Perpetual Commotion

How to Play:

Players start off Perpetual Commotion by selecting a colored deck to use as their own throughout the game. Shuffle your deck and count out thirteen face-down cards and set that pile in front of you (and to the right). This pile is called the Feeder Pile. Any player begins the game by shouting “Go!” and every player immediately draws five face-up cards and lines them up in a row in front of them next to the Feeder Pile. These five cards are called the Front Five. The rest of the cards in the deck are called the Playmakers. The game begins in earnest as you flip over three cards at a time from their Playmakers deck, and can play a turned card at any time. Once you go through your Playmakers deck, you flip back the cards into a deck and continue to play. You can also play any card from your Front Five, and if you do, then a card is drawn from the Feeder Pile to take its place. Simply put, you should always have five cards in front of you. When someone finds a Start card, it is placed in the center of the table. Now anyone can play a “2” card of any color on that Start card. After a “2” has been played players try to play their cards on that pile counting upwards from “2” to “12” but only of the color that the initial “2” card had been played. You may have multiple piles going on at once, and a pile is finished after a Stop card is placed on any pile that reaches “12” of a single color. When a player depletes their Feeder Pile, the game immediately ends with that player shouting “Out”! Players then identify what cards they played in the round (using the color-coded decks) and distribute points based on the remaining cards.

How to Win:

Players tally up points each round, once a player has earned 150 points, they win.

    Perpetual Commotion Rules .PDF