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navigation, search  Pens is a card game for two or more players.
It is similar to the card game Spoons.   The players sit around
a table, and a number of pens (one less than the number of
players) are laid with equal spacing in the center of the table,
at an equal distance from each of the players. Cards are then
removed from the pack such that only one group of four of a kind
per player remains. For example, if there were four players, one
possible pack would be all the threes (diamonds, clubs, spades,
hearts), all the kings, all the jacks and all the eights.  The
pack is shuffled, and four cards are dealt to each player. No
player may look at another player's cards. The game starts when
one player says "1, 2, 3, pass." On 'pass,' each player passes
any one of their cards, face down, to the player to their left.
This process repeats until somebody has a hand of four cards of
the same value, at which point they grab one of the pens in the
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