The Well is a card game that Aubrey created. It is similar to Go Fish and some other card game where a King and Queen equals a marriage!
Materials: 1 deck of 52 playing cards
Object of the game: be the first player to get rid of all his/her cards
Start play: deal 10 cards to each player and lay the rest face down in the center-The Well.
If you have Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks you are to lay them face up in front of you. A King and Queen is a marriage as long as they have a friend (Ace or Jack).
How to play: youngest person starts and asks his/her opponent if they have a match (red number matches red number and black number matches black number i.e. 8 heart matches 8 diamond; 3 club matches 3 spade). If the opponent has the card, he/she passes it. If not, the opponent says "Go to the well" (which Aubs also adds "where the seahorses live and the people have nothing to drink").
If you have a marriage (see Start play above), then you can tell your opponent to do something with the cards. Some examples include, take 2 cards from The Well and give one to each of us, take 5 cards from The Well, etc.
If you get the joker, you get to take an opponents Ace, King, Queen or Jack.
HAVE FUN!!! :)
