Spite and Malice is a fun and easy-to-play card game for two players.
Be the first player to get rid of your stock pile to win this game!
Find the video tutorial and written explanation for how to play the card game spite and malice below.
Spite and Malice Tutorial
Needed
Two players; Two card decks
Deal
Twenty cards to each player. These cards stay face down in a stack and are known as a player’s stock pile. Place the remaining deck (draw pile) in the middle.
Objective
The object of the game is to be the first player to play all the cards from your stock pile. Cards from the stock pile can be played onto the middle building piles.
There can be up to four building piles in the middle that are started with an ace and are built up to a queen. The kings are wild and can be used as any card.
Game Play
The players will flip up the top card of their stock piles. The player with the higher ranking card plays first.
Each player’s first turn begins by drawing five cards from the draw pile. A player can then move any acceptable cards from his/her hand, or stock pile, onto a middle building piles.
The player ends his/her turn by discarding one card. Each player has his/her own discard piles and can have up to four total discard piles made in a row with his/her stock pile. Play moves to the other player after a discard.
On a player’s second turn, he/she will draw enough cards to return his/her hand to five cards. The player can move acceptable cards onto building piles from his/her hand, stock pile, or discard piles.
Winning
The first player that plays all the cards from his/her stock pile wins the game.
Rules
Discards can be stacked on top of each other, but only the top card of a discard pile can be moved onto a building pile.
If a player is able to play all five cards from his/her hand, another five cards are drawn, and the turn continues.
If a building pile reaches a queen, the pile is shuffled into the draw pile by the opposing player.