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Money Sweeper Rules
 

How much money can you sweep in before you hit a mine and explode!?!​

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Quick Facts:​​

2 - 8 Players 

5 minutes per round

Easy Difficulty

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Objective: Collect the most cash by “sweeping up” cash cards.

Shuffle the deck and place all 60 cards face down on the table in a grid. 

2. How to Play

Collect as much “cash” as you can by creating “money sweeps” by flipping over a line of cards before you hit a $1 card, which represents an exploding mine. 

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1. Set Up

Decide who goes first then play moves clockwise.

  • On your turn, create a “money sweep” by flipping over cards that are next to each other; they can be horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent to each other. 

  • Keep on flipping up cards in your “sweep” until one of two things happen:

    • You want to keep the “money” you have flipped over and not explode! Collect all the cards you have flipped over and add them to your stack. Your turn is over.

    • You turn over a $1 card. You explode! Your turn is over. Leave the $1 card face up and turn back over all the cards you flipped up while building your sweep. 

  • Special notes:

    • When starting your sweep, if the first card you flip over is a $1, well that’s too bad, you have exploded!

The next player to go can flip over any cards they want to, including ones that were previously flipped over by other players, as long as they form a sweep of adjacent cards.Gaps created after cards have been collected by other players may result in limiting the ability to create long sweeps.  Thus, the half-time rule…

  • After five $1 cards have been flipped over–it’s half time!

    • Discard the five revealed $1s

    • Shuffle up the remaining cards and form a new grid

  • Continue playing until there are no more cards left to be collected in sweeps (the remaining five $1s are all revealed).

3. Scoring

Each player counts the money in their stack. This is the amount of cash they earned that round. You can play one round or keep a tally of scores and play to a pre-agreed amount of money goal. $3,000 to become champion is common but pick any money goal that you wish. Another option is to play a set amount of rounds, for example, “everyone deals once.”

4. Variations

  1. Want a smaller board and quicker round?  Start with a half deck (five of each cash card), or make a smaller deck by simply removing all the $5s and/or $10s before playing.

  2. Want a different challenge?  Do not play with a “half-time.”

  3. Make up your own variation (and please tell us about it).

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