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The Tricky SquirrelA simple but funny card game for three to five players. It is based on the game "Geschenkt ist noch zu teuer" from AMIGO.Author: Harald GruberVersion: 1.20Languages: German / EnglishRequirements: Java 7 or higherThe Tricky SquirrelAim of the gameEvery player tries to have as few negative score (or as much positive score) as possible at the end of a round.Nuts count positive and the card values count negative.Game preparationAll players get 11 nuts at the beginning of a round. The cards that have continuous values from 3 to 35 areshuffled and 9 cards are taken away (they are removed from the game for the current round). The other 24cards are in the middle where the card on the top is uncovered.The playing sequenceThe active player can decide whether to take the uncovered card or to use one of his nut that is left that the nextplayer's turn starts. If a player does not have nuts any more he has to take the card. Whenever a player takes acard he gets all the nuts that where used by the other players to prevent taking it.Interesting are all these card values that make it possible to form a row, because then only the card with thelowest value counts at the end. As cards are removed at the beginning of the rounds it is not possible to form acomplete row.Additionally the opponents cards are all uncovered but their nuts are hidden.End of the gameA round is finished as soon as the 24 cards are taken by the players. A game exists of one or more rounds,where it is usual to play so many rounds that every player starts a round as often as the other ones. To get agood high-score it is useful to play as much rounds as possible (10 ones).