Kip - Two-Up Cards

This is a Ken game based on the traditional Australian gambling game of Two-Up.

Following the enthusiastic reception of our Two Down game, we thought we'd explore the possibility of cards bearing all four states of Two-Up.

As a reminder, Two-Up is an iconic Australian game involving flipping two coins into the air from a small wooden paddle called a Kip. There are four possible outcomes, double heads, double tails, head-tail, and tail-head.

We have made this into a set of cards of five types:

No winner, two tails, two heads, tails heads, heads tails

The Kip deck consists of 60 cards:

• 12 double King cards (featuring King George VI)

• 12 double Kangaroo cards (featuring the bounding kangaroo)

• 12 split King-Kangaroo cards

• 12 split Kangaroo-King Cards

• 12 No Winner cards (featuring an empty circle)

  
  

Like our Matching Owls game, Kip assigns different roles to each player:

• The Odds Player wins when cards do not match

• The Evens Player wins when cards match

In Kip, a match is when cards are either both doubles or both splits. A mismatch includes all other combinations.

This creates the same engaging asymmetrical game-play while featuring imagery familiar to anyone who has held an Australian penny.

How It Works

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1. Players are assigned roles as either the Odds Player or Evens Player

2. Each player is dealt 8 cards

3. Both players place 4 cards face-down in a north-south orientation

4. Cards are revealed one pair at a time

5. No Winner cards neutralize tricks, with special handling for double-neutral situations agreed before the game starts

6. The player who wins the most tricks wins the round

7. The player who wins the most rounds is the overall winner

You can buy a set of our Kip cards printed on demand at Make Playing Cards here.

You can learn more about Two-Up at Wikipedia here.

Incidentally, you can use the pack to play Two-Up by removing the no-win cards, and drawing a card at random.