Hoe

Hoe is a very popular Chinese card-game for four players. You play it with a standard deck consisting of 52 cards with the suits spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. The lowest cards are the 3:s, up to ace. The suits are also used for grading in the way that three of diamonds is the lowest number three, then comes three of clubs, three of hearts and the best three is three of spades. All the cards are dealt evenly to the players. Thereafter every round is made of an unspecified number of tricks until one player is done with all his cards.

The person having the worst card of the deck starts the first trick of the first hand ( three of diamonds) laying down that card. In all the other rounds it is the winner of the previous round that starts the new round.

When a player begins a new trick he has got four possible options; to lay one card, to lay a pair, to lay three cards with the same number or to lay a poker-hand. If you lay one card then all the other players must lay single better cards, if you lay a pair then all the other players must lay better pairs and so on.