There is now a Wikipedia entry for Cabo and I ran across a website selling special Cabo playing cards: (now offline). Them: Hm okay.Ĭabo did not have a Wikipedia article when I first learned about it and I couldn’t find anything online about it. Them: What kind of game is it? Me: An information management game (“memory game” seems to discourage people). Would you like to play a fairly quick card game? It’s called Cabo. The conversation usually goes something like this: I have spread this game to dozens of people at tech conferences, most recently during P圜on 2015. It plays quickly and is perfect while idling between activities. If a player can make a play, the player must play.About five years ago a friend taught me a card game called Cabo. The winner is the player with the most chips after an agreed upon amount of deals. The winner of the round is awarded all the chips in the middle pot. All other players pay the pot chips equal to the number of cards still in their hand at the end. The round is over once a player plays his/her last card. If a player cannot play a card into the middle, he/she pays one chip into the middle pot. Once a 7 is played, a 6 or 8 in the same suit can be played off of that 7.Ĭards continue to be played in sequence from the available cards on the middle foundation piles. The player left of the dealer is first to play. The 7s begin the foundation piles from which all other cards are built. Players can play cards into the middle that build out from the 7s. The object of the game is to be the first player to get rid of his/her cards each round. It is okay if some players have one more card than others. DealĪll the cards are dealt out, one card at a time.

52 card deck three to eight players poker chips AnteĮach player antes one chip into a middle pot before the cards are dealt.

Seven up card game online