Ladybug Line

How to play

2 to 4 players. 28 tiles, each half showing 0 to 6 ladybug spots. Each player gets 7 tiles with 2 players, 6 with 3, 5 with 4; the rest make the pile, face down.

A turn

• The player with the highest double opens the first deal with it; the winner of a deal opens the next one with any tile.
• Lay a tile at either end of the line, its half matching the spots at that end.
• If no tile fits, draw from the pile until one does; when the pile is empty, pass.

Points

• Lay your last tile and you score every spot left in the other hands.
• If nobody can lay and the pile is empty, the line is blocked: the player with the fewest spots in hand scores the others' spots less their own. Equal fewest: nobody scores.
• The first to reach the points target at the end of a deal wins.