Skitgubbe (Mattis)

Number of decks: 1
Number of cards in the deck: 52
Number of players: 2-4
The seniority of the cards: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, B, D, K, T.
Purpose of the game: do not stay with the cards on hand.
Rules of the game. A popular Swedish game for three players, played in Norway and other places in the Scandinavian Peninsula. Skitgubbe in Swedish means "shitty man", literally in Norway it's called Mattis and is translated as "fool". You can play it together and the four of you, but play it mostly three. The first deliverer is determined by lot or at will. The deck is carefully packed and each player is dealt three cards, the remaining deck is placed in the center of the table in a closed form and serves as a reserve, from where players get the cards. Next, players must play 2 stages of the game. At the first stage, players collect cards for the second stage, and in the second stage they try to get rid of all their cards as quickly as possible.

First step. The first move belongs to the player to the left of the handler. The player must enter his any card to the next player in a clockwise direction and this player must put his any card. After this player puts his card in response, these two players get up to three cards on one card from the reserve and take the cards laid out for himself for the second stage, the player who laid out the highest card by value, the same player and starts Draw the following cards with your first move. Thus, all cards are played between the players in the first stage, after which the second stage begins. The last card taken from the reserve determines the trump suit for the second stage.

Second phase. The player who took the last card from the reserve of the first stage, goes first in the second stage. He walks his any card to the next player clockwise and this player must beat this card or take it to himself. The card can be beaten by a card of the same suit, but of the highest value, or a trump card, if the card is not trump card. If the player could not beat or did not want and took the card, then the turn of the next player turns clockwise. The discarded cards are added to a separate pile, which is called a hang-out. Thus, players play all the cards and the player who last will remain with the cards becomes a loser and in Sweden he is called a "shit man", and in Norway he is a "fool."

Note. There is a variant of the game, when in the second stage you can beat the card of the walking player not with one card, but with a sequence of cards of the same suit, for example, one player came ♥ 8, another player beats ♥ 10, ♥ B, ♥ D.

When translating the rules of the game into Russian, it remained unclear to me whether the player in the second stage can come not from one card, but from several. It is possible that the second stage is played with the ability to move from several cards of the same value.