The other players must tally up the values of the remaining cards in their hand to determine their score for the round. The winner of each phase is the first player to get rid of all their cards. The object of Phase 10 is to end up with the lowest possible score by the end of 10 rounds, or phases. You’ll also want a big table where you can easily spread out the cards. To play the card game Phase 10, you’ll need a Phase 10 deck and 2 to 6 players. As soon as any player goes out, the round ends and all players discard their cards to be shuffled and dealt for a new round.

Going out describes the action of a player getting rid of their whole hand in a round, either by hitting or by using all their cards in their phase.

However, players are only allowed to participate in hitting if they've already played their own phase for that round, and only when it's their turn.

Hitting lets players discard cards they don't want, so long as they play them immediately after a phase has been laid down an example of this would be adding red cards to an initial play of 7 red cards (which is phase 8 of the game).A skip card allows the player who uses it to choose another player to lose their turn.A wild card can be used to complete a phase when a player is missing one of the necessary cards.

a 1 card, a 2 card, a 3 card, and a 4 card) A run is 4 or more cards numbered consecutively (e.g.A set is 2 or more cards of the same number.As you continue playing the terms will start to stick in your memory. You don’t have to memorize them all immediately, just keep this sheep handy so that you can refer to it as the game goes on. These are necessary to learn before you get started playing.

Phase 10 scorecard