Spit is played with two players and a standard 52-card deck. The objective is to rid yourself of your entire deck of cards as rapidly as possible. Here, there are no turns. Instead, players must rely on their physical agility and mental alertness to outpace their opponent.
In every round, the first player to successfully exhaust their starting cards gains the advantage of dealing with fewer cards in subsequent rounds. By achieving this feat consistently over several rounds, one can ultimately clear their entire deck, thus emerging victorious in the game.
The entire deck of cards is divided evenly between the players, and each player arranges their cards into five stacks, following this pattern:
- Stack 1: No cards face down, 1 card face up.
- Stack 2: 1 card face down, 1 card face up.
- Stack 3: 2 cards face down, 1 card face up.
- Stack 4: 3 cards face down, 1 card face up.
- Stack 5: 4 cards face down, 1 card face up.
The primary aim of the game is to relocate all these cards into two designated “spit piles” initially devoid of cards, situated between the rows of cards belonging to each player. The remaining eleven cards from each player’s deck, which haven’t been incorporated into the stacks, are placed face down in a pile adjacent to the active play area, known as the “spit cards.”
Within the rows of cards, players can place face-up cards of identical value (though they may differ in suit) on top of each other. Subsequently, the face-down cards uncovered in this process are flipped face-up. This process of stacking and revealing continues until each player’s row contains face-up cards of five different values.