Hand

A Hand is basically the number of rounds which go by until the game is over.

The cards of the players are called a Hand. The player reveals his Hand when he wants to get to a situation in which he is leading the game and posing a threat prior to winning the game, unless he reveals his Hand at once and wins the game which is called a Hunt.

Placing the Hand on the table and revealing the series is a very important move which leads to a strategy change of the other players in the game, as they can now see exactly which cards they lost when someone else used them and change the strategy to create other series which do not include the cards they needed before. Of course, the Hand ends in the victory of one of the players who is the first to reveals his series ordered Sets or Runs. The other players are counted the points of the cards they still have in their Hand as negative points.  

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