Tobar Poo Head, Mixed

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Deal three more cards to each player and have them place the cards face up, one on top of each of their face-down cards. Do not look at these cards. A ten can be played on anything except an eight and causes the pile to be cleared as usual. The player of the 10 plays again to the empty table.

By the 1990s poopy head was described in the Illinois newspaper The Pantagraph as a popular childish insult on the same level as “booger-face, butt-head and snot-brains.” Players select which three cards out of the six they want in hand and on the table. Play for Winner Twisted Shithead is an elaborate variation in which nearly all the cards have special effects. It was created by Galbraith/Lewis/Constance/Mabely (1993); the description is by Paul JaYmes (1997). The purpose of Shithead is to lose all your cards by putting them on the pile. A card that is put on the pile must be equal or higher than the top card of the pile. A joker can be played on anything and next player misses a turn. If there are just two players in the game this means that the player of the joker immediately plays another card of any value. In games of more than two players the joker is treated in one of three ways: as glass (like a 7) or with a value of 7, or with a value of 2. To avoid arguments decide before starting which of these variations is being played.The first player is the player who receives a three face-up. If there is not a 3 face-up, the first player to declare they have a three in hand is the first player. If there are no 3s dealt, repeat with four (and so on). The hat also boasts an elasticated edge that means it’s an ideal fit for all the big kids who want to play! It can also be tied under the chin for ultimate hold to make sure those pesky poos don’t fall off and cost you valuable points. This game can accommodate 6 players if jokers are used. Jokers may be played at any time and they reverse the direction of the play. Jokers are not wildcards and can not be played with other cards. Dealing Variation There are three downwards facing cards and three upwards facing cards on the table. You cannot play them until your hand is finished. You cannot look at a downward facing card before playing it.

At your turn you can play an ascending sequence of consecutive cards in a single suit, provided that the first card beats the previous play. All the subsequent plays must also be legal, so the sequence would be terminated by an eight, since after an eight the next card is required to be lower or equal. If the sequence reached 10 the pile would be thrown away and the same player would start a new pile with any play. The game is occasionally played to find a winner rather than a loser. In that case, the winner is the first player who manages to get rid of all their hand and table cards. Ever been told your party games are crap? Now it’s a compliment! Take the party tone down a notch thanks to the Poo Head Game. Simply strap on the oh so glamorous hat and let people to pot shots at you with poo. Don’t worry though, they’ll have their turn being turd target practice too.

Shithead Rules

You can put a ten on top of everything and it burns the pile, and you get to put out the first card in the new pile. The first known instance of poop head, according to the OED, was Rebel Without a Cause (1955): In both the play and the movie Buzz Gunderson calls two adults a “couple old poop-heads.” Even then the term poop was relatively new, having evolved at the end of the 19th century from an onomatopoeia for the sound of pooping.

If a player is able to complete a full set of four cards (four cards of equal rank are played or three cards of equal rank are played on top if the fourth card of equal rank) the discard is cleared from play. That player has another and starts the discard with a card or set of cards of higher rank. ENDGAME Face-up Cards David Driscoll reports having played Ten-Two Slide in Illinois with hands of four cards, but just the normal three cards face down and three face up for each player. Tenscan be played on any turn no matter the top card of the discard pile. If a ten is played, the discard is removed, and the player who played the ten gets another turn. They must start a new discard with any card equal or greater than the 10. Before poopy-head entered the lexicon, we called stupid people manure-head and shit-head. In the 1932 Broadway play The Great Magoo, one character insisted, “By God, no manure-head’s gonna stop me,”. Before play begins, the same player may exchange cards in their hand for their face-up cards. Players may not look at their face-down cards until they are played. THE PLAY

Rematch?

Play continues until all of the cards have been drawn from the drawing pile. When this happens, continue to play the cards in your hand until you have no more left. After you have played all of the cards in your hand, begin playing your face-up cards. The same rules apply--you must play a card that is the same or higher than the previous card (unless a special card is played), and you can play more than one card if they are the same number. Deal three final cards face down to each player. These cards will comprise the player’s starting hand, thus each player takes them As players run out of cards they continue playing until only one player has cards left. This player is known as the "smeg head". Sean Daly, describes a version of the game Karma, from Radford, Virginia, USA. The differences are as follows:

A seven can be played on anything and is "glass", meaning that the next player must play a card which could legally have been played on the card before the seven. For example, if a 7 is played on an Ace, the next player must beat an Ace. If a 7 is played to the empty table (nothing under it) it has the value of 7.

If someone completes a set of four cards of the same rank on top of the discard pile (either by playing all four cards at once or by equalling the previous play), the whole pile is removed from play, and the same player who completed the four of a kind takes another turn, playing any card or set of equal cards to start a new discard pile. The Endgame The first player is the person who receives the first 3 dealt face-up. If no 3 is face-up, the first person to call a three in a hand is the first player. If there is no 3 dealt to a hand, then the same procedure is followed for the first 4, and so on, if need be. A ten may be played on any turn, whatever the top card of the discard pile is (or even if the pile is empty). When a ten is played, the discard pile is removed from play and the same player who played the ten takes another turn, playing any card or set of equal cards to start a new discard pile. Before play each player may exchange any number of cards from the hand with her face-up cards. A player may never look at the face-down cards until they are played. (Players usually take lower ranking face-up cards into their hands.)