Elevens Too is Elevens with one rule changed, and the change is felt on every move. The board, the talon, the sum of eleven and the three slots for the jack, queen and king are all identical. What differs is when the talon acts. In Elevens an emptied pile refills straight away. Here the talon waits: the moment a court card goes to a slot, no pile refills at all, and the board shrinks from nine cards to eight, to seven, until the set is complete. Then every empty pile fills at once. Clear all fifty-two cards to win. Free in your browser, no sign-up, and it works offline once the page has loaded.
Goal: remove all 52 cards on a board that shrinks whenever a court card is parked.
Elevens Too is registered in the open-source PySolFC collection as a game in its own right, and the class that defines it overrides exactly one method of its parent: the one that decides when the talon may refill a pile. It is a small change on paper and a large one at the table. In Elevens the reserve is a convenience — a place to put cards that cannot pair — and the board is always nine cards wide. Here the reserve is a commitment. Parking a jack stops the flow of new cards entirely, so the decision of when to start a set becomes the central judgement of the game, and the middle of every set is played on a board that is steadily getting smaller. Both games are rated luck by the source, but Elevens Too punishes a careless first move in a way its parent never does. The two are worth playing back to back to feel how much a single line of rules can carry.
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One rule: when the talon refills. In Elevens an emptied pile refills at once. In Elevens Too nothing refills while a court card sits in a slot.
A jack, queen or king is parked in a slot. The talon waits until all three slots are filled and the set leaves the game. Then every empty pile fills together.
Usually not. Parking one freezes the talon, so a lone jack with no queen or king in sight can end the game. Wait until you can see the rest of the set.
Only while every slot is empty. If a court card is parked, a pair you take leaves two empty piles that stay empty until the set completes.
Ace with ten, two with nine, three with eight, four with seven, and five with six. The jack, queen and king cannot make eleven and go to the slots instead.
No, and fewer than in Elevens. The frozen talon means a bad first commitment can end a deal that was otherwise sound.