Sam

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Description

Card game with 48 cards in four suits of 12. Cards are played with the aim to acheive a total divisible by 4. The suits are; S = Subtraction A = Addition M = Multiplication SAM = any of the above The last card played is all that affects the current card being played. For example; The first card played (which cannot score points) is a 3. The next player could play A5 (A for Addition): he adds 5 to 3 to make 8. This is two 'Fours' made, which score two points. The next player could play M4. 4 times 5 (last card played was A5) equals 20, it scores 5 points. The next player plays SAM8. He scores 3 points for Additions (8 + 4 = 12, so 3 Fours made), but since it's a SAM card, he also scores for Multiplication (4 x 8 = 32, so 8 points scored) and for Subtraction (8 - 4 = 4, 1 point scored), for a total of 12 points. This example illustrates the power of SAM cards in the game. The first player to score 100 points wins. A simple variant mentioned in the rules consists in making multiples of three or five instead of four. The rules refer to the cards as 'Blocks' and the intention was to make a more substantial version with the cards being replaced as tiles (called Blocks) but this never happened, possibly because The Great War started and materials were limited because of the war effort in industry.