The game board has four special spaces. One in each corner. These spaces are bonus spaces. When using a corner only four additional cards are necessary to complete a sequence. More than one player can use the same corner space. For example: it can be used in both a horizontal sequence for one team and a diagonal sequence for another .
There are eight jacks in the card deck. Four jacks have two eyes. These are wild and may be used for any space on the board. On your turn, discard the wild jack and place your chip on any unoccupied space on the board. The other four jacks have one eye. These jacks remove a chip from the board. Only chips that are not part of a completed sequence may be removed from the board. Place the jack in the discard pile and remove the chip of your choice.
A card that you cannot play because it already has a chip on it is a dead card. This happens when a wild card is played to take that space and leaves you with a card you cannot play. On your turn, place the unusable in the discard pile. Let everyone know that you are replacing an unusable card and take a new card from the deck. Your turn then continues as normal.
To win you must complete two sequence strands. A sequence is achieved when you have a row of five chips of the same color. This can occur in any direction, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. You may use any one of the spaces from one sequence in the second sequence. Or, they may be anywhere else on the board.The sequence game rules can be altered for three players or three teams. It is played in the same manner as two players except only one sequence strand is necessary to win.While the sequence game rules are simple the game itself is one of strategy and skill. Because no two games are ever quite the same it is an exciting game for anyone at any age level.