When ending his turn, the player had two options:Įnd Turn: If the player ends their turn, they are bound to draw a new card from the main deck at the start of the next turn. Only one hand card can be played per turn, and no more cards are ever drawn from the side deck. After that, the player could choose to either place a card down from their hand, or to end their turn. The player would draw a card from the main deck and play it on the table. Then the first turn of the first player would start. These decks would be assembled by the players themselves and had to have exactly ten cards.At the beginning of the game, each player would randomly select four cards from their side deck, making up their Hand.
There was also one side deck for each player in the game. There are three different decks in pazaak: the main (or “table”) deck, composed of cards numbered 1-10 (the total cards in this deck is unbound, though it tended to have four of each number). If in one round the scores of the two players were equal, the round was not counted at all. The player with the nearest sum to the number 20 won the round, and the player who won three rounds won the match. Pazaak, an ancient game dating back to Old Republic times, was a popular card game in which the goal was to reach 20 without going over, or at least come closer to it than the opponent.
