Card Golf

Card-Based Golf Game Simulation

This game simulates golf using a standard 52-card deck plus two Jokers. Each player receives six face-down cards. The remaining cards form a draw pile, with the top card flipped to begin a discard pile.

The goal is to minimize your card values. Players achieve this by exchanging their cards for lower-valued ones or creating pairs of cards with matching ranks. The player with the highest total score after nine rounds loses; the lowest score wins.

Gameplay proceeds in nine rounds ("holes"). Players take turns drawing a single card from either the draw or discard pile. The drawn card can replace one of their six cards (the replaced card is turned face-up), or it can be discarded (ending the player's turn). A round concludes when all a player's cards are face-up.

Card Values:

• Joker: -2 points
• Ace: 1 point
• King: 0 points
• Jack/Queen: 10 points
• Number cards: Face value