Description

Spar is the most popular card game in Ghanaandother West African countries. It is a trick-taking gamewithouttrumps, in which the objective is to win the last trick.

The game uses 35 cards from a standard international52-cardpack, the cards of each suit ranking from high to low: A, K,Q, J,10, 9, 8, 7, 6.

5 Cards are randomly distributed to the 4 players and theleaderis picked at random. The leader then plays any card. Theotherplayers in turn must play a card of the same suit as theleaderscard. The player with the highest card of the same suite astheleaders card wins the trick and leads the next round by playinganycard.

This continues until five tricks have been played.

Whoever wins the fifth and last trick wins the handandscores:

3 points if the winning card is a 6.
2 points if the winning card is a 7.
1 point for winning with any other card - 8 or higher.

Points are also scored during game play
1 point for dethroning another player from leading i.e by playingahigher card than that on the table
2 points for leading any in game round i.e having the highestcardplayed in that round