Number Chain

You want to get rid of cards as quickly as possible in Chain of Numbers, and to do that, you need to...chain numbers together. Yes, no surprise there!

Each player starts with a hand of cards, each card showing a two-digit number, although one digit is sometimes a ?, a "wild" representing a digit of your choice. Place three cards face up in the pool and one card face up on the floor. A condition tile starts on the pivot side; more on that later.

On a turn, you can play any number of cards from your hand, as long as the first digit of these cards matches the last digit of the floor card. (The last digit is the "pivot point".) Arrange your played cards on the floor in the order you wish, with the top card becoming the new floor.

If you can chain three consecutive numbers together, you can play them regardless of which card is on the floor, and then you get another turn.

Instead of playing or chaining, you can take a pool card or the top card of the deck into your hand and refill the pool if necessary.

Finally, you can reset by taking all three pool cards into your hand and then flipping the condition tile. The opposite side of the "pivot point" is relay, and when relay is the condition, you can play cards one by one, where the first digit of each played card matches the last digit of the new floor card. Perhaps you can empty your hand all at once this way?

When a player empties their hand, everyone else can only play or chain from that point, and leave the game when they cannot play cards on their turn. Each wildcard still in hand is worth 3 points, and each non-wildcard is worth 1 point.

Play three rounds this way, and the person with the fewest points wins.