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How to play dnup

1. Goal: be the first to empty your hand. Every card has an active value (upright) and an inactive value (upside down).
2. The golden rule: any cards you take from the table are rotated 180° as they join your hand — the inactive value becomes active. That's a dnup!
3. A set is one or more cards of the same active value. Its size is the card count, its value is that number.
4. All cards are dealt out — 13 each at 2 players, 10 at 3, 9 at 4, 8 at 5. Whoever holds the ★ 1/5 starts. On your turn: first discard the set in front of you (from your previous turn), then do exactly one action: A — Play a set in front of you. If a same-size set is already on the table, yours must have a higher value, and the beaten set returns to its owner's hand (rotated!). B — Add one card to an opponent's set. It must match the set's value, and if the grown set now ties another set's size, it must beat it (the beaten set bounces back rotated). C — Take an opponent's set into your hand (rotated). D — Rotate your whole hand.
5. Round end: first player out scores +2 and sits out (their last set stays one lap, then is discarded — if it's beaten meanwhile, it's discarded too). Second player out scores +1 and ends the round.
6. Game end: first to 4 points wins immediately.
7. 2 players: a smaller deck; each player runs two play areas and takes two consecutive turns (one per area) — the ★ holder starts with a single turn at their Area 2. Your sets can clash with your own other area. Emptying your hand wins the round; first to 2 round wins takes the match.
8. Card faces are split in two colors: the top half and big number are the active value, the bottom half and small number are what it becomes when rotated. 6 and 9 are underlined. Drag cards to rearrange your hand — only you see the order.
9. The physical game trims the deck by player count — handled automatically here. The host can also add bots 🤖 in the lobby.

Official rules by Kei Kajino & Gilles-Romain Fonteny — read the full rulebook (PDF). © Asmodee Group. This is an unofficial fan implementation using the card list from the physical deck.

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