Up and down the river is a card game that is all about prediction. Each hand starting with one an additional card is dealt to each person until there are no more cards left and everyone has the same number of cards, 8 players would have 6 rounds for a total of 48 cards dealt and 4 cards set aside in a pile face down for the top of the river. The top card of the face down pile is placed upright and the suit of this card is trump.
At the start of each turn beginning from the person to the left of the dealer, each person predicts how many tricks they will take. So on the first round, there is only one possible trick because everyone has one card. Once that is done, the person to the left of the dealer plays a card from their hand, the suit of this card is the lead suit.
To win a trick, you must play the highest card of the lead suit (ace is high), or if the trump suit is played, the highest trump suit played in that round. Everyone must play a card in the lead suit, but if you do not have any cards in that suit you may play trump or another suit (which cannot win).
At the end of the round, everyone reports whether they received their predicted number of suits. For every correct prediction the player gets 10 points plus the number of tricks they guessed. If you get tricks but did not correctly predict the number, then you get points for the number of tricks (one each) you received only.
Once the maximum number of cards have been dealt (the top of the river), the next round goes down a card and that is repeated until the total card dealt to each person reaches one card. This is the final round.
The person with the highest total in the end is the winner. A scorer takes score on a scrap piece of paper provided and the dealer rotates left with each round.
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