Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing a card game containing a deck of sixty cards. The deck is divided into four distinguishable categories. Each category comprises a plurality of cards numbered consecutively. The deck also includes two non-numbered cards. A predetermined number of cards have point values. During game play tricks are played with each player playing a card having the same category as the category of the card leading the trick. After each player has had a turn at playing a card of the trick, the player that played the highest numbered card of the trick takes the trick along with the points, if any, in the trick. The player which took the last trick leads a card for the next trick. A player is forced to take a trick when that player plays a multiple point value card during a trick and an opposing player counters by playing a non-numbered card in the same trick. The object of the game is to avoid acquiring points.