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Objective:   Collect sets of 4, 5, or 6 adjacent cards of the same color.  But beware, the Patchwork cards are double-sided and if an opponent sees a set on the backs of your cards, they can take them!  Whoever has the most cards collected wins.

Game play:

Your goal is to collect sets of 4, 5, or 6 adjacent cards with the same color.  You cannot look at the backs of the cards in your card holder.

Each turn you take 2 actions, which can be one of these things:

• Flip: You can flip a card around in any holder (yours or your opponent’s), so the outside becomes the inside.
• Swap: You can switch the positions of 2 cards in any holder.
• Trade 1 card: You can trade one card with another player.  When you trade, the cards don’t flip, so you get the color you see.
• Trade 2 cards: You can trade 2 adjacent, same-colored cards with another player getting 2 adjacent, same-colored cards from them.  Like trading 1 card, what you see is what you get - the cards don’t flip.
• Collect a set from your holder: If you have 4, 5, or 6 adjacent cards of the same color in your holder, you can lay those down (showing everyone you have a set) and keep all of them. 
• Collect a set from your opponent’s holder: If you see 4, 5, or 6 adjacent, same-colored cards on the backs of another player’s cards, you can lay down their cards.  In this case you give 1 card to the player whose cards you took and collect the rest.

Whenever a player has less than 6 cards, they draw back up to 6 immediately (before any other actions are taken).  Drawing cards is not an action.

Game end:  The game ends as soon as any player cannot draw enough cards to fill their holder back up to 6 cards.  Important: When the game ends, any player that has a set in their own holder can collect it.  Whoever has the most cards wins!  If there is a tie, whoever has the most of any 1 color wins.