Bakplaten
Bakplaten is a super simple Dutch card game. You draw a card. Is it a face card? Then it's your turn to drink. The name says it all: a "bak" means downing your drink and "platen" are the face cards.
What is Bakplaten?
How to play
- Take the jokers out of the deck.
- Shuffle the deck well.
- Put the deck face down on the table.
- Every player takes turns drawing a card.
- Turn the card over and put it on the discard pile.
- Drew a face card or an ace? Down your drink.
- Keep going until the deck is empty or until you are done.
Did you know you can play Bakplaten in our free app?
When do you drink?
- Drew a jack, queen, king or ace? Then you down your drink.
- Drew a normal card? Then nothing happens.
- Drew two cards by accident? Take an extra sip.
Extra rules
- Want to make it heavier? Red cards mean you hand out, black cards mean you drink yourself.
- Want to make it lighter? Don't count aces as face cards.
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