Orgy (game)

Orgy is an invented trick-taking card game for four players, designed by Andrew S. Fischer and carrying his 1996 copyright. It is played with a standard deck of 52 cards, with thirteen cards dealt to each player, and it follows the familiar pattern of a trump game: the dealer announces the trump suit, the player to the dealer's left leads, everyone must follow suit when able, and the highest card of the suit led takes the trick unless a trump is played. What makes it unusual is the ranking, in which cards run from the ace, counted as one, up to the ten, while the jacks, queens and kings all share the equal rank of zero. Those three picture cards are the namesake scoring cards, and although they are weak in play they earn points when the hand is over, so the real aim is to collect them in tricks. The first player to reach 21 points wins. The game is described as intended for mature adults, and Pagat hosts its rules in the invented games section, copied from the Game Cabinet at the inventor's request.