up, the cards are shuffled and dealt into decks. Each deck will have exactly 13 cards. Players randomly choose a deck for their hands. Whoever has the card “START 2” will be the first player to play a set of cards (s).

During their turn, the active player takes one of two actions:

Play: The active player chooses card(s) in their hand that comply with a type of defined set in the game, and then plays this set of cards to the table. A player can only choose to play if i) the table is empty (as if he/she is the first to play) or ii) the played set is ranked higher than the set currently on the table. A set is considered to outrank a previously played set if it is the same type of set with a higher value. A player may also outrank the previously played set with the same type of set having the same value by exhausting one PASS token. The next player may do the same, however, by exhausting even one more PASS token.

Pass: The active player takes a PASS token. The pass token can be used in a future turn to augment a played set or to turn one of the cards in a played set to its upgraded side.

The player who plays all his/her hand first will gain a victory token, and all cards will be reshuffled and dealt again. Whoever has 3 victory tokens first wins the game.