Spooneye! The Card Game

Spooneye! The Card Game

The Standard Game

Flipping Cards: Swabbing the Deck

Spooneye! The Card Game
If, by raising his or her mast and capturing his or her opponent's, a player leaves no cards on either side of the table, that player is said to be swabbing the deck, and all cards in both the raised mast and the captured mast are placed in the booty pile face up.

There is no cumulative effect from fulfilling more than one of these three conditions: i.e., if a player hoists the colors and swabs the deck at the same time, it is the same as just swabbing the deck.


Turn 3C: Captain conveniently draws the 4 and plays it as a new mast, allowing her to play the 9 on it and spooneye Matey's 8. This completes the mast and swabs the deck, meaning that all the cards in Captain's mast go face up in her booty pile, and if Matey had had a mast to capture, all the cards in it would have gone face up as well.

Captain's Hand: J   4   7   9
Swabbing the Deck - example


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