Wyatt Earp (card Game) - Outlaw Cards

Outlaw Cards

Of the 78 cards in the deck, 49 are outlaw cards, seven of each of seven outlaws: Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Bob Dalton, Wes Hardin Jesse James the Sundance Kid, and Belle Starr.

Outlaw cards are worth two capture points each. A meld of three must be played the first time any player lays down cards for a particular outlaw. After that, outlaw cards can be played individually, by any player, though rules encourage multiple cards to be played at a time. That's because playing a single outlaw card does not increase an outlaw's reward; playing two at a time add $1000 to the reward, playing three at a time adds $2000, and so on; in other words, the reward added for a play is (N − 1) × $1000, where N is the number of outlaw cards being played together.