🕹️ Play Pesten Game: Free Online Single Player Pesten Card Shedding Video Game vs the Computer

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Game Play Instructions

How to Play

Play Pesten online for free. Pesten is a card shedding game similar to Crazy Eights. Get rid of your cards before your competitors do & try to hold the lowest card value in your hand if you are stuck with cards in your hand at the end of the round. This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.

Starting the Game

Select the yellow-orange Play button on the game’s welcome screen to start the game.
The welcome screen also has buttons for game play help information, high scores, and other games.
The lower left corner of the welcome screen offers a language select dropdown.
The lower right corner of the welcome screen has buttons for social sharing & reading game developer info.
Game Controls
- Desktop
  - Use your mouse left click button to select a card to play on each turn, to select a card from the stock pile when required & to skip your turn after you pick up a card if you do not have any potential valid moves.
  - Touchscreen devices
    - Touch the screen with one of your fingers to use it like a mouse.
    - Controls & indicators
      - The upper left corner of the game shows which round number you are on and has buttons to pause the game & switch to full screen mode.
      - The upper right corner of the game shows your cumulative game score and has buttons to control game sound & music.
      - Other players have their cumulative game score shown under their names. During play you can see how many cards each opponent is holding in their hand & their hand score is shown at the end of each hand.
      - Game Play
        Playing basics
        Each player starts the hand with 8 cards.
        You must play a card on each turn.
        If you can not play a card you must pick a card up from the stock pile.
        After picking up a card from the stock pile you may lay it if it is a valid move, or you may click the skip button in the lower right.
        Points
        Your game score is cumulative across 4 hands.
        Card values
        Jacks are worth 50 points.
        Other face cards are worth 10 points each.
        Aces are wroth 1 point.
        All other cards are worth the numerical value shown on them.
        The player with the worst hand scores 0 points and sets the scores for all other players.
        The hand score of all other players is the number of pips held in the worse hand less how many pips the player was holding in their own hand.
        For example, if the worst hand had 24 pips in it and you had 4 pips you would score 20 points that hand.
        Special cards
        When an 8 is played the next player’s turn is skipped.
        When you play a 7 you can also play another card before ending your turn.
        The next card you lay must be of the same suit or else you need to draw a card from the stock pile.
        When a 2 is played you must also play a 2 or take 2 cards.
        When a Joker is played you must also play a Joker or take 5 cards.
        Jacks may be played on any card & a player laying a Jack can choose the suit of the discard pile.
        Strategy
        If the player behind you only has a card or two left it can be beneficial to lay a 2 or a Joker to force them to pick up cards, or an 8 to skip their turn.
        While competing players having many cards left in their hands it can be beneficial to hold on to Jacks to give yourself many lay options, but when the game nears its conclusion you want to ensure you get rid of your Jacks before the game ends so you do not award 50 points to all your opponents by holding a Jack at the end of a hand.
        Target Audience
        The game is suited for people of all ages who like shedding card games.
        The game has no adult themed content.

Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support

This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.

Pesten is not available here.

If you want to play Pesten, Click here to Play

Game Play Instructions

How to Play

Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support

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