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This is one of the reasons it is key to pay attention to the two cards you’re allowed to peek at. You then have the option of either taking that card into your hand to replace a face-down card, or discarding the card you’ve just drawn and simply flipping one of your original four cards over. If the card atop the discard pile is a high score, you can choose to draw a new card from the play stack in the middle. Once a card is face up in your hand, it cannot be replaced (with one dramatic exception that we’ll come to later) and becomes part of your score for the hole. Once you make this decision, you must put that card into your four-card row face up while discarding the card that it replaces. The player to the left of the dealer is then “on the tee” to start the hole.Įach player has the option of taking the card on the top of the discard pile and using it to replace one of the four cards in their hand. The remaining cards are placed in a stack in the middle of the table, with the top card turned over into a discard pile. Memorizing exactly what they are can turn out to be a key part of the game. Looking at these two outside cards is very important. The two cards in the middle remain a mystery for a brief moment. You’re allowed to look once at the two cards on the outside hand, the card on the far left and the one on the far right. The majority of the cards are anywhere from 4-over-par (with OUCH printed on each such card) to 1-under par.Įach player is dealt four cards face down, arranged in a left-to-right row.

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The Shiperio deck is made up of a series of cards that have a score value in relation to par, from the rare 2-under-par Ace and Eagle cards to the dreaded Snowman. It took a little more than 30 minutes to play a leisurely 18-hole round with two people, and a little more than double that with four people (this includes the beer factor). The strategy is the same as a round of golf: try to end up with the lowest score at the end of the game.

I’ve played with two and four, and they were equally fun. Shiperio can be played by as few as two players or as many as six. Aside from the obscure name (after a few beers, it became more like “Shipiro” with my playing partners), this card game is fun whether you are an avid golfer or not. Until recently, that is, when I had a chance to play a couple “rounds” with a card game called Shiperio. In fact, outside of the truly addictive GOLO dice golf game, I’ve never played one. Good table games based on golf are as hard to find as birdies on the Road Hole at St.

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