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Throughout the story, the characters often play the card game with each other.

What type of game or games are they plays? What are the rules?

![What game is this?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jILPW.jpg)


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What is the card game the characters play?


They are playing Daifugo, a Japanese card game
([1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daifug%C5%8D)). The game is known as "Rich
Man, Poor Man" in the English version.

The rules are outlined in [this Wikipedia
article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daifug%C5%8D#Basic_rules), but to put it
succinctly:

There are five special titles for players during the game, ranging from "the
grand millionaire" down to "the extreme needy", based on how each player
performed in the previous round. For the first round, everyone starts at the
middle rank, "the commoner".

Everyone sits according to their title. The "grand millionaire" always
shuffles and deals the cards (52) to the players. After the cards have been
dealt, there is a period of "taxation" where the "poor" players hand over
their strongest cards to the "rich" players and the rich players pass their
bad cards back to the poor players.

Daifugo uses tricks, like in Spades or Bridges during play. When players run
out of cards, they are out of play for the round. The player with the
strongest or the most cards at the end of the round becomes the new "grand
millionaire", with the rest of the titles following based on number of cards
or remaining cards in hand.

The winner is usually the player who is "the grand millionaire" at the end of
the game.


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