Jackaroo
4 to 6 players
Jackaroo is a board and card game played in teams, usually 4 or 6 players. You move your marbles around the board based on the cards you draw, racing them home before your opponents while teaming up with your partner. It is tactics, laughing, and friendly payback.
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How to play
Players: 4 (two teams) or 6 (teams), each with 4 marbles.
Equipment: A board, colored marbles, and a card deck (two decks in the six-player game). Deal 4 cards a hand.
Goal: Get your marbles out of home, around the board, and into your finish lane, helping your partner once yours are in.
Cards and moves: An Ace or King brings a marble out. Queen moves 12, Jack moves 11 or swaps two marbles. The 7 can be split, and the 4 moves backward 4.
Capturing and safety: Land on an opponent's marble and it goes back home, but you can never hit your partner's. Marbles in the finish lane are safe.
Winning: The first team to get all its marbles into the finish wins.
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