How to Play Dutch Blitz

Dutch Blitz is a card game played with three or more people. The idea of the game is to get rid of all of your cards on your blitz pile by making stacks of cards by suit, ace through ten. The game is best played in a circle or around a table. You have to be close enough to the other players to reach the piles of cards in the playing area.

1. Each player starts with a deck of regular playing cards. Remove the Joker and face cards. Keep the aces.
2. Shuffle your deck.
3. Lay three cards face-up in front of you. Make a forth pile of ten cards face down. This stack is known as your blitz pile. Flip the tenth card so it is face-up. You should now have four different cards face-up.
4. If any of the four face-up cards are aces, put them out in front of you so everyone can reach. This immediately starts the game.
5. For example, if an ace of diamonds was in the middle, everyone in the game can play on the ace with their three face-up cards and the blitz pile in front of them. You put two’s on aces, followed by threes, fours, etc., up to ten, at which point that pile is removed from the playing area. Assuming one of your four face-up cards is a two of diamonds, you would put it on the ace of diamonds. Now, if your opponent had a three of diamonds, they would put it on your two. Decks of cards will be mixed up during the game. Several stacks of cards can be played on at the same time. You always put your aces in the middle to be played on.
6. Every time you use one of you face-up cards, place the first card from your blitz pile in its spot. The goal is to only have three face-up cards left, at which point the round is over.
7. The cards you did not use for the blitz pile and other three are still used. Hold the deck in your hand while playing. Flip the three cards on the bottom so only the third one is face-up. You can use this card in the playing area. When you use it, you can then use the second, followed by the first. Do not use them out of order. If you use all three or simply cannot use the third one, flip another three on top.
8. When you get to the end of your cards, flip the deck over and repeat the process. Keep in mind that you win the round by using your blitz pile and having three face-up cards.
9. Once one of the players has only their three face up cards left, the round is over. Sort back each deck to their owner. NOTE: Do not mix your blitz cards, your playing deck, and the cards that were played during the round. Exclude your three face-up cards. Each card you played is worth positive one point. Each card left in you blitz pile is negative two. Record everyone’s scores on a sheet of paper with their name. The first person who accumulates 150 points wins the game!
10. If there comes a time when EVERYONE in the game is stuck after flipping through their playing deck several times, have each player take the card from the bottom of their playing deck and put it on the top. This will shuffle the entire playing deck by one card. Continue the game. This can be done as often as necessary.