Winning
A player only wins when he or she owns every last card in the game. If all but one player is eliminated and cards remain in the pile, the lone player must continue playing cards until he or she wins the final pile by a slap, or by a challenge. This gives the rest of the players one final chance to slap back in.
It is rare, but possible for all cards to be in the pile without any of the players having any. If this happens, the game is simply a draw.
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Famous quotes containing the word winning:
“The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“You with a bad coin in your socket,
You my friend there with a winning air
Who palmed the lie on me when you looked
Brassily at my shyest secret ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)