Bank Robber
Rules
Get money in your bank and secure it in your vault before someone steals it.
Quick Facts:
2 -4 Players
10 minutes per round
Medium Difficulty
Objective: Accumulate as much cash as possible.
1. Set Up
2. How to Play
The area in front of each player is their bank. Money is placed face-up in the bank, where it can be stolen. Through actions in the game you may take money from your bank and secure it in your vault. All cards in the vault are placed face-down and cannot be stolen.
Deal five cards to each player and place the remaining deck in the center as the draw pile.
Everyone starts with an empty bank. Player left of the dealer goes first, draws a card from the pile and places a card in their bank. The second player draws a card and then either steals the card from the first player or lays a card in their bank, and so it goes…
Once players’ banks start filling up with $1s and bills that total up to $50 the action gets heated and the bank robber in you might come out.
After the draw pile is depleted keep on playing until no one has any cards in their hands. The dealer will go last (and there is an advantage to this). After the dealer plays their last card the round is over.
3. On Your Turn
On your turn, you draw a card and then you have 3 options.
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Lay a card in your bank. Keep them in neat stacks of bills of the same denomination as all good bankers do.
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Steal a bill or stack of bills from any other player. By playing a card of the same denomination on top of the stack in an opponent’s bank you take the entire stack and place it in your bank.
3. Take money from your bank and secure it in your vault.
There are 4 ways to put money in the vault:
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Play a $50 from your hand and take $50 worth of cards from your bank (thus placing $100 in your vault). For example, you play a $50 and take a $20 and three $10s and place them in your vault. Or simply a $50 can take another $50.
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Play a $100 from your hand and take $100 worth of cards from your bank (thus placing $200 in your vault). For example, play a $100 and take five $20s.
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Play a $100 from your hand on top of a $1 in your bank and secure $101 in your vault, or conversely…
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Play a $1 from your hand on top of a $100 in your bank and secure $101 in your vault.
4. Scoring
After the round is over count all the money you have in your bank and vault. This is your total for the round. We recommend a pen and paper to keep a tally of scores and play to a pre-agreed amount of money. $5,000 to become champion is common. For shorter games, you can agree that everyone deals just once and whoever has the most cash is the winner!